• Open Education Consortium
• MIT OCW
• OER Commons
• Skills Commons
• Commonwealth of Learning

Videos

1. If you look over to the fields on the right, you can change the image’s title. Right below that, you can alter its caption (the caption is the text that appears in small font beneath the image in the book). You may use the caption field to enter the proper attribution for your image (see the Open Washington attribution tool). Underneath that, the alt text is how the image will be described by things like screen readers for the hearing impaired – so think of it as a description of the image if the image doesn’t show up. So here we need something like, ‘A parakeet standing next to a chessboard’. Just a clear, accurate description of the photo.
2. You can also change the attachment display settings. We typically want our images centre-aligned, that tends to work out best for viewing the book, so we want to click on “Alignment – centre”.
3. In the “Link To” panel we can choose what happens when we click on the image. So if we select “none”, the image doesn’t link anywhere. If we select “Media file,” then clicking on the image links to the full-sized version of the image. If we select “attachment page,” clicking on the image links to the attachment page, which also features the image’s title and description. And if we click on “custom URL”, then clicking on the image will take us to whatever URL we put in the URL field, so that allows the image to act like a hyperlink. So, for now, we’ll just say that we want this to link to the media file, to the full-sized image.
4. And then finally, we can select the image’s display size. So, let’s say I want this image to shrink to 300 pixels across. Now, obviously, the original file here is 4000 pixels across, it’s massive. In order to shrink the display down to 300 pixels, I select the “Medium” size. And then I can insert this image into the post. And you can see that the shrunken image appears in the middle there. So we’ll click on “Update”. And then we’ll go into our “Book view”. And we’ll refresh the page. And you’ll see that the image is shrunk down on the page to 300 pixels, and, if we click on it, you can see the full size image here.

Embedding Videos

Textboxes

(Re)Order the Chapters

Chapter Settings

Global Privacy Setting

Export the Book

1. Open a new browser window and visit: https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca. Once you're here, click on the "Register" button. This will take you to a different page.
2. Type in a username in this field. You need to use your institutional email address (e.g., rajiv@kpu.ca), otherwise this form won’t process your registration. Set up your password and confirm that password. Select your BC institution. Select the “Register my book now” option and then click on the “next” button. That will take you to a third page.
3. You now need to choose an address or URL for your book. It will be "pressbooks.bccampus.ca/yourbookname". Be very careful with this, you can’t change this name later. Then click on “Create book”.
4. You will receive an email to activate your account. Once you click on the link in that email, you’ll be able to log in to your account at pressbooks.bccampus.ca.