Students engage with interactive elements built using a tool called H5P to help them practice some of the tougher concepts in the course.
Why Use This?
Frequent, low-stakes practice opportunities can increase comprehension and understanding. Interactive elements can also provide instant feedback and allow students to practice applying the course material as often as they would like.
How Does It Work?
Once the H5P elements are created, they are simply embedded onto a Canvas page and provided to students as a learning resource. Students receive instructions on how they should interact with these elements and explanations for the correct answers. Students can engage with the H5P content in multiple ways, including checking their understanding or reviewing concepts before an exam.
A screenshot of a drag-and- drop practice activity embedded onto a Canvas page
Keep In Mind
One of our instructional designers used H5P to create these elements. However, this tool is free for anyone to use. You can access it at https://h5p.org/.
You can also use features directly in Canvas (such as ungraded quizzes) to create interactive ways for your students to practice the course material.
Testimonial
Carousel that shows one slide at a time. Use the Right and Left arrow keys, or the Previous Slide and Next Slide buttons to navigate.
This was a quick opportunity to include a tool that would provide support to students who may be struggling with some of the trickier concepts of the course, in this case, the structure and function of neurons and operant conditioning. Students can instantly check their understanding or review the material quickly and with instant feedback. In using H5P to create the practice items, students get more of a "hands-on" experience rather than reading text or watching videos. It is also quicker for them to interact with these items compared to text or video.
The goal is to have students work through identifying neural structures and processes in an interactive way.
