Appendix: H5P Activities
H5P is a free and open source collection of tools you can use to create interactive content. This is the kind of tool that has “a low floor and a high ceiling”, allowing you to make simple interactive activities quickly and easily, while leaving plenty of room for more complicated activity types. There are over 40 different content types, with more being added all the time.
At USask, many hundreds of H5P activities have been incorporated into courses across the humanities, social, natural, and health sciences, education, commerce, art, and agriculture. These activities appear in Canvas courses, open online courses on our WordPress platform, and in open textbooks available on our Pressbooks network at OpenPress.
Here are a few examples to give you some ideas of what’s possible with H5P. Thank you to the educators who allowed their work to be shared here!
Accordion
Shared here courtesy of Rebekah Bennetch, College of Engineering
Branching Scenario
Note: This activity is best viewed in a full browser window. Click the “full screen” button in the upper left to toggle to this view.
Shared here courtesy of Jen Loewen, Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM)
Quote from the Educator
“The Instructional Designers helped me with the development of several case study scenarios as well as inputting them into H5P to make them interactive. They assisted with the development of the map — mapping out the correct pathway, “nudge-to-correct” paths, and dead-ends (wrong decisions). Additionally, they helped me with changing my thought process from asking questions in a test-asking method to a decision-making method. The initial decision trees were built in Twine, and then ID team members took that and input it into H5P. They helped the aesthetic appeal of it through adding open access images, and other types of questions beyond multiple choice. Additionally, they ensured everything was referenced properly and consolidated the cases into a website. I loved being able to bring my ideas to the ID team and them being able to let me know what was possible and bring my thoughts to a reality.”
–Jen Loewen, DVM, DACVECC
Course Presentation (Infographic)
Course Presentation (Interactive Slides)
Shared here courtesy of Storm Lee Sanders, College of Arts and Science
Crossword
Shared here courtesy of Claudia Wendrich, Edwards School of Business
Dialog Cards (Flash Cards)
Shared here courtesy of Rebekah Bennetch, College of Engineering
Documentation Tool
Shared here courtesy of Rebekah Bennetch, College of Engineering
Drag and Drop
Shared here courtesy of Harold Bull, College of Medicine
Drag Text
Shared here courtesy of Claudia Wendrich, Edwards School of Business
Fill in the Blanks
Shared here courtesy of Rebekah Bennetch, College of Engineering
Interactive Video
Shared here courtesy of Dinyar Minocher of the Canadian Prairies Prescribed Fire Exchange (CPPFE), and the College of Agriculture and Bioresources.
Image Juxtaposition
Mark the Words
Shared here courtesy of Rebekah Bennetch, College of Engineering
Question Set (Quiz)
Shared here courtesy of Claudia Wendrich, Edwards School of Business
Timeline
Shared here courtesy of Kathy Walker, College of Arts and Science