H5P and Totara 18 integration now available

Learn how the H5P and Totara integration will enhance your learning content.

One of the headline features in the recent release of Totara 18 was the new H5P integration. This single new feature opens up a wide range of opportunities for L&D professionals to deliver more effective, more engaging learning via Totara Learn.

Let’s explore some of those opportunities and see how the addition of H5P to Totara will benefit admins and educators.

What is H5P?

H5P is a free and open-source content authoring framework. The term is an abbreviation of HTML5 Package. It uses HTML5 to make it easy to create, share and reuse engaging, interactive learning content.

In that respect, you can think of it as being a more flexible upgrade on SCORM authoring packages.

How H5P benefits L&D

There are several reasons why using H5P is helpful for L&D professionals. You can:

• Create interactive content without the need for programming skills
• Enrich existing courses with fresh, engaging content
• Ensure interactive content is compatible with most browsers and devices
• Encourage collaboration and sharing in content creation
• Utilise more than 50 learning activities that are already available in the H5P Hub

Totara H5P integration

The new integration with H5P creates a range of ways to use interactive course content. These include being able to:

• Create and edit interaction presentations, videos, games and other content in Totara Learn
• Download and upload activities as .h5p files
• Backup and restore courses containing H5P activities
• Incorporate activities already available in the H5P Hub within your courses
• Track users’ interactions and scores on H5P activities in Gradebook

The integration is fully supported as a course activity within Totara Learn. This means any future maintenance and enhancements will be streamlined and handled directly by Totara.

Ideas for using H5P in Totara 18

There are lots of ways to enhance your learning content using the new Totara 18 H5P integrations. Some ideas to explore are:

• Adding interactive elements to existing video content or presentations. This could include overlays of quizzes, links and explanatory text. 
• 360° virtual tours in which learners can engage with a location or workplace.
• Interactive flash card-inspired quizzes in which users combine visual learning with supporting questions and text.

Ready to add H5P to Totara?

To start benefiting from the integration with H5P you will need to upgrade to Totara 18. Fill out the form below to discuss your options.

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