H5P has an ever-growing catalogue of various interactive content types to choose from. The most current way to explore these is to go to the source – H5P.org – and look at their current catalogue of content types under “View all”.

It’s important to note that new H5P content tools are being created all the time by H5P.org and community members alike, so it’s best to check back frequently.  The examples below represent some of the most common and useful H5Ps for educational purposes, but it is not an exhaustive list.

Audio and Recorder

Record your voice and play back or download a .wav file of your recording. A great tool for language learning and LMS’ and other e-learning websites.

Accordion

The Accordion content type allows users to add accessible accordions to their sites. The accordion is fully responsive and works great on smaller screens as well as on desktops.

Agamotto (Image Blender)

Add a sequence of images that people are supposed to look at sequentially, for example, photos of an item that changes over time or images that reveal more and more details. You can optionally add some text information that describes the current image.

Branching Scenario

Branching allows us to create an interactive activity where the content that is displayed is dependent on the answer that is selected.

Column

Use the column tool to create and display content in a single column. In this example, the instructor wanted to create a multiple-choice question set and present it as one activity with all questions visible.

Course Presentation

Dialogue Cards

The Dialog cards content type enables you to create a set of cards with corresponding words or expressions on either side of the cards.

Documentation Tool

This creation type allows the student to edit and complete the activity online, then save their work as a Word file and export it to their device.

Drag and Drop

The drag-and-drop content type allows learners to drag a piece of text or an image and drop it on one or more corresponding drop zones.

Drag the Words

Drag the Words question type allows creatives to create text-based challenges where users are to drag words into blanks in sentences. Excellent for language training, among other things.

Fill in the Blanks

The Fill in the blanks tool allows eLearning designers to create cloze tests. Portions of words or sentences are removed from a text, and the learner is asked to replace the missing text.

Flashcards

The Flashcards content type is a set of cards containing a picture on one side of the card and a corresponding text on the other side. The learner is asked to type a word or expression corresponding to the picture before turning the card over and revealing the correct answer.

Image Hotspots

The Image hotspots content type allows you to place an overlay of hotspots on images and graphics. The user presses the hotspots to reveal an associated text.

Image Juxtaposition

This content type allows users to compare two images interactively.

Interactive Book

This content type allows users to put together large amounts of interactive content like interactive videos, questions, course presentations and more on multiple pages.

Interactive Video

Add customized content to a YouTube video. You can add stop points and insert questions. Endless options. In this example, the Government of Canada video What is Copyright contains outdated information. Changes to the Copyright Act are not included, and a new updated video has not been created (we will keep checking). Using the interactive video H5P tool, the new terms for copyright protection are layered into the video.

Mark the Words

A  question type allowing users to create challenges where the user is to mark specific types of verbs in a text.

Single Choice Question Set

Display the questions one at a time. Set the move option to manual or automatic.

Multiple Choice Question Set

The Multiple Choice content type is your staple multiple-choice quizzing tool. Multiple Choice can be used to test the learner’s level of knowledge on a given topic.

Quiz (Question Set)

This type allows you to create quizzes. Many question types are supported, like multiple choice, fill in the blanks, drag the words, mark the words and regular drag and drop.

Summary

The Summary content type allows learners to interactively build a summary of a certain topic. Summaries are a perfect way to strengthen your learners’ ability to remember by encouraging them to build interactive summaries as they learn.

Timeline

This type allows users to create interactive timelines.

Speak the Words

An HTML5-based voice recognition content type allowing authors to ask a question that should be answered with the user’s own voice. Speak the Words content is created using only a web browser in H5P-supported platforms such as Canvas, Brightspace, Blackboard, Moodle and WordPress. The speech engine used is currently only available in the Chrome browser.