🚀 H5P for TESOL: a powerful interactive tool

🎯 What is H5P?

H5P is an open source tool that enables educators to create interactive, media-rich learning activities. It's worth noting that H5P requires no coding to use! Additionally, it is compatible with Moodle, Canvas, WordPress and other LMS platforms. Thus, students can use H5P to enhance speaking and pronunciation practice.

🛠️ Step-by-step guide: how to use H5P for speaking activities?

🔹 : Visit H5P

Option 1: First the familiar step, go to H5P.org and create an account.

Option 2: If your organization supports it, use H5P in Moodle, WordPress, or Canvas.



✨：After logging into the H5P platform, you will first enter the content creation interface. In this interface, you will see a list of various content types. At the top of the interface, there are sorting options such as:

  • “Popular First” (most popular)

  • “Newest First” (newest)

  • “A to Z” (alphabetical order)

These sorting methods help you quickly find the type of content you need! 🎯


Common Content Types Include:

  • 📚 Interactive Book: Create mini-courses, eBooks, or test content.

  • 🧩 Crossword: Design crossword puzzles for vocabulary learning or fun practice.

  • 🎥 Multimedia Choice: Create multimedia multiple-choice questions with picture, audio, or video options.

  • 🎮 Game Map: Build a game map that allows students the freedom to choose their practice path.


Click on the “Details” button to the right of each piece of content to see detailed descriptions and examples to help you decide the most appropriate type of content to use.

📌How can H5P help teachers?


✨ Increase classroom interactivity

Compared with traditional PPT and PDF, H5P's interactive mode can attract students' attention and enhance learning motivation.

✨ Save time in lesson planning

H5P provides a large number of reusable templates, so teachers can quickly create content without having to design from scratch.

✨ Adapt to different learning styles

Deliver knowledge through videos, quizzes, games and more to meet the needs of different types of learners.

💡How can students use H5P?

Not only teachers, but also students can use H5P to create!

✨ Create study notes: organize highlights with interactive content for greater efficiency.
✨ Create your own quizzes: make your own questions for deeper understanding when reviewing.

Involving students in content creation fosters logical thinking, innovation, and teamwork!

Conclusion

H5P Great interactive tool for the classroom. Whether you want to make your classroom more interesting or increase student initiative, H5P is a tool worth trying.

Are you already using H5P or interested in trying it? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section!

Comments

  1. JeanineApril 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM

    Thank you for sharing, Yao. You are really good at visualizing the steps of using tools, in the second pic, with some arrows that refer to the next step, thank you for your patient introduction. Really clear and impressive!!

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