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<\/a> BCcampus Pressbooks home page[\/caption]\r\nDetermine access<\/h2>\r\nBegin by determining who should have access. If you have multiple authors, it's often best to restrict access to the book in Pressbooks to one or two \"gatekeepers\" to maintain the textbook's formatting, style, and layout. One of the gatekeepers might be the individual responsible for reviewing and fixing the textbook as they will be very familiar with the book's flow. Others who will need platform access are the copy editor and proofreader. (See Fix as You Go<\/a>, How to Copy Edit<\/a>, and How to Proofread<\/a>.)\r\n\r\nIf you wish others to view the textbook, but do not want them to have editing or administrative privileges, \"view only\" rights can be granted or a generic account can be created for all who require in-progress viewing access.\r\n\r\nThe\u00a0BCcampus Open Education\u00a0Pressbooks Guide<\/a><\/em> contains information specific to Pressbooks. This guide will explain how to set up a Pressbooks account and how to add an author, editor, or other user to your textbook. (See Setting up an Account: Where to Begin<\/a> and Adding an Author or Editor to a Book<\/a>.)\r\nPlatform set-up, training, support<\/h2>\r\nOnce you have established the required accounts for Pressbooks, or other authoring platform, then it's time to create the book shell. Information on setting up a book, importing a Pressbooks or WordPress file, and importing a Word document are all covered in the BCcampus Open Education\u00a0Pressbooks Guide<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0However, listening to a recorded session<\/a> or viewing the PowerPoint slides<\/a> from past Pressbooks Training webinars, or watching a Pressbooks Tutorial video<\/a> can help. You may also consider hiring an expert to offer a training session to your support team.\r\n\r\nLastly, identify who will provide technical support. Many platforms and systems have very good support resources available; however, it's always nice to have a friendly, knowledgeable individual to call on. The helpdesk or teaching-and-learning centre at your university or college is a good place to start.\r\nOther technology<\/h2>\r\nIn addition to the system you'll be using to house and create your textbook, consider all other technologies that will be needed. These might include:\r\n\r\n \t- \r\n
\r\n \t- Video-creation software and hosting platforms, e.g., Audacity<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
- Audio-recording systems and hosting platforms<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n
\r\n \t- Graphic-design software<\/li>\r\n \t
- Repositories containing openly licensed media (See Resources: Search and Find<\/a>.)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nPage added: Feb 20\/18 | Last update: Oct 13\/21<\/div>\r\n
Attributions<\/h2>\r\nBCcampus Pressbooks website<\/a> (screenshot) is used under a CC BY 4.0 International Licence<\/a>.\r\n___________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2675\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]![\"Open](\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/194\/2017\/08\/OEN_Logo_Stack_4CP-2-2-300x222.png\")
<\/a> For more information, see the Authoring Open Textbooks chapters on Publishing Tools<\/strong><\/a> and Authoring Tools<\/strong><\/a>.[\/caption]\r\n___________________________________________________________________________<\/p>","rendered":"
If you decide to use an authoring platform, such as Pressbooks or Scalar [New Tab]<\/a>, to create your textbook, you must also ensure that all participants have accounts to access the platform and the training to use it. While this latter item will require additional effort, it is worth the time in order to avoid confusion and mistakes during production.<\/p>\nThis chapter uses Pressbooks as an example of an authoring platform.<\/p>\n![\"""\"](\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/194\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-05-at-12.58.41-PM-300x197.png\")
<\/a>BCcampus Pressbooks home page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nDetermine access<\/h2>\n
Begin by determining who should have access. If you have multiple authors, it’s often best to restrict access to the book in Pressbooks to one or two “gatekeepers” to maintain the textbook’s formatting, style, and layout. One of the gatekeepers might be the individual responsible for reviewing and fixing the textbook as they will be very familiar with the book’s flow. Others who will need platform access are the copy editor and proofreader. (See Fix as You Go<\/a>, How to Copy Edit<\/a>, and How to Proofread<\/a>.)<\/p>\nIf you wish others to view the textbook, but do not want them to have editing or administrative privileges, “view only” rights can be granted or a generic account can be created for all who require in-progress viewing access.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0BCcampus Open Education\u00a0Pressbooks Guide<\/a><\/em> contains information specific to Pressbooks. This guide will explain how to set up a Pressbooks account and how to add an author, editor, or other user to your textbook. (See Setting up an Account: Where to Begin<\/a> and Adding an Author or Editor to a Book<\/a>.)<\/p>\nPlatform set-up, training, support<\/h2>\n
Once you have established the required accounts for Pressbooks, or other authoring platform, then it’s time to create the book shell. Information on setting up a book, importing a Pressbooks or WordPress file, and importing a Word document are all covered in the BCcampus Open Education\u00a0Pressbooks Guide<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0However, listening to a recorded session<\/a> or viewing the PowerPoint slides<\/a> from past Pressbooks Training webinars, or watching a Pressbooks Tutorial video<\/a> can help. You may also consider hiring an expert to offer a training session to your support team.<\/p>\nLastly, identify who will provide technical support. Many platforms and systems have very good support resources available; however, it’s always nice to have a friendly, knowledgeable individual to call on. The helpdesk or teaching-and-learning centre at your university or college is a good place to start.<\/p>\n
