Here is a step-by-step guide to getting started with eCampusOntario's H5P Studio. Depending on your familiarity with the platform, you might not need to read each step. If you aren't familiar, we recommend reviewing each step in the following H5P presentation and completing them on your own by opening a new tab or window. Alternatively, you can refer to the "New User Guide to H5P Studio" by eCampusOntario.
Now that you have your account, you can get started by creating some H5P content. Don't worry too much about breaking anything when you're playing around in the Studio – you can always delete content. In this next section we'll look and do the following:
The best way to learn about H5P is to create a content type yourself! This activity will focus on the "Question Set (Quiz)" – which enables you to integrate multiple different question types options. This will give you a chance to explore a few different content types in one go.
There are numerous content types in addition to the Question Set. To expand your knowledge of H5P, we encourage you to try to build two of the more popular content types on H5P Studio.
Course Presentation is like a slideshow of content that you can strategically pepper with reflective questions and prompts. Check out this example as well as this one and then give the Course Presentation Tutorial a try.
The interactive video content type adds engaging features to your videos by integrating checkpoint questions and prompts that the user engages with as they are watching a video. Here is an example using the openly-licensed "World of Amphibians" video from YouTube. Note the circles that appear on the timeline indicate a new checkpoint. Try the Interactive Video Tutorial.
One of the 'open' benefits of H5P is the ability to easily reuse and adapt content that others have created if they have licensed it for re-use. If, for example, someone has already created a Branching Scenario on conflict resolution and you are looking to create the same – you can download the .h5p file, upload to your account, and adapt it for your context – saving you time and tapping into what others have openly shared.
A good way to get started with reusing H5P is to take some time to explore eCampusOntario's H5P Studio and save your favourites. To do this, you:
Now that you've found an H5P that you would like to reuse, you can decide whether you want to retain and embed it as is or adapt it for context. Embedding it as is, is as easy as clicking on the "Embed" option in the bottom left corner, and copying and pasting the code into whatever platform you would like it to appear in (e.g., LMS, Pressbooks, WordPress). We'll talk more about those steps in the next section.
To reuse and adapt the H5P, let's try the following steps: