Empower Your Community with a Pressbooks Enterprise Network

Hundreds of educational institutions use Pressbooks’ versatile, user-friendly publishing platform to support knowledge creation and other strategic priorities such as textbook affordability, student success, open education, and more.

Join hundreds of educational institutions using Pressbooks to create quality, accessible books and learning materials.

Maximize the Value of Your Educational Content

Create & Share Knowledge

Pressbooks is built using WordPress, an intuitive environment for educators to easily publish, collaborate, adapt, and share digital textbooks and other learning materials.

Improve Textbook Affordability

To remove barriers to learning, thousands of educators use Pressbooks to provide high quality OER, open access books, and customized course materials at no or low cost to students.

Increase Student Success

Educators use Pressbooks to increase student success by providing accessible and engaging learning materials. Easily add videos, multimedia, formative quizzes and other interactive activities.

Boost Pedagogical Innovation

Pressbooks’ user-friendly structure encourages classroom experimentation as faculty push the boundaries of digital content and collaborate with students to co-create knowledge via open pedagogy.

See What’s Possible with Pressbooks

With Pressbooks Enterprise Networks, institutional partners are doing remarkable things:

How Pressbooks’ Powers Knowledge Creation

Empower your community with user-friendly publishing tools, an accessible digital space, and the freedom to create

Create

Excited to turn your dream book project into a reality? Authors work solo or collaborate with a team to develop beautiful, accessible digital books and content, optimized for learning.

An illustration of the Pressbooks interface showing the text editor and import functions

Adapt

Interested in customizing textbooks to fit your course objectives and your students’ needs? Pressbooks makes it easy to find, clone, revise, and remix openly-licensed learning materials.

Share

Want to share your creations with your community? Or with the world? Use Pressbooks to select licensing and sharing permissions and make your work discoverable and accessible in multiple formats.

What Our Partners Love Most about Pressbooks

What they love

Why they love it

User-friendly toolset

WordPress-based platform is intuitive, with a quick learning curve and helpful user guide
Faculty and student creators quickly become self-sufficient using the platform, including making book updates and improvements.

LMS integration

Secure, single sign-on authentication with Canvas, Brightspace, Blackboard, and Moodle
Students and faculty benefit from a seamless, cohesive learning experience inside the LMS.

Easy-to-adapt OER

Pressbooks “cloning” feature makes it simple to copy, adapt and remix existing OER
Cloning and adapting existing open materials can be easier than starting from a blank page

Custom-branded book catalog

Your own digital space to publish and share your community’s work
There is an always-available place to showcase work, leading to increased visibility, recognition, and collaboration potential.

Interactivity with Multimedia & H5P

Turn static books into active, engaging learning experiences
Students expect digital materials to be interactive and help them learn effectively. Pressbooks helps meet these expectations.

Multiple Download Formats

Choose flexible download file formats including PDF, EPUB, XML, Common Cartridge, and more
Users can access Pressbooks creations online or offline, and creators avoid vendor lock-in when they switch to other platforms.

Usage, Book, and Network Analytics

Track metrics about your community’s publishing activity
Data helps quantify the impact of open education projects, digital publishing, and other initiatives.

Baked-in Accessibility

Multiple design features help ensure creations are accessible for all, including generating accessible PDFs
Pressbooks is an accessible platform that makes it simple to produce accessible learning materials.

Discoverability

Published works are easily shareable through the Pressbooks Directory, EBSCO, and Ex Libris
Scholars and creators can extend their reach and make their work broadly available to interested communities.

Amazing Support

Clients adore the prompt responsiveness of Pressbooks’ Premium Support Team
Pressbooks team members go above and beyond to answer questions, troubleshoot issues, and help clients succeed.

User friendly toolset

What they love

WordPress-based platform is intuitive, with a quick learning curve and helpful user guide

Why they love it

Faculty and student creators quickly become self-sufficient using the platform, including making book updates and improvements.

Seamless LMS integration

What they love

Secure, single sign-on authentication with Canvas, Brightspace, Blackboard, and Moodle

Why they love it

Students and faculty benefit from a seamless, cohesive learning experience inside the LMS.

Easy-to-adapt OER

What they love

Pressbooks “cloning” feature makes it simple to copy, adapt and remix existing OER

Why they love it

Cloning and adapting existing open materials can be easier than starting from a blank page

Custom-branded book catalog

What they love

Your own digital space to publish and share your community’s work

Why they love it

There is an always-available place to showcase work, leading to increased visibility, recognition, and collaboration potential.

Explore Pressbooks branded catalogs

Interactivity with multimedia & H5P

What they love

Turn static books into active, engaging learning experiences

Why they love it

Students expect digital materials to be interactive and help them learn effectively. Pressbooks helps meet these expectations.

Multiple download formats

What they love

Choose flexible download file formats including PDF, EPUB, XML, Common Cartridge, and more

Why they love it

Users can access Pressbooks creations online or offline, and creators avoid vendor lock-in when they switch to other platforms.

Usage, book and network analytics

What they love

Track metrics about your community’s publishing activity

Why they love it

Data helps quantify the impact of open education projects, digital publishing, and other initiatives.

Baked-in accessibility

What they love

Multiple design features help ensure creations are accessible for all, including generating accessible PDFs

Why they love it

Pressbooks is an accessible platform that makes it simple to produce accessible learning materials

 

Learn more about accessibility at Pressbooks

Discoverability & extended reach

What they love

Published works are easily shareable through the Pressbooks Directory, EBSCO, and Ex Libris

Why they love it

Scholars and creators can extend their reach and make their work broadly available to interested communities

 

Explore the Pressbooks Directory

Amazing support

What they love

Clients adore the prompt responsiveness of Pressbooks’ Premium Support Team

Why they love it

Pressbooks team members go above and beyond to answer questions, troubleshoot issues, and help clients succeed

Feature Focus: Pressbooks Results

Enhance student success with LMS grade passback for interactive activities

Pressbooks Results is a game-changer for supporting effective learning with open educational resources (OER) and DIY digital publishing. This feature sends students’ scores from interactive activities created with H5P to the learning management system (LMS) gradebook.

Instructors and departments are using Pressbooks Results to:

  • Replace expensive courseware packages with interactive Pressbooks ebooks
  • Invite learners to test their knowledge with formative assessments
  • Increase student motivation to engage with learning materials
  • Provide visibility into who’s doing the reading
  • Inform teaching and learning interventions

Pressbooks Results is included as a standard feature for all Pressbooks Enterprise Network clients.

Pressbooks Results provides LMS grade passback for H5P activities via LTI integration with Blackboard Learn, Canvas by Instructure, D2L Brightspace, Moodle

Tell Me More: Pressbooks Enterprise Networks

With an Enterprise Network, organizations make Pressbooks’ popular digital publishing platform available to their community in their own branded digital space. Users can easily create and share beautiful, interactive digital books and other materials. 

We provide a stable, secure environment including hassle-free network set-up, single sign-on, LMS integration, data protection, and highly responsive customer support.

For Systems & Consortia: Shared Networks

For higher education systems and consortia, Pressbooks opens new possibilities for cross-member sharing to support common priorities like textbook affordability, localized curriculum, professional development, and more. 

With a Pressbooks Shared Network, your system or consortium members can enjoy: 

  • Publishing platform access
  • A dedicated network catalog to showcase and share members’ work
  • Usage, book, and network analytics to track activity by institution
  • Option to delegate institution-level network administration to members 

Whether you’re adapting digital textbooks for gateway courses, publishing monographs, or iterating on policy and training materials, Pressbooks is an optimal tool.

Illustration showing the relationship between different colleges in a consortial network