6 H5P: The Hype is Real

H5P

H5P – a plugin to create interactive content – has a set of stable interactivities currently consisting of 38 content types offered via Pressbooks. To create an H5P plugin, first select “H5P Content” from the menu on the left, and then select “Add New” from the drop-down menu.

Screenshot derived from Introduction to Pressbooks slide deck by eCampusOntario Open Library.

 

H5P and accessibility

As much as we may think multimedia assists in making information more accessible, there are challenges with multimedia and accessibility. H5P does its best to improve the accessibility of its content types, but a subset of types will always challenge and likely require an alternate presentation of the information. Keep up to date on H5P accessibility.

Attributions

The chapter as a whole was adapted from Open at Scale: Project Guidelines, chapter on H5P: The Hype is Real by P. French used under a CC BY 4.0 international license. Download this book for free at https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/.

 

License

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Micro-credential Toolkit: Project Guidelines Copyright © 2019 by Sandra Janjicek is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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