Sharing and Editing H5Ps

Most H5Ps are used as they appear in Avenue courseware. However, if you want to edit an H5P that you have borrowed from another instructor on a collaborative course to customize it for your learners, you must change the ownership to yourself.

Potential reasons to alter an H5Ps may include augmenting questions or tasks, reordering learning events, adding closed captioning or adding transcripts, adding audio, revising images, adjusting alignment, and adding or removing behaviours to mention a few. 

1. Copy an H5P to your course from a Shared course.

2. Change the H5P ownership.

3. Edit the H5P.

1. On the shared course, click on the Turn editing on button. 

Note: The Sharing Cart block should appear. 

2. Locate the H5P activity on the shared course, and then click on the Sharing Cart icon. 

Note: The H5P activity appears in the Sharing Cart block. 

3. Return to your course.

4. On your course, click on the Turn editing on button. 

Note: The Sharing Cart block should appear. 

5. In the Sharing Cart block, click on the H5P activity Copy to course icon.

6. At the bottom of the appropriate Topic/section, click on the copy here icon. 

7. The H5P activity appears on your course.

1. On your course, click on the Turn editing on button.

2. Click on the H5P link. 

Note: If you are not the owner of this H5P, there will be no Edit button. If there is an Edit button, you own this H5P. The following steps assume that you do not own this H5P and you cannot edit this H5P. 

3. Click on the browser Back button.

4. On your course, locate the H5P, and then click on the Actions menu icon.

5. In the drop-down menu, click on the Edit Settings option.

6. Scroll down to the Package file section.

7. Click on the H5P file name. 

Note: The Edit H5P pop-up appears. 

8. Click on the Download button.

Note: The H5P downloads to your hard drive.

9. Click on the Save and return to course button.

10. In the Navigation Drawer, click on the Content bank link.

11. When the Content bank opens, click on the Upload button.

12. In the Upload content area, click on the Choose a file... button. 

13. In the File picker, click on the Choose File button.

14. Locate the downloaded H5P file, and then click on the Open button.

15. In the Author field, ensure your name appears.

16. Choose an appropriate license.

17. Click on the Upload this file button.

18. Click on the Save changes button.

Note: The H5P activity preview opens, however, there is now an Edit button. You can edit this H5P.