H5P: Creating interactive activities for student engagement

Course description

What does H5P stand for? How can you use it? What is meant by student engagement? This session will seek to demystify H5P and provide a way in to start creating activities. The facilitator will address the pedagogy behind using this form of interactive content.

The session will cover three main areas:

• Creating activities for students to apply their learning
• H5P Top 10 and how they were chosen
• What do we mean by student engagement

This session will provide overview of H5P as it is implemented in Canvas. There will be examples that you can use to create activities for your students and thought starters for adding this type of content to your online courses.

Type of course

Web conference

Presenters

Who should attend

• Topic Coordinators teaching in Canvas FLO
• Academics looking to extend their practice
• Academics interested in asynchronous teaching and learning
• Learning Designers
• Anyone interested in student engagement online

What you will learn

At the end of this session, you should be able to:

1. Understand what H5P is and how to access it at Flinders
2. Consider aspects of student engagement in an online course
3. Choose appropriate H5P content types according to the engagement required.