This Pressbooks Video Tutorial Series was created to assist faculty and staff to use, create, and adapt open textbooks with Pressbooks. For more information about any of these topics, see the Pressbooks Guide.
Pressbooks is an authoring and self-publishing platform built on WordPress. Pressbooks allows you to create content once and publish it in many formats including a webbook, PDFs, EPUB (usable in most eReaders), MOBI (for Kindle readers), and various editable files.
These videos reflect the BCcampus instance of Pressbooks, which is reserved for those teaching and working at post-secondary institutions in British Columbia and the Yukon.
Pressbooks is an authoring and self-publishing platform built on WordPress. Pressbooks allows you to create content once and publish it in many formats including a webbook, PDFs, EPUB (usable in most eReaders), MOBI (for Kindle readers), and various editable files.
These videos reflect the BCcampus instance of Pressbooks, which is reserved for those teaching and working at post-secondary institutions in British Columbia and the Yukon.
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In this video, we show how to change your password to a new one. See the Pressbooks Guide for more information.
How to Change Your Password
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In this video, we go over how to create a new book in Pressbooks. See the Pressbooks Guide for more information.
Create a Book in Pressbooks
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In this video, we go over how to create interactivity with H5P in Pressbooks. See the Pressbooks Guide for more information.
Create Interactivity with H5P
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In this video, we demonstrate how to add, organize, and delete parts and chapters in Pressbooks. For more information, see the Pressbooks Guide.
How to Add, Organize, and Delete Parts and…
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In this video, we cover how to create tables in Pressbooks and how to make sure the tables you create are accessible. See the Pressbooks Guide for more information.
How to Create a Table
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In this video, we demonstrate how to add metadata to your book through the Book Info page in Pressbooks. See the Pressbooks Guide for more information.
Fill Out the Book Info Page
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In this video, we demonstrate how to import from another book in Pressbooks by cloning, importing Pressbooks XML file and importing Pressbooks web book. For more…
Import Pressbooks Content
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In this video, we demonstrate how to add and manage contributors to your book in Pressbooks so they can be credited for their work. See the Pressbooks Guide for more…
Add and Manage Contributors
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In this video, we describe what themes are in Pressbooks and demonstrate how to change your theme. See the Pressbooks Guide for more information.
Select a Theme
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In this video, we demonstrate how to customize theme options in Pressbooks. See the Pressbooks Guide for more information.
Manage Theme Options
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In this video, we demonstrate how to customize the CSS of your book theme through Custom Styles. See the Pressbooks Guide for more information.
Use Custom Styles
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In this video, we provide a description of the different types of export files, demonstrate how to export files, and show how to make export files available for download…
How to Export Files
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In this video, we demonstrate how to add images to your book in Pressbooks and some basic formatting tips. See the Pressbooks Guide for more information.
Add and Format Images
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In this video, we demonstrate how to embed different types of media in your book in Pressbooks. You can embed content from multiple sources, including YouTube,…
How to Embed Media
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In this video, we demonstrate how to use the glossary tool in Pressbooks to create glossary terms with definitions, mark words as glossary terms in a chapter, and…
How to Create a Glossary
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