Adding the Hotpot module

We have a customer who had been using the Hotpot module with moodle.  I am installing it in their new upgraded instance.  I simply searched for moodle hot potatoes and found the module in the familiar plugin directory.  I downloaded from here.  Official moodle docs for hot potatoes.  I want to spend a little more time in the forum, since that is where the best information about a plugin comes from.

The forum mentions a newer plugin that is deprecating the hotpot module called QuizPort.  Not sure what the status of that process is, but will stay with hotpot for now, since it talks about working with Hot Potatoes.




After downloading and unzipping the file, I read the readme.txt file in the root of the plugin and followed the basic instructions of

1 - copying the extracted hotpot folder into the mod folder of the installed instance.
2 - logged in as admin at the site and followed the predictable steps of updating the DB now.


Now I am looking for evidence of the plugin via options in the moodle admin area.  I expect to see options there or in the quiz module itself.

It looks like Hot Potatoes is a open source program that is separate from moodle.  Hot Potatoes generates quizzes that can be deployed on systems like moodle.  Moodle needs the hotpot plugin installed to work with Hot Potatoes.

After a bit more reading here in hotpot settings , I found that I had to enable the hotpot module after installing it.



 A new option is now avail. when I choose to insert an activity or module









After inserting a HotPot activity, I was able to drag and drop a hot potatoes quiz file .jqz that I created after download Hot Potatoes from here.

I saved the activity and took the quiz and it worked like a charm.