For self-assessment, single-choice SCQ and multiple-choice MCQ questionnaires are not very user-friendly. Three other types of more playful activities are:

• Drag-and-drop on an image exercises which allow learners to check if they can orient themselves in a sketch or graph. They work by simple drag and drop

• Gap fill in texts with or without contextual images which require a little more concentration on the part of the learner, but are very fruitful in ensuring that difficult concepts are well understood

• The categorization exercises which complement the previous two activities well: learners organize the elements into categories and thus learn to distinguish their characteristics

H5P

Here we share three examples of such activities carried out with an open source and royalty-free environment called H5P.

H5P (HTML5 Package) is an open source platform for creating, sharing, and reusing interactive educational content using HTML5 technology. It offers a variety of types of interactive content, such as quizzes, presentations, educational games, simulations, interactive videos, and much more.

Content created with H5P can typically be integrated into e-learning platforms, websites, blogs, and other digital environments.

To develop these blocks, several solutions exist. It is possible to use tools such as Lumi, or Logiquiz ,or to add a plugin to a Moodle, Drupal or Wordpress site. You can also open an account on h5p.org and create content on this site.

It is important to know that the deployment of H5P modules can be relatively complicated for a neophyte. Lumi and Logiquiz allow you to create html visualization files, but you don't know exactly where your module is saved.

That being said, if you are a teacher who want to enrich your digital resources, the H5P modules should be integrated into your school's e-learning platform without any problems.

However, check with the administrators and follow their recommendations.

This exercise asks learners to test their understanding of the architecture of a steam power plant by placing the names of its four main components on the machine sketch.

The H5P component is of the "Drag and Drop" type, parameterized by indicating that a bijective relationship exists between the sensitive areas of the sketch and the component names.

In this exercise, the learner has to reconstruct sentences of the course relating to the differences between closed and open systems.

The H5P component is of the "Drag the Words" type.

This exercise asks learners to check if they are familiar with the difference between state functions and path functions in applied thermodynamics.

The H5P component is of the "Drag and Drop" type, parameterized by indicating that the two types of functions can each receive several labels of the thermodynamic quantities considered.

You can find the H5P files for these three examples here. These documents are licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 (Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International) license.