Why H5P.org is only meant for "test-driving" H5P
H5P.org is the community site for H5P. Its purpose is to provide those new to H5P with examples and information about what H5P is and how to get started. For those using H5P it provides a forum for communicating with the rest of the community, documentation and news.
There is also a feature called "test-drive" on H5P.org. This feature is meant to allow users to try out H5P either before installing it on their own servers or before installing updates on their own servers. It is not meant to be used to create and host real content.
(H5P.com is a service for creating and hosting real H5P content and integrating H5P with other publishing platforms.)
Why you shouldn't create real content on the H5P.org test drive
Real H5P content should be created on H5P.com or on a self hosted H5P open source version. See how to get started.
We strongly discourage the use of H5P.org as a service for creating and hosting any substantial content for the following reasons:
- When we release updates, we have to take down H5P.org and we do so without warning. This happens just about every other week.
- When we send out newsletters we disable the embeds to handle the extra traffic from the newsletters. We do so without warning.
- There are often unstable versions of H5P installed, it is a test-drive feature. There are examples of those using H5P.org as a "free hosting service" loosing hours of work.
- H5P.org is hosted on a low-cost hosting provider and is often slow to respond. In very busy periods it might not respond at all.
- We do not provide data processing agreements for H5P.org. With the GDPR interpreted strictly, it is illegal to use it if Europeans are among the target audience.
- It is not meant to be used to host content. Again, it was designed primarily for testing purposes. We will soon start limiting the ability to embed content from H5P.org.
Why is H5P.com well suited for this and H5P.org not?
H5P.com is designed to handle insane amounts of traffic with a minimum of ten servers in each region, more servers being added automatically when needed and a network of distribution servers on top of that. H5P.org is designed to mainly handle our forum. It is just a Drupal site running on a single server which is plenty if it wasn’t for the extra traffic generated by the test drive feature.
Is H5P.com the only option? Isn't H5P free?
H5P itself is open source and we have developed free open source plugins for various publishing systems allowing users to host the free code themselves. Those hosting H5P themselves will most likely be paying someone else for the hosting. If you already have a Drupal, WordPress or Moodle site you may try out the corresponding free plugins. If you would like to both host H5P yourself and support the development of H5P you may sign up for the H5P Supporter Network.
If you don't have access to Drupal, WordPress or Moodle already we encourage you to consider signing up for H5P.com and through that help support the development of H5P, getting access to the best version of H5P and priority support in return.
Comments
Nathalia Vilela...
Thu, 12/12/2019 - 13:02
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My content in H5P.org
Hi there,
I am currently using the free version of H5P in h5o.org and would like to know if I will keep my content when using h5p.com.
Besides that, if we buy the license on the name of the company, it is also possible to transfer the content from my personal account int h5p.org to the company account in h5p.com?
Thank you!
Kind regards,
Nathalia Vilela
RyanMBarber
Thu, 12/12/2019 - 14:55
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Hi Nathalia, You may
Hi Nathalia,
You may certainly keep all of the content you have created using H5P.org (from your personal account or otherwise) and migrate your data to your organization's H5P.com account to ensure that you maintain access and full-functionalty without disruption. :)
I would be more than happy to provide you with those instructions for migrating your content from one account to another should this be helpful to you.
For informaton relating to H5P.com licensing or if I may be of further assistance in setting up your organization's account, please reach out to [email protected] and we will provide immediate response.
I look forward to hearing from you and to your continued success with H5P!
Kind regards,
--Ryan
Ms. Blanks
Thu, 01/23/2020 - 03:11
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Hi, I have created an h5p.com
Hi, I have created an h5p.com account. Could you send me directions on how to "upload an h5p file" from the trial website h5p.org to the new website h5p.org?
If I am an individual teacher using h5p, and I am not associated with a larger organization, does that mean that it will cost around $19 per month to use h5p.com, according to your pricing information, or am I reading the information incorrectly?
Thanks, your content is very helpful for helping students learn.
RyanMBarber
Thu, 01/23/2020 - 12:33
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Migrating your content from one account to another.
When viewing the content from within your H5P accounts, there should be an option to "reuse" in the bottom left corner of each content item:
babu
Sun, 12/15/2019 - 15:42
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My content H5P.Org
Hi.
I am babu ,past two years i am using H5P.org but recently I came to know that the embedded will be disappear soon. How can I switch over to H5p.com .How much money I have to pay for that .let me know.
Regards
M.babu
RyanMBarber
Mon, 12/16/2019 - 10:39
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H5P.com Investment Information
Hi Babu,
Thank you for your interest in H5P.com. To get started with H5P.com, I invite you to simply visit the site and sign-up for a free 30 day trial! This will grant you access to our full scope of offerings as well as the ability to secure your subscription directly. :)
For your convenience and reference, here is a direct link to the investment information page.
If you have any questions or if I may be of any additional assistance, please reach out to [email protected] as I will be happy to provide you with immediate support.
I look forward to hearing from you again soon!
Best regards,
espa360
Thu, 12/19/2019 - 23:53
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Free?
Only way to get if "for free" is to install the plug-in in an external service?
Thanks
RyanMBarber
Fri, 12/20/2019 - 11:34
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Open-Source Version of H5P
That is essentially correct. To take advantage of the freely available open-source version of H5P, you could install the plug-in as an external tool on whichever available platform you might have access to: Moodle, WordPress, or Drupal for example. :)
kumarappan.1
Sun, 06/28/2020 - 22:34
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Where can we find these
Where can we find these plugins?
BV52
Mon, 06/29/2020 - 19:19
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Hi,Visit the Getting Started
Hi,
Visit the Getting Started page to get more information on the plugins and steps on how to install them.
-BV
elihardiehowes
Sat, 01/04/2020 - 19:55
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Will H5P.com have the embed function?
When I sign up for H5P.com will the content I create also have the 'embed' and 'reuse' function- meaning that others can use my content? If so, will there be a way to hide these options/ stop others from being able to 'embed' or 'reuse' the content?
BV52
Mon, 01/06/2020 - 17:36
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Hi elihardiehowes,Both
Hi elihardiehowes,
Both buttons/features will be available in H5P.com. Yes the author/administrator has control if they want to show these buttons.
-BV
oee_lms
Tue, 01/07/2020 - 20:42
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H5P changes
H5P was billed for years as a free, open source option for HTML5 code. This "test drive" idea is all new or being newly communicated. Are there any options for those of us who built in and used this platform for content that is now considered as being only in "test drive" and noting that it will be disappearing? I understand if moving forward this is the case for new content; however, content we built under the previous premise should not fall under the fee-based platform now with warnings that it will now all 'disappear' if we do not switch to the fee-based service. Please advise on additional options. I do not have access to Moodle, WordPress, or Drupal. We have used this content with Brightspace and are a non-profit organization. Thank you.
RyanMBarber
Wed, 01/08/2020 - 12:44
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H5P.com vs. Self-Hosting
2. 24/5 priority support from the H5P Core Team.
3. High-end infrastructure ensuring very high availability & great performance (automatic scaling & fail-overs on almost every component, upgrades with no downtime, automated uptime monitoring on all components that calls us up automatically if anything goes down, CDN etc.).
4. A dedicated team of H5P experts operating the systems.
5. 99.9% SLA.
6. Backups, upgrades, etc. handled by the H5P Core Team.
7. Detailed drill-down reports providing assessment questions, answers, time completed, and more!
8. Custom content management.
9. Detailed configuration of what content types should be available for your organization.
10. CSS styling via the admin interface.
I hope that the above is helpful and provides additional reasoning for your further consideration of use of H5P.com.
We recognize that so many of our partners are non-profits and work with limited budgets. We have worked to make H5P.com as affordable as possible. I do hope that perhaps our basic package might be a suitable option for you.
falcon
Wed, 01/08/2020 - 13:46
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Hi oee_lms,Content that was
Hi oee_lms,
Content that was created before the stronger warnings started to go out will not be affected initially.