Other technology<\/h2>\n
In addition to the system you’ll be using to house and create your textbook, consider all other technologies that will be needed. These might include:<\/p>\n
\n- \n
\n- Video-creation software and hosting platforms, e.g., Audacity<\/a><\/li>\n
- Audio-recording systems and hosting platforms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Graphic-design software<\/li>\n
- Repositories containing openly licensed media (See Resources: Search and Find<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nPage added: Feb 20\/18 | Last update: Oct 13\/21<\/div>\n
Attributions<\/h2>\n
BCcampus Pressbooks website<\/a> (screenshot) is used under a CC BY 4.0 International Licence<\/a>.<\/p>\n___________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/a>For more information, see the Authoring Open Textbooks chapters on Publishing Tools<\/strong><\/a> and Authoring Tools<\/strong><\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n___________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"menu_order":7,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-331","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":193,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2796,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/331\/revisions\/2796"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/193"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/331\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Other technology<\/h2>\r\nIn addition to the system you'll be using to house and create your textbook, consider all other technologies that will be needed. These might include:\r\n\r\n \t- \r\n
\r\n \t- Video-creation software and hosting platforms, e.g., Audacity<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
- Audio-recording systems and hosting platforms<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n
\r\n \t- Graphic-design software<\/li>\r\n \t
- Repositories containing openly licensed media (See Resources: Search and Find<\/a>.)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nPage added: Feb 20\/18 | Last update: Oct 13\/21<\/div>\r\n
Attributions<\/h2>\r\nBCcampus Pressbooks website<\/a> (screenshot) is used under a CC BY 4.0 International Licence<\/a>.\r\n___________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2675\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<\/a> For more information, see the Authoring Open Textbooks chapters on Publishing Tools<\/strong><\/a> and Authoring Tools<\/strong><\/a>.[\/caption]\r\n___________________________________________________________________________<\/p>","rendered":"
If you decide to use an authoring platform, such as Pressbooks or Scalar [New Tab]<\/a>, to create your textbook, you must also ensure that all participants have accounts to access the platform and the training to use it. While this latter item will require additional effort, it is worth the time in order to avoid confusion and mistakes during production.<\/p>\nThis chapter uses Pressbooks as an example of an authoring platform.<\/p>\n<\/a>BCcampus Pressbooks home page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nDetermine access<\/h2>\n
Begin by determining who should have access. If you have multiple authors, it’s often best to restrict access to the book in Pressbooks to one or two “gatekeepers” to maintain the textbook’s formatting, style, and layout. One of the gatekeepers might be the individual responsible for reviewing and fixing the textbook as they will be very familiar with the book’s flow. Others who will need platform access are the copy editor and proofreader. (See Fix as You Go<\/a>, How to Copy Edit<\/a>, and How to Proofread<\/a>.)<\/p>\nIf you wish others to view the textbook, but do not want them to have editing or administrative privileges, “view only” rights can be granted or a generic account can be created for all who require in-progress viewing access.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0BCcampus Open Education\u00a0Pressbooks Guide<\/a><\/em> contains information specific to Pressbooks. This guide will explain how to set up a Pressbooks account and how to add an author, editor, or other user to your textbook. (See Setting up an Account: Where to Begin<\/a> and Adding an Author or Editor to a Book<\/a>.)<\/p>\nPlatform set-up, training, support<\/h2>\n
Once you have established the required accounts for Pressbooks, or other authoring platform, then it’s time to create the book shell. Information on setting up a book, importing a Pressbooks or WordPress file, and importing a Word document are all covered in the BCcampus Open Education\u00a0Pressbooks Guide<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0However, listening to a recorded session<\/a> or viewing the PowerPoint slides<\/a> from past Pressbooks Training webinars, or watching a Pressbooks Tutorial video<\/a> can help. You may also consider hiring an expert to offer a training session to your support team.<\/p>\nLastly, identify who will provide technical support. Many platforms and systems have very good support resources available; however, it’s always nice to have a friendly, knowledgeable individual to call on. The helpdesk or teaching-and-learning centre at your university or college is a good place to start.<\/p>\n
Other technology<\/h2>\n
In addition to the system you’ll be using to house and create your textbook, consider all other technologies that will be needed. These might include:<\/p>\n
\n- \n
\n- Video-creation software and hosting platforms, e.g., Audacity<\/a><\/li>\n
- Audio-recording systems and hosting platforms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Graphic-design software<\/li>\n
- Repositories containing openly licensed media (See Resources: Search and Find<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nPage added: Feb 20\/18 | Last update: Oct 13\/21<\/div>\n
Attributions<\/h2>\n
