Getting Started

1. Request a book “shell” by filling out the Pressbooks Request Form.
2. Add or import your text.
3. Organize your text.
4. Add images and other media.
5. Configure citations and/or footnotes.
6. Create H5P exercises and other interactive media and insert it into the text.

Requesting your book shell

The Pressbooks Request Form. has the following sections:

• Name: Your name
• Email: Your email
• Additional authors/editors: anyone else, outside of the SUNY Create administrators, who will need editorial access to your book
• Textbook title: This will be used to generate your book’s URL.
  • NOTE: We cannot change your book’s URL later, but we can change the title. Keep your proposed title short and simple.
• Course: The course this OER will be used for, if applicable.
• Description: This will be used on the homepage of your book and will appear in the Pressbooks Directory. We can tweak this text later.
• Optional Plug-ins: These include:
  • H5P: Interactive quizzes, study cards, and other student self-study/practice guides that you can create or borrow from others.
  • Hypothes.is: An  annotation layer that can be enabled on any page within your Pressbook.
  • TablePress: Good for formatting and organizing very large or unwieldy tables of data, or tables students may want to search within. Otherwise, not very necessary.
  • QuickLaTeX: MathJax available by default, so you probably will not need this.