Create H5P activities in the Content bank
Creating your individual activities in the content bank first is always good practice for linking interactive activities in different parts of your Moodle page. Activities created in the Moodle unit content bank are linked to your personal account.
Note that these activities cannot be graded activities and you would need to change the settings of the individual activity to have a grade linked to Gradebook. See Embed a graded H5P activity for more information.
- To navigate to the Content bank, click More in the banner menu and select Content bank.
- Use the drop down list to choose which Moodle units content bank you would like to add a H5P activity to.
- Click on Add and select the desired activity from the drop down list.
Note: Activities are sorted in alphabetical order. - Set up your activity. For detailed instructions for how to set up specific activity types, see the guides on the H5P website:
- Once you are finished creating your activity, click Save.
- You will see a preview of your H5P activity. In the top right corner, click Edit to continue editing your H5P activity.
- Click More to view additional options. You can choose to:
- Make unlisted: Makes it hidden from other users and greys out the name of then H5P in the content bank. You will not be able to select it when embedding it in Moodle.
- To make your H5P public, from the additional options under More, select Make public.
- Rename: Rename your H5P activity.
- Replace with file: Upload a different H5P file. This will be updated across any embedded H5Ps with the new file.
- Download: Allows you to download the H5P activity as a .h5p file.
- Delete: Remove your H5P activity from the content bank.
Note: Remember to clearly title your activities so that you can retrieve them more easily and place them in the desired location.
- Click Exit to finish and navigate back to the content bank.
- Once you have added or uploaded H5P activities, they will appear in the content bank and can be embedded directly into Moodle resources and activities using the text editor.
- You can switch between icon view and list view with the icons in the top right. In list view, you can view places the H5P has been linked(embedded or as a standalone activity), when the activity was last modified, the file size, activity type and the author of the H5P activity. You can sort H5P activities in the content bank by clicking on the headers.
Creating your individual activities in the content bank first is always good practice for linking interactive activities in different parts of your Moodle page. Note that these activities cannot be graded activities and you would need to change the settings of the individual activity to have a grade linked to Gradebook. See Embed a graded H5P activity for more information.
- To navigate to the Content bank, open the navigation menu and click Content bank.
- Click on Add and select the desired activity from the drop down list.
Note: Activities are sorted in alphabetical order. - Set up your activity. For detailed instructions for how to set up specific activity types, see the guides on the H5P website:
- Once you are finished creating your activity, click Save.
- You will see a preview of your H5P activity. In the top right corner, click Edit to continue working or click Close to finish and navigate back to the content bank.
Note: Remember to clearly title your activities so that you can retrieve them more easily and place them in the desired location. - Once you have added or uploaded H5P activities, they will appear in the content bank and can be embedded directly into Moodle resources and activities using the text editor. For more information, see Embed a H5P activity from the content bank.
- You can switch to list view with the icon in the top right. In list view, you can also sort H5P activities in the content bank by clicking on the headers.