Lamakū+ Program (2025-2026)
Updates & Resources
Status Updates
5/8/25: The 2025-2026 Lamakū+ Cohort applications are now closed. We welcome the new cohort participants joining us for this next program year! For those who would like information about future cohorts and offerings, please fill out the interest form to be notified once more information is available.
View Archived H5P + LMS Status Updates
Quicklinks & Resources
- Quicklinks (Google Sheets): Access frequently used documents, technical support resources, and pilot participant list here (cohort access only)
- H5P + Lamakū User Guide: Get step-by-step instructions on accessing and using H5P within Lamakū.
- UH H5P FAQs (Google Doc): Check this document for new or updated Q&A
About the Lamakū+ Program
What is Lamakū+ (formerly H5P + LMS)?
H5P is an authoring tool that lets you create simple interactive content and activities like interactive videos, quizzes, games, presentations, and more. In 2021, University of Hawaiʻi piloted the use of the paid version with a pilot group of faculty across nine campuses to enable the integration of H5P activities into Laulima courses so that student progress can be tracked/graded. Due to the success of the pilot, the H5P + Laulima program was expanded and evolved to offer the H5P + LMS program (renamed due to the Laulima to Lamakū transition), H5P I Mua program, and H5P Site License pathway (no longer offered).
In January 2025, University of Hawaiʻi opted into Lamakū (Brightspace) add-on tools so that faculty/staff users across the system have access to Creator+ (including H5P), and Lumi. To support these newly enabled tools for engagement, interaction, and productivity, the program has evolved to become the new Lamakū+ program. Tools may vary with each program cohort, but will continue to have a focus on student engagement, interaction, and learning.
Faculty/Staff across the UH system are invited to apply to the Lamakū+ cohort program, which provides participants with guided program milestones to explore, use, integrate (into Lamakū), evaluate, and share their use of Creator+, H5P, and Lumi in their Lamakū courses. Program criteria, timeline, and expectations are shared below.
What are Creator+, H5P, and Lumi, and how can these tools improve online courses in Lamakū?
The Lamakū Instructor Essentials Course (in Lamakū) provides an introduction to the Creator+ authoring tool for element, layouts, and practice activity creation, H5P interactives tool with 50+ activity types available, and Lumi AI tool for creating discussions, assignments, and quizzes.
In H5P, there are several auto-graded activity types that can be created such as:
- Basic Activities: Drag and Drop, Flashcards, Dictation, Mark the Words
- Complex/Multiactivity: Branching Scenario, Course Presentation, Game Map, Interactive Book, Interactive Video
- Live Interaction activities: The Chase, Word Cloud, Emoji Cloud, Multipoll
- Innovative activities: AR (Augment Reality) Scavenger, Virtual Tour (360)
- and many more!
Program Criteria
Note: This cohort program is for new participants only.
- Participate in the required Lamakū+ Orientation.
- Explore Creator+ (including H5P) and Lumi, and create interactives for your UH Lamakū (Brightspace) course(s).
- Share and network with cohort members and other faculty who may be interested in using Creator+, H5P, and Lumi.
- Share a variety of H5P interactives to be displayed on the UH H5P Interactives Library and/or highlighted on other UHOIC web pages.
- Evaluate interactives created during the Lamakū+ program by encouraging my students to complete the Lamakū+ learner evaluation form (for students) and by sharing my own experiences via the instructor-user evaluation form (for faculty/staff users).
- Maintain active engagement in the Lamakū+ program with the regular use of Lamakū tools (Creator+, H5P, and Lumi), contributing to the UH H5P Community Google Group, and engaging with the cohort program milestone activities (e.g., program check-ins, Community Sessions, UH H5P Showcase).
2025-2026 Lamakū+ Program Timeline
Detailed H5P Timeline activity with required program milestones will be available coming soon!
In the meantime, an alternative PDF version has also been created for those who prefer a document overview.
The interactive timeline above was created using H5P. This alternative PDF version has also been created for those who prefer a document overview.
Benefits (What's In It For Me?)
2025-2026 Lamakū+ Cohort Applications Are Now Closed.
Please fill out the Interest Form (also linked to the button below) to be notified when new information about future cohorts and other related professional development opportunities are available.
Lamakū+ Program Interest Form2025-2026 Lamakū+ Program Cohort Applications Now Open!
Please fill out the application (also linked to the button below) to join the newest cohort!
Deadline to apply: Sunday, May 4, 2025. Applicants will be notified by early-May.
Sample H5P Interactives
Take a look at some embedded samples below created by UH H5P program alumni using H5P, which include both graded and ungraded learning activities and assessments. Or, to access the full repository, visit the UH H5P Interactives Library knowledge base.
