Free H5P Course: Interactive Learning with H5P in Moodle

Explore H5P interactivities that bring science and pedagogy to life — interactive videos, question reuse, essay & accordion types, and Bloom’s Taxonomy alignment.

Course overview

This hands-on mini-course demonstrates practical, classroom-ready uses of H5P inside Moodle. You’ll see concrete examples that combine science topics with active learning design and assessment practice. The course is ideal for educators, instructional designers and trainers who want to make lessons interactive, reusable and pedagogically sound.

What you’ll find in this course

• Interactive videos covering: Electrolysis of Water, Weather Systems, Cell Division, and How Telescopes Work — each video includes embedded questions and reflective checkpoints.
• H5P question types demonstrated and reused in Moodle via the question-reuse plugin so you can maintain a single question bank across activities.
• Essay and Accordion content types shown in context — great for reflective tasks and structured explanations.
• Practical discussion linking H5P to Bloom’s Taxonomy — learn how to design activities that map to remembering, understanding, applying, analysing, evaluating and creating.
• Design tips for accessibility, repurposing content, and saving development time by reusing H5P assets across courses.

Why this course matters

H5P enables active, formative assessment that both measures and builds understanding. This course shows you how to create interactive learning experiences that increase engagement and improve learning outcomes — without expensive authoring tools. Practical examples make it easy to adapt these ideas for K–12, higher education, and corporate training.

How to use the course

1. Watch the interactive videos and try the embedded H5P tasks to see learner experience first-hand.
2. Open the H5P objects and export/import them into your own Moodle sandbox (instructions and download links are included in the course resources).
3. Review the Bloom’s Taxonomy notes and adapt question difficulty to match