Level Up Your Learning With Open LMS 5.1 & H5P Creator Courses!

Whether you’re a system administrator looking to streamline your workflows or an instructor striving to create more engaging, interactive content for your learners, staying up-to-date with your learning management system tools is the key to success.

That is why we’re thrilled to announce the launch of two brand-new, self-paced courses in our Open LMS Academy: What's New in Open LMS 5.1 and the H5P Creator Course!

These courses are perfect for LMS administrators or course instructors to learn more about the changes coming to Open LMS 5.1. Plus, get a deep dive into the H5P tool to build fun, engaging activities within your courses! Here is a sneak peek at what you will learn in each course.

Discover What’s New in Open LMS 5.1

The 5.1 release is a massive leap forward for Open LMS. We’re introducing a unified Open LMS experience, powerful new AI integrations, and major usability upgrades. This course will ensure you’re ready to take full advantage of these features the moment your site is upgraded

Complete the course to earn a completion certificate and a downloadable course export that you can upload to your own site!

Some key highlights of the course:

• User interface improvements: A new enhanced activity selector, as well as the ability to customize the new color groupings used for activity icons to better align with institutional branding or visual preferences. The Activities overview page has also been improved with additional key information, including important dates and activity statistics.
• “Inactivity Manager”: To help you take ownership of your platform usage, the new Inactivity Manager plugin automates the management of dormant user accounts, allowing you to automatically suspend users who have been inactive for a configurable number of days.
• “Question Bank” enhancements: Teachers can now share and reuse questions across multiple courses using the new Course Question Banks, aided by six new filtering options for easy discovery.
• The unified experience: Open LMS 5.1 brings the best features across all environments into a single, consistent experience. All SaaS clients now have access to powerful tools like Personalized Learning Designer (PLD), Conduit, and Programs & Certifications. In addition, a single, unified plugin matrix ensures you have access to everything Open LMS has to offer.

The New H5P Creator Masterclass

Are you tired of uploading static PDFs and long, unengaging videos? H5P is a game-changing, open-source technology that allows you to build rich, HTML5-based interactive content directly inside Open LMS. This course will turn you into an interactive content architect, where you’ll learn to build many of the H5P activities you’ve already seen and experienced in the Academy courses!

Some key highlights of the course include:

• Simple but engaging interactions: Drag & Drop and interactive image activities such as hotspots and image sliders bring your content to life.
• Interactive video: Avoid passive watching. Add multiple-choice questions, fill-in-the-blanks, and pop-up text right in the middle of your lessons. If a student gets a question wrong, you can force the video to rewind so they can review the material!
• Branching scenarios: Create "Choose Your Own Adventure" style learning modules. Perfect for nursing simulations, customer service training, or ethical dilemma exercises.
• Course presentation: Level up your traditional slide deck by integrating questions and other interactive activities directly into your slides without any special software or downloads required.

Log in to Open LMS Academy today! You’ll find these new courses, as well as our existing Admin Orientation and Instructor Orientation courses, right on the My courses page!