H5P.org is communicating the intention of the test drive stronger now and will start to enforce it. It has always been named test drive or "try out H5P" and there have been warnings going out for a long time against using it for real content, but appearently they have not been strong enough in the past unfortunately.
oee_lms
Wed, 01/08/2020 - 13:55
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Content
Thank you. The only thing that was noted was, "Try out H5P" (which read as an advertisement). The website also encouraged users to create an account to save content and there were no additional obvious warnings that content would be disabled. We used it a few years in the past and scoured the website at that time for such "warnings". We just came back to use it recently and that is when the warnings were very obvious.
Do you know when "content that was created before the stronger warnings" will be affected?
Thank you!
BV52
Wed, 01/08/2020 - 17:28
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Hi oee_lms,There are really
Hi oee_lms,
There are really no time frames and there are no plans to delete contents. Worse case scenario is that embed feature will be disabled for H5P.org to ensure the basic functionality of the site. The sterner warnings are needed to make sure that everyone knows that the site is for testing purposes and was never intended to be used to host real content.
-BV
JMartosM
Mon, 01/13/2020 - 12:58
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Transfer content
Hello.
I would like to ask how can I transfer the content from my account in H5P.org to H5P.com.
Another question: Will all content currently hosted on H5P.org disappear or will the 'Embeed' option simply disappear?
Thanks for your attention.
J
BV52
Mon, 01/13/2020 - 18:11
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Hi J,You can use the download
Hi J,
You can use the download option for H5P and upload the content in H5P.com. You can read more about this here.
There are no plans to delete contents created in H5P.org only the embed option.
-BV
sophiar
Wed, 02/05/2020 - 15:00
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Transfer content created on H5P.org
Hi,
we are using both embedded content from H5P.org as well as content created via the plugin on our company's Moodle platform. Seeing as the embed feature for content created on H5P.org will be disabled soon, will it still be possible to transfer that content to Moodle by uploading the .h5p files in the plugin?
Thank you!
Sophia
BV52
Wed, 02/05/2020 - 16:55
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Hi Sophia,Yes you still can.
Hi Sophia,
Yes you still can. The plan is to eventually disable embedding from H5P.org but the download feature will still be available.
-BV
jdbenthien
Sat, 02/15/2020 - 15:07
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Difference between self hosted and website
Hello!
I use H5p on my website, but the exercises don't appear on it anymore. But when I creat it on the website and embed it appears fine. I wouldn't my paying for the plugin if it could assure that it will keep working and that i would keep having direct access to the data collected. Any ideas on how I could solve this? Or will I need to purchase it through h5p.com?
BV52
Mon, 02/17/2020 - 16:54
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Hi jdbenthien,I have a few
Hi jdbenthien,
I have a few questions on your other post.
-BV
CodingCub
Thu, 02/27/2020 - 04:54
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About data migration
<p>To move away from .org to .com, we just bought H5P.com service.</p><p>We have too many interactivty activities in .org, to download it one by one is a bit tideious. Is it possible for you guys to move the content across to the .com service?</p>
<p>If not, what is our options?</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
BV52
Thu, 02/27/2020 - 18:18
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Hi CodingCub,Downloading and
Hi CodingCub,
Downloading and uploading the contents is the only way to migrate contents from .org to .com. However you may ask the H5P.com support directly if they may have other options. You can do this by replying to the welcome e-mail you have received when you signed up for H5P.com. Make sure that you use the same e-mail that you registered.
-BV
Maria Cristina ...
Sat, 02/29/2020 - 13:54
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Olá galera do H5P!Aprendi a
Olá galera do H5P!
Aprendi a brincar com estes recursos, ensino meus alunos a utilizarem. Minha IEs usa o Moodle, fazemos por lá as atividades, outras vezes, proponho a turma para cirar uma conta no H5P.
No momento, criei um material sobre o coronavírus, penso em compartilhar o link via whatsapp. Posso fazer isso?
Outra perguntam ,e digam como posso apoiar o desenvolvimento do H5P.
Parabéns à equipe.
abraço
BV52
Mon, 03/02/2020 - 16:52
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Hi Maria,You can definitely
Hi Maria,
You can definitely the link to your contents through Whatsapp or any social media platform.
-BV
Vinceber
Mon, 03/02/2020 - 14:44
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Moving Contents from .org to Moodle
Hello,
how would I go about transferring my contents ond h5p.org to use via the Moodle plugin? Download on h5p and upload via the Moodle plugin?
