Recommended settings for H5P activity types
This guide includes the recommended settings for the following H5P activity types:
Course Presentation
Behavioural settings
- Uncheck the Activate Active Surface Mode checkbox to allow students to navigate the presentation themselves.
- Uncheck the Hide Summary Slide checkbox as this slide is useful in providing an overview of the activities within the course presentation.
- Leave the Override "Show Solution" button dropdown blank to enable the Show Solution button for all questions.
- Leave the Override "Retry" button dropdown blank to enable the Retry button for all questions.
- Check the Show "Show solution" button in the summary slide checkbox to allow students to launch 'Solution Mode' to review the correct answers for each question.
- Check the Show "Retry" button in the summary slide checkbox to allow students to retry all questions again for revision purposes.
- Uncheck the Enable print button checkbox to disable the print button.
Drag and Drop
Behavioural settings
- Check the Enable "Retry" checkbox to allow students to retry the activity for revision purposes.
- Check the Require user input before the solution can be viewed checkbox to ensure students attempt the activity before viewing the solution.
- Uncheck the Give one point for the whole task checkbox to allow for each item that is dragged and dropped to be individually marked.
- Check the Apply penalties checkbox to ensure any items dragged into the incorrect drop-zone are penalised. If this is not enabled, learners may match all items to all drop-zones and always receive a full score.
- Check the Enable score explanation checkbox to show students which items were correct and incorrect.
- Leave the Background opacity for draggables textbox empty as you want students to be able to view items clearly.
- Select When dragging from the Drop Zone Highlighting dropdown list to highlight the drop-zones only when an item is dragged. This makes it more obvious which drop-zones the items can be dropped into.
- Leave Spacing for Auto-Align (in px) as the default.
- Check the Enable FullScreen checkbox to allow students to optionally complete the activity in a full screen view.
- Check the Show score points checkbox to show students the points earned for each item.
- Check the Show Title checkbox to display the title within the activity window.
Interactive Book
Cover Page
- Optionally check the Enable book cover checkbox to add a cover page to your interactive book to help provide context before students begin.
- Enter a subtitle in the Cover description textbox (i.e. This activity will explore the concept of......).
- Optionally click on the + Add button to add a cover image.
- If you added a cover image, enter alternative text in the Cover image alternative text textbox to ensure students with a screen reader are able to understand the image.
Behavioural settings
- Check the Display table of contents as default checkbox to show the side navigation to students.
- Check the Display Progress Indicators checkbox to help students keep track of their progress.
- Check the Enable automatic progress checkbox to ensure any page without a task is considered complete when viewed.
- Check the Display summary checkbox as this slide is useful in providing an overview of the activities within the interactive book.
Interactive Video
Behavioural settings
- Leave the Start video at textbox blank to ensure the video starts at the beginning.
- Uncheck the Auto-play video checkbox to allow students to control when the video begins.
- Uncheck the Loop the video checkbox so the video only plays through once.
- Leave the Override "Show Solution" button dropdown blank to enable the "Show Solution" button for all questions.
- Leave the Override "Retry" button dropdown blank to enable the "Retry" button for all questions.
- Uncheck the Start with bookmarks menu open checkbox for consistency as it is not available on all platforms.
- Check the Show button for rewinding 10 seconds checkbox to allow students to revisit a section they may have missed.
- Check the Prevent skipping forward in a video checkbox to ensure students do not skip ahead and actually watch the entire video.
- Uncheck the Deactivate sound checkbox so the sound in your video can be heard.
Multiple Choice
Behavioural settings
- Check the Enable "Retry" button checkbox to allow students to retry the question for revision purposes.
- Check the Enable "Show Solution" button checkbox to allow students to view the correct answer.
- Select Automatic from the Question Type dropdown list so the question automatically appears as radio buttons or checkboxes based on the number of correct answer options.
- Uncheck the Give one point for the whole task checkbox to allow for each answer option selected to be individually marked.
- Check the Randomize answers checkbox to ensure answers appear in a random order each time.
- Check the Require answer before the solution can be viewed checkbox to ensure students attempt the question before viewing the answer.
- Uncheck the Show confirmation dialog on "Check" checkbox to avoid unnecessary pop-up notifications.
- Uncheck the Show confirmation dialog on "Retry" checkbox to avoid unnecessary pop-up notifications.
- Uncheck the Automatically check answers checkbox to allow students to change their answer before clicking on the "Check" button.
- Optionally change the percentage in the Pass percentage textbox. The percentage is set to 100 by default.
- Check the Show score points checkbox to show the points earned for each answer.
Quiz (Question Set)
Quiz introduction
- Optionally check the Display introduction checkbox to display an introduction to provide students with context before they begin the quiz.
- Enter a title in the Title textbox.
- Enter a description in the Introduction text textbox (i.e. This quiz will test your knowledge on....).
- Leave the the Start button text the same for consistency.
- Optionally click on the + Add button to add a Background image to the quiz introduction screen.
Quiz
- Optionally click on the + Add button to add a Background image to the quiz.
- Select Dots from the Progress indicator dropdown list to provide students with another method of navigating to the next question.
- Optionally change the percentage in the Pass percentage textbox. The percentage is set to 100 by default.
- Uncheck the Disable backwards navigation checkbox to ensure students can change their answers prior to submitting.
- Optionally check the Randomize questions checkbox to ensure answers appear in a random order each time.
- Optionally enter a number in the Number of questions to be shown textbox to show a randomised batch of questions. This means that students are less likely to receive the same questions as their peers and makes it more difficult to cheat.
Finished
- Check the Display results checkbox to show the quiz results to students on completion.
- Check the Display solution button checkbox to enable the "Show Solution" button for all questions.
- Check the Display retry button checkbox to enable the "Retry" button so students can retry the quiz for revision purposes.
- Leave No results message text the same for consistency.
- Leave the Feedback heading text the same for consistency.
- Leave the Solution button label text the same for consistency.
- Leave the Retry button label text the same for consistency.
- Leave the Finish button text the same for consistency.
- Optionally check the Display video before quiz results checkbox to play a video prior to students viewing their quiz results.
- Optionally check the Enable skip video button checkbox to allow students to skip the video and review their results.
- Leave the Skip video button label text the same for consistency.
- Optionally click on the + button to upload a Passed video which will play if the student passes the quiz.
- Optionally click on the + button to upload a Fail video which will play if the student fails the quiz.
Settings for "Check", "Show solution" and "Retry"
- Check the Show "Check" buttons checkbox to allow students to check their answer before moving onto the next question.
- Leave the Override "Show Solution" button dropdown blank to enable the "Show Solution" button for all questions.
- Leave the Override "Retry" button dropdown blank to enable the "Retry" button for all questions.