Tutorials and Other Resources on Hot Potatoes

Check out the applications before you download, by looking through these online tutorials.

Kind users have contributed the following translations of the tutorials, and other helpful materials. Note that some of these related to version 4 of the program, not version 5.

Chinese
- Introduction, Explanation and Examples by HKEdCity in Hong Kong
- Tutorial in Chinese by the Language Training and Testing Center in Taiwan
Dutch
- Dutch Tutorial by Koen Van Cauwenberge
- Online Course on Hot Potatoes in Dutch by Tom Coorens/Gerard Weijnen for BVEnet
- Hot Potatoes Tutorial in Dutch, by Henk Verdru
- An introduction to Hot Potatoes in Dutch by Martin van der Knijff
English
- Hot Potatoes FAQ, by Michael Rottmeier, Pete Porchos and Nicola Dökel
- Using video, a tutorial by David Seume, at Ashcombe School in the UK.
- A thorough and detailed Tutorial on Hot Potatoes by Bernard Dyer
- Simple tutorial on getting started with Hot Potatoes by Andrew Balaam
- Teaching Tools, in German and English, by Michael Rottmeier. This site has tutorials and customized source files for creating different styles of exercise with Hot Potatoes.
- Richard Zaiser's Guide to transferring results using the CGI options in Hot Potatoes (German and English versions).
Estonian
- Introduction and Windows tutorial in Estonian by Anneli Kesksaar
Finnish
- Windows tutorial in Finnish
French
- Site des utilisateurs francophones de Hot Potatoes by Fabien Olivry
Galician
- Tutorial in Galician by Xosé Antón
German
- Teaching Tools, in German and English, by Michael Rottmeier. This site has tutorials and customized source files for creating different styles of exercise with Hot Potatoes.
- Math in Hot Potatoes, in German, by Achim Burgermeister.
- Richard Zaiser's Guide to transferring results using the CGI options in Hot Potatoes (German and English versions).
- Article in German on HotPot, by Uta Hartwig
- Windows tutorial in German (by Rüdiger Klampfl); also note his German HotPot Users' bulletin board.
- An introduction to Hot Potatoes in German (by Ilpo Halonen)
- German version of the Hot Potatoes handout (by Ilpo Halonen)
Italian
- Nel sito http://www.cyberteacher.it, di Paolo Cutini, potete trovare la traduzione italiana delle guide di 'Hot Potatoes' e 'The Masher', oltre ad altre risorse relative agli stessi programmi e ad una raccolta di esercizi creata in collaborazione con gli utenti di Hot Potatoes.
- Hot Potatoes FAQ (zip file download, tr. Paolo Cutini)
- Italian forum for Hot Potatoes, by Giulio Picciolini: Il forum, veicolato da SiR - Scuole in Rete, offre il tutorial in italiano 5.X (anche in download), test esemplificativi, interazione via CGI per i vostri test on line, consigli e consulenze dai docenti che stanno usando Hot Potatoes
- Windows tutorial in Italian (by Alfredo Colucci)
- Windows tutorial in Italian (by Raffaele Nardella)
- Italian version of the Hot Potatoes handout Web pages or PowerPoint file (by Giulio Picciolini)
- Italian Website on Hot Potatoes by Claudio Colabianchi
Japanese
- Tutorial in Japanese, by Sachiko Komatsu-Delmaire
Polish
- Interface and Configuration files and more in Polish for version 5, by Lechoslaw W. Hojnacki
- Tutorial in Polish for version 4, by Józek Wozny
Portuguese
- Tutorial in Portuguese, by Emerson Del Ponte
Spanish
- Examples and instructions in Spanish by Francisco Muñoz de la Peña
- Tutorial in Spanish by Fernando Inglés Bonilla
- Windows tutorial en Español (by Ismail Ali Gago)
Turkish
- Tutorial in Turkish, by Yunus Alyaz