Kuitunen S, Hörkkö P & Suokari E (University of Turku)
27.5.2024, 11:10–11:30, F3017
The H5P toolkit is a popular and versatile family of tools in Moodle that allow you to diversify a Moodle course area. They are well suited for small quizzes and self-reflection, for example. H5P tools add variety and visualization to the course. However, teachers may find the sheer number of tools challenging. Few teachers have time to learn the whole toolkit, and the long list of H5P tools that opens up in Moodle can be daunting. Thus, H5P tools may have been selected at random for a course (based on, for example, a colleague’s recommendation) and some useful tool may be ignored because they are not known. It can be difficult for support staff to recommend particular H5P tools, so as part of Digitalization Programme Implementation (DOT) of the University of Turku, we decided to build a demonstration area open to everyone, where the entire available H5P tookit is presented. The tools were divided into 11 categories according to their intended use. Each tool has an example made by the staff or found online, along with short instructions. The examples are very simple, not university-level tasks, to focus teachers’ attention on the tool itself rather than the contents of the task. The feedback we have received suggests that the demonstration area has helped teachers to explore the potential of the tools and to consider how they can be applied in their own teaching.