Abstract
The demand from lecturing staff that desire to improve the engagement levels of their students is continuously increasing. Learning Management System integrations such as H5P are a simple and effective way to improve student engagement and learning within modules. This paper explores the benefits of staff adopting the H5P integration in Canvas for developing engaging and interactive content in the context of higher education. It examines a pilot initiative developed by Munster Technological University’s Department of Technology Enhanced Learning that investigated the needs of individual staff members and how they could make small changes to their teaching content to help improve student engagement. The results of this pilot indicated that participating staff had improved knowledge surrounding the development of interactive content through the use of H5P following one-to-one sessions carried out as part of the initiative and revealed that staff intends to apply the H5P approach to their everyday teaching activities to encourage student motivation and engagement in modules. This paper discusses further plans for the use of H5P within the Learning Management System at Munster Technological University and how it will be facilitated by the Department of Technology Enhanced Learning.