Thanks!
BV52
Mon, 03/02/2020 - 17:19
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Hi Vinceber,You are correct
Hi Vinceber,
You are correct downloading the contents from H5P.org and uploading it through the H5P plugin for Moodle should do the trick.
-BV
Marielos Tejeda
Sat, 03/07/2020 - 04:10
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Aprendi mucho de este recurso
Aprendi mucho de este recurso.
Driana
Tue, 12/28/2021 - 18:36
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Bună ziua
Întrebare!
Pentru invatamant (scoli si licee) exista reduceri pentru a cumpara licenta si apoi a transfera continutul din versiunea gratuita h5o.org in varianta h5p.com.
Multumesc,
Adriana
Hello
Question!
For education (schools and high schools) there are discounts to buy a license and then transfer the content from the free version of h5o.org to h5p.com.
Thanks,
ADRIAN
BV52
Tue, 03/17/2020 - 17:11
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Hi Driana,Thank you for your
Hi Driana,
Thank you for your interest in H5P.com. To get started with H5P.com, I invite you to simply visit the site and sign-up for a free 30 day trial! This will grant you access to our full scope of offerings as well as the ability to secure your subscription directly. :)
For your convenience and reference, here is a direct link to the investment information page.
For your question, please reach out to [email protected] as we will be happy to provide you with immediate support.
We look forward to hearing from you again soon!
-BV
Driana
Tue, 12/28/2021 - 18:35
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Salut BV
Mulțumesc pentru răspuns și pentru faptul că, accesând contul meu am avut plăcuta surpriză a accesului la mai multe tipuri de itemi. Am creat foarte repede 4 teste pentru elevi din clasa a V-a gimnaziu. Felicitări pentru îmbunătățirile aduse. Sănătate și cât mai multe succese în Noul An 2022! La mulți ani !
Thanks for the reply and for accessing my account I had the pleasant surprise of accessing several types of items. I quickly created 4 tests for students in the 5th grade of high school. Congratulations on your improvements. Health and as many successes as possible in the New Year 2022! Happy Birthday !
Rolandbgd
Tue, 03/24/2020 - 21:21
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Coronatimes...
Hi Guys,
there is one important thing going on right now. Since the Coronavirus many teachers work from home and i think there a lot like me, that are still using h5p.org. We have a moodleinstallation with h5p, but the servers are struggling to deal with huge amount of traffic from pupils in bavaria and our moodlesystem shows this in not loading stuff from our server. So i decidet to create my content on h5p.org and embed it to moodle. This just works more reliable.
So i hope that you will keep running h5p.org as usual for a longer time...
Regards
Roland
BV52
Tue, 03/24/2020 - 21:34
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Hi Roland,There are plans to
Hi Roland,
There are plans to disable embedding in H5P.org but I don't think it will be abrupt, not unless the server load can't take it. Although it may be working right now if the traffic in the site gets to a point where basic functions of the site will not work the server admins might turn it off.
-BV
martina mosing
Sun, 04/05/2020 - 09:10
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How many people can work on one license? Corona virus extension?
Hi,
With the new corona virus pandemic a lot of us university lecturers need to move their practical courses online - as far as this is possible. I am lucky as I used H5P in the future - and my whole school now is very interested what we do in our department. This means that there will be potentially a lot of people who will try to use H5P to teach the student with interactive case scenarios using the "branching scenario". We have moodle - but I like to embed the H5P content as I then can build "a story" with several H5P features - but this is only possible when I use the embedded link - not the direct plug in.
Now here my questions:
1. What should I tell the lecturers who want to embed too - they will not be ready to pay for something that is work related - what can you offer when several lecturers from one institution want to use H5P.com?
2. When I now move to H5P.com with all the content I have created in H5P.org - will I need to embed all teh online tutorials again in Moodle where I just used the link on the 'page'? or will the link stay the same (guess not - but it is worth asking as it will cost me a lot as on some 'pages' several lecturers embedded their online tutorial after each other...)?
