The UWEX Instructional Design team is always working to innovate and improve students’ learning experiences. Over the past year, Jessica O’Neel and Kyle Sky have been investigating H5P, an HTML-based tool for creating interactive learning objects.

H5P allows instructional designers to quickly create content that can be dropped into the midst of a Canvas page, such as this example where students to explore more detailed elements of a painting by clicking on the plus (+) icons:

With H5P, static content, such as this painting, was made more interactive and dynamic. There are a multitude of uses for this tool, but our team has found thatH5P is useful for creating low-stakes self-assessments, interactive diagrams, or even assets for other kinds of assessments.

Jessica and Kyle have created a brief video introduction to this incredible tool. Check out the video below to learn about the various applications for H5P and how you can work with your UWEX instructional designer to use this tool to quickly enhance your courses.

Note: If you do not see the video below, or are having trouble playing the video from our blog, you should be able to access it via this link.