Why should I ask my students to build their own H5P activities?
- Students
get to take ownership of their content
- They
can add the content to their portfolio to demonstrate graduate
attibutes
- They
create activities or assessment questions that you may be able to
reuse: it’s a way to understand what type of learning activities
they enjoy, too.
- Students
have fun creating content!
By
doing so, you are changing the learning activity design from one
(teacher) to many (students) towards many (students) to many
(students), therefore enriching their learning experience.
How do I set it up?
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You build a sub-course (or separate course)
The sub-course acts as an activity design lab
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You give students permissions to create H5P content and add/access content bank from H5P in this subcourse.
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You give instructions for the activity in the ‘main’ course page.
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The students create H5P activities as directed , in the sub-course which are stored int he content bank.
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In the ‘main course’ the students post the link to their activity into a Glossary or Database or, with ‘embed’ permissions, to a forum.
Example of setup
Possible
peer-review / grading criteria
- Clarity
if content produced
- Content
accuracy
- Alignment
with LO (on topic)
- Graphic/activity
relevance
- Layout
of activity / presentation
- Accessibility
+ credits and references (if applicable)
- Enhances
the knowledge/skills of users undertaking the activity
- Originality
/ human touch /humour (bonus points?)
Tips:
- There are other strategies to setup H5P for students are presented by Lance Roe, from Idaho State University in this document:
- This Moodle doc page provides further details on using the H5P content bank :
- To help support students creating an H5P activity, with on-screen
guidance, set up a User
Tour!