3. It would be very much appreciated if you extend the 30 day period for free H5P.com in the light of the covid crisis - even my yoga app is free - and a lot of us teachers now would need H5P in an emergency scenario - this might be an advantage for H5P long term as when this crisis is over people will stay ....
I will promote H5P tomorrow to all our staff members - and it would be fantastic if I can give them some technical background.
Thanks for your help!
Martina
BV52
Mon, 04/06/2020 - 19:29
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Hi Martina,I think it's best
Hi Martina,
I think it's best to contact the H5P.com support directly by send an e-mail to [email protected].
-BV
Ramzi
Wed, 04/08/2020 - 15:28
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Self hosting the platform
This is still a bit confusing to us...
We want to host the platform on our servers so we can use it integrated in our roles and permissions system. My developers are saying the core of the system is not in the GitHub.
So, if we host the plugins, we will still be dependent on h5p servers with the one account limitations, which doesn't work for an LMS where every teacher will need to be able to create his or her own content separately. Are we missing something?
BV52
Wed, 04/08/2020 - 19:20
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Hi Ramzi,If you are using the
Hi Ramzi,
If you are using the plugin through Moodle, Drupal or Wordpress you will have complete control over roles, permission, access to contents etc. the only time the plugin actually coimmunicates with H5P is to check if there are updates to the contents.
If you are using H5P.com to host your account you will also have different 'roles' with different access. Admins will have full access, authors/teachers will have access to their own content, not unless they 'share' it to other authors, students of course can only use but not edit the contents.
I hope this helps and if you have other questions/clarifications feel free to post in the commnents.
-BV
otacke
Wed, 04/08/2020 - 23:53
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I guess you're missing
I guess you're missing something, yes.
Close to all the source code for the H5P framework is on github. Not sure where your devs were looking. If they were looking for the Drupal plugin sources, those are in fact hosted on drupal.org.
If you're running H5P on your own host systems, you can of course give every teacher his/her own account. The functionality will vary from plugin to plugin however.
Best,
Oliver
VICTOR MANUEL Z...
Sat, 04/11/2020 - 08:55
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video interactivo
muy buena aplicación para docentes frente a grupo
Innyasamma Gade
Sun, 04/19/2020 - 13:57
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Embed H5p file to youtube
Hai, This is Innyasamma.
I took my Youtube video (URL) to H5p and added questions in Interactive Video. I am not able to embed the changed H5p interactive file to Youtube. Kindly help me.
Innyasamma Gade
Sun, 04/19/2020 - 14:13
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Embed H5p file to youtube
Hai to all,
After adding questions to Interactive video, how do I embed the same to Youtube?
BV52
Mon, 04/20/2020 - 21:24
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Hi Innyasamma Gade,I'm afraid
Hi Innyasamma Gade,
I'm afraid you can't. The interactivity is added as an additional layer the video which means it is not just your video anymore but with codes added to it.
-BV
nabil makhlouf
Sun, 05/17/2020 - 01:40
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education
in order to benefit the learners
antoniogame5
Tue, 07/21/2020 - 15:32
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I´m learning. It´s great
I´m learning. It´s great. Thanks
evrodriguez@uni...
Sat, 07/25/2020 - 03:28
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Aunque la prueba sea gratis,
Aunque la prueba sea gratis, sería interesante, poder llevar al Moodle el producto académico derivado del trabajo de aprendizaje. Cómo se puede guardar este producto. Ej: Quiz, el aula Moodle?
sólo tiene una vigencia de una mes?
BV52
Mon, 07/27/2020 - 18:53
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Hi,There is a free plugin for
Hi,
There is a free plugin for Moodle. You can check this page for more information on how to install it.
-BV
iainj77
Sun, 07/26/2020 - 22:37
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How long is content stored on H5P
Is the content we create in H5P.com still available if somewhere down the road our account is no longer active?
I ask that as someone who might need to use it, and pay for it, for a few months for a project, but then may not keep my subscription.
iainj77
Sun, 07/26/2020 - 22:56
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How long is content stored on H5P
If I am paying for H2P for six months for a project and then have to end my membership, is the content which I've created on H2P.com embedded code on my pages for, removed?
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