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Sharing Materials on the H5P OER Hub

The H5P OER Hub is a library where you can find and share interactive educational content with other educators around the world. Sharing your work as an Open Educational Resource (OER) helps reduce duplication of effort and provides high-quality materials to students everywhere. It also allows you to search for and adopt activities developed by others from around the world. It also helps provide robust course activities with no additional cost to the student.

What is H5P OER Hub?

OER Hub is a feature within H5P that enables searching and sharing from a global library of content. It allows you to

  • Search for ready-to-use activities like quizzes and interactive videos from other educators.
  • Download and adapt content to fit your course needs.
  • Share your own H5P activities with other educators, including other PCC instructors.

Adding Metadata to your activity

Before you can publish items to the OER HUB, you must also fill out metadata that will help identify who created the activity, the education level it is geared toward, discipline, and license. Creating good metadata will also make librarians like you.

  • Title: The name of your activity.
  • Discipline: What subject(s) is your activity for.
  • Level: What grade level is your activity meant for.
  • License & License Version: The specific Creative Commons license used (e.g., CC-BY 4.0).
  • Timeframe: Add a year range if it is appropriate for your content.
  • Source: A link to where the work can be found.
  • Author: Your name  and your role in creating the content.
  • Screenshot: You can also add a screenshot of your activity.

Understanding CC-BY and Attribution

When you share content in OER Hub, we recommend using the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. This license allows others to use, share, and adapt your work as long as they give you credit.

You can learn more about Creative Commons attribution from our library guide.

Intellectual Property

Before sharing materials on the OER Hub, it is important to understand who owns the intellectual property according to Article 28 of the faculty contract.

  • College Ownership: Materials created for PCC courses through “significant College investment” belong to the College. This includes works created during your regular work year, projects funded by stipends, or materials developed using specialized college tools or facilities.
  • Faculty Ownership: Traditional scholarly works—such as textbooks or journal articles—created primarily on your own time with limited use of College resources are your unrestricted property. You can chose which license to apply.
  • Part-Time Instructors: You generally own materials you develop solely through your own effort and expense, and can decide which license to apply.
  • Online Course developments: If the content is created as part of a paid online course development, copyright and shareability should be addressed as part of the Letter of Agreement.

Note: If the College owns the materials under Article 28, you must obtain permission before licensing them as OER on a public platform. Please have this conversation before doing any work. Generally, PCC is supportive of using Creative Commons licensing.

How to Share Your Content

  1. In the H5P editor, fill out the “Metadata” section with your title, author name, license type, etc.
  2. Select the “Share on OER Hub” option within your H5P activity.
  3. Check your details for accuracy. All content should be verified for quality before you submit

Learn More

If you are unsure about the copyright status of your materials, please reach out to the PCC Copyright Committee for guidance.

This page was drafted using a custom OL Web Style Guide Gem on February 2, 2026. Significant modifications were made for accuracy and pizazz.