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A quicker way to revisit your H5P resources<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Course design involves plenty of creating, testing and reviewing. It also involves coming back to resources you made months\u2014or years\u2014ago and working out what can be used again.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Folders and sensible file names help, but they only tell part of the story. Sometimes you need to open an activity, click through the questions, listen to the audio and see how it actually works before deciding whether it belongs in your next course.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

While building a new range of support materials, I found myself reviewing a collection of more than 100 H5P activities across mixed subjects. Some were older resources that still had something useful to offer, even if they needed a refresh.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

That brought up a small but persistent problem: browsing H5P files on a Windows desktop does not give you the same quick view you get with an image or a document. Opening activities one at a time makes a simple review job more involved than it needs to be.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

So I went looking for a better way\u2014and ended up building a viewer for the file manager I use.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

H5P inside the Directory Opus viewer pane<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t

The ACS H5P Viewer<\/a> plays local H5P lessons directly inside the Directory Opus 13 viewer pane on Windows x64. Slides, questions, audio, video and captions remain interactive, so you can explore the activity while browsing your files.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Select another H5P file to move to the next lesson. If you have updated a package, use Reload to read its changed contents.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

For my workflow, the value is straightforward: less time opening resources and more time deciding what to keep, refresh or reuse.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Watch the viewer in action<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t

The video below shows the viewer in use.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

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