 Give me a thumbs up if you can see this good perfect. All right. Let's dive in. So I I'm from press books My name is Sarah Fennessey. I am the sales executive here You can reach me if you have any questions after this Presentation you can reach me at sales at press books calm. I will say we are a very small team There's just eight of us so you can rest assured that that email is going directly to me as the only sales agent on this team So to give a quick introduction of why I want to be presenting about press books today and how it's relevant in this day and age right now I think the force to push everything online this past year has definitely exposed some long-standing challenges That have been ever present. So things like The exorbitant cost of textbooks. I mean that's always been a problem for students But right now with everyone's budget being spread very thin That's definitely something that is of a bigger concern furthermore if you're using commercial textbooks You don't really have the ability to edit or adapt those or customize those for your courses. You often have to rate wait for the next edition to be released For new studies or new information to be added to the most recent text With everything going online Accessibility issues are definitely a concern to make sure that All of these online technologies accessible by by all of the students on campus And then finally we want to make sure that our students data is safe So the reason I'm highlighting these things is because these are also very much top of mind for press books We are definitely firm believers of Zero textbook costs for students the ability to remix and adapt materials and customize them for your course Everything we build in press books is always built with accessibility in mind And then we take extra steps to just make sure that any data that enters our system is is private and safe and Cannot be be accessed by anyone outside of the institution So let's dive into what press books is what you can do with press books. What are the different features? So with press books what you get when you get a press books institutional network you get your own branded network where you can play around with the Adding your logo changing the colors of these textbooks. So this is a network that is hosted online. You don't need to download anything. You simply need the URL to be able to log into it. You can host this on a URL that you own and operate. So you don't have to use a press books domain. You can keep it consistent with your Your school's branding. And this is where your faculty would come in log in to start start creating and editing Their textbooks. It can also be a way for you to surface all of the books that have been produced by your institution and and have a nice way for people to to search and discover those those materials. Next, what I wanted to talk about is with press books at the core of what press books does is the ability to create A web book. So these are online texts that can be read online and are openly accessible to anyone with the URL. So any book you create will have its own custom URL that students can go to to access the text. This is just a basic example of a book's web page. Where you can see the title brief description of the book. You've got a button here to go through and read the text online. And you also have the ability to surface download links for your readers. So sometimes not everyone's going to have access to to Wi Fi. So it is always a best practice to download the coffee for for that offline reading in case it is needed. So you can surface download options such as PDFs e pubs mobies. All of this for for your students and other readers of that content. Next, I'm going to dive into some of the features that you have access to through the editing platform. So one of those is math jacks of math jacks is a plugin that's built into press books and this allows you to create accessible math notation. So not only does it allow you to produce Formula that that actually look the way math notation is supposed to look, but it is also built in a way that allows us this to be accessible for students. So oftentimes Some formula or equations will have those really tiny exponents that are hard to read. So we've built some excess or math jacks have some accessible Factors built into it such as click to zoom. So this is an example of what that looks like it allows you to expand the image of that formula or that equation so that you can Ensure that all students can can read it a little bit better. Furthermore, it is compatible with screen readers. So that is definitely a perk there of using that if you're using any Text that are heavy in equations. Next, you have the ability to add different multimedia files to to your text. So here's an example of a music text where you can see the instructor included the audio file to go along with the score. So students can listen to parts of their text. If you want to embed audio, you can also embed video. So if I click through here. This is another music text. You can see that the instructor has embedded some YouTube videos at the beginning of her chapters. So this is actually the instructor herself teaching the lesson. At the beginning of the chapter. So students can go through click to play that and then scroll down and continue reading the rest of the chapter. So she all she needed to do was copy and paste the link to her YouTube video and she was able to easily embed that directly into the chapter by navigate back here. We will move along. In addition to those multimedia elements such as audio video gifts and the like. You can also build out interactive activities for your texts. So with press books, you get access to the h5p hub. So you can create an unlimited amount of these interactive activities. And there are a number of different activity types that you can choose from. So you can build test your knowledge quiz sets with different question types such as multiple choice tour false Fill in the blanks things like that. You can also create study tools for your students like flashcards and if you have all you already have some h5p content created or There's h5p that obviously already lives out there in the OER ecosystem, you can pull that in and just upload this Into your press books network and then embed those materials throughout throughout the text. So here's an example of what a quiz that would look like. So this is one that was built on h5p I'll actually just navigate directly to the chapter itself with the quiz so that you can see what it looks like in the interactive element of it. So here's the chapter 11 quiz the student go through start the quiz. See if they understood the lesson they could go on to the next question. And check their answers and if they get that wrong. This teacher has allowed them to see the solution here so we can see this one is is the right answer so they can go through And retry it there. So that's just an example of a quiz set and they can skim along to the other questions in there. So next with press books. You also have the ability to clone existing OER Built within the press books ecosystem into your press books network and edit it and adapt it from there. So, so we make it really easy To clone these materials. So all you would need is the URL of the book in question and then you could pull it directly into Your press books network so long as it is openly licensed and then you can edit it and adapt it from there and then republish it Under your own schools that network and it would pull over all of the attributions of that clothing process. So you would get all the original metadata in with that text. Furthermore, you also have the ability to produce a number of different export formats, one of them being the same common cartridge exports. With web links. So this enables you to package up your entire