Finishing an Exercise

When you finish an exercise, your browser uploads your score and other useful information to the hotpotatoes.net server, so that your teacher can see it, and download results achieved by you and the other students in your class. The upload process is entirely automatic - you do not have to do anything other than ensure that the browser can connect to the internet.

Your Internet Connection

The nature of your internet connection can affect how you use the hotpotatoes.net service, especially if you are using a metered dialup connection where you pay more to be online for longer (in other words, where internet access appears on your telephone bill as a call charge). If you have a toll-free connection to the internet, or if you use hotpotatoes.net from a networked computer in a college, you can ignore this section.

If you pay by the minute for your internet connection, and the exercise you are doing takes a long time, you may want to hang up your connection while you do the exercise. When you finish the exercise, your browser should automatically try to connect to the internet to upload your score - usually this means that your computer will display a "Connect" button, which you should click.

If you do not connect and upload your score, it will not be recorded, and the teacher will be able to see that you have downloaded an exercise without submitting a result.

Student Comment

When the results of an exercise are uploaded, you are given the option to add your own comment for the teacher:

Time-Out

When your teacher designs an exercise for the hotpotatoes.net system, s/he can choose whether or not to set a time-limit for the exercise. If a time limit is set, and the time limit is reached, the exercise will finish itself, preventing you from answering any further questions. It will automatically send to the server the score you had achieved by the time-out.