Trouble signing up for a University of Arizona Pressbooks account? Make sure your Sign Up request includes your @arizona.edu email address (Pressbooks won’t accept other emails). We recommend using your UA NetID as your username (e.g., wilbur). Once your free Pressbooks account has been created, you’ll be able to use your UA NetID and password next time you Sign In (select the Use Your UA NetID button).
The easiest way to get started with Pressbooks is to follow the 5-Step Guide to Making a Book on Pressbooks.
Curious about what Pressbooks looks like and how it works? Watch this demo (25-minute video by Liz Mays).
Pressbooks Results & Deep Linking
We now have the ability to use Pressbooks Results to check students’ understanding of the material they’re reading and to track their engagement with the readings and H5P.org interactive activities. Pressbooks Results integrates with your course’s D2L Brightspace gradebook. Its setup is very customizable, in terms of attempts, scoring, etc. Please note that this feature is not designed for high-stakes testing. To set up Pressbooks Results in your D2L Brightspace course site(s), submit a Pressbooks Results request to UCATT. Then you can schedule a meeting with network manager Cheryl Casey (use the Meet with me link on her profile page) to walk through the Pressbooks Results setup process via Zoom.
Helpful resources:
- Use Pressbooks Results with your LMS for Grade Passback (from the Pressbooks User Guide — use the links in the lower right to scroll through the section)
- Using Pressbooks Results with D2L/Brightspace (Pressbooks YouTube video)
The following H5P activity types can be set up to be automatically graded in D2L Brightspace and are recommended for use with Pressbooks Results:
- Arithmetic Quiz
- Branching scenario
- Course Presentation
- Drag and Drop
- Drag the Words
- Essay
- Fill in the Blanks
- Flashcards
- Image Choice
- Interactive Video
- Mark the Words
- Memory Game
- Multiple Choice
- Quiz (Question Set)
- Single Choice Set
- Summary
- True/False Question
We also have the ability to deep link Pressbooks content in D2L Brightspace course sites. This is useful if you want to set up weekly readings in the Content section of D2L Brightspace. This can be done together with Pressbooks Results or separately. To set this up in your D2L Brightspace course site(s), submit a Pressbooks Results request to UCATT. Setup instructions for deep linking are in the Pressbooks User Guide’s Bring Pressbooks Content into your LMS Course section. You can also schedule a meeting with network manager Cheryl Casey (use the Meet with me link on her profile page) to walk through the process via Zoom.
User Guides
The Pressbooks User Guide goes into depth on both basic and advanced features of Pressbooks, such as creating footnotes, setting up a table of contents, editing your book’s CSS, and testing your ebook across multiple platforms. It also has a section with comprehensive instructions on how to use Pressbooks features that are specific to educational publishing.
A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students is for faculty interested in practicing open pedagogy by involving students in the making of open textbooks, ancillary materials, or other open educational resources.
The Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks (So Far) is a living repository of collective knowledge, written to equip all those who want to publish open textbooks with the resources they need.
Self-Paced Learning
Discover Creative Commons is a free 6-module online course to learn the basics of Creative Commons licenses, copyright, and public domain.
Live Training
Pressbooks offers free monthly trainings for beginner and advanced Pressbooks users.
Video Tutorials
To get acquainted and started with Pressbooks, view this video demonstration by Steel Wagstaff (1 hour 10 minutes).
View playlists of Pressbooks’ previous trainings, other features, and tutorials, including:
Outside Collaborators
If you are collaborating with contributors outside the U of A, please contact Pressbooks network manager Cheryl Casey to have her add them to your Pressbooks project. She’ll need your project name and URL, the contributor’s first/last name, email (preferably not a Gmail account), and what role you want them to have (Administrator, Editor, Author, Collaborator, or Subscriber). See User Roles in Pressbooks in the Add and Manage Users section of the Pressbooks User Guide for help determining which role to assign.
Help Desk
Pressbooks offers FAQ and other resources on its virtual Help Desk.
Copyright Takedown Requests
Rights review of materials produced by external partners on Pressbooks is the responsibility of those external partners, who are asked to warrant that the digital materials made available on Pressbooks:
- Do not infringe on the intellectual property rights of any person or entity
- Do not infringe on the rights of privacy of others.
If you would like to request removal of digital materials from Pressbooks, you can submit a request to the University Libraries’ Scholarly Communication Librarian. More information is available on our policy page.
Need Additional Help?
Please email your Pressbooks network manager, Cheryl Casey.