Hot Potatoes is a software suite of six applications: JCloze, JQuiz, JCross, JMatch, JMix, The Masher. This suite, developed by Half-Baked Software, is used essentially as a test generation tool. These six applications offer the user a variety of types of questions to choose while generating tests. There is a website that allows users of this software to store results of their tests and essentially create a virtual learning environment. While there are are a lot of good features that this software has, it is also missing a lot of features that other similar programs have.

Overall, Hot Potatoes provides an acceptable level of test-taking functionality.

Good Features:

• Simple user interface
• Has a variety of different types of questions to create
• Has an external website to store results and distribute tests/grades
• Provides numerous options considering many different question attributes when creating questions (e.g. attaching photos, audio, time, etc.)
• Simple and automatic grading system
• Can export test to PDF or word or publish online
• Having usernames to allow multiple users
• Free

Bad Features:

• Coding questions would have to be done through short-answer and thus, graded manually
• No question bank
• Tests have to be created manually
• Website features are separate from the software
• Using the website requires user to pay

Missing Features:

• No specific option for coding questions
• Unable to automatically generate tests from a database or import
• No group tests