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H5P Interactive Content

Do you want to add interactive and engaging multimedia to your course?

H5P is a tool that empowers instructors to easily create engaging, interactive and reusable activities inside your Moodle course using the “Interactive Content” activity type. With H5P you can create a variety of tasks to provide interactive content delivery and quick knowledge checks alongside your course content within Moodle. You can add questions to a video or slide deck, create an interactive book or virtual tour, or design a variety of other activities to deliver interactive content and have students practice applying the information they have learned. Students can get instant feedback to help reinforce their learning, and grades can be integrated with the Moodle gradebook.

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We use H5P to create organized lessons with interactive videos, knowledge-check questions in multiple formats, and links to additional resources. H5P activities integrate seamlessly with the Moodle gradebook. It is easy to set up H5P activities, and they can be shared with others, including people at other institutions using other LMS, as H5P files!

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–Carlos C. Goller, Ph.D.
Teaching Professor
NC State Biotechnology Program (BIT)
Department of Biological Sciences

In the main content area of an H5P Interactive Book activity, an interactive Course Presentation is followed by a Single-Choice question. Users can navigate to different pages within the Interactive Book using the menu located to the left of the main content or by using the arrows at the top and bottom right corners.How do instructors and students use the H5P Interactive Content?

Using H5P in Moodle, instructors can choose from over 20 interactive content types to:

  • Add questions or pop-ups to text and images to break up lengthy content and make delivery more interactive for students.
  • Create visually dynamic activities for students to self-check and practice applying knowledge.
  • Build low-stakes formative assessments to track student progress.

 

“I use H5P activities in my courses to help provide a way for students to check their knowledge about the genre of writing they are learning about and will eventually be practicing. I like the flexibility of options for how to present the material/ask questions, as well as the opportunity to provide a feedback blurb for both right and wrong answers; students appreciate the content review in the non-test format.
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–Rebecca L. De Haas, Ph. D.
Senior Lecturer and Rhetoric/Professional Writing Concentration Advisor
English Department

At the top of an H5P Dialog Cards activity, instructions tell students how to complete the activity by interacting with the card below. The card shows an image of a plant cell with an arrow pointing to the vacuole, followed by the definition of vacuole. Buttons on the card allow students to track whether they got the definition right or wrong.

Examples of H5P content types can be viewed in the H5P Resource Library Moodle project site, including:

  • Course Presentation – Elements such as links, pictures, audio and video clips, as well as various quiz question types can be embedded seamlessly right into the H5P presentation slides.
  • Interactive Book – Combine multiple interactive contents such as videos, course presentations, quiz questions, and much more across multiple pages. A summary page at the end of the book provides the students with a snapshot of their progress throughout the Interactive Book.
  • Branching Scenario – Create an interactive lesson with learning materials that branch to different paths based on the user’s answers.
  • Virtual Tour – Use your own 360 degree photos to create a virtual tour with pop-up information and navigation around the virtual space.
  • Dialog Cards – Create two-sided flashcard-type cards to help learners remember corresponding pieces of information.

 

“I use H5P to create interactive learning experiences for my students. They engage with graphs through hotspots, identify key parts of graphs, practice vocabulary with fill-in-the-blank exercises, and explore real-world events that connect to our course material. Students appreciate the hands-on exercises, which make an asynchronous class feel more like an in-person setting.
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–Julianne Treme
Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor
Teaching Professor
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Ready to Get Started?

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Comfortable with technology? Get started now:

  1. View example H5P activities in a Moodle resource site at go.ncsu.edu/h5p.
  2. In your own Moodle course or project space, add a new activity and select “Interactive Content”.
  3. In the H5P settings, choose from over 20 content types to start creating interactive learning experiences.

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