Interactive Video Example
Activity: APA in-text citation and reference lists
This interactive video takes viewers through an orientation of how to format in-text citations and reference lists in APA format, with progressive checks for understanding.
Source: Michaela Nuesser, Second Language Studies, UH Mānoa
Question Set Example
Activity: 1.71 The traditional writing process
This question set is used to help learners understand components of the writing process.
Source: Dayle Turner, Leeward Community College
Timeline Example
Activity: Early Islamic History
Timeline of events in early Islamic history with image resources embedded.
Source: Alan Boyes, Language, Arts, and Humanities, Kauaʻi Community College
Crossword Example
Activity: Foundations for Chemistry
Complete the crossword activity by reading the clues and writing the appropriate terms related to the fundamentals of chemistry.
Source: Lissandra Baldan Jenkins, Math and Natural Science (MS), Hawaiʻi Community College
Lamakū+ (formerly H5P + LMS, H5P + Laulima) Program Feedback
Video Testimonials
Evaluation Feedback
I was excited to see how [H5P] could make my asynchronous course more engaging for the students. It was wonderful to easily embed the interactives in Laulima Lessons and linked with Laulima Gradebook.
This was such a great addition to my lab. I had already provided videos, images and websites to help students study Anatomy structures. But this was a much more active learning process for them that they found fun, easy to use and helpful in remembering structures. With the interactives, I was quickly able to assess studentʻs learning or participation. Previously, I would do reflection papers or some other type of reflection about learning on a certain topic to assess the students. These interactives saved both the student and me time and gave me data about a focused topic.
H5P activities seamlessly added a level of engagement to my online courses that did not exist before. I really hope that UH will subscribe to H5P for the long-term and that all faculty would have the opportunity to utilize H5P. Thank you for having this pilot!
Before using H5P I had a challenge in helping my physiology student study for anatomical structures since moving online. They no longer were able to go in person to study. So this was a great solution. Having a H5P activity that provided kinesthetic learning in addition to the traditional lecture and reading was much appreciated by students.
Having access to so many interactives made my courses fun for me (and hopefully, my students). I was looking for a way to gamify some aspects of the course to increase engagement and I think I succeeded!
I can place the interactives strategically in Laulima exactly when and where it is most useful. It’s also helpful for visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners. Students have mentioned they found them engaging and useful.
In the analytics H5P provides, I can see that in many cases students engage in multiple attempts to complete the tasks in the interactives. This is great considering that aspects of language acquisition, like vocabulary, require multiple exposures to words in a wide variety of contexts.
My goal was to help increase student engagement with the video lectures I provide for them. H5P allowed me to explore a variety of methods to accomplish this. 😀
Pack your patience! That’s my advice with anyone new to H5P. There were lots of boxes to check or uncheck, so many options and it was easy to get overwhelmed at first.. However, once you get the hang of it, it is sooooooo cool!
Students did better on quizzes and projects because the H5P interactives allowed students to practice what they learned and provided "scaffolding" type of preparation for assignments.
Looking for previous H5P + LMS (formerly H5P + Laulima) Cohorts or other programs?
View the information and resources from previous cohorts, which are also located under Programs > Archived Programs from the main menu bar.
- View the archived H5P + LMS Cohort (2024-2025) page
- View the archived H5P + Laulima Cohort (2023-2024) page
- View the archived H5P + Laulima Cohort (2022-2023) page
- View the archived H5P + Laulima Pilot Cohort (2021-2022) page
Or, view a high level summary of personalized UH H5P offerings for faculty/staff, which are also located under Programs from the main menu bar.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
These FAQs (Google Doc) were created for all UH H5P Programs and Pathways, including this Lamakū+ program. Please note that this is a working document and the content continues to be revised based upon the most recent updates.
2025-2026 Lamakū Cohort Participants
Applications are underway for the 2026-2027 cohort. Accepted participants will be announced in mid-May 2026.
The following faculty and staff from across the UH system have been accepted as part of the 2025-2026 Lamakū+ cohort.
- Michael Cawdery (Leeward CC)
- Danielle Clements Jansen (UH Mānoa)
- Shannon Cristobal (Kapiʻolani CC)
- Veronica Gibson (UH Mānoa)
- Patricia Grillet (UH Mānoa)
- Travis Idol (UH Mānoa)
- Ingrid Lin (UH Mānoa)
- Carl Polley (Kapiʻolani CC)
- Noe Tupou (Windward CC)
- Syreeta Washington (Leeward CC)
- Brenda Watanabe (Hawaiʻi CC)
Lamakū+ Support
Mahalo nui to the UH H5P Support Team, composed of instructional designers and ITS staff across the UH system who have collaborated to advocate for and support this program. If you are a cohort participant needing support, please contact the UH H5P Community (Google Groups). For general program questions, please email uhoic@hawaii.edu.