Link or embed resources in courses

Digital learning objects (DLO) are resources that explain key concepts in engaging ways and can be used in your courses to help build your students’ research and digital skills.

• Many include interactive elements and multimedia.
• Formats include H5P, Pressbooks, videos and guides.
• You can share a link to any of the DLO and some you can embed in your course.

Digital Learning Hub

Use our Digital Learning Hub to find a digital learning object.

The next sections:

• explain features of the Digital Learning Hub
• give instructions on how to reuse the different object formats in your course.

UQ teaching staff (and students) can log in to the Digital Learning Hub to access additional features.

Get notified of updates to objects

You can select to be notified when an object you are using is updated. We will email you when we make significant changes to the object so your course content is always up-to-date.

Submit an object

Coming soon! Submit your digital learning object to be added to our Digital Learning Hub. You can make suggestions now via our feedback form.

If you would like to submit an object for inclusion in the Digital Learning Hub, the object must be:

• created by UQ staff or students
• licensed for reuse, e.g. an open licence or UQ copyright
• only include material owned by the author or used with permission
• accessible
• suitable for a broad audience or at a faculty or discipline level, rather than for a specific course or assessment task
• created using a UQ template if the format is Word or PowerPoint
• reviewed annually and updated where required.

Objects that are not reviewed within a 12-month period may be considered for removal. The Digital Learning Hub is a portal for current content, rather than a repository. It is not used to store files or for version control.

We will contact you about the object and whether it is suitable for the Digital Learning Hub.

You can choose to embed the H5P object in your course or simply share the direct object link.

You will need a H5P account to embed the H5P object into your course to check student completions.

Download the H5P

1. Go to the H5P object
2. Click Reuse then Download as a .h5p file.

Add the H5P to your course

If you would like to check your students' responses and completion of a module you can:

• Embed the object in your course - to view completions in H5P Reports.
• Link the object in your course -  to allow results for questions to be transferred to Grade Centre and view completions in H5P Reports.

You can choose to embed or link the Pressbook in your course. The modules are also available for your students to download in EPUB, PDF and HTML format to help with accessibility.

Embed a Pressbook in Learn.UQ (Blackboard)

• Blackboard courses
• Blackboard Ultra courses

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Blackboard

1. Go to the module home page
2. Select Common Cartridge (Web Links) under the Download this book options
3. Go to your Blackboard course 
4. Go to Course Management 
5. Click Import Package/View Logs 
6. Click Import Package 
7. Click Select a Package and navigate to the .imscc file you downloaded from the module
8. Scroll down to Select Course Materials and select all the options 
9. Click Submit. 

In your course site, the module will appear in a new content area in your course. Each module chapter will be a section. You can copy, move and delete the chapters in your course.

Embed Digital Essentials in a Learn.UQ course (YouTube, 1m 55s) 

Blackboard Ultra

1. Copy the URL of the Pressbook
2. Go to the Learning Resources section in your Blackboard Ultra course
3. Click +
4. Click Create
5. Click Teaching tools with LTI connection
   1. Click to edit the title (where it has New LTI Link...) to enter your Pressbook's title
   2. Select Visible to students
   3. At Configuration URL enter your Pressbook's URL
   4. Add a Description
6. Click Save.

Note: You can click the More options dots to go back to make changes to the entry after you have saved it.

Add a link in the course menu

• You can provide weblinks to the chapters in the weekly folders in Learning Resources e.g. If you want your students to read the chapters in particular weeks.
• You can also add your book as a weblink in the menu.

You can link to the video in the Digital Learning Hub or embed the video in your course.

Embed a YouTube video in Learn.UQ

1. Copy the video URL
2. Follow the instructions on Embed a YouTube video to add it to your course.

If you would like help using an object or have any questions, suggestions or feedback about the Digital Learning Hub, you are welcome to:

• use our Feedback form
• email the Library's Digital Learning team via digital-learning-hub@library.uq.edu.au.