Open Educational Resources

There are a variety of resources available to help you learn more about Pressbooks, and how to use it to improve your open educational resources.

• Pressbooks User Guide
• BC Campus Pressbooks Guide
• BC Campus Pressbooks Video Tutorial Series
• Using Pressbooks to Create Collaborative Open Textbooks (ECampus Ontario)
• Pressbooks FAQ (BC Campus)

Organization

On the web version of Pressbooks, each "chapter" functions as a single, scrollable webpage.  When working with a lot of content per-chapter, it is important to consider how the organization of the book will work best for your content and readers using the book.

Anatomy of a Pressbook

A publication created in Pressbooks is structured like a standard bookwith familiar types of sections and chapters:

• Front Matter (Table of Contents, Acknowledgements, Introduction)
• Main Body that contains Parts & Chapters
• Back Matter (Bibliography, Index, etc.)

You can embed limited types of media throughout the chapters in your Pressbooks publication, or have a special section at the end for media objects.  In the end, your Pressbooks publication will look like a type-set publication.

Pressbooks automatically creates a title page, copyright page, and table of contents.

Attribution

University of Illinois Library adapted from L & S Support Services. "Organization" in Pressbooks 101. CC BY 4.0.

Content on MHC's OER website is licensed under a  Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License