The Hot Potatoes software suite

Software suite

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 includes five applications that can create exercises for the World Wide Web

World Wide Web

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. The applications are JCloze, JCross, JMatch, JMix and JQuiz. There is also a sixth application called The Masher, that will compile all the Hot Potatoes exercises into one unit.

Hot Potatoes was created by the Research and Development team at the University of Victoria

University of Victoria

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 Humanities Computing and Media Centre. Commercial aspects of the software are handled by Half-Baked Software Inc. Hot Potatoes is freeware

Freeware

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since October 2009.