How to Setup an H5P Interactive Activity v2

How to Setup an H5P Interactive Activity v2

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Overview

Learn how to add H5P activities to your learning management system. H5P lets you create engaging, interactive content such as videos, question sets, drag-and-drop activities, multiple-choice questions, and presentations. You can also import and export H5P files, making it easy to reuse and share your content.

Check here to see available contents and examples: H5P Contents and Examples

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Step Tutorial

Step 1. Turning Edit mode on
  1. Log in to your LMS site as a Trainer or LMS Admin.
  2. Navigate to the course where you want to add the H5P activity.
  3. Turn on Edit mode.

Step 2: Add the H5P Interactive Activity
  1. In the desired section, click “+ Add an activity or resource.”


  2. Search and select H5P from the list of activities.
Step 3: Configure Basic Settings
  1. Provide description to your content.

    Description
    Enter a relevant description of the interactive content in the “Description” text box, if needed.
    Display description on course page
    Tick this box to display the activity description on the course page.

  2. Select Create content to build an activity from scratch, Create from OER content to choose an example H5P activity, or Upload to add an H5P package.
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    1. To view a complete set of interactive content, these are available from the following H5P website: https://h5p.org/content-types-and-applications
  3. Adjust the remaining settings.
    Display Options
    1. Display action bar and frame - Tick box to enable action bar located at the bottom of the H5P content
    2. Copyright button - Tick box to enable Copyright button

    Grade
    1. Grade category - Select a category created in the gradebook setup.
    2. Grade to pass - Set the minimum grade required to pass. Results will be shown in green for a pass and red for a fail.
    3. Maximum grade - Enter the highest grade that can be awarded for the activity.
    Common module settings
    1. Availability
      1. Choose whether students can access the activity or resource:
        1. Show on course page - make it available to students.
        2. Hide from students - hide it from students.
    2. ID number
      1. Enter an ID number to match this activity or resource to a third-party package, such as one used by the gradebook. Otherwise, leave this field blank.
    3. Group mode
      1. Choose one of the following group settings:
        1. No groups
        2. Separate groups
        3. Visible groups
    4. Grouping
      1. This option is available only when Separate groups or Visible groups is selected. You can then choose a grouping or add group or grouping access restrictions.
    Restrict access
    For more information about adding access restrictions to your activity, see this guide: How to Set Up Restrict Access for Moodle Activities
    Completion conditions
    1. None - no completion condition
    2. Students must manually mark this activity as done - a mark as done button will appears on your activity
    3. Add requirements
      1. View the activity - Upon opening the activity this condition is fulfilled
      2. Require passing grade - This condition is fulfilled once the passing grade is fulfilled
      3. Receive a grade
        1. Any grade - the condition completed once the student receives a grade regardless of grade to pass
        2. Passing grade - the condition completed once the student receives a passing grade
    Set reminder in Timeline - Schedule a reminder for students to complete this activity.
    Tags
    Add relevant tags to make the forum easily searchable within the course.
    Competencies
    1. Course competencies - Course competencies linked to this activity.
    2. Upon activity completion - Choose whether to Do nothing, Attach evidence, Send for review, or Complete the competency.
Step 4. After setting up the H5P, click the available Save buttons below. You may tick the Send content change notification checkbox if you want the participants get notified about the new or changed activity or resource. Only users who can access the activity or resource will receive the notification.


Congratulations on completing this tutorial. We hope this has been helpful to you and your organisation. For any questions or concerns regarding this function, please reach out to the contact support via email.


FAQs
Why should I embed a H5P interactive activity?
Embedding H5P content directly in your course makes interactive activities easier for students to access. They can engage with videos, quizzes and other activities within the course, without navigating to the H5P activity as a separate activity. This also helps keep learning materials together in one place.
What activities can I embed my H5P interactive activity?

You can embed an H5P activity in LMS activities or resources that support embedded content, such as:
  1. Pages
  1. Books
  1. Activity descriptions
  1. Course descriptions
  1. Assignment instruction
How can I embed my H5P interactive activity?
Step 1. Getting the embed code.
  1. Navigate to the LMS course where the H5P interactive activity that will be embeded.

  2. Select the activity and scroll down and look for embed on the action bar.

  3. Copy the embed link provided.

Step 2. Utilize the embed code to another activity
  1. Navigate to the other activity you want to embed your H5P interactive activity.

  2. Select the setting of the activity and make sure to turn edit mode on.

  3. Go to the content section of the activity click View and select Source code.

  4. Paste the embed link and save the changes.

  5. Save the changes on the activity.

Step 3. Verify the changes.
  1. Check the activity and verify that the H5P interactive activity is displaying as expected.

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Note: The system will treat an H5P activity embedded in another activity as content, not as a standalone H5P activity. The host activity will control marking, access restrictions and completion settings. These settings cannot be configured separately for the embedded H5P activity.