How can we use Hot Potatoe with children, teenagers and adults?

One of the biggest concerns of a teacher is how to make a quiz, and with this I mean a variety of things that can contribute to make a quiz good or bad, but beyond if the test or quiz is good is this way to see this kind of activities because almost every body is tired of the same monotonous way to make a quiz, so for all the people who have thought like that there is Hot Potatoe! Firts of all we have to be clear in what is this; the Hot Potatoe is a set of Computer- Assisted Language Learning tools that lets teachers easily create interactive web-based exercises. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for non-profit educational users who make their pages available on the web. The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises and make them available on a web page.

We can develop many things with this program, Include an optional reading text in one frame and the quizzes in the other. Data for creating the reading text may be directly entered into the software, or imported from external text or HTML files; besides that you can control the appearance of the Web Pages.I believe as the program is basically a test maker the advantages it has can applied for all the people whom which we are using it, not mattering the age, but it is also important to say that some kind of activities are more appropiate for some levels of education talking about kids, teenagers and adults, such as JCross for example that is something better for kids because it is more fun but it is also something good that some adults like to try. With this program progressive feedback is given to the student either as hints or allowing checking of their answers in phases. This allows the student to be involved in a more cognitive process and to figure out the correct answer in a constructive manner. I have to say that in my experience using this program I could prove myself making the tests and also designing the tests because let me tell you that both were really fun because you can add as many things as you can so that learning is more significant to the one who is making the quiz you choose.