What is a Lumi education?
Lumi Education - the offline Open Source desktop app that allows you to create,
edit, view and share interactive content with dozens of different content types.
Lumi.education
https://app.lumi.education
How do I use LUMI education?
Go to https://lumi.education/ and click on Download.
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How It Works
1. Select your operating system to download the app for your computer. ...
2. Save the installer, then install the Lumi app.
3. Once it's installed, click on the Lumi app to open it.
4. Under H5P Editor choose Start.
5. Choose Create New H5P.
Is Lumi an LMS?
DFAT's learning content is hosted on Lumi, our learning management system.
What are the characteristics of Lumi education software?
Description. With Lumi you can create, edit and view interactive HTML elements
(H5P packages) in your desktop environment. You can choose from over 40 content
types (templates), which include interactive videos and all common quiz types such as
fill-in-the-blanks, multiple choice questions.
Is Lumi education free?
lumi is a free, open source and open development software project for the analysis
and comprehension of Illumina expression and methylation microarray data.
Is LUMI a name?
Lumi Origin and Meaning
The name Lumi is girl's name of Finnish origin meaning "snow". Lumi may be a rare
girls' name in the USA and England, but it comes in the Top 50 in Finland, where it
means snow.
LUMI, an H5P Editing Alternative
13th February 2022 John Allan 2 Comments developing, editing, lumi edcuation, lumi H5P
I have been doing my part to spread the good word about H5P over the past few
years through workshops, webinars, conference presentations, blog posts and
sharing “How To” documents. One of the oddities I have found is that webinar
audiences are aligned with different H5P editors. This is due to an institutional LMS
or lack of an institutional LMS. This makes running professional development
sessions more laborious, as the facilitator must alter workshop presentation, hand
outs and videos to accommodate each H5P configuration. This post introduces
some H5P editing configurations and focuses on one, Lumi, that offers workshop
facilitators and teacher developers a few advantages. The inspiration for this post is
my use of Lumi as the demonstration editor when I facilitate H5P sessions to mixed
audiences or institutions that are not yet set up with a common H5P editor.
H5P Editing Options
What are available H5P editing configurations? Four are listed here. As H5P is an
open source tool, there may be more, but these are ones I consider before running
H5P training sessions. If you know of others, it would be useful to us all to share
them in the comments below.
H5P.org
This is the H5P original open editor and resources site. It allows educators to access
a few H5P tools without cost. This service offers the advantages of publishing H5P
learning objects online and foregoing an LMS. However, no grades and student
tracking are recorded. This editor’s options have been greatly reduced over the past
few years. I no longer use it for hands on training. However, I still use it to
demonstrate exemplars. This site houses core information about H5P including
exemplars, documentation and tutorials.
H5P.com
H5P’s services offer, hosting options, complete and current web editing
configuration and tools, integration of current editing H5P tools with a variety of
hosts such as D2L and publishing of H5P learning objects. Please check with
H5P.com for current licensing plans.
Moodle Integration
Moodle’s integration of H5P into its core offer comprehensive H5P editing within
the Moodle LMS. Moodle administrators must be attentive with upgrades to ensure
all of the H5P tools are present and current. H5P activity and grades are tracked
and recorded in logs, reports and the grade book. There is some variation between
H5P tools but that would take another blog post to detail. Learning objects can be
published and shared throughout the LMS.
Lumi
The Lumi Education H5P editor allows educators to access current H5P tools
without cost. Since Lumi is an app that is installed on a device or laptop, it allows
H5P editing without signing in to an LMS. H5Ps can be created, edited and
published directly on the desktop. When is the last time you worked on generating
learning objects without accessing the internet? This is possible while working with
Lumi. I really appreciate the Preview function as well. While editing, the developer
can quickly switch to preview and then jump back to editing mode. Another
interesting Lumi feature is the export utility. Lumi allows teachers to export their
H5P learning objects to HTML folders and SCORM 1.2 formats. These can be shared
and viewed on any browser for student interaction. However, grades or tracking will
not be recorded using this method. Saved H5Ps can be uploaded to any LMS
Content Bank, allowing the H5P to be placed within an LMS course.
Final thoughts
As a workshop facilitator, Lumi allows all participants to participate in hands on
sessions, whether face to face or remotely. It has a clean interface, allows learners
to publish their work and share it to others as a web page. As well, when working
with H5P projects, it is useful to have the alternative to work with them offline. I
think it should be considered as an option if you are an educator using H5P. I have
cobbled together a How To document for those who want to try out Lumi to make
H5Ps. See the link below.
