Adding an H5P activity
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Welcome to this video on adding H5P content to your Totara courses. You can use H5P to create highly interactive learning experiences with a wide variety of content types, from presentations to interactive video, branching scenarios and more.
In this video, you’ll explore Totara’s H5P integration, which allows you to use H5P to create content directly in Totara.
To start, we’re looking at a course page in Totara which uses the pathway course format. I want to add a new H5P interaction to this course, so I’ll select the Course administration menu using the three dots and select Manage sections and activities.
I can add an H5P activity in the same way as any other activity type.
In the Editor, I can see all of the H5P interactions available to add to my course.
I can Create Content right here in Totara or Upload existing H5P interactions I have created elsewhere.
I want to create a new Accordion interaction.
I’ll give my activity a Title.
What you need to do now depends on the interaction you have selected. In my case, I need to enter the content I want to appear in the accordion.
H5P have their own training and documentation available on the different interaction types which we recommend you review if you want to use H5P content.
Most of the other settings for the H5P activity are the same as adding any other activity in Totara. But in the Display Options section, you will find some more H5P-specific settings.
H5P interactions can be shown within a frame (which can include the option to download the interaction) or without that frame on the course page.
You can also decide whether to add a copyright button to your interaction, if you add the frame.
In my case, I don’t want to use either of these options so I’ll deselect these checkboxes.
Finally, I’ll have a look at my Activity completion settings.
As with all activities, I have the option to allow learners to manually mark themselves as complete, to decide not to track completion at all, or to track completion based on some criteria.
Some H5P activities can record a grade, which can be used to decide if the user has passed, and therefore completed, the activity.
In my case, I will say that learners must view the activity to complete it.
I’ll save to have a look at my new interaction.
My accordion interaction appears directly on the course page.
Let’s add another interaction so you can see the difference.
This time I’m going to create a Drag the Words activity.
The Task description is pre-populated, but I can update it if I want to.
I’ll enter the content I want to appear in my drag and drop activity.
I’m not interested in tracking completion of this activity so I’ll remove completion tracking.
Then I’ll save my new H5P interaction.
Again, my interaction is embedded directly on the course page.
So that’s adding your H5P content to a course. Like other activities, you can also report on your learners’ interactions with your H5P content.
Within the course itself, you can access the usual course reporting via the administration menu.
For example, I can see who has completed the activities in this course using the Activity completion report.
As a Site Administrator, you can also report on activity completion at site-level, using report builder.
Here I can see the default Activity completion report for the site. This report shows me completion for every activity in every course on my site.
I might be interested in how many users have completed H5P activities on my site. To do that, I can filter the report by Activity type to see only H5P activities, and by setting Activity complete equal to Yes.
Now my report shows me which users have completed which H5P activities, across all courses on the site.
So that’s adding two different H5P interactions to a course in Totara, and reporting on individual activities. Of course, there are many more for you to explore. Note that while Totara is committed to providing a seamless and secure integration with H5P, Totara is not responsible for maintaining H5P’s library of activities, or bugs and performance issues relating to the H5P activities directly.
Adding an H5P activity
Download a PDF version of this transcript
Welcome to this video on adding H5P content to your Totara courses. You can use H5P to create highly interactive learning experiences with a wide variety of content types, from presentations to interactive video, branching scenarios and more.
In this video, you’ll explore Totara’s H5P integration, which allows you to use H5P to create content directly in Totara.
To start, we’re looking at a course page in Totara which uses the pathway course format. I want to add a new H5P interaction to this course, so I’ll select the Course administration menu using the three dots and select Manage sections and activities.
I can add an H5P activity in the same way as any other activity type.
In the Editor, I can see all of the H5P interactions available to add to my course.
I can Create Content right here in Totara or Upload existing H5P interactions I have created elsewhere.
I want to create a new Accordion interaction.
I’ll give my activity a Title.
What you need to do now depends on the interaction you have selected. In my case, I need to enter the content I want to appear in the accordion.
H5P have their own training and documentation available on the different interaction types which we recommend you review if you want to use H5P content.
Most of the other settings for the H5P activity are the same as adding any other activity in Totara. But in the Display Options section, you will find some more H5P-specific settings.
H5P interactions can be shown within a frame (which can include the option to download the interaction) or without that frame on the course page.
You can also decide whether to add a copyright button to your interaction, if you add the frame.
In my case, I don’t want to use either of these options so I’ll deselect these checkboxes.
Finally, I’ll have a look at my Activity completion settings.
As with all activities, I have the option to allow learners to manually mark themselves as complete, to decide not to track completion at all, or to track completion based on some criteria.
Some H5P activities can record a grade, which can be used to decide if the user has passed, and therefore completed, the activity.
In my case, I will say that learners must view the activity to complete it.
I’ll save to have a look at my new interaction.
My accordion interaction appears directly on the course page.
Let’s add another interaction so you can see the difference.
This time I’m going to create a Drag the Words activity.
The Task description is pre-populated, but I can update it if I want to.
I’ll enter the content I want to appear in my drag and drop activity.
I’m not interested in tracking completion of this activity so I’ll remove completion tracking.
Then I’ll save my new H5P interaction.
Again, my interaction is embedded directly on the course page.
So that’s adding your H5P content to a course. Like other activities, you can also report on your learners’ interactions with your H5P content.
Within the course itself, you can access the usual course reporting via the administration menu.
For example, I can see who has completed the activities in this course using the Activity completion report.
As a Site Administrator, you can also report on activity completion at site-level, using report builder.
Here I can see the default Activity completion report for the site. This report shows me completion for every activity in every course on my site.
I might be interested in how many users have completed H5P activities on my site. To do that, I can filter the report by Activity type to see only H5P activities, and by setting Activity complete equal to Yes.
Now my report shows me which users have completed which H5P activities, across all courses on the site.
So that’s adding two different H5P interactions to a course in Totara, and reporting on individual activities. Of course, there are many more for you to explore. Note that while Totara is committed to providing a seamless and secure integration with H5P, Totara is not responsible for maintaining H5P’s library of activities, or bugs and performance issues relating to the H5P activities directly.