Open Learning
Pressbooks is an online publishing platform built on the WordPress system to help authors make professional-looking webbooks without coding or formatting knowledge. eCampusOntario has partnered with Pressbooks to grant access to member institutions to facilitate OER creation and sharing.
The platform has many features that allow users to create interactive teaching tools. You can embed video, add interactive content like H5P interactives, and even allow students to annotate and interact with the text using the Hypothesis plugin. Pressbooks is a "write once-publish many" platform. This means you can create multiple file formats, from PDFs to eBooks, by exporting your book. Clone other Pressbooks, import from another document, or start writing from scratch to get started. When you are finished, it is easy to integrate into your eConestoga course shell. Use the navigation on the left to learn more about creating your Pressbook.
Pressbooks is an online publishing platform built on the WordPress system to help authors make professional-looking webbooks without coding or formatting knowledge.
Clone other Pressbooks, import from another document, or start writing from scratch to get started. When you are finished, it is easy to integrate it into your eConestoga course shell.
To start, access your institutional account using the instructions below, then review the Publishing with Pressbooks guide for more information.
Conestoga's PressbooksEDU instance is made available through eCampusOntario's Open Library Publishing Platform. Any book you make will have a homepage on this network.
To sign in:
Ashbourne, H. (2021, April 21). Accessing your PressbooksEDU account [Video file]. YouTube.