Can "reuse" and "embed" be disabled?

Submitted by dnohara on Mon, 03/04/2024 - 20:36
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I have just started building a website with the intention of having paid memberships for accessing course content. I believe this is permissable under the H5P license. However, when I preview the content, the "reuse" and "embed" options appear, making me think that people with paid membership could copy the activities to use elsewhere. I don't see any options for disabling those. Is it possible to disable them? I downloaded H5P as a free plugin for WordPress. If there is a paid version that doesn't allow the content to be copied, I'd be interested. Thank you.

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BV52

Tue, 03/05/2024 - 17:33

Hi dnohara,

When creating contents you can disable both buttons from the right panel. If this is not available go to Settings -> H5P then change the settings for "Allow Download" and "Display Embed button"

-BV

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dnohara

Tue, 03/05/2024 - 18:22

Thank you! I was looking for something like that, but not in the most obvious place! Just so I understand the difference between H5P.org and H5P.com, if I am eventually successful in creating a for-profit, paid membership site, would there be any reason to work through H5P.com instead of H5p.org? The H5P plugins are quite good and better than many similar ones requiring purchase. I'm not opposed to paying money for use, but if it's not necessary...then it's not necessary, correct?

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BV52

Wed, 03/06/2024 - 17:22

Hi dnohara,

It is not necessary to have a paid license to use H5P through the plugin. They are however several advantages to having a license in H5P.com. When self-hosting, you don’t login and create the content on either H5P.org or H5P.com, but rather on your own website. You can install WordPress using the available H5P plug-in on say “myblog.com” for instance.

The only advantage of self-hosting over H5P.com might be that you have more personal control as things are maintained yourself.

The drawbacks would be:

  • You have to facilitate all upgrades, backups, etc. yourself.
  • If you run into problems there isn’t anyone available to  you.
  • You won’t get access to upcoming Premium Features.
  • You wouldn’t be supporting the development of H5P.

There are many additional benefits of H5P.com vs. that of self-hosting:

  1. 24/5 priority support from the H5P Core Team.
  2. 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.).
  3. A dedicated team of H5P experts operating the systems.
  4. 99.9% SLA.
  5. Backups, upgrades, etc. handled by the H5P Core Team.
  6. Detailed drill-down reports providing assessment questions, answers, time completed, and more!
  7. Custom content management.
  8. Detailed configuration of what content types should be available for your organization.
  9. CSS styling via the admin interface.

H5P.com exclusive content types such as the Live Engangement tools. As well as AI assisted content creation through the Smart Import feature. 

You can go to H5P.com or send an email to [email protected] to learn more about H5P.com. 

-BV

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otacke

Thu, 03/07/2024 - 00:57

Hey, BV!

I don't deny that using H5P.com gives all the benefits that you mention, but saying "The only advantage of self-hosting over H5P.com might be that you have more personal control as things are maintained yourself." sounds like this was nothing!

Points 6, 7, 8 and 9 as well as the lack of smart import or lack of other exclusive features are not an inherent issue with self-hosting, but these points stem from the fact that they were not implemented for the plugins (and given the current adoption rate of pull requests will probably never be - even if someone in the community provided the code). Not complaining at all, H5P Group needs to earn money, just saying to stabilize the balance a little.

Some disadvantages of using H5P.com are:

  • You cannot install any content types yourself. There are approximately 20 content types that I know of which are not available on the H5P Hub, which you could install if you self-host, but not when using H5P.com.
  • You have no way of customizing H5P except for changing the stylesheets with custom CSS. No extra scripts, no custom xAPI handling, etc.
  • The source code is not available for security reviews.

I have nothing against H5P.com. It's great! But it's ultimately an individual decision that should be based on what is actually needed and that should facilitated by a well informed decision making process.

Best,

Oliver