We host monthly training webinars which are open to all end users of Pressbooks networks. We host three types of sessions: a beginner’s session on how to get started with Pressbooks, a session exploring how to create engaging learning materials and a session on how to publish and distribute your book.

All webinars include Q&A time for attendees at the end of the session. These training webinars are typically recorded and shared with participants and registrants afterwards.

Getting started with Pressbooks

This session is designed for users who are new to Pressbooks and covers several introductory topics. Users who attend this session will be able to:

1. Find and clone openly licensed content from the PB Directory
2. Find and use appropriate support resources
3. Create a new book
4. Import content from Pressbooks books and Word documents
5. Create & organize new parts & chapters
6. Add basic content to their book (textboxes/headings, footnotes, glossary terms, images, video)
7. Preview changes before publishing and view/restore revision history
8. Add collaborators to their book with appropriate roles

Create Engaging Learning Materials with Pressbooks

This session is designed for users who have some familiarity with Pressbooks and are ready to create more engaging learning materials Attendees will learn how to design and create formative assessments and other interactive elements (via H5P), add opportunities for social annotation (via Hypothesis), display mathematical & scientific notation, load Pressbooks content into courses taught within a Learning Management System, and send grades to the LMS gradebook (via Pressbooks Results).

Users who attend this session will be able to:

1. Choose and create appropriate interactive quizzes (with H5P)
2. Configure a chapter for grading
3. Bring graded content into an LMS course and use autograding features (with PB Results)
4. Activate and use digital annotation tools (with Hypothesis)
5. Create and display mathematical & scientific notation (with LaTeX or MathML)

Publish and Prepare your Book for Distribution

This session is designed for users who have some familiarity with Pressbooks and who want to learn how to publish and prepare their book for distribution.

Users who attend this session will be able to:

1. Explore and apply a theme
2. Add contributors and other metadata to their book
3. Understand how they can perform pre-publication checks for quality (accessibility, etc)
4. Publish their book content in full or in part
5. Create and share PDF and EPUB exports
6. Customize theme options and apply Custom CSS