Flashcards 

The Flashcards content type is a set of cards containing a picture on one side of the card and a corresponding text on the other side. The learner is asked to type a word or expression corresponding to the picture, before turning the card over and revealing the correct answer.

Flashcards can be used as a drill to help learners memorize words, expressions, or sentences. Typical Flashcards provide a prompt on one side of the card, and an answer on the other side. In H5P Flashcards, pictures are used as the prompt. If you are looking for Flashcards with text prompts, take a look at the Dialog cards content type. 

Accessing H5P in Canvas

You can access H5P in Canvas through the Rich Content Editor (RCE), which is accessible via the edit view of Page, Assignment, Discussion Board, Announcement and Quiz questions. 

For this example, we will be adding H5P onto a Canvas page. The first thing you will need to do is either open the page you want to embed the H5P content into or create a new page. Then click the ‘Edit’ button which will open the RCE. (You will automatically go into edit mode if you create a new page.) 

Next, you will need to locate H5P in the RCE toolbar by clicking on the more external tools icon.


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Clicking on that menu item will open a pop-up showing your H5P library. From here, you will have the option to either insert previously created content or create something new. 



Creating Flashcards

Select the New content option and choose Flashcards from the list of Content types:



Flashcards editor

The Flashcards question editor should now appear. The main part of the editor looks like this:


The Flashcards content type consists of a Task description and a set of Cards. 


Task description

Here you introduce the topic to the learner. The Task description is a static text displayed above the Flashcards throughout the entire set of cards. Insert your desired text.


Cards

On this first card, we'll present the learner with a picture of a Strawberry and ask the learner to type the Spanish name for Strawberry.

The Question text can be customized individually for each card. Use the Question field to give the learner instructions on how to solve the problem. You can alternatively use this field as a textual prompt or to give the learner an extra hint. The Question text is optional. 

In the Answer field, we provide the correct answer. Add the correct Answer in this field.

Under Image, we add an image of a Strawberry. Since we want the user to type in the singular form of the noun Strawberry, we make sure to find a picture that only shows one Strawberry. 

Use pictures that are similar in size to ensure a smooth user experience for the learner. 

We'll use this image for the first card:


Press the "+Add" button  to browse for the image you just downloaded. After you have selected the picture, it will be uploaded and a thumbnail of the picture will be displayed.

We use the Edit copyright button to add appropriate license information for the picture:


Now we've finished creating the first card of the Flashcards set. You should get this:

Adding more cards

Add three more cards in a similar way and use the same Task description text for all the cards.

You can add as many cards as you want. Press the Add card  button to add the new Flashcard.


You remove cards by pressing the "X" button in the top right corner of the Card. You change the order of the cards by clickin on the up and down arrows in the tabbed list of cards to the left of the Card editor.

Finishing up

By now you should have ended up with something like this:

 

Save and Insert when you're satisfied to view your final set of Flashcards.