PressBooks is our current publishing platform. It’s how we create open textbooks.  You will receive a login to access the PressBooks backend.

Please watch the following video tutorials to help get you started with PressBooks:

• PressbooksEDU Intro Video
• Getting started with PressBooks (Covers an introduction to PressBooks, ways to import content into PressBooks and tips for using Pressbooks)
• How to Design and Layout Your Book Using Pressbooks –
• Additional videos are at https://www.youtube.com/user/pressbooks/videos

Once you have watched the videos above, let Stefanie know and she will give you a PressBooks account. You will have your own PressBook to play in and experiment called TEST-yourname.  This PressBook should not be published; it’s for your learning only.

There are also a number of manuals on how to use PressBooks which can be good references

• The Growing PressBooks User Guide (this is also a good example of how a book published in PressBooks works)
• Pressbooks Guide (BC Campus) – also includes a series of training videos

BCCampus Pressbooks Video Tutorials

Getting Started with Pressbooks

• Create a Book in Pressbooks
• The Pressbooks Dashboard
• Add, Organize, and Delete Parts and Chapters

Accounts and Users

• Reset Your Password
• Change Your Password
• Add and Manage Users

The Pressbooks Editor

• Insert an External Link
• Insert an Internal Link
• Insert Internal Links with Anchor Tags
• Create a Table
• Create a Glossary

Images

• Add and Format Images
• Accessible Images
• Media Attributions

Files, Multimedia, and Plugins

• Make Files Available for Download
• Embed Media
• Plugins

Import Pressbooks Content

• Clone a Book
• Search and Import
• Import a Pressbooks XML File

Import Non-Pressbooks Content

• Import a Word Document
• Import a Web Page
• Copy and Paste

Metadata, Licences, and Attribution

• Automatic Pages and Content
• Book Info
• Add and Manage Contributors
• Provide Attribution

Manage Your Book’s Appearance

• Themes
• Theme Options
• Custom Styles

Publish Your Book

• Hide Chapters in Webbook and/or Export Files
• Export Files
• Make the Webbook Public/Private