16 Quick Access to Pressbooks User Guide and How-to’s
Chapter Purpose
This chapter provides the link to Pressbooks’ own User Guide–which offers the details for how to use its many features, and provides quick instructions on how to adopt, adapt from the PressbooksEDU catalogue or create a new work.
Pressbooks’ own guide
For detailed guidance about how the various features work in Pressbooks, use the guide produced by Pressbooks itself: Pressbooks User guide.
Quick instructions for adopting, adapting, creating in PB
As with the discussion about OER in general, in Pressbooks you may adopt, adapt, or create. Briefly, the options are below.
- Adopt/Adapt You can use the “Clone A Book” command (very top menu of your Pressbooks Dashboard) to bring an openly licensed book on the Pressbooks platform into our network & customize as you’d like. See the next chapter, on the PressbooksEDU catalogue for some adoptable or adaptable resources.
- Create new: You can use the “Create a New Book” command (very top menu of your Pressbooks Dashboard).
Then you can:
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- Start typing your content or pasting it from elsewhere.
- Add chapters and parts as needed using the menu on the left side (under Organize).
- Use the Import tool (left side menu under Tools) to bring content in from a variety of different places.
You can click the image above to see text more clearly; then use your browser’s back button to return to the book page.
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Consider mixing the very best of all three options…start by cloning a book, and then add your own original material and/or import from other openly licensed sources!
Attributions
This chapter is an adaptation of, and is used under the noted license:
Getting Started with Pressbooks at TCC by TCC OER Librarian is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
