As mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, besides having the hidden support for CGI-enabled Hot Potatoes quizzes, the Self-tests module can be used just like the Handouts/Notices and Lectures modules as a place to store any form of learning materials for your students. Another particularly interesting application that you might want to investigate is a program called Quandary, by Stewart Arneil and Martin Holmes, the same people who wrote the Hot Potatoes suite.
Quoting from the Half Baked Software web site at: http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary/
Quandary is an application for creating Web-based Action Mazes. An Action Maze is a kind of interactive case study; the user is presented with a situation, and a number of choices as to a course of action to deal with it. On choosing one of the options, the resulting situation is then presented, again with a set of options. Working through this branching tree is like negotiating a maze, hence the name "Action Maze".
Action mazes can be used for many purposes, including problem solving, diagnosis, procedural training, and surveys/questionnaires.
The authors go on to explain that it is much easier to understand what you can do with Quandary by viewing examples, and so they provide several at their web site. Quandary is released as shareware. You can download a version that enables you to build small mazes for free, but you must purchase a license to unlock all of the features.
Another program worth investigating is ExamView at http://www.examview.com. This advanced test creation software allows you to create self-test "study guides" that are ideally suited for Manhattan's Self-tests module.
Other materials you may want to make available to your students via the Self-tests module include the web based quizzes that are frequently included with textbooks. If the publisher has a web site supporting your textbook that includes materials suitable for Manhattan's Self-tests module, you can simply provide a link to that resource within a Manhattan message. Recall that URL's typed into a message automatically become live links:
Visit http://bookpublisher.com/yourbook/quiz1.html to take a self-help quiz on Chapter One.