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Contents

  1. Introduction to Pressbooks

    1. Why Use Pressbooks?
    2. What is a Webbook?
    3. About This Guide

  2. The Simple 6 Step Guide to Making a Book with Pressbooks

    1. Step 1: Sign In
    2. Step 2: Create Your Book
    3. Step 3: Add Book Information
    4. Step 4: Add and Organize Content
    5. Step 5: Choose Your Book Theme
    6. Step 6: Export Your Book
    7. Prefer to watch and learn?

  3. What Is a Webbook?

    1. How a Webbook is Made
    2. The Webbook Homepage
    3. The Pressbooks Reading Interface
    4. Webbook Interactivity – Pressbooks
    5. Why Create a Webbook?
  4. Manage Your Account

    1. Register for a Pressbooks.pub Account

      1. Register Your Account
      2. Register Your First Book

    2. Subscribe to Your Pressbooks.pub Book

      1. Subscribe to Your Book
      2. What’s Included in Your Subscription
      3. Premium Support
      4. Update Payment Information
      5. Cancel a Subscription

    3. Change Your Password

      1. When You Can’t Log In
      2. Change Your Password When You’re Already Logged In

    4. Update Your User Profile

      1. Access Your User Profile
      2. Personal Options
      3. Name
      4. Contact Info
      5. Add Information About Yourself
      6. Manage Your Account

    5. Erase Your Personal Data

    6. Delete a Book

  5. Start a Book

    1. Create a Book

    2. Bring Your Content Into Pressbooks

      1. Write Your Book Directly in Pressbooks
      2. Copy and Paste from Another Source
      3. Use the Import Tool
      4. Prepare Your DOCX File Before Import

    3. Find Books on the Pressbooks Directory

      1. Take the Tour
      2. Search the Directory
      3. Filter Directory Results
      4. View Book Cards

    4. Clone a Book

      1. Clone a Book
      2. Understand Cloning Error Messages
      3. What Content is Cloned
  6. Add and Organize Book Content

    1. Organize

    2. Create and Edit Front Matter

      1. Add New Front Matter
      2. Delete Front Matter
      3. Edit Front Matter
      4. Apply Front Matter Types
      5. Understand Front Matter Order in Exports

    3. Create and Edit Parts

      1. Add a New Part
      2. Delete a Part
      3. Edit or Rename a Part
      4. Make a Part ‘Invisible’
      5. Change the Part Label

    4. Create and Edit Chapters

      1. Add a Chapter
      2. Delete a Chapter
      3. Edit a Chapter:
      4. Chapter Types
      5. Status & Visibility Settings
      6. Using the Visual and Text Editors
      7. View, Compare, and Restore Revisions
      8. Chapter Metadata
      9. Owners
      10. Edit Chapter URL
      11. Discussion and Comments
      12. Change the Chapter Label

    5. Create and Edit Back Matter

      1. Add New Back Matter
      2. Delete Back Matter
      3. Edit Back Matter
      4. Back Matter Types
      5. Understand Display Order in Export Files
      6. Indexes and Notes

    6. Restore and Permanently Delete Content

      1. Restore Trashed Content
      2. Permanently Delete Content
  7. Manage Your Book

    1. Add and Manage Users

      1. Adding Users and Assigning Permissions
      2. Managing Users and Changing Permissions
      3. User Roles in Pressbooks

    2. Add Book Information

      1. General Book Information
      2. Cover Image
      3. Subject
      4. Copyright
      5. About the Book
      6. Additional Catalog Information
      7. Book-level Contributors

    3. Manage Your Media

      1. View your Book’s Media
      2. Add Media to your Media Library
      3. Add Details to your Media
      4. Edit an Image
      5. Delete media

    4. Review Book Settings

      1. Change the Visibility of Your Book
      2. Change the Visibility of Private Content
      3. Robots
      4. Enable Comments
      5. Share Latest Export Files
      6. Pressbooks Directory
      7. Export
      8. File Settings
      9. Hypothesis
      10. H5P
      11. MathJax or QuickLaTeX
      12. Akismet Anti-Spam

    5. Support Multilingual Publications

      1. Set Your Book’s Language
      2. Add Language & Script Support
      3. Help Translate Pressbooks
  8. Use the Editor

    1. Edit Content with the Visual and Code Editors

      1. Use the Visual Editor
      2. Use the Code Editor
      3. HTML Basics
      4. Write in Markdown

    2. Add Images

      1. Prepare your Image
      2. Add an Image
      3. Edit an Image in a Chapter

    3. Create and Edit Tables

      1. Create a Table
      2. Add or Remove Rows and Columns
      3. Change the Table’s Appearance
      4. Make Your Table Accessible
      5. Delete a Table
      6. Create Interactive Tables with TablePress

    4. Create and Style Textboxes

      1. Add Textboxes to Your Book
      2. Customize Your Textbox Colors

    5. Add Mathematical Notation

      1. Display Math with MathJax
      2. Render LaTeX with WP QuickLaTeX
      3. Render LaTeX in H5P Activities
      4. Use Math in TablePress

    6. Add Footnotes or Chapter Endnotes

      1. Add Footnotes
      2. Choose Where To Display Footnotes in PDF Exports
      3. Convert Footnotes from Imported Documents

    7. Create and Display Glossary Terms

      1. Create a New Glossary Term
      2. Link to an Existing Term
      3. Create a Glossary List

    8. Use Shortcodes

      1. Headings and subheadings
      2. Code
      3. Email
      4. Equation/Latex
      5. Blockquote
      6. Footnote
      7. Anchor
      8. Textbox
      9. Columns
      10. Media
      11. Captions
      12. Apply Custom Classes
      13. Nesting Shortcodes

