Contents

  1. Introduction to Pressbooks

    1. Why Use Pressbooks?
    2. About This Guide

  2. The Simple 5 Step Guide to Making a Book with Pressbooks

    1. Create Your Book
    2. Add Your Book Information
    3. Add and Organize Your Text
    4. Choose Your Book Theme
    5. Export Your Book
  3. Manage Your Account

    1. Register for a Pressbooks.pub Account

      1. Register Your Account
      2. Register Your First Book

    2. Upgrade Your Pressbooks.pub Book

      1. What’s Included When You Upgrade
      2. Premium Support
      3. Update Billing Information or Cancel Subscription

    3. Change Your Password

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

    4. Update Your User Profile

      1. Personal Options
      2. Name
      3. Contact Info
      4. About Yourself
      5. Account Management

    5. Erase Your Personal Data

    6. Delete a Book

  4. The Authoring Dashboard

    1. Organize

      1. Navigating the Organize Menu
      2. Adding a new section
      3. Editing, Viewing, and Reordering Sections
      4. Book Privacy and Exporting
      5. Related Chapters

    2. Book Info

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

    3. Appearance

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

    4. Export

      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

    5. Import

    6. Publish

    7. Media

      1. Adding media to your Library
      2. Adding details to your media
      3. Editing Images
      4. Deleting media

    8. Users

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

    9. Settings

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

    10. My Catalog

      1. What is the Catalog?
      2. Using the Catalog
      3. Customizing your Catalog Profile
  5. Make Your Book

    1. 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?

    2. Bring Your Content Into Pressbooks

      1. Write Your Book Directly in Pressbooks
      2. Copy and Paste from Another Source
      3. Import from a Word Document
      4. Import from a Pressbooks XML file

    3. Find Books on the Pressbooks Directory

      1. Search the Directory
      2. Filter Directory Results
      3. Book Cards

    4. Clone a Book

      1. Clone a Book
      2. Understand Cloning Error Messages
      3. What Content is Cloned

    5. 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

    6. 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. Changing the Part Label

    7. 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. Changing the Chapter Label

    8. 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

    9. Control Your Book's Privacy Settings

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

    10. Edit Content with the Visual & Text Editors

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

    11. 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

    12. Edit Images

      1. Edit Image Details
      2. Crop, Rotate, or Scale an Image
      3. Replace an Image in One Location
      4. Replace an Image Globally

    13. Create and Display Contributors

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

    14. Create and Display Glossary Terms

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

    15. Add Footnotes or Chapter Endnotes

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

    16. Create Tables

      1. Add or Delete Tables Using the Visual Editor
      2. Edit Table Structure
      3. Make Table Accessible
      4. Change Table Appearance
      5. Adjust Table Width and Height
      6. Change Border Weight
      7. Add a Table Caption
      8. Create Interactive Tables
      9. Add TablePress Tables to a Chapter

    17. Create Textboxes

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

    18. Add Mathematical Notation

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

    19. Enable Annotation with Hypothesis

      1. Enable Hypothesis in Your Book

    20. Create Interactive Content with H5P

      1. Create H5P Activities
      2. Import H5P Activities
      3. Add H5P Activities to Your Book
      4. View All H5P Activities in Your Book

    21. 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

    22. Make Your Book Accessible and Inclusive

      1. Publish Accessible Content
      2. Use Accessibility Features Provided By Pressbooks
      3. Help Translate Pressbooks

    23. Fix Common Formatting Problems

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

    24. Add Relevant Metadata

      1. Improving Directory Metadata

    25. Support Multilingual Publications

      1. Set Your Book’s Language
      2. Add Language & Script Support

    26. Restore and Permanently Delete Content

      1. To restore Trashed Content
      2. To Permanently Delete Content

    27. Search & Replace

  6. Produce Exports

    1. Automatic Pages and Export-only Content

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

    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. 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

    5. Produce Ebook (EPUB) Exports

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

    6. Produce PDF Exports

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

    7. Fix Validation Errors

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

    8. Lock Your Theme

      1. Lock Your Theme

    9. 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. 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. Test as a Student
      5. Video Guide

    5. Update Browser Settings

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

    6. For Students: Common Issues and How to Troubleshoot Them

      1. If you’ve completed an activity and no grade appears in the gradebook:
      2. If you see a grade in the gradebook, but it doesn’t look correct:
      3. Get support

  8. Pressbooks Guides and OER Resources

    1. OER Repositories and Directories
    2. Resources for OER