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Choosing your OER Tools: A Tool Look Book

4.14 Pressbooks Jam Session

Theresa Huff

This first, 30-minute Pressbooks Jam Session walks teams through the Pressbooks interface, while offering teams a hands-on, getting-started Pressbooks workshop. This session covers:

  • logging into Pressbooks
  • navigating in the Pressbooks interface
  • organizing your Pressbook
  • importing content to Pressbooks
  • editing within a Pressbooks chapter
  • tips and guidance for getting started with your OER development

Pressbooks Jam Session recording:

View the recorded Pressbooks Jam Session. Links referred to in the recording can be found below.

Pressbooks Jam Session Links:

LMU Pressbooks

OERFSJ Pressbooks Sandbox

Pressbooks User Guide – User’s and Collaborators Rolls

Play document – for practice for use in Pressbooks Sandbox chapter

Pressbooks interest form – Team Leads complete this form to receive their own Pressbook

Guides

While more advanced Pressbooks Jam Sessions will be offered in future, the following user guides and videos may help you find answers to specific questions.

Pressbooks User Guide

BC Campus Pressbooks Guide

Pressbooks Guides YouTube Playlists

Select one of the many video guides from the playlist on the top, right corner of the video.

Help with Pressbooks

If you have specific questions about Pressbooks, take a look at the Pressbooks FAQs.

If you find your questions aren’t answered there, use the link below to schedule a one-on-one meeting with Karna and Theresa for any support you need as you develop your OER in Pressbooks.

Contact us for One-on-One help

 

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Open Voices, Just Choices: OER for Social Justice Faculty Handbook Copyright © by Karna Younger and Theresa Huff is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.