Pressbook Admin Interface Overview
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Getting Started
The Pressbooks interface is structure easy use much in the fashion of Word or Google Docs.
Access your book
To request an account to author a book on the UWF Pressbooks site, please contact either Cindy Gruwell (cgruwell@uwf.edu) or Chris Levesque (clevesque@uwf.edu) for assistance.
- Go to https://pressbooks.uwf.edu to sign in
- Click Sign in
- Note: upon being added as a user UWF staff and students will be sent a confirmation link
- Use your email address and the password set up after confirmation to log in
- Click My Books or Admin to access the book you have edit access to
- Hover over the book title and click Visit Admin.
Book menu
From your book’s side-menu you can start adding content and making changes to your book:
- Visit Site – Hover over the book title to show Visit Site. Allows you to preview your book or view the public version.
- Organize – Click Organize to start adding content
- Book Info – Add the title, authors, book cover, Creative Commons license, publication date, etc.
- Appearance – Edit the theme and theme options
- Export – Export PDF and EPUB versions of your book for download
- Import – Import a Microsoft Word docx, EPUB and other formats to upload existing content to the book.
- Plugins – Activate available plugins, including H5P
- Media – Upload images and other media files
- Users – Add new users and update permissions.
