Potato Skins: Wrapping your Hot Potatoes in a whole new Skin!

Potato Skins is a freeware add-on for the JBC program that comes with the Hot Potatoes suite of tools for making web-based activities. Potato Skins wraps your JBC multiple-choice activities in a new graphical skin.

With Potato Skins, you get:

• a better-looking interface for your activities
• a single, unified activity center for all of your JBC files
• hidden answers to questions (in regular JBC pages, students can see the answers in the HTML code)
• Activity score reports: students see reports at the end of each activity, summarizing their scores, numbers of attempts made for each question, and correct answers.

In addition, Potato Skins supports most of the features found in JBC, including:

• unlimited questions
• up to 26 answer choices per question
• randomizable questions and answer choices
• individualized feedback messages
• ability to include reading passages
• optional reading timer
• score-keeping

This new version of Potato Skins now includes:

• basic HTML formatting capabilities
• hyperlinking
• simpler file management and naming system
• customizable interface size
• customizable colors for: text, titles, and activity

Coming soon...

• printable questions and activity reports
• "unplugged" application for desktop activities

Coming not-quite-as-soon...

• unicode support
• data-tracking (using ASP pages and Access databases)