23 PressBooks
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 This PressBook should not be published; it’s for your learning only.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
Accounts and Users
The Pressbooks Editor
- Insert an External Link
- Insert an Internal Link
- Insert Internal Links with Anchor Tags
- Create a Table
- Create a Glossary