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Pilot role and plugins guide

Find out more about the additional features and functions you can use with the Pilot role in Moodle.

About Accordion

The Accordion allows you to chunk information for your students. It is presented in collapsed sections. Students can decide which sections to take a closer look at by expanding the title.

This content type is excellent for providing an overview with in-depth explanations. 

Add Accordion activity

  1. Turn editing on and navigate to the section where you want the H5P activity to be located
  2. Select Add an activity or resource 
  3. Select H5P Interactive Content from the Activities tab.
 

Provide Description

  1. Give your activity a Description if required.
  2. Check the box alongside Display description on module page if you want the Description field to appear on the Moodle module.
Give H5P activity a name

Set grading strategy

  1. H5P activities default to a maximum grade of 10. As H5P activities appear in the Gradebook for students, we recommend you set up a formative assessment category and set the total for this category to 0 so that the grades for these activities do not contribute to the course total
Set grade

 

Select interactive activity type

  1. Select Accordion from the Editor drop-down list and select Details and then select Use.
H5P Content Type selector

Set up Accordion

  1. Give the Accordion a Title.
  2. Review the tutorial on H5P for some top tips on how to create an effective Accordion.
  3. Scroll to the end of the page and select Save and display to review the Accordion.
Example of a H5P accordion
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