Thinking about H5P interactivity in ArcGIS storymaps

H5P -- or HTML 5 package -- is used to create interactive content on the web. It's a tool of choice for instructional designers today because the format is flexible (think survey questions to interactive pictures and videos) and can include integration (LTI) with some of the most popular learning management systems.

There are at least two different ways to create and host H5P content - with varying price tags.

1. Create an account ($$$) on  https://h5p.com  . Unfortunately, at the time of this writing, the smallest number of user accounts you could get was 3 - making it an annual cost of about $570 US.
2. Use your school or university's learning management system (e.g. Druple, Moodle, others) with the latest H5P plugin, correct security certs, and correct LMS permissions. This is a taller hurdle that you might imagine. If you are a little geeky, you can always install Moodle on your own laptop and add the H5P plug-in.
3.  Lumi.education  has created free desktop apps for the Windows, Mac, and Linux. They are quite popular but keep in mind, the tools are created by one or two volunteer developers.

A few examples of hosted and embedded H5P files that educators might use follow. H5P files require additional files on the server to be properly delivered; they aren't like a PDF for example.

-1- Hosted on H5P.ORG (easiest for starting but note the forced banner at top).

-2- Hosted on a private LMS (possibly a security cert blocks live embed - but card link works).

-3- "Self-hosted" H5P content from a GitHub repo. Some might suggest this is a bit #hacky but it's cost-effective (free) and seems to work. ( repo link )

-4- You could also host your H5P content on your paid account at https://H5P.com.

It's a popular open source format for supporting quizzes, questions, and explicating content in very flexible ways. If you want to add assessment questions to your Storymap, this is another approach. If you need to add additional, interactive content to a Storymap to explain a concept, this might just be the toolbox to help you - and if you're lucky - you can reuse your existing interactive H5P content that you already have in your learning management system.

• Learn more about  ArcGIS Online and Learning Management Systems 

•  Search the Esri Community  for others using h5p resources in Storymaps.