textbook into a thing common cartridge file and pull it directly into an LMS. So this would be one way that you could Display your text to students so that they don't need to navigate away from the LMS to access that material and they can read it directly from there without having to Link away to another URL. So this is what it would look like in canvas because we're using the same common cartridge file with web links. It does show up In an iframe here and because it is with web links. The book would first need to be published the web. If you would prefer to keep your text private. We do also offer an add on which is the LTI integration. So you can securely integrate Your pressbooks network with your LMS and pull seamlessly pull content in and display it directly within the LMS without This iframe. So I can give you a sample of what that would look like. Oops, I think I actually already have it open here. So you can see that great iframe in canvas is now gone and the student can go through and read the text directly from there without ever having to navigate away. Next, if you were to opt in for that LTI integration, you would be able to use our pressbooks results service, which enables you to Record student performance on those various H5P activities directly into the LMS gradebook so you can start to get a sense of how students are performing and not only does this enable you to build Oh yeah, you can also really use pressbooks to build out courseware and build out assignments for your students. So that's kind of a neat direction that we've seen a lot of institutions go with how they're using pressbooks And then finally here I wanted to show you the pressbooks directory. So this is a very new project. I think we're going to be doing the official release. Within the next two weeks here, which I'm very excited for and we've built this directory that has pulled all of the public content produced by all of the different pressbooks networks. Out there and it's pulled in all the content for you to search and discover it in one place. And if you find some material That you would like to edit and adapt, you could pull that into your pressbooks network. If you don't have a pressbooks network and you don't need to edit or adapt the material. You could simply use this tool to discover materials online and provide your students with a link to that material so they could read it for free. So it's a free tool that anyone can have access to right now the directory is hosted on our staging site right now when the formal release happens. It will simply be hosted at pressbooks dot directory and then you can go through and search and discover text. So right now we've got A little over 5000 different books that have been produced across 79 different pressbooks networks and you can go through and search and discover so we've got A number of different filters here, but we also have a global keyword search. So I'll just quickly do a quick demo of what the search would look like. So let's take a nursing, for example, so Nursing texts as well as economic texts that they're always kind of notorious for being very expensive. So here I've done a quick search. I've come up with 20 or we are materials that are available for me to use And I can scroll through and see what has been produced across various different Pressbooks networks and there's a great one down here that was produced by triple a valley technical college nursing pharmacology. One of the reasons I love this one so much is it does have a number of h5p activities embedded throughout. So this book has 43 activities. Now let's say you were building out a nursing text and you wanted to add some interactive elements, but you didn't want to build all of those from scratch. What you could do is surface a list of the h5p activities in this text and then you could download them and upload them directly into your pressbooks network to repurpose them. So I'll give you an idea of what that looks like when we do our public release this button will be clickable. But for now I just have a quick little work around Which is to add h5p dash listing to the URL and that will pull up a full page of all of the questions. So I can see what type of h5p activity it is I can go through and look at The activity to see if it's one that I might want to reuse and repurpose And just give it a second to load there. And then if it is one that I do want to use within my course. So if I go through all the questions, they look like something that I might find relevant. I would simply click that reuse button download it and then I could pull it directly into my pressbooks network and reuse it within a course of my choosing. So that was the bulk of what I wanted to share with you today. I think I rushed through that very quickly. And If because I didn't want to to go over time, but maybe I will stop sharing and see if I missed any questions in the chat because I must admit I did not have a chance to look at that yet. There are a couple of questions. Sarah. So let's start with a with a fairly straightforward one like can books only be produced if you have access to an institutional network. No. So we also offer faculty author licenses that give you access to all of the features that I just showed you today. So if you're at an institution that doesn't have its own pressbooks network, there are still options for you. We also have a premium version of pressbooks. So this comes with limited features, but the accounts are free to create. And there would just be a one time book fee of 1999 or $99 to publish to the web and produce those exports. For example, PDF for print. So there are a number of options for you if you don't have an institutional pressbooks network. That's a great question. I mean, then I see Delmar asked a more techie kind of question around the use of H5P. I can see you reading it right now. Oh yeah. Maybe I'll read that out loud for everyone who's not looking at the, at the chat there. So it was a question about the use of H5P and pressbooks. This tech is client side tech and it's easily hacked by talented students. As an instructor, I wouldn't allow such a loophole. Is there a way to make a more secure, summative homework system? So this is this is a great question, especially with these books being published online. If the student has the URL to the to the text, they could definitely go through without you knowing who they are, because we don't record IP addresses. And they could go and test out those activities. So the reason why this is relevant is because if people are pulling this into the LMS and they want to record student grades, you really want to think of this as a formative assessment and not a summative assessment. Because there is that loophole. So it's just a way to get a gauge a sense of students and how they're where they are in the text, if they're understanding the text. It gives you just some high level overviews of that, but it wouldn't be used for, for example, an exam or a midterm exam, because there is that that issue there where the student could test out the questions in advance and and get some of the answers there. So it's really more so seen as a as a study tool at this present time. All right, let's see if. I think you've answered almost everything you can see some some people are impressed to see the level of interactivity now available in press books so that's fantastic. Yeah, that's great. Did I miss a question that sorry I'm just frantically scrolling through the chat to see if there was anything that I missed. I think so. I think that was everything. Well, thank you guys so much for being here with me today and letting me share all of this with you. And if you have any more questions or you want to see a custom demo tailored for you and your situation or your institution. I'm available. I'm reaching out sales at pressbooks.com.