The Friday Mailing Postings

12. H5P part 1

From Friday Mailing 4th February 2022

Can you list the Minor Prophets in order? Try out two interactive tasks and see if you can. If you struggle a bit, then you may find that by the time you get it right you have “accidently” memorised a summary of each of the prophet’s main themes. You will find the activities here https://example.commonawards.org/course/view.php?id=77&section=10. They were created using H5P which I am just starting to understand how useful it can be. H5P stands for “HTML5 Package” and is a way of putting complex interactive material into a package that can be copied easily. The key thing to note is that Moodle has an H5P tool to receive packages built in, but there is an extra plugin called “H5P Interactive content” that you need to actually create content. We make this available to all the Moodle sites we support, but if you cannot see it in your list of tools, ask whoever runs your Moodle site. First time I used it I was able to create one of these activities in 5 minutes on the “sort these paragraphs” tool. In the next months I am going to try out the graphic tools (image hotspots, flash cards, image sequencing etc), but if any of you have created something on H5P that I can share with other people drop me an email and a link to where you created it.