Hi everyone,
I am have been given a large number of H5P files, some containing Presentations that are up to 20 slides and others that may be just a single activity. Many of the chapters in the course are made up of 3 - 10 H5P files. I would like the experience for students to be as seamless as possible, and not have to go back out to the course menu between H5Ps.
I am looking for some best practices here. I will also need to be able to Restrict Access to future chapters until earlier chapters are completed. So, I need to preserve completion data - not for individual H5Ps, but for the collection that make up a chapter.
I have some H5Ps that are quizzes. I'm fine with the quiz being a separate experience so that it can be graded on its own with no complications.
I have seen some discussion about putting these all on a page, book, or lesson activity. Does someone have a resource for which method to use and why, or a pros / cons list for each, or something helpful in the way of best practices here?
Thank you!
Best Practices for Combining Multiple H5P into a single experience?
by Chris Free -
Number of replies: 4
In reply to Chris Free
Re: Best Practices for Combining Multiple H5P into a single experience?
by Dave Foord -
I created a blog post (and video) on how to embed H5p into other Moodle areas, which will help you go through the mechanics of how to do this: https://davefoord.wordpress.com/2021/11/05/moodle-tricks-of-the-trade-embedding-h5p-activities-into-other-moodle-areas/
This explains the technique for both the old style of H5p (using the 3rd party plugin) and the newer style (core Moodle which uses the content bank).
Note - there are currently issues with the way that H5p is displaying on the Mobile app, so if you use the app, do test this before spending lots of time/effort setting up. You should be able to negate this by setting up the embedded items correctly, but you do need to check on multiple screen sizes to check things are working on all.
This explains the technique for both the old style of H5p (using the 3rd party plugin) and the newer style (core Moodle which uses the content bank).
Note - there are currently issues with the way that H5p is displaying on the Mobile app, so if you use the app, do test this before spending lots of time/effort setting up. You should be able to negate this by setting up the embedded items correctly, but you do need to check on multiple screen sizes to check things are working on all.
In reply to Dave Foord
Re: Best Practices for Combining Multiple H5P into a single experience?
by Matthias Giger -
In addition to what Dave already mentioned, you could use the autolink or Récit autolink plugin to just link to your H5Ps from any Moodle page.
The Récit autolink plugin has a setting where the H5P acitivity opens as a modal.
My suggestion is useful when you don't want to many H5Ps in a page to load at once (strain on server).
The Récit autolink plugin has a setting where the H5P acitivity opens as a modal.
My suggestion is useful when you don't want to many H5Ps in a page to load at once (strain on server).
In reply to Chris Free
Re: Best Practices for Combining Multiple H5P into a single experience?
by Dave Sherwin -
My go to H5P tool is the 'Interactive Book' which is considered and 'Aggregator' Content Type (CT). The Interactive Books(CT) pages are Columns (CT) which allows you to put muliptly other Content Types(CT). It also has a nice table of contents that have indicators to mark completed or not similiar to the new v4.0 Course Index indicators. Plus the [Summary & subit] screen is very useful to know what is completed or answered correctly.
So with a single Content Type 'Interactive Book' you could make a mini-course. We use this for student's study guides.
In reply to Dave Sherwin
Re: Best Practices for Combining Multiple H5P into a single experience?
by Chris Free -
I think interactive book is just the solution I was looking for. Thank you.
Now just a bunch of copy paste work ahead of me!
Now just a bunch of copy paste work ahead of me!