{"id":3859,"date":"2025-09-18T15:18:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/?p=3859"},"modified":"2025-09-18T15:18:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:18:23","slug":"einstiegh5p-for-trying-out-h5p-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/einstiegh5p-for-trying-out-h5p-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"EinstiegH5P for trying out H5P Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"

A certain dog<\/a> was barking in the OE Global Connect<\/a> yard and brought this one to my attention. You can sign up to get regularly updates of lots of really interesting Open Ed and Ed Tech related resources via email too. Apparently Nele Hirsch, one of our Open Ed peers over in Germany, has created a website where anyone can create H5P content to try out the authoring tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are a couple of interesting aspects to this. The first is that unlike H5P.org<\/a>, or maybe even the H5P install you have at your work (like if you use Moodle), Nele’s website includes additional content types that are not in the regular hub. There are loads of content types in the H5P hub by default, but readers of this blog will know I’m a big fan of Oliver Tacke’s work<\/a>. Oliver makes custom H5P content types for clients (he is truly great to work with<\/a>). Not all of his custom projects make their way into the main hub, but the great thing about the Open Source side of H5P is you can upload the content types he makes and then users on that instance can make content with them. The very first time I did this “use a custom content type” approach was actually a customization of the dialog cards that Papi Jo in the H5P forums had created that basically did what the flashcards content type does now.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Nele’s website is interesting in one other way. No login needed. Translated to English,<\/p>\n

Please note: The website is for testing only. Created content is public and can be viewed and edited by everyone. They are deleted daily at midnight. If you want to keep it, you’ll have to download it after creating it.Nele Hirsch<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n

When you go to create an H5P you are brought to the dashboard of the site with limited access, but enough to see the H5P hub and build what ever you like. I love this approach. Back in 2022, I ran a workshop at the OTESSA online conference, The eLearning Design Charrette: A H5P Workshop,<\/p>\n

Creating engaging interactive online activities used to require either expensive eLearning authoring tools, comprehensive web development knowledge and skills, or both. However, this is no longer the case. Participants in the eLearning Design Charrette are invited to complete small challenges using a free and open-source authoring tool, H5P. Originating from the Architectural Faculty of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in the 19th century (Roggama, 2014), design charrettes have long been successfully applied to complex, complicated, and controversial design problems. A design charrette is \u201ca time-limited, multiparty design event organised to generate a collaborative produced plan for a sustainable community\u201d (Condon, 2008). In the context of this workshop, the characteristics of design charrettes – knowledge creation and sharing, unconscious intuition, creativity, and working in the flow – will be applied to create sustainable learning asset examples for the wider OTESSA community. This workshop begins with an overview of design charrettes for eLearning, after which participants attempt to complete provided challenges individually or in groups. Then, facilitated by an experienced instructional designer and H5P enthusiast, participants will share and critique completed challenges. All levels of experience with H5P are welcome in this encouraging environment where everyone can share their interest, questions, and expertise. Condon, P. M. (2012). Design charrettes for sustainable communities. Island Press. Roggema, R. (Ed.). (2014). The design charrette: ways to envision sustainable futures. Springer Science & Business Media.JR Dingwall<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n

If you’ve ever run a workshop getting people to try a new technology, especially one that runs online you’ll know that just the sign-up and logging in process can eat your entire session. For OTESSA I wanted to get away from having participants have to log into a WordPress or Pressbooks site, or any other site. The point of the workshop was to try H5P, so I was going to focus on that. I’d found a plugin for my use case, WP Frontend Admin<\/a>, that allowed me to create a page on my Design Charrette site that showed the site admin. I was able to customize what was shown, so naturally, only the H5P editor. When participants went to the site there was a page that was just a collection of the H5Ps people made, and the other page was the editor. It worked pretty well, espeically doing it for the first time. I’ve since decommissioned the site. If I were to run a workshop now, I’d probably lean on Nele’s site.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Henry Chuy<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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