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Hi all, this upgrade to WordPress 5.4 brings a few handy improvements: A four-screen “onboarding” style guide to using the block editor that appears the first time you open the block editor. It can be viewed again via the vertical three dots in the upper right of the window under the item “Welcome Guide”. (If…
Understanding H5P Content Types and Libraries
H5P is a wonderful thing. The educational world has been ‘all a buzz’ about H5P since its release. What H5P does is put the authoring of various interactive content pieces in the reach of more casual users. Such interactive content previously involved additional, multiple and generally complex software. H5P is quite simple to use (particular…
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