On November 1, 2026 our contract with D2L, the people who make Avenue to Learn, will be renewed. As part of that five-year renewal, we will also get access to an additional package, Creator+. This suite of tools will help instructors create more engaging content and interactive elements without any coding knowledge. As part of the Creator+ package, we will get access to a suite of Creator+ tools as well as H5P Enterprise, which works with Avenue to Learn, and anywhere that allow embedded content. All instructors will be able to access H5P through Avenue and through a separate login page.
Creator+
Creator+ is a suite of tools made by D2L, which are aimed at making content creation within Avenue to Learn easier for instructors and more interactive for students. All courses in Avenue to Learn will have access to Creator+ functions through the HTML Editor.
H5P Enterprise
As part of the Creator+ package, we also get access to H5P Enterprise. H5P has been hosted at eCampus Ontario for years, and a number of you have been using that to add interactivity to Pressbooks, Avenue courses, and pretty much everywhere an embed can work. Now H5P is available to everyone at McMaster. We’ll announce the login location on November 1.
Information Sessions
Starting, August 19 we’ll be running Lunch and Learn style drop-in sessions. These one-hour sessions will run on Wednesdays at noon, and be in the team Blended/Online Community of Practice, in the Avenue to Learn subchannel, and will cover timely topics. From August 19 to September 23 these sessions will be to review what’s changed in Avenue since the Winter semester ended. We’ll post an announcement in the team when it’s happening.
Starting October 7 we will begin running a series to answer your questions about Creator+ and H5P. This can be anything that you can imagine, and we’ll help you with how best to use these two new tools. These sessions run until March 3, 2027. Support doesn’t end there, we’ll be available during our support hours 8:30-6:00 Monday through Friday, at avenue@mcmaster.ca. We’ll be able to answer questions, help you discuss what you’d like to do with Creator+ and H5P, and do one-on-one consultations or small group presentations. Just let us know what you’d like and we’ll do our best to make it happen.
For more information about H5P and Creator+ please visit the D2L page for Creator+ or the D2L Brightspace Community where you can take the Creator+ Instructional Design Best Practices Course or browse to see what other D2L Clients are doing. H5P also has its own community if that is something you’re interested in. Locally, Creator+ resources will be in Avenue Help. H5P Help will be in it’s own help site, launching November 1.