Uploading Exercises to hotpotatoes.net

Exercises can only be uploaded using the Upload option provided by a supported authoring program such as Textoys - you cannot upload exercises via your hotpotatoes.net account management page. (See Supported Authoring Programs for details of the authoring programs you can use.)

For details of how particular programs handle uploading to hotpotatoes.net, see the Help file for the program concerned.

Classes

When you upload an exercise, you must choose a Class in which that exercise will be used. Each exercise can only be accessed in one Class - if you want to use the same exercise in two different classes, you must upload it twice, with different titles.

When you first access your hotpotatoes.net account, it will have one default class already set up. Some types of hotpotatoes.net teacher account allow only a single class, while others allow you to create multiple classes - see Classes for more details.

Exercise Viewing Options

At upload, you can also choose whether the exercise will be visible to anyone, or password-protected - see Exercise Viewing Options.

Exercise Titles

All the exercises you upload must have different Titles - you enter the title in the authoring program when you design the exercise. When you choose to upload an exercise, the authoring program first checks to see if you already have an exercise with the same title in your hotpotatoes.net account - if you do, the uploading program will ask you to confirm that you want to overwrite the existing exercise. If you proceed with the upload, the old exercise will be deleted.

If you do not want to overwrite the existing exercise of the same name, you must cancel the upload, use the authoring program to change the new exercise title (or use your hotpotatoes.net account management page to change the title of the existing one), then use the authoring program to upload the new one again.

Ensuring that every exercise has a different title, even though several exercises may contain the same material, is an essential part of the way in which hotpotatoes.net manages exercise files, and helps prevent confusion among students. When students download an exercise, they choose it from a list of titles, and if duplication of titles were allowed, students may do the wrong exercise by mistake. Even exercises in different classes must have different titles, since students can be members of more than one class.

How Many Exercises?

The number of exercises you can upload to your hotpotatoes.net account may belimited by the type of hosting arrangement you have - please see your accounts settings page for details, or see Additional Hosting Services.