Quick instructions

Since summer 2023, TUNI Moodle has included two H5P activity types/tools:

• H5P – Interactive Content (black icon): the older plugin developed and maintained by H5P.com.
• H5P core (blue icon): a newer activity integrated into Moodle’s core functions and maintained by Moodle developers.

Reasons for the change:

• The future of the old H5P plugin is uncertain. It will be removed at some point, and its current support is already limited.
• The new H5P activity integrates better with Moodle’s other features, such as the gradebook and progress tracking.⚠️ Note: See limitations below.
• The new H5P activity saves student responses and provides submission reports.
• H5P tasks created with the core tool can be easily reused across multiple Moodle courses.

Timeline

• Autumn 2025: Teachers: Begin converting your old H5P activities to the new H5P tool.
• December 2025: Creating new H5P activities with the old tool will be disabled. Existing activities will continue to function normally.
• Summer 2026: Old H5P – Interactive Content activities will stop working.

The main difference is in creating and managing new H5P content: You create new H5P content in the H5P Content Bank of the Moodle course. From there, you select H5P content when adding an H5P activity to the course page or embedding via the HTML editor.

You can find the H5P Content Bank under the More tab in the course menu.

Limitations of the New H5P Activity

• Summary and Single Choice content types do not record grades in the gradebook and do not automatically mark completion.
• An error occurs if the teacher who added or copied the H5P activity is removed from the course before anyone (teacher or student) opens the activity. Workaround, if someone other than the main course teacher copies the course:
  1. That person should remain in the Moodle course with a teacher role, or
  2. person who made the course copying open all H5P activities once before leaving the course. Opening is sufficient—no need to submit answers.

• If an Essay question is placed inside a Page content type, students cannot continue editing previously saved answers, even if allowed by the teacher.
  Workaround: Students can copy their earlier answers from the submissions history.

What Is H5P Suitable For?

H5P content offers modern, interactive web materials that support diverse learners. Examples include interactive images, videos, quizzes, and exercises.

H5P activities are intended for independent student practice, not for formal assessment.
Not all H5P task types support answer submission or tracking.
Especially older H5P tasks may not record completions at all.

Therefore, H5P tasks are not recommended as a basis for grading or progress tracking.

If H5P tasks are linked to progress tracking or have completion conditions, teachers can manually add missing completion marks in the Activity Completion report.

A new H5P activity is created in two steps:

Step 1: Create an H5P content in the H5P content bank

From the More tab, go to the H5P content bank to create a new interactive content.

Select the H5P interactive content type from the Add menu.

Create an interactive content according to the content type you selected.

Step 2: Add the H5P activity to the course page

1. Go to the course page and add new H5P activity (blue icon).
   
2. Give it a suitable name and select the correct content from the H5P Content Bank under Package file.
   • If you skip the content bank and drag a .h5p file directly into the activity, it will remain inside the activity and cannot be reused elsewhere.
3. Click the drop area or the plus icon.
4. Choose the H5P Content Bank view.
5. Hover over content to see filenames and select the correct one by left-clicking.
   
   
   • You can also select H5P files from another course’s content bank.
   • Use the buttons on the right to switch between list or tree view.
6. Link the H5P file from the content bank by keeping the Link to file option selected.
7. Click Select this file.
   

Configure Additional Settings

• Grading: Optional scoring.
• Attempt settings: Choose whether student responses are saved and whether students can view their submissions later.

Click Save Changes and verify that the activity works correctly in the student view (Switch role to Student).

Official Moodle documentation: H5P (opens in new window)