Add Interactivity and Engagement to Your Courses

Enhance Your LearnDash Content with H5P

Want to make your LearnDash courses more engaging and interactive? H5P makes it easy! With H5P, anyone can create rich HTML5 content to bring lessons to life through interactive elements that captivate your learners. This powerful tool lets you seamlessly add interactive content to lessons, topics, and quiz questions, delivering a more immersive and personalized learning experience. Whether you’re a teacher, trainer, or course creator, the H5P plugin is essential for enhancing the effectiveness of your LearnDash courses.

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The H5P plugin and Learndash Plugin must be installed to use the H5P for LearnDash Plugin

eLearning courses are a flexible and convenient way to build new skills — but what if they could be even more engaging? That’s where the H5P plugin for LearnDash comes in. H5P lets you easily add interactive content to your courses, making learning more dynamic, enjoyable, and effective for your learners.

With H5P, you can also create interactive quiz questions to track progress and assess learning outcomes. If you’re looking to boost the appeal and impact of your eLearning courses, H5P is the perfect tool to make it happen.

Why the H5P for LearnDash plugin?

The H5P for LearnDash plugin makes adding interactive content to your courses a breeze — no separate Learning Record Store (LRS) needed! It integrates seamlessly with LearnDash, so if your site is already running LearnDash, you can easily drop H5P interactions right into your course content.

Setup is simple: just install the plugin, and you’re ready to start creating engaging, interactive elements. Plus, you can ensure learners stay fully involved by disabling the ‘Mark Complete’ and ‘Start Quiz’ buttons until they’ve finished all H5P interactions.

Whether you want to create quick activities or more complex interactions, the H5P for LearnDash plugin gives you the flexibility and control to build a truly immersive and effective learning experience.

Which H5P Content can be used?

H5P content is a fantastic way to make your LearnDash courses more interactive and engaging for learners. This free and open-source tool lets you create a variety of multimedia content, including interactive videos, quizzes, and presentations.

While you can add any type of H5P content to a LearnDash course, not all types can control course progression or be used in quiz questions. For these features to work, the H5P interaction needs xAPI support and must trigger a ‘completion event’ with a score statement.

The following approved H5P content types meet these requirements, allowing you to use them for controlling course progression and quiz questions effectively.

H5P content types tested with “H5P for LearnDash” plugin (whitelist)

Date Last checked: 25-10-2023

Library name	Version	Supported	Notes
Accordion	1.0.30	NO
Advanced fill the blanks	1.0.1	YES
Advent Calendar (beta)	0.2.5	NO
Agamotto	1.5.2	NO
AR Scavenger	1.2.9	NO
Arithmetic Quiz	1.1.19	YES
Audio Recorder	1.0.23	NO
Branching Scenario	1.7.10	YES
Chart	1.2.21	NO
Collage	0.3.17	NO
Column	1.15.2	YES
Cornell Notes	0.1.4	NO
Course Presentation	1.24.14	YES
Crossword	0.4.9	YES
Dialog Cards	1.9.7	NO
Dictation	1.1.2	YES
Documentation Tool	1.8.15	YES
Drag and Drop	1.14.8	YES
Drag the Words	1.10.4	YES
Essay	1.5.3	YES
Fill in the Blanks	1.14.3	YES
Find Multiple Hotspots	1.0.1	YES
Find the Hotspot	1.8.19	YES
Find The Words	1.4.4	YES
Flashcards	1.6.2	YES
Guess the Answer	1.5.1	NO
Iframe Embedder	1.0.27	NO
Image Choice	0.3.2	YES
Image Hotspots	1.10.1	NO
Image Juxtaposition	1.4.1	NO
Image Pair	1.4.0	YES
Image Sequencing	1.1.0	YES
Image Slider	1.1.4	NO
Impressive Presentation	1.0.3	NO
Interactive Book	1.6.8	YES	Does not support ‘save content state’ see: https://h5p.org/comment/36479#comment-36479
Interactive Video	1.24.4	YES	Must have at-least one interaction and ‘Submit Screen’ (star).
KewAr Code	0.2.1	NO
Mark the Words	1.11.1	YES
Memory Game	1.3.10	YES
Multiple Choice	1.16.5	YES
Personality Quiz	1.0.8	NO
Questionnaire	1.3.5	NO
Question Set	1.20.7	YES
Single Choice Set	1.11.19	YES
Sort the Paragraphs	0.11.2	YES
Speak the Words	1.5.3	YES
Speak the Words Set	1.3.2	YES
Structure Strip	1.0.0	NO	Clicking ‘Check’ button does not trigger the xAPI event.
Summary	1.10.14	YES
Timeline	1.1.24	NO
True/False Question	1.8.3	YES
Virtual Tour (360)	0.5.6	NO

