Creating an H5P Course Presentation activity

This section of the resource will guide you through using the H5P Course Presentation tool.

The Slides tab and settings menu

The top menu

• Adding elements. The following section contains formatting and multimedia options. 
  
  From left to right;
  • Add or format text,
  • Add or update a hyperlink,
  • Add or update an image,
  • Add shapes (square, circle, horizontal or vertical lines),
  • Add or update a video,
  • Add or update a link to a slide within the H5P Course Presentation,
  • Add or update an audio file. 
• Adding interactivity. The following section contains the buttons for adding question types and other interactivity. 
  
  From left to right:
  
  • Fill in the Blanks
  • Single Choice Set
  • Multiple Choice
  • True/False Question
  • Drag and Drop
  • Summary
  • More elements. This includes other less common, but still useful options including Tables, Interactive Video, Exportable Text (covered later in this article) and more. 
  • Paste content from the clipboard. 

Slide options

From left to right: 

• Show or hide the sidebar navigation,
• Current slide / Total slides. In the image above, the Course Presentation is displaying slide 2 of 3,
• Add new slide,
• Clone slide,
• Slide background - please be mindful of colour contrast requirements when selecting background colours and images,
• Move slide left - e.g. move the current slide (slide 2) to become slide 1 in the order,
• Move slide right - e.g. move the current slide (slide 2) to become slide 3,
• Delete slide.

1. Ensure Edit mode is on.
   
2. Click the Add an activity or resource button.
   
3. Select Interactive Content from the Add an activity or resource chooser.
   
4. Add a meaningful Name (mandatory) and Description (optional) to the activity.
   
5. Click Slides to open the Slides panel, then click Edit to add a title to the slide.
   
6. Click Image to add an image to a slide. To create a UOW-style Course Presentation, you can utilise assets from the UOW Office Kit available via the intranet.
   
7. Click + Add and select the image you want to use.
   
   • Enter alt text into the Alternative text field.
   • (Optional) You can provide hover text – text displayed when students hover their mouse pointer over an image.
   • Comments can also be added to the image that are displayed at the end of the presentation when students choose to display suggested answers.

8. Click Metadata to include license information for the image.
   
9. Resize images in the Course Presentation by clicking and dragging the lower right corner of the image.
   
10. Drag and drop the image to move it to the desired position on the slide.
11. Click Text to add a text box to the slide.
    
    • Insert text into the Edit text box.
      
    • Use the Edit text toolbar to format text.
    • Comments can also be added to the text that is displayed at the end of the presentation when students choose to display suggested answers.
    • Background Opacity: a 0 value means the text box will be transparent, and a 100 value means the text box will have a white background.
    • Check Display as button to replace the text box with a button students click on to read the text in the pop-up.

12. Click Add new slide to add additional slides to the presentation.
    

13. To create a link, click the Link button.
     
    
    • The text entered in the Title text field will be displayed on the slide.
    • Enter the URL into the URL text field.
    • Comments, opacity, and the ability to display the link as a button rather than text are the same as described above for images.

14. To create a Summary, first add a new slide as described in Step 8, then click the Summary button.
    
    
    • The Summary activity allows students to make an interactive summary of the key points in the Course Presentation.
    • After adding introductory text or a question, add statements that summarise the Course Presentation.
      Note: The first statement is the correct statement.

The Exportable Text activity allows students to write into text fields within an H5P Course Presentation and export the collated text to a Word document.

You can include prompts for the students in the text boxes, as well as generic automated feedback in the exported document.

Some potential use cases include:

• Summarising the subject material in the student's own words for note-taking,
• Reflecting on stimulus,
• Writing pre- and post-evaluations on perspectives prior to engaging in another activity, e.g. prior to and after completing a module,
• Drafting components of essays with integrated feedback.

With the ability to export the file as a Word document, students can easily upload the document to a Moodle Assignment for marking. Students can edit the Word document, once downloaded, as with any other Word document.

Steps for Creating an Exportable Text Activity

To create an Exportable Text activity in the H5P Course Presentation:

1. From the H5P Course Presentation, click More elements (three vertical dots) to show more options.
2. Select the Exportable Text Area button.
   
3. Enter a Label/heading to display the answers in the exported document.
4. The Comments field can be used either to provide prompts OR automated feedback, depending on the display settings chosen.
   • To include prompts in the text entry boxes, enter the text for the prompt and click on Always display comments. This will then show as a question mark popup in the corner of the text entry area, as displayed below.
   • To automate feedback, ensure Include comments in the exported document is selected, and uncheck Always display comments.
     
5. Click and drag to move or resize the Exportable Text Area on the slide. 
6. Add instruction to the students noting on the final slide they will be able to download their responses as a Word document by clicking the Export text button.
   
7. Click the Save and display button to view the H5P Course Presentation.