H5P Group organized a community event in Hamburg, Germany. And the HAW Hamburg as part of the Hamburg Open Online University wanted to contribute something special to it. They premiered two new content types for H5P.
Checklist
Checklist is a tiny content type that allows you to, well, create checklists. Maybe you’d like to give your students one, so they can tick important items off. That’s the most obvious use case. BUT it is quite flexible, and you can probably use it in other scenarios as well.
Here are two examples:
For every list item, you can decide
- whether it’s a segment title only and if that can be edited and/or moved and/or removed, or
- whether it’s a checkbox item that may or may be not checked by default – and whether it may be edited and/or moved and/or removed.
Plus: You can decide whether user can add and remove their own items or segments (then with full power over them.
Oh, did you notice that the content type already support the new theming feature for H5P? But no worries, if you cannot use it (yet), here’s a version for older H5P instances. It mimicks the new visual appearence, so you will hardly notice the difference once you update.
LabelExercise
Content type #2 is “LabelExercise” which has been requested a couple of times on the H5P forum. You can arrange blanks on an image that users then need to fill in with a correct word – great for labeling, hence the name. No surprises here, except maybe the hotspot mode: It kicks in once the available space gets too small to prevent shrinking fonts too much and getting hard to read.
Here’s how it could look. Note that this time you can get away with one version for both, the regular appearance and the new themed appearence. One content type fits both 🙂
Want to use it already?
The H5P core team will be asked to review the content types, and when they find time, they should release them on the H5P Hub.
If you want to use the content types right away, look for the Reuse button underneath the contents. Use that button to download the demo content, and then upload the .h5p file onto your H5P enabled platform. Please note that you will need to have permission to install H5P libraries. Otherwise, you cannot install the content type this way. In that case, your system admin will need to assist you.
The source code is available as well, if you want to check it before installing or if you want to build the libraries yourself:
- https://github.com/otacke/h5p-checklist
- https://github.com/otacke/h5p-label-exercise
- https://github.com/otacke/h5p-editor-label-exercise
Is it available in my language?
In theory: yes! If it’s missing, you can contribute to the H5P community and fill in the gaps yourself.
Any future plans for that content type?
Ideas? Yes: maybe. Plans? No.
I know you want to share your ideas, too. Please keep in mind though, that I was merely the contractor! I do not have the intention to develop it further in my spare time beyond fixing hidden bugs or general maintenance.