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does the H5P for LearnDash use an LRS (Learning Record Store)?

No. We don’t use an LRS (Internal or External) for ease of use and speed. An LRS would add another layer of complexity and slow down the loading of courses. Our courses also work offline so there is no need for an LRS.

On how many sites can I activate the H5P for LearnDash Plugin?

If you’re a web developer, then you know that having a testing or development site is essential for trying out new code or features. And if you’re using WordPress, then you might be wondering how many sites you can have the plugin active on. The answer is 1 testing/development site and 1 live site. This means that you can use the plugin on your localhost or on a staging site, in addition to your live site. Of course, if you need to use the plugin on more than 1 live site, then you’ll need to purchase a separate license for each site. But overall, this policy allows for a great deal of flexibility when it comes to using the plugin.

Can I use an H5P that is not on the whitelist?

You can use H5P interactions that are not on the white list. However, you will not be able to control the Mark Complete or Start Quiz buttons. While this may not be ideal for all learners, it can still be useful in some situations. For example, if you only want to use the interaction for practice and not for assessment, you can still do so without having to mark the activity as complete. Using H5P interactions that are not on the white list can still be a valuable way to enhance your learning content.

Can I use more than 1 H5P on a page?

A H5P stack is a page arrangement where more than one H5P interaction is used. This can be useful if you want to ignore any of the H5Ps in the stack from controlling LearnDash progress. To do this, you can use the “ignore” attribute in the elc_h5p shortcode. For example, [elc_h5p id=u0022xu0022 ignore] will ignore the H5P with an ID of x from LearnDash progress. This can be helpful if you have a complex interaction that you don’t want to overwhelm your learner with. By using the “ignore” attribute, you can ensure that only the most important content controls LearnDash progress.

What if I add an H5P and it is not working?

If you’re having trouble with your H5P content not controlling course progression or returning a score in quiz questions, there are a few things you can try.

What if I add an H5P and it is not working?

If you’re having trouble with your H5P content not controlling course progression or returning a score in quiz questions, there are a few things you can try. Check to see if the H5P is on our whitelist. Check the h5p shortcode. Be sure you are using the messaging shortcode after the h5p shortcode: ex: [[elc_h5p id=”x”]], where x equals your H5P id.
We will not act on support tickets without messaging info in the ticket. If you still feel there is a bug https://elearningcomplete.com/bug-submission-form/

Are there any security issues to be aware of?

With some programming knowledge it is possible to view correct answers in H5P content. For above reason it is not advisable to use H5P interactions in questions where security is a absolute requirement e.g. final exams, or quizzes that issue completion certificates etc. There are however many use cases for the quizzes where security is not a requirement e.g. assessment and/or preparatory quizzes, review of previously taken lessons etc. The main benefit of using H5P in the quiz questions is that it can be reused in the same course as a part or entire quiz.

Requirements

The https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/h5p/ H5P plugin and Learndash Plugin must be installed to use the H5P for LearnDash Plugin

Known issues…

H5P interactions will not load in quiz questions when using a subset of questions and random ordering. Unfortunelty this is not something we can control.