{"id":54,"date":"2017-02-18T14:51:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T19:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oerworkshop\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=54"},"modified":"2017-03-21T12:50:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T16:50:11","slug":"creating-a-bccampus-pressbooks-account","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oerworkshop\/chapter\/creating-a-bccampus-pressbooks-account\/","title":{"raw":"Creating a BCcampus Pressbooks account","rendered":"Creating a BCcampus Pressbooks account"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"textbox shaded\"><strong>Pressbooks<\/strong> is a popular web platform that is used to create or adapt open textbooks. It is a plugin for <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">Wordpress<\/a>, the popular open-source website creation tool. Although <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.com\/\">Pressbooks<\/a> has both free and hosted versions,\u00a0the\u00a0latter\u00a0has several additional features. Happily, as a faculty member at an institution served by BCcampus, you have free access to the hosted version of the platform.<\/div>\r\nFollow the steps below to create your free hosted Pressbooks account.\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li>Open a new browser window and visit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\">https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca<\/a>.\u00a0Once you're\u00a0here, click on the \"Register\" button. This will take you to a different page.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Type in a username in this field. You\u00a0need to use your institutional email address (e.g., rajiv@kpu.ca), otherwise this form won\u2019t process your registration. Set up your password\u00a0and confirm that password. Select your BC institution.\u00a0Select the \u201cRegister my book now\u201d option and then click on the \u201cnext\u201d button. That will take you to a third\u00a0page.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>You now\u00a0need to choose an address or URL for your book. It will be \"pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/yourbookname\". Be very careful with this, you can\u2019t change this name later.\u00a0Then click on \u201cCreate book\u201d.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>You\u00a0will receive an email to activate your account. Once you click on the link in that email, you\u2019ll be able to log in to your account at <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\">pressbooks.bccampus.ca<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<div class=\"textbox examples\">\r\n<h3 itemprop=\"educationalUse\">Video Overview<\/h3>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vh0rff6D-zE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"textbox key-takeaways\">\r\n<h3 itemprop=\"educationalUse\">Source<\/h3>\r\nAdapted from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/pressbooks\/\">BC Open Textbook Pressbooks Guide <\/a>by <a href=\"https:\/\/bccampus.ca\/\">BCcampus<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC-BY 4.0<\/a>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n&nbsp;","rendered":"<div class=\"textbox shaded\"><strong>Pressbooks<\/strong> is a popular web platform that is used to create or adapt open textbooks. 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Select your BC institution.\u00a0Select the \u201cRegister my book now\u201d option and then click on the \u201cnext\u201d button. That will take you to a third\u00a0page.<\/li>\n<li>You now\u00a0need to choose an address or URL for your book. It will be &#8220;pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/yourbookname&#8221;. Be very careful with this, you can\u2019t change this name later.\u00a0Then click on \u201cCreate book\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>You\u00a0will receive an email to activate your account. Once you click on the link in that email, you\u2019ll be able to log in to your account at <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\">pressbooks.bccampus.ca<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"textbox examples\">\n<h3 itemprop=\"educationalUse\">Video Overview<\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vh0rff6D-zE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"textbox key-takeaways\">\n<h3 itemprop=\"educationalUse\">Source<\/h3>\n<p>Adapted from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/pressbooks\/\">BC Open Textbook Pressbooks Guide <\/a>by <a href=\"https:\/\/bccampus.ca\/\">BCcampus<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC-BY 4.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-54","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oerworkshop\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oerworkshop\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oerworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oerworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oerworkshop\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oerworkshop\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/54\/revisions\/142"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oerworkshop\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oerworkshop\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/54\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oerworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oerworkshop\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oerworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/oerworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}