The end of the road?

Thanks for participating in the H5P sprint! We hope that this has been a helpful experience for you in expanding your knowledge of H5P through our weekly challenges and discussions. This learning sprint was designed to provide bite-sized opportunities to explore the numerous possibilities with H5P, but the journey doesn’t have to end here. There is such potential in using H5P in your classes, and we hope that you continue to channel your creativity and passion to keep making amazing activities for your students!

Your Last Challenge…

Now that you have explored and shared a bunch of H5P activities, it’s time to talk about how to use and adapt another person’s work! In this last challenge, you’ll be asked to download and adapt someone else’s activity in your own H5P account.

Step 1: Ensure your own activities are correctly licenced and can be shared

In Challenge #1, we asked you to CC Licence your work and ensure this information is available to others. Now, let’s check if others can download and/or embed your activity!

  1. Sign into your H5P account
  2. Find the activities you have shared in the padlets from weeks 1-4 (they are also reposted below if you’d like to access via the links in your post)
  3. Click on the activity name
  4. Click on “Edit”
  5. Click on the “Metadata” button next to the Title
    • Select a CC Licence
    • Optional: If you would like to be attributed for your H5P activity, include your name or pseudonym under “Author’s Name”.
      • Select “Author’s Role” from the dropdown. If this is your original work, select “Originator” or “Author”
  6. At the bottom of the page in edit mode
    • Ensure the “Allow users to download content” option is selected (for eCampus H5P accounts, ensure “Display buttons (download, embed and copyright)” is selected as well)
    • Optional: select “Display embed button” if you’d also like to allow others to embed your exact H5P activity

Video Walkthrough for Centennial College H5P accounts

Video Walkthrough for eCampus H5P accounts

Step 2: Download and adapt someone else’s activity

Now it’s time to adapt someone else’s activity! The below Padlets are all the H5P activities shared over the course of our learning sprint. There’s quite a few written steps, so you may want to skip to the video walkthrough for a short tutorial instead.

Step 2a: Identify an activity you’d like to adapt

First, let’s identify an activity to adapt from what was shared in our first 3 challenges. Peruse these two Padlets and identify ONE that you want to adapt:

Challenge #1 Padlet

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Challenges #2 and #3 Padlet

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Step 2b: Save and adapt

If you already know how to save another person’s activity to your H5P account, skip to step 3.

For Centennial College H5P accounts (click to open)
  1. Click on the link in the Padlet of the the activity you want to adapt.
  2. Click on the “Rights of Use” link at the bottom of their activity. Ensure you are comfortable sharing the activity as per the CC Licence they have chosen.
  3. If you are already signed into your account, and if the activity you selected was also created using a Centennial H5P account, a “Clone” button will appear in the top-right corner. Click on “Clone” to add the activity to your account, and skip to step 5.
  4. If you do NOT have a Clone button available:
    • Click on the “Reuse” link at the bottom of their activity.
    • Click on “download as a .h5p file”. There won’t be any programs on your computer that can open your file. Instead, click on “Open/Show in Folder” for the download. This will open up a new window and the file should be automatically highlighted/selected.
    • For the downloaded file, either:
      • Copy the file and paste into a folder on your computer, or;
      • Drag and drop into a folder on your computer.
    • Log into your H5P account.
    • Click on “Add Content”.
    • Select “Upload”.
    • Upload the .h5p file you saved to your computer. It should import all the information into a new activity.
  5. Revise the metadata, if desired
  6. Adapt the activity content and save!

Video Walkthrough for Centennial College H5P accounts

For eCampus Ontario H5P accounts (click to open)
  1. Click on the link in the Padlet of the the activity you want to adapt.
  2. Click on the “Rights of Use” link at the bottom of their activity. Ensure you are comfortable sharing the activity as per the CC Licence they have chosen.
  3. Click on the “Reuse” link at the bottom of their activity.
  4. If you are already signed into your account, and if the activity you selected was also created using an eCampus H5P account, a “Copy Content” button will also appear.
    • Click on the “Copy Content” button.
    • In your H5P account, click on “Create”.
    • Click on “Paste”. It should import all the information into a new activity.
    • Now skip to step 6 on this list!
  5. If you do NOT have a “Copy Content” button available:
    • Click on “download as a .h5p file”.
    • There won’t be any programs on your computer that can open your file. Instead, click on “Open/Show in Folder” for the download.
    • This will open up a new window and the file should be automatically highlighted/selected.
    • For the downloaded file, either:
      • Copy the file and paste into a folder on your computer, or;
      • Drag and drop into a folder on your computer.
    • Log into your H5P account
    • Click on “Create”.
    • Select “Upload”. Upload the .h5p file you saved to your computer. It should import all the information into a new activity.
  6. Revise the metadata, if desired
  7. Adapt the activity content and save!

Video Walkthrough for eCampus H5P accounts

Step 3: Share!

In the Padlet below, share your adapted activity!

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