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What is H5P?
H5P is a powerful tool that allows faculty to create, share, and reuse interactive content directly within the Brightspace learning management system. With H5P, educators can develop engaging activities such as quizzes, interactive videos, and presentations, which are seamlessly embedded into their courses. This integration also supports analytics, enabling faculty to track student responses and performance on H5P activities. Additionally, grades from H5P content are automatically stored in Brightspace, simplifying the grading process. Overall, H5P enhances the interactivity and effectiveness of online learning experiences for both instructors and students.
Recommendations:
- • Building H5P activities can be time-intensive. It would be beneficial to:
- Look at examples first, and then plan the activity. See examples of H5P activities.
- Gather all your content in one place (video, audio, text, images, links, questions/question sets etc.) so that when you build the activities you can easily add what you need without having to stop and search for it.
- • Build your H5P activities in ut-rgv.h5p.com To do this, you will need to activate your account by creating an activity first in Brightspace. There are several benefits to building activities directly through H5P:
- The editing space is larger.
- Activities are easy to preview.
- You can save and easily return to editing the activity later.
Benefits of Using H5P Interactives:
- Increased Student Engagement: Interactive activities can make learning more active and enjoyable, leading to better engagement with the course material.
- Active Learning: H5P encourages learners to interact with the content, test their understanding, and apply their knowledge.
- Variety of Content Types: The wide range of H5P content types allows instructors to create diverse learning experiences tailored to different topics and learning styles.
- Accessibility: Being HTML5 based, H5P content is generally more accessible across different devices and for users with disabilities (when designed with accessibility in mind).
- Seamless Integration: The integration within Brightspace simplifies the workflow for instructors, allowing them to create and embed interactive content without leaving the learning environment.
- Automated Grading: For many activity types, grading is automated, saving instructors time and providing immediate feedback to students.
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Support:
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