{"id":1814,"date":"2021-02-16T15:55:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T15:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2024-02-19T22:52:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T22:52:41","slug":"getting-h5p-into-canvas-without-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/getting-h5p-into-canvas-without-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting H5P into Canvas without WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing I’ve been trying to experiment with lately is getting H5P content types to work without having to fall ball on WordPress. Given my experience so far I think that is still my number one choice, after all I’ve been creating and sharing H5P activities that way for almost 5 years. Old habits are hard to break. One thing I’ve been trying is the H5P-StandAlone project, another will be trying to create static sites with the output from an app called Lumi<\/a>, but those posts are for another day (read: varying degrees of struggle and success).<\/p>\n

Today, the goal is just to jam an H5P content item into a Canvas (LMS) page without having to spin up a whole other WP site or placing it within a content repo. There might be a variety of reasons why you’d want to do this. One is that not every school that uses Canvas has access to an instance of WordPress, Drupal, or Moodle. They might also not have access to H5P.com which is a great solution for those who can’t host their own H5P activities. So, if this sounds like you then read on. What you can do – today I’m using MacOS so anything I talk about have that caveat – is download the free Lumi app to your desktop. Lumi is an application which allows you to create and run H5P activities without having to call a server. Well, you have to call the H5P hub to grab a content type library first, but then you’re free. The editor looks just the same as it does in WordPress and on H5P.org so that will be familiar to you.<\/p>\n