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.
Video: Adding OER Metadata with Pressbooks by Gavin Goodwin, Pressbooks YouTube, 2021, CC BY 4.0.
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.
Video: Cloning & Adapting OER with Pressbooks by Gavin Goodwin, Pressbooks YouTube, 2021, CC BY 4.0.
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.
YouTube Video: The Easiest Way to Import Your Manuscript into Pressbooks by Pressbooks, 2015, CC BY 4.0.
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.
YouTube Video: Tutorial: How to Import Word Files into Pressbooks by Pressbooks, 2014, CC BY 4.0.
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.
YouTube Video: 3 Tips For Better Books Using Pressbooks by Pressbooks, 2015, CC BY 4.0.
- 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]
