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Pressbooks in a Nutshell…

Overview

UCF Pressbooks is a tool designed to help you create and (publicly or privately) disseminate your academic and educational works. It is as much a piece of software designed to handle the end-to-end publishing process, as it is an educational tool that can be integrated with Webcourses@UCF to deliver graded (on hold) and ungraded instructional content grounded in the principles of inclusive teaching and the learning sciences.

Cost

$0 – Free (for all users)

Download: 3 Reasons to Use Pressbooks [pptx]

More information

Getting started

Any member of the UCF community can sign in (with their NID and password) and start creating content in Pressbooks immediately. (Select “Create…” link below.)

Create a Pressbooks Resource

Learn the Basics from a Pro (Steel Wagstaff)

Working with Students in the Margins (Hypothes.is Web Annotation)

Pressbooks has built in support for Hypothes.is, which is a web annotation tool. Users can highlight and annotate Pressbooks content right in the webpage itself leading to a more engaging and interactive experience. Select this highlighted text to see the tool in action.

A Vehicle to Accelerate Change and Elevate Student Voice (and Choice)

Pressbooks is often used as a tool to facilitate the creation of open educational resources (OER). Take a look at the impact OER has on students and the teaching and learning community at large.

  • Slide 1: A Review of the Effectiveness & Perceptions of Open Educational Resources As Compared to Textbooks
  • Slide 2: Giving students a public voice through open assignments (+ sound bite from Dr. Tom Cavanagh)
  • Slide 3: Acknowledging faculty collaboration on OER (+ sound bite from President Cartwright)

Create Interactive Content Using H5P (*Auto Grade-Passback to Webcourses Is Currently on Hold)

Pressbooks features a native integration with H5P, an open-source plugin which can be used to create interactive quizzes and other learning activities in your book. There are over 40 different H5P activity types, ranging from simple True/False questions to image matching exercises to quiz sets to interactive video quizzes and even complex branching scenarios! (cited directly from the Pressbooks User Guide CC BY 4.0)  *Learn more about creating interactive content with H5P.

Chemistry Fundamentals / H5P Listing
Strategies for Conducting Literary Research, 2e / H5P Listing
General Psychology / H5P Listing

*Visit the CDL “Teach Online” website to learn more about UCF Pressbooks.

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