You’ve done well, teresa, to save your source .h5p content- they can be used in any platform that supports the editor.
The free service at h5p.org is only for getting practice with creating H5P content, not for archiving or publishing (they offer a paid service via h5p.com) And the .org version now only offers a few content types to try out.
I recommend for getting experience creating/using H5P to get the desktop editor from Lumi where you can (a) use any content type (b) import /h5p content and remix; and (c) even generate HTML versions of your content.
If your WordPress is a self hosted (e.g. on your domain), you can get the full editing/publishing capability with the H5P plugin for WordPress. H5P has pretty good documentation and other guides are certainly out there.
If it was me, I would create a separate site to make as an H5P portfolio. You can import your content to the H5P library there and add them to posts that explain them, use categories to organize. Or it can be used in your main blog, and create some pages/posts to describe your content.
In work with the OpenETC co-op we saw a few institutions create a “studio” site just to author faculty a place to build H5P that could then be used to embed in other sites, not even publishing them to the studio site, e.g. https://h5pstudio.opened.ca/ – I was working on a cloneable template it never went past the prototype https://labh5p.opened.ca/
This is totally understandable. H5P absolutely lowers many barriers for creating interactive content that before would have had a technical hurdle to jump.
But it’s also not just a 1-2-3 magic solution. Creating good interactive content calls for some design and thought, and as one digs deeper into the tools, there are important nuances to figure out.
The biggest mistake we make with folks new to it is throwing he big list of tool at them; I always think it is better to start with seeing possibilities and potentials first, ideally in your subject area.
Hi Alan, thanks for all your amazing resources for H5P!
I’m new to OE Week this year and feeling really inspired!
Wondering which H5P content type is your favorite and why?
I like Interactive Presentation and am excited about the new AR Scavenger, but my go-to’s are the hotspot activities for versatility.
I’d be hard pressed to pick one favorite. I agree that the Hotspots have probably a use in almost any subject areas so yes to versatility.
I also like the Interactive presentation especially knowing you can use it to create branching or hyperlinked content, you are not limited to just linear paths- a favorite example as it is also useful is the Periodic Table of H5P Content Types.
And I find the column is just plan useful for assembling multiple content types into one whole. I have seen good examples for having something like a hotspot put together with say a question set to have some practice content and then an activity with feedback.
The documentation tool is useful as it is one of the few content types where learner can save/share their work.
But I guess I have a soft spot for the Branching Scenario, as crazy complex as it can get, because of the experiences you can put there. I did one that may have pushed the limits
No one can do all the events! And we are glad you came here too. These areas will never close…
The responsiveness is one of those small issues you find with several tools. A trick I found for the Image Hotspot is you have to mind the aspect ratio of images, because the device always stretches the width to the maximum available. This means if you use a portrait orientation image, it will extend below the bottom of the screen. Here is a fix!
Hi Alan,
I have a question concerning “drag the words”. As soon as I want to have a longer text (actually just a sentence) being dropped into a blank, it doesn’t “catch”, it just flows down to the bottom again whereas all other texts can be placed/dropped in any blank.
Do you know the reason for this and how I could fix it?
Hello and thanks for asking a question. From what I understand, drag the words is really meant for words/phrases, not long sentences (see this message in the H5P forums) and answers longer than 17 characters are truncated with ellipses when dropped.
It would help to see a link or a screenshot of the task you are trying to do. I just made a test version of something with long responses. It seems like it can be hard to drop when the drop blanks are on the edges, I did see some long mis drops a few times, but it was not consistent.
It actually looks like to me it depends where you click the long sentence to drag from. If I click on the middle, it is hard to drop, but if I click on the left edge of a long item, it seems to drop better.
If that is the case with your own, you might include a hint in the instructions??
This might be a case where something like Drag and Drop works better? Or redesigning the activity with maybe a different tool than can check the understanding of long sentences.
I do not have specific technical expertise to answer why, I just try to experiment myself. Please let us know what you discover.
thank you so much for responding so fast, I’m impressed and appreciate it immensely.
I will include screen shots but while experimenting I might have found the solution (or the reason behind it respectively).
First I used workaround that you mentioned, namely that I used the “drag and drop (on image)” instead of “drag the words”- This works perfectly fine. Thank you for the tip!
Then I experimented a little bit more with the “drag the words” activity:
A: When I use more than 3 blanks, it works (most of the time. As you said, it’s something that’s not consistent). This still bothers me (but only since I can’t figure out why it’s not consistent).
B: When I break the text that should be dropped down into lines by using a soft return it works instantaneously.
What I still don’t understand is how h5p arranges the text snippets that should be dropped. Sometimes you find them below the blanks, sometimes to the right of it. Could that also have anything to do with the length of the texts? (I sometimes have the feeling, it’s been arranged to the right, when the answers are shorter and as soon as they’re over 17 characters they’re arrange at the bottom …) Have you made the same experience?
Thanks again so much for your help and this very helpful discussion!!
I am only guessing but the location of the choices is likely a result of the relative sizing of content areas to fill the width of the available screen, so yes, longer choices would make the area needed to display them to wide and they get placed below.
You will not have much control over this, all choices will likely end up below on a mobile screen. You might try gradually narrowing your browser window to see how it changes layout on smaller screens.
Worth adding here, because it demonstrates an answer to your question, Stephen (though a few weeks later), from JR Dingwall in twitter, offering his blogged example:
His post demonstrates using the desktop H5P editor Lumi to export H5P content as standalone HTML content, and then putting to use inside of Canvas.
Hello, regarding the truncation of text over 17 chars. An issue I’m experiencing is if your item contains LaTex coding then it calculated the chars on the raw text rather than the formatted text. Can you think of a solution to this, or could you point me to where the source code is so that I can take a look at it? Thanks, George
Hi George, I’m not sure it’s possible as the Latex strings are rendered likely after it’s loaded. But I don’t know for sure how the innards work.
The code is here GitHub - h5p/h5p-multi-choice and one could submit an Susie but I would ask first in the forums at H5P.
If it were me I might redesign perhaps using a different content type (drag drop) or something putting the Latex options displayed in the text of the question with a key for each like ( mine not latex here)
(eq1) C2H24
(eq2) C4H8
And the choices use the key. There might be other ways but I prefer an approach of changing the structure/design of the question than trying to do something that involves changing the code. Sorry that may not be precisely what you sought!
Is it possible to modify H5P’s existing quiz and question modules to handle answer validation server-side, instead of client-side, to prevent cheating? We’re concerned that the current client-side validation exposes correct answers, making it easier for students to cheat. What recommendations can you offer for securely implementing H5P in a way that hides correct answers from the client side while keeping the interactive features functional?
I know that the straight answer is no, but with skilled developers at our side, is this achievable? maybe by modifying the question on load to remove right answers and handle it via back end, or by any other approach you may suggest.
Thank you in advance
Thanks for joining in here, though I need to reinforce that titling this “Ask Me Anything” does not imply high likelihood I can answer most questions.
I would say most likely no or the effort to do would be more than superhuman. H5P is really designed to be self-contained and thus run server side (javascript rendering), hence it’s power in being able to be reused.
I find it is much better put to use for practice exercises and self-test, learning reinforcement rather than high (or medium to low) stakes assessment where cheating concerns come into play. There are plenty of better platforms for doing server side assessments.
I’d never say never, but I would not recommend this as an approach if cheating is a concern. It might be better to ask the technical folks in the h5p.org community space.
Thank you for your response, Much appreciated can you suggest some names you know from other platforms that we can use in our system similar to h5p with server side?
