H5P is a toolkit for digital content creation based on the  HTML version 5  Package of technologies. If you have interacted with text, images, videos, or other objects online, you have probably already used H5P content. More importantly, H5P has made building your own interactive content as easy as drag and drop. 

Educators and support staff are creating and integrating digital presentations, assessments, review material, and other rich, engaging tasks into their classrooms. This document presents a summary of what is possible with the H5P toolkit and how UVA instructors can inquire about joining the digital content author community at our University.

An H5P media hub to share and borrow pre-made content has been announced for later in 2023.

• H5P provides over 2 dozen interaction types to develop interactive material to teach, review, and assess (with support for all major languages).    
• The course presentation, interactive video, and quiz or question set are examples of the most popular and versatile of H5P types.
• H5P content maker can be integrated into Canvas, including a connection to Gradebook.
• Software automatically tracks, displays individual and class results for activity. 

1. Choose your activity type

2. Upload your base material (slides, lecture video, etc)

3. Write interactions (notes, comprehension checks, etc)

H5P is an open and freely available technology, and it is designed for sharing content between users. There are a couple of ways that people can offer and borrow H5P content.

How-to and other information

• Tutorials to learn how different types of content are made.
• Examples and info about all content types in the H5P toolkit.
• YouTube tutorials are added daily.
• A so-called "H5P periodic table" presentation with all content types and ideas for their use.

Examples of H5P in Action

• A trio of online courses from a Ukrainian e-school about the German language, internal anatomy, and a German Wikipedia-based trainer 
• Norwegian Digital Learning Arena's English-language site with more available in Norwegian 
• Database of different applications hosted by Canadian digital learning support 
• French language training Moodle (site menu in English) with a variety of applications and levels. 
• Dual French-English hobbyist gardener quizzes because everything exists on the Internet 
•  A trio of presentation templates with additional integrated types 
• beginner's English at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) 
• ESL page with several lessons on business English for upper-level English learners 
• German-language site with variety of examples about multiple topics 
• French children's story told interactively 
• Simulated 360 solar system model and exploration 
• Full-page module on geophysics and the inner workings of our Earth 
• Excelsior College’s 200+ writing activities and 100+ reading activities all made with H5P 

H5P Workshops

Check A&S Learning Design & Technology's event calendar to see if workshops on H5P are currently being offered or email A&S LDT to ask for more information.

You can also check the Upcoming Events section of UVA's Center for Teaching Excellence's Learning Tech page for tool workshops. 

Last, you can view recordings of past H5P Webinars on the company's website: https://h5p.org/h5p-webinars-2024.