Open Educational Resources Collective Publishing Workflow

Pressbooks allows you to embed different types of media in your chapters, such as:

• Audio and images – Upload image and audio files and insert them into your chapters (provided there are no copyright restrictions.
• Videos – Paste URLs for YouTube, Vimeo and TED into your textbook to display videos as part of your chapters. You can also upload video files directly into the textbook (provided there are no copyright restrictions).
• PheT simulations – Embed maths and science PheT simulations in your using iframes or include the URL in your chapter.
• KnightJS timelines – Make a timeline at knight lab using their TimelineJS tool and embed it using iframes or include the URL in your chapter.
• Glossary terms – Create glossary terms and link to them in the text to create terms with a drop-down definition on click or hover.
• Textboxes – Create different coloured textboxes for Learning Objectives, Key Takeaways, Sidebars, Activities and more.
• Equations and formulas – Use MathJax to render accessible maths equations and formulas.

You can create and embed interactive content in Pressbooks using plugins like:

• H5P plugin – Create 40 different types of quizzes and interactive exercises, including True/False questions, image matching exercises, interactive video quizzes, complex branching scenarios and more.
• TablePress plugin – Create sortable, filterable and searchable interactive tables.
• LaTeX plugin – Render mathematical equations and formulas.
• Hypothesis plugin – Enable public or private annotations of your textbook to facilitate communication between authors and editors, personal note-taking and annotation, social learning and discussion, or to foster deeper engagement between you, students, instructors and your text.

Adapted from:

‘Create Interactive Content with H5P’, ‘Create Tables’ and ‘Enable Annotation with Hypothesis’ in Pressbooks User Guide by Pressbooks, licensed under a CC BY 4.0 licence.

‘Interactive Options in PressbooksEDU’ in Open Textbook Publishing Orientation (PUB 101) by Open Education Network, licensed under a CC BY 4.0 licence.