Resources
Moodle Docs H5P, https://docs.moodle.org/311/en/H5P
Lumi Education, https://lumi.education
H5P, H5p.org
H5P Service, H5P.com
How To Make a question Set with LUMI, https://tinyurl.com/4rzr3y6m
H5P is an abbreviation for HTML5 Package. It enables educators to create content such
as interactive videos, quizzes and presentations. H5P content can be created in
the Content bank or on the h5p.com site, or with the LUMI app for desktop, and added
to your course as an H5P activity or embedded into any other activity or resource.
For summative assessment, such as exams, it is recommended for security reasons to
use the Quiz activity rather than H5P.
Creating and editing H5P content in the Content bank
To create and edit H5P content,
1. Go to the Content bank, accessible when in a course from the Navigation drawer
(Boost theme) or from Site pages in the Navigation block (Classic theme).
2. Click the Add button and select a content type.
For more information, see Content bank.
Creating and editing H5P content elsewhere
You can go to the h5p.com site, or you can install the LUMI app for desktop (Windows,
Mac and Linux versions available),
Please note that when you use the LUMI app you will have the option to try some H5P
modules that have not yet been officially released in h5p.org, and they may not work
well.
The CurrikiStudio server is an open source project to build a server where the teachers
can create their H5P content.
Make sure you download the newly created H5P file that you will later upload to your
Moodle course.
You must be aware that some parameters limit the file upload size for H5P objects in
your server. Course file size limit is one of them.
Remember that if you upload some *.h5p files to your Moodle server, the server MUST
have the H5P libraries installed in order for those H5P activities to work. See Manage
content types (below).
If you use the LUMI desktop tool to create a H5P content from a file on the desktop, and
then upload the H5P files via ftp to server file system, you would then be able to use
the File system repository to add them to the Content bank. From the Content bank
select 'Upload content' and the File system repository will appear as an option in the file
manager.
Creating H5P resources from Moodle standard questions
See Repurpose resources content type plugin and this post about a new plugin for
making H5P resources from some Moodle standard questions. Currently supported
resources are:
Moodle's Essay question type -> H5P Essay resource
Moodle's Multiple Choice question type -> H5P Multiple Choice resource
Moodle's Short answer question type -> H5P Guess the Answer resource
Moodle's True/False question type -> H5P True False question resource
Questions in a directory can be imported collectively to create a Column, Single Choice
Set, Dialog Cards or Flash Cards content types. After creation, the content types can be
edited in the Content bank as normal H5P content and combined with other content
through copy and paste.
After installation, teachers may create interactive content in the Content bank by clicking
the Add button, and then choosing one of the Repurpose resources content types from
the drop down menu to open the editor, and selecting questions and other options in
the editor and saving. The new content created from the question will now appear in
the Content bank.
Adding an H5P activity to a course
See H5P activity for how to create an H5P activity in a course.
Embedding H5P into other activities
H5P button in the Atto editor
You can embed H5P content into other activities and resources such as a Lesson or
a Book, by clicking the H5P button in the Atto editor.
To embed H5P from the Content bank:
1. Click the H5P button in Atto then click 'Browse repositories'.
2. Browse the Content bank repository and select an H5P file.
3. Choose to either make a copy of the file or create a shortcut.
4. Click the button 'Select this file'.
5. Click 'Insert H5P'.
Creating a shortcut to the file
Note: If you create a shortcut to the file, you can edit it in the Content bank and any
activities with a link to the file will be updated.
Using H5P content in languages other than English
Currently (April 2021) the names and descriptions of the H5P modules when using
the Content bank are in English language only, but when using LUMI, these names and
descriptions may be translated to other languages (Spanish example below):
Admin settings
For H5P content to display in other activities, the Display H5P filter must be enabled and
the URL e.g. h5p.com should be listed as an allowed source in Site admin / Plugins /
Filters / Display H5P.
Manage H5P content types
Site administration / H5P / Manage H5P content types
For teachers to upload and display H5P files in their courses, H5P content types and
libraries must be available on the site. A scheduled task Download available H5P content
types from h5p.org does this automatically (but check if it is enabled and has already run
after first upgrading your site).
If it is not possible to use this scheduled task, then the Site administration page 'Manage
H5P content types' allows you to upload necessary files.
If the scheduled task is not run and files are not uploaded, teachers will receive an error
message when attempting to upload H5P content (see above image)
New feature
in Moodle 3.11!In Moodle 3.11 onwards, an admin can choose to disable selected H5P
content types, for example ones duplicating quiz functionality.
Capabilities
In addition to capabilities relating to the H5P activity and the Content bank there are
further H5P capabilities as follows:
Add embedded H5P - allowed for the default role of teacher
Set H5P display options - allowed for the default role of teacher
Manage H5P content types - allowed for the default role of manager only
Deploy H5P content - allowed for the default roles of manager and teacher