    9. Search & Replace

      1. Use Search & Replace
      2. Preview Replacements
      3. Tips

    10. Use the Accessibility Authoring Tool

      1. View Alerts
      2. Show / Hide Alerts in the Editor
      3. Access Book-Level Reports
      4. Video: Use Editoria11y
  9. Add Interactivity to Your Book

    1. Enable Annotation with Hypothesis

      1. Enable Hypothesis in Your Book
      2. Resources for Educators
      3. Video Resources

    2. Create Interactive Content with H5P

      1. Activate H5P for your Book
      2. Create H5P Activities
      3. Import H5P Activities
      4. Add H5P Activities to a Chapter
      5. View All H5P Activities in Your Book
      6. Watch a Video

    3. Display Embedded Media

      1. Display Uploaded Media in Your Book
      2. Embed Content via oEmbed
      3. Embed iframes
      4. Insert H5P Activities
      5. Embedded Media in Exports
  10. Style Your Book

    1. Appearance

      1. Selecting Your Book Theme
      2. Theme Options
      3. Custom Styles

    2. Apply Custom Styles

      1. Add Custom Styles
      2. What Changes are Possible
      3. View and Restore Previous Revisions
      4. Pressbooks Custom CSS Theme

    3. Apply Special Formatting

      1. Set Custom Indentation Rules for Selected Paragraphs
      2. Insert a Soft Return
      3. Disable Hyphenation for Specific Passages
      4. Change Tracking for a Selected Passage
      5. Create Section and Page Breaks in PDF Exports
      6. Change List Display
      7. Insert Pullquotes
      8. Add Dropcaps

    4. Fix Common Formatting Problems

      1. Remove Unwanted Span Elements
      2. Heading Styles
      3. Blockquotes  (and )
      4. Non-indented Paragraphs
      5. Lists (Bulleted and Numbered)

    5. Make a Book Cover

      1. Change Your Webbook Cover
      2. Create a Marketing Cover for your Ebook Exports
      3. Create a Print-on-demand Book Cover
      4. Use the Pressbooks Cover Generator
  11. Produce Exports

    1. Export Your Book

      1. Select Content for Export
      2. Export Your Book Files
      3. Export your Book as as Pressbooks XML file
      4. Export Your Book as a Common Cartridge File
      5. Viewing Your Latest Exports
      6. Distributing Your Exported Files on the Web

    2. Automatic Pages and Export-only Content

      1. Title Page 
      2. Title
      3. Half-Title Page
      4. Copyright Notice
      5. Table of Contents
      6. Numeration and Running Content

    3. Produce PDF Exports

      1. Export Your Book as a PDF
      2. Preview your PDF Export
      3. Covers for Print PDFs
      4. Configure PDF Export Options

    4. Produce Ebook (EPUB) Exports

      1. Select Your Ebook Theme Options
      2. Make and Download EPUB Exports

    5. Fix Validation Errors

      1. Email Yourself Validation Logs
      2. Interpret EPUB Validation Logs
      3. Interpret PDF Validation Logs
      4. SASS Error Validation Logs

    6. Lock Your Theme

      1. Lock Your Theme
  12. Prepare Your Book for Publication and Distribution

    1. Create and Display Contributors

      1. Accessing the Contributors page
      2. Creating a New Contributor
      3. Contributor List
      4. Displaying Contributor Information

    2. Add Relevant Metadata

      1. Improving Directory Metadata

    3. Ensure Your Book's Accessibility

      1. Make Your Content Accessible
      2. Accessibility Features for Authors

    4. Use the Broken Link Checker

      1. Check Links
      2. Understand the Report
      3. Video: Use the Broken Link Checker

    5. Control Your Book's Privacy Settings

      1. Global Privacy Settings
      2. Chapter-level Privacy Settings

    6. Distribute Your Book

      1. Ready Your Files for Distribution
      2. Submit Your Book to an Ebook Marketplace or Printing Service
      3. Add ‘Buy’ Links to Your Book’s Home Page

    7. Publish

  13. Use the LTI Content Integration

    1. Bring Pressbooks Content into your LMS Course

      1. Canvas
      2. Moodle
      3. Blackboard
      4. D2L Brightspace
  14. Use Pressbooks Results with your LMS for Grade Passback

    1. Add Gradable Activities to Your Book

      1. Choose Activity Types
      2. Choose the Right Activity Settings
      3. Update H5P Libraries
      4. Video Guide

    2. Configure a Pressbooks Chapter as a Graded Assignment

      1. Make Sure your Chapter Is Ready
      2. Include H5P Activities for Scoring
      3. Select a Grading Scheme
      4. Improve Student Experience
      5. Video Guide

    3. Add a Graded Assignment to the LMS

      1. Canvas
      2. Moodle
      3. Blackboard
      4. D2L Brightspace
      5. Video Guide

    4. View Students' Performance in the Pressbooks Results Viewer

      1. Add the Pressbooks Results Viewer to an LMS course
      2. View Results
      3. Understand Displayed Scores
      4. See Submitted Responses
      5. Report Grading Issue
      6. Test as a Student
      7. Video Guide

    5. Update Browser Settings

      1. Allowing all third-party cookies
      2. Allowing selected third-party cookies

    6. For Students: Tips for Using Pressbooks Results

      1. Get support

  15. Appendix: Pressbooks Guides and OER Resources

    1. OER Repositories and Directories
    2. Resources for OER