BCcampus Pressbooks website<\/a> (screenshot) is used under a CC BY 4.0 International Licence<\/a>.<\/p>\n___________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/a>For more information, see the Authoring Open Textbooks chapters on Publishing Tools<\/strong><\/a> and Authoring Tools<\/strong><\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n___________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"menu_order":7,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-331","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":193,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2796,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/331\/revisions\/2796"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/193"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/331\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- \r\n \t
- Video-creation software and hosting platforms, e.g., Audacity<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
- Audio-recording systems and hosting platforms<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n
- \r\n \t
- Graphic-design software<\/li>\r\n \t
- Repositories containing openly licensed media (See Resources: Search and Find<\/a>.)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nPage added: Feb 20\/18 | Last update: Oct 13\/21<\/div>\r\n
Attributions<\/h2>\r\nBCcampus Pressbooks website<\/a> (screenshot) is used under a CC BY 4.0 International Licence<\/a>.\r\n
___________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2675\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]
<\/a> For more information, see the Authoring Open Textbooks chapters on Publishing Tools<\/strong><\/a> and Authoring Tools<\/strong><\/a>.[\/caption]\r\n___________________________________________________________________________<\/p>","rendered":"
If you decide to use an authoring platform, such as Pressbooks or Scalar [New Tab]<\/a>, to create your textbook, you must also ensure that all participants have accounts to access the platform and the training to use it. While this latter item will require additional effort, it is worth the time in order to avoid confusion and mistakes during production.<\/p>\n
This chapter uses Pressbooks as an example of an authoring platform.<\/p>\n
<\/a>BCcampus Pressbooks home page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Determine access<\/h2>\n
Begin by determining who should have access. If you have multiple authors, it’s often best to restrict access to the book in Pressbooks to one or two “gatekeepers” to maintain the textbook’s formatting, style, and layout. One of the gatekeepers might be the individual responsible for reviewing and fixing the textbook as they will be very familiar with the book’s flow. Others who will need platform access are the copy editor and proofreader. (See Fix as You Go<\/a>, How to Copy Edit<\/a>, and How to Proofread<\/a>.)<\/p>\n
If you wish others to view the textbook, but do not want them to have editing or administrative privileges, “view only” rights can be granted or a generic account can be created for all who require in-progress viewing access.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0BCcampus Open Education\u00a0Pressbooks Guide<\/a><\/em> contains information specific to Pressbooks. This guide will explain how to set up a Pressbooks account and how to add an author, editor, or other user to your textbook. (See Setting up an Account: Where to Begin<\/a> and Adding an Author or Editor to a Book<\/a>.)<\/p>\n
Platform set-up, training, support<\/h2>\n
Once you have established the required accounts for Pressbooks, or other authoring platform, then it’s time to create the book shell. Information on setting up a book, importing a Pressbooks or WordPress file, and importing a Word document are all covered in the BCcampus Open Education\u00a0Pressbooks Guide<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0However, listening to a recorded session<\/a> or viewing the PowerPoint slides<\/a> from past Pressbooks Training webinars, or watching a Pressbooks Tutorial video<\/a> can help. You may also consider hiring an expert to offer a training session to your support team.<\/p>\n
Lastly, identify who will provide technical support. Many platforms and systems have very good support resources available; however, it’s always nice to have a friendly, knowledgeable individual to call on. The helpdesk or teaching-and-learning centre at your university or college is a good place to start.<\/p>\n
Other technology<\/h2>\n
In addition to the system you’ll be using to house and create your textbook, consider all other technologies that will be needed. These might include:<\/p>\n
- \n
- \n
- \n
- Video-creation software and hosting platforms, e.g., Audacity<\/a><\/li>\n
- Audio-recording systems and hosting platforms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- \n
- Graphic-design software<\/li>\n
- Repositories containing openly licensed media (See Resources: Search and Find<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nPage added: Feb 20\/18 | Last update: Oct 13\/21<\/div>\n
Attributions<\/h2>\n
BCcampus Pressbooks website<\/a> (screenshot) is used under a CC BY 4.0 International Licence<\/a>.<\/p>\n
___________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n
<\/a>For more information, see the Authoring Open Textbooks chapters on Publishing Tools<\/strong><\/a> and Authoring Tools<\/strong><\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n ___________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"menu_order":7,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-331","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":193,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2796,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/331\/revisions\/2796"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/193"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/331\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/selfpublishguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Audio-recording systems and hosting platforms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Video-creation software and hosting platforms, e.g., Audacity<\/a><\/li>\n
- \n
- Audio-recording systems and hosting platforms<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n