Pressbooks

Pressbooks is a simple, free book production software. You can use Pressbooks to publish textbooks, syllabi, books and more in multiple formats.

How can I use Pressbooks in teaching?

• Adopt and/or modify existing open educational resources (OER).
• Author and publish OER textbooks.
• Use advanced tools to add interactive elements for review, homework, and testing.

What is unique about Pressbooks?

• Pressbooks provides an easy to use content and assessment integration with Canvas.
• Pressbooks provides a robust authoring environment built on top of WordPress.
• Pressbooks is also integrated with H5P and Hypothes.is.

Technical requirements

Pressbooks is integrated into Canvas, so there is no software to install — it runs through the browser. Students can go to Canvas via their usual browser to access Pressbooks.