H5P Interactive Content Teams Integration

[Marius Pretorius]

H5P has wonderful HTML5 interactive objects that bring delight to any digital content creating teacher's heart. With many educators committing to Ms Teams for blended learning delivery, the challenge is how can one bring this content into Ms Teams? Now for some good news/bad news.

Microsoft has just announced that it is now possible to embed H5P interactive content right into OneNote. Unfortunately, this is only possible using content which is hosted on H5P.com (related to H5P.org) which is a paid SaaS (Software as a Service) platform. The yearly amount is not trivial (starting at $570 for three authors) and for many would be a hurdle too high.

However, there is a way to integrate H5P content hosted on your own WordPress or Drupal (CMS) H5P enabled site, with Ms Teams. A word of caution here: I'm not referring to WordPress sites that are hosted on WordPress.com. I'm referring to WordPress installations that are hosted by Web hosting companies such as Bluehost. You may already have such a site or you could sign up to a web hosting company and create one. The cost will be much less than $570 per annum.

The way to integrate self hosted H5P content is to embed it on a SharePoint page as an Embed web part. There are a couple of settings that you need to change to make this to work. The best (and easiest) explanation I have found for making these settings is by Greg at the SharePoint Maven. I also changed the "Allow custom scripts" setting for my tenant. See my post here.

Obviously this approach is based on the SharePoint integration with Ms Teams, where you can then add your SharePoint pages as tabs to your Teams channels.

The upshot of all this is that it is possible to integrate the wonderful interactive content from H5P with Ms Teams!

[#2]

As I said in my main post, H5P objects have to be hosted somewhere before you can embed them on a SharePoint page. That applies to wherever you want to use H5P, not only in SharePoint. I also explained that you have two options for creating and hosting your H5P content:
1. On H5P.com which is a paid service
2. Self hosting on a H5P enabled WordPress or Drupal site.
I need to add, perhaps, for those who are interested to self- host but don't want the added load of publishing a website, that you don't actually need to publish your content on the WordPress or Drupal site. In other words you don't need a fully fledged site. You can simply use it to create and host the H5P content. It does not need to appear in a post on the website. In fact your "website" need not even be published at all. It can simply act as an incubator for your H5P content. From there you can then embed it anywhere you want, using iframe embed code.

[#3]

@Marius Pretorius  Probably that's not new, but to all those who "arrived" here because they googled the topic, here is a nice link to a software with which you can create h5p content and export it to html and just mail it to your students, share it via cloud etc. Lumi Education 

[#4]

@Profe71 "Probably that's not new..."

I'm not sure whether you are referring to my post about using H5P embed code on a SharePoint page or to Lumi Education. However, if you are referring to my post - I agree, that is probably not new - I'm just drawing people's attention to it. Now, if you were referring to Lumi Education on the other hand, I believe it is quite new. I have just downloaded and installed their latest version and followed their tweets. They announced yesterday that it is now possible to export H5P content from their desktop app, to HTML, which you can distribute - as you have said - even with email. That is great news!

Thank you, for the heads up! I'm definitely going to play around with H5P and Lumi Education. It opens up great possibilities.

[#5]

Thanks for your response and post, @Marius

Looks like https://h5p.org/comment/39233#comment-39233 seems to say there is a way for "self hosters" to integrate directly to OneNote :thumbs_up:

[#6]

@Profe71 So I have installed the Lumi H5P Editor. It works very simply and is a nice off-line method for developing H5P content. One can then export it to an html file.

What I have not yet discovered is how to easily integrate the resultant html file with Microsoft Teams. It can simply be stored somewhere and be opened with a browser but ideally one wants to display it somewhere, in a tab or a post or on a SharePoint page. I haven't been successful with that.