Getting Started with Pressbooks
2025-07-10 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Toronto)
This session is designed for users who are new to Pressbooks and covers several introductory topics.

Users who attend this session will be able to:

Find and clone openly licensed content from the PB Directory

Find and use appropriate support resources

Create a new book

Bring in content from Pressbooks and Word documents

Create & organize new parts & chapters

Add basic content to their book (textboxes/headings, footnotes, glossary terms, images, video)

Preview changes before publishing and view/restore revision history

Add collaborators to their book with appropriate roles

Register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. All registrants will receive a recording of the webinar.

Create Engaging Learning Materials with Pressbooks
2025-07-14 15:00 - 16:00
This session is designed for users who have some familiarity with Pressbooks and are ready to create more engaging learning materials Attendees will learn how to design and create formative assessments and other interactive elements (via H5P), add opportunities for social annotation (via Hypothesis), display mathematical & scientific notation, load Pressbooks content into courses taught within a Learning Management System, and send grades to the LMS gradebook (via Pressbooks Results).

Users who attend this session will be able to:

Choose and create appropriate interactive quizzes (with H5P)

Configure a chapter for grading

Bring graded content into an LMS course and use autograding features (with PB Results)

Activate and use digital annotation tools (with Hypothesis)

Create and display mathematical & scientific notation (with LaTeX or MathML)

Register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. All registrants will receive a recording of the webinar.

Prepare your Book for Publication and Distribution
2025-07-21 12:00 - 13:00
This session is designed for users who have some familiarity with Pressbooks and who want to learn how to publish and prepare their book for distribution.

Users who attend this session will be able to:

Customize theme options and apply Custom CSS

Explore and apply a theme

Add contributors and other metadata to their book

Understand how they can perform pre-publication checks for quality (accessibility, etc)

Publish their book content in full or in part

Create & share PDF and EPUB exports

Register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. All registrants will receive a recording of the webinar.
