H5P Is Integrated in Moodle 3.8: Getting to Know More

H5P Is Integrated in Moodle 3.8: Getting to Know More

The latest version of Moodle has brought with it forum enhancements, the first stage H5P integration, further learning analytics functionalities and many more. Moodle is a top LMS that is supported by a great community and is used by many academic and business organizations.

The latest release focuses on the community requested improvement and the new H5P integration will bring in millions of new users to it, which is a popular content extension among the Moodle LMS users and this tight integration and support will surely propel the projects towards attaining their goals.

What is H5P integration?

H5P is an open source framework that is basically used by instructional designers and educators to create content that is interactive and helps to enhance the learning experience of the students like the games, quizzes, videos, drag and drop activities and etc.

It makes it very easy for everyone to create and share the content with great user experience for both the content consumers and the creators.

The interactive content that can be created with H5P are interactive presentations, virtual tours, interactive videos and games. A growing number of websites are using H5P to provide the users with great web content.

It may be plugged into the existing publishing system like Moodle and other LMS and empower the users to create better content and share the content to create with each other in an editable format.

How H5P can help your Moodle website?

H5P can make it very easy to create, share and also reused the HTML 5 content and other applications and it also empowers everyone to create a rich and interactive site. But for all these you will need a web browser and website having a H5P plugin.

H5P content is also responsive and mobile friendly and this means that the users will have a consistent experience of the content on smartphones, computers and tablets.

Moodle teachers will now be able to create their content faster and H5P also promises to maintain both the quality and the quantity of interactive content by making it easier for the teachers to develop upon each other’s efforts, instead of starting from the scratch.

Also Read: Moodle 3.8 Has Come Up with Latest Features for Your E-Learning Organization

What does it mean for the Moodle users?

The initial version of the H5P integration will allow only uploads and embeds from the third party websites. It will not allow for authoring within Moodle LMS, which means that Moodle users will continue to maintain H5P plugin and you will also keep using it unless the core version is able to do everything that the plugin does today.

If you have a Moodle website and you are using H5P, then you will be able to use the new core improvements to embed from the H5P site and use the premium features and support that can only be obtained from there.

H5P integration with Moodle 3.8 is considered to be one of the greatest news items of the year and the learners can now interact with the content even from their mobile devices and also when they are offline.

The community is also actively contributing to improving H5P and the updates and new features will continually be made available on their portal. And with the new H5P button on Moodle, the teachers can now link to a variety of presentations, video exercises and quizzes and more.

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