Creating Interactive Content with H5P
Pressbooks allows you to add plugins to customize and add interactivity to your books. This chapter focuses on the H5P plugin, which enables you to produce interactive content with HTML5.
H5P is a popular plugin for producing engaging, interactive content on the web. It is open-source, free software that supports various types of multimedia. Pressbooks handles all the installation and embedding options that H5P provides.
H5P activities are best used for formative evaluation, student self-assessment, and promoting engagement with the content. You can produce various interactive materials using H5P, such as interactive videos and images, assessments, and exercises.
Are you considering using an open textbook in your courses?
- If so, you may be interested in our OER Discipline Resource Guide: Concordia University Library—2nd edition, which will help you learn about available open textbooks, often in Pressbooks form.
- Learn about current and forthcoming open-textbook projects.
- You might also be interested in applying for an open textbook grant.
