Video Spotlight: Exploring Pressbooks Features
Video guides to enhance your skills for
Pressbooks
Learn about the features and functionalities of Pressbooks with these bite-sized video tutorials.
Adding OER Metadata with Pressbooks
Length: 2:35
What you will learn: How to include Book Information and Metadata in your Pressbooks material to increase the reach and searchability of your book.
Authoring on Pressbooks Create
Length: 4:00
What you will learn: How to use Pressbooks Create to write and design your book, as well as effortlessly include media and other interactive components.
Cloning & Adapting OER with Pressbooks
Length: 4:36
What you will learn: How to clone and adapt openly licensed materials through the Pressbooks platform.
Importing Your Manuscript into Pressbooks
Length: 4:36
What you will learn: How to import your manuscript into Pressbooks while keeping the formatting that would work well for eBooks and removing any coding that can cause formatting issues.
Importing Word Files into Pressbooks
Length: 1:36
What you will learn: How to import and format Word files for printing eBooks and print-on-demand using the Pressbooks platform.
Three Tips for Better Books Using Pressbooks
Length: 1:32
What you will learn: Three things you can do to ensure that your book looks great and translates flawlessly on Kindle, Nook, Kobo, CreateSpace, and any other bookshop.
Media Attributions [place as captions below h5p element and hyperlink the title]
- Video: “Adding OER Metadata with Pressbooks” by Gavin Goodwin, 2021, Pressbooks (CC BY 4.0). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLVYjqnl8fw]
- Video: “Authoring on Pressbooks Create” by Gavin Goodwin, 2021, Pressbooks (CC BY 4.0). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvqaC6BoTQY]
- Video: “Cloning & Adapting OER with Pressbooks” by Gavin Goodwin, 2021, Pressbooks (CC BY 4.0). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvSpZ_lgRQk]
- Video: “The Easiest Way to Import Your Manuscript into Pressbooks” by Pressbooks, 2015 (CC BY 4.0). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3P3NY_Vu9A&list=PLMFmJu3NJheuI6bCYvGO_B0O0NtaeIr3T&index=3]
- Video: “Tutorial: How to Import Word Files into Pressbooks” by Pressbooks, 2014 (CC BY 4.0). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1-ZdH3cC48&list=PLMFmJu3NJheuI6bCYvGO_B0O0NtaeIr3T&index=4]
- Video: “3 Tips For Better Books Using Pressbooks” by Pressbooks, 2015 (CC BY 4.0). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRIuUyz1hdw]
