H5P can be a powerful tool for increasing student engagement and supporting content retention, but it also has the potential to become a distraction or, worse, introduce errors if not implemented thoughtfully.

The first two sample questions below show exactly how to format H5P in the the {Course #} H5P Questions document. This enables us to work collaboratively during development, then automatically upload your questions into your Pressbook.

The last four examples show equity-minded design interventions you can make when revising H5P.

Note that all of the examples shared here are formatted for the {Course #} H5P Questions document.

Sample Questions With Formatting

The following examples are appropriately formatted for the {Course #} H5P Questions document.

• Question Set Title: Chapter 1
• ID: 1-1
• Question type: Multiple Choice
  • Question Title: Service model
  • Question: A healthy relationships class can help teach students how to recognize signs of dating violence and emotional abuse. What aspect of the human service model does this class address?
    • Prevention (correct)
    • Intervention
    • Remediation
    • Reentry
  • Answer feedback: Prevention programs help people avoid entering into emotionally abusive or violent relationships. Counseling could be an intervention in an abusive relationship. A human services worker may use remediation if someone abused their partner.
• ID: 1-2
• Question type: Multiple Choice
  • Question Title: Generalist level of practice
  • Question: A human service worker lobbies her state government with a group of clients to expand access to Medicaid services for people diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities so they may get access to assistive technology that helps them communicate with their caregivers. This is an example of addressing social problems at which level?
    • Microsystem
    • Mesosystem
    • Macrosystem (correct)
    • Exosystem
  • Answer feedback: Lobbying for government change is an example of macro practice, as visualized in Figure 1.10. Such change would impact the meso and micro levels of practice, as new services and programs could be offered to support the needs of people with disabilities.

Intervention 1: Misalignment

Ensuring that H5P content is aligned with chapter learning objectives is crucial. Misaligned activities can distract learners from your primary learning objectives and increase the cognitive load by introducing unrelated information. Common misalignment issues include presenting irrelevant content, failing to connect the activity to the core material, or missing the opportunity to reinforce critical concepts.

The misaligned example below does not focus on key chapter concepts or help students understand the theories or policies under review. Instead, it prioritizes memorizing a date. The aligned example requires students to connect a relatable scenario to a chapter theory, reinforcing and applying knowledge to a real-life situation. The aligned question and feedback prompt students to engage in critical thinking.

Intervention 2: Confusing Language

In the example below, the original H5P includes the phrases “designer drugs” and “street drugs.” However, these terms are not defined or used in the chapter.

In the revised version, the question focuses on an intervention that the chapter makes in the racialized discourse of drug use. The undefined terms have been removed and the question now includes the language that was defined in the chapter. The added answer feedback refers students back to the relevant chapter section for review.

Intervention 3: Emphasizing Critical Thinking

In the example below, a true/false question asks students to repeat chapter content by verifying the fact that criminal justice facilities house people with mental disorders. However, the question doesn’t prompt students to consider their own assumptions or see a new perspective on the purpose of the facilities themselves.

In the revision, the feedback unpacks a widespread problem in disability rights work that is often misunderstood: criminal justice facilities are, in fact, treatment facilities. By choosing to emphasize this misunderstanding, the author makes an equity-minded intervention.

Intervention 4: Equity-minded Design

Often textbook writing leans heavily on the contributions of dead white men (to use a common shorthand for privileged identities). By focusing the H5P question on newer contributions to the field, this question recognizes the work of people of color as well as gender minorities.

• Question type: Multiple Choice

• Question Title: Distinguishing between classical and newer sociological theories.
• Question: What is an example of the way newer social theories differentiate from classical theories? Select all that apply.

• Postcolonial theory emerges from the social elite, not from people who survive and resist the power of empire.
• Critical Race theory uses intersectionality to show how one’s racial experiences intersect with other identities, such as gender and sexuality. (correct)
• Feminist theories recognize that knowledge is static and objective.
• Classical theories do not differ in any meaningful way from newer theories.

• Answer feedback: Classical theories emerge from historically privileged racial and social groups while newer theories emerge from people who thrive outside these elite circles. The inclusion of newer theories offers a more comprehensive method of analyzing social change.

Unit Self-Check Questions

Licenses and Attributions for H5P Examples

Open content, original

“H5P Examples” by Open Oregon Educational Resources is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Open content, shared previously

“Sample Questions With Formatting” includes two H5P questions adapted from 1.5 Key Takeaways and Discussion Questions by Elizabeth B. Pearce and Martha Ochoa Leyva, licensed CC BY 4.0.

“Intervention 2: Confusing Language” includes an H5P question under “Version with Chapter Language” adapted from 11.6 Chapter Summary by Kelly Szott, licensed CC BY 4.0.

“Intervention 3: Emphasizing Critical Thinking” includes an H5P question under “Deeper Critical Thinking Version” adapted from 1.7 Chapter Summary by Anne Nichol, licensed CC BY 4.0.

“Intervention 4: Equity-minded Design” includes an H5P question adapted from 3.8 Conclusion by Aimee Samara Krouskop and Kimberly Puttman, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.