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In this workshop, you will create a VoiceThread. Participants will learn how to upload media, comment and annotate on that media, and share it with others. This will be a slow paced, step-by-step, hands-on workshop. It is open to both VoiceThread license holders and free accounts.

In this webinar, the Pressbooks team will walk through how to create and maintain accessible publications using Pressbooks, combining platform tools with practical, real-world best practices.

You’ll get a guided tour of Pressbooks Accessibility Assist, including a demonstration of the Authoring Tool (available now) and the upcoming Scanner Tool and Network Book Scanner designed to help institutions assess accessibility at scale. Along the way, we’ll show how these tools fit into everyday publishing workflows for instructors, librarians, and institutions.

The session will include a show-and-tell walkthrough followed by an open, interactive conversation where attendees can ask questions, share strategies, and learn from peers across the Pressbooks community.

Whether you’re preparing for new accessibility requirements or looking to strengthen existing practices, this session will help you move forward with confidence.

By the end of this webinar, attendees will be able to:

• Understand the core principles of accessibility compliance as they apply to Pressbooks-published content
• Use Pressbooks Accessibility Assist to identify and address accessibility issues during the authoring process
• Learn how the Network Book Scanner will support network-wide accessibility reviews and compliance efforts
• Apply practical best practices for creating accessible OER and digital learning materials
• Engage with peers to exchange tips, challenges, and workflows for accessibility at scale

Please be aware that this event is listed in CST here and EST on the google form. This webinar is open to all users on hosted PressbooksEDU networks.

This is a hands-on workshop. We will begin to explore the features available to VoiceThreaders with a full license. Participants will learn how to create groups and subgroups, set sharing permissions within those groups, and privately share VoiceThreads with individuals.

This training session is open to all users of hosted PressbooksEDU networks and is

designed for users who have some familiarity with Pressbooks and who want to learn how to publish and prepare their book for distribution.

Users who attend this session will be able to:

• Customize theme options and apply Custom CSS
• Explore and apply a theme
• Add contributors and other metadata to their book
• Understand how they can perform pre-publication checks for quality (accessibility, etc)
• Publish their book content in full or in part
• Create & share PDF and EPUB exports

Register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. All registrants will receive a recording of the webinar.

In our third hands-on workshop in the series, participants will learn how to give private feedback, use threaded commenting, copy VoiceThreads for use with multiple groups, and use comment moderation to formatively assess student work..

This training session is open to all users of hosted PressbooksEDU networks and is designed for users who have some familiarity with Pressbooks and are ready to create more engaging learning materials Attendees will learn how to design and create formative assessments and other interactive elements (via H5P), add opportunities for social annotation (via Hypothesis), display mathematical & scientific notation, load Pressbooks content into courses taught within a Learning Management System, and send grades to the LMS gradebook (via Pressbooks Results). 

Users who attend this session will be able to:

• Choose and create appropriate interactive quizzes (with H5P)
• Configure a chapter for grading 
• Bring graded content into an LMS course and use autograding features (with PB Results)
• Activate and use digital annotation tools (with Hypothesis)
• Create and display mathematical & scientific notation (with LaTeX or MathML)

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. All registrants will receive a recording of the webinar.

Please be aware that this event is listed in CST here and EST on the google form. This webinar is open to all users on hosted PressbooksEDU networks.

In this hands-on workshop, you will get to practice creating assignments through VoiceThread’s Assignment Builder. We will work on the new “Stacked Assignments”, along with the standard Create and Comment assignments. You will see how students submit assignments, and we will review the Instructor’s grading interface as well..

This training session is open to all users of hosted PressbooksEDU networks and is designed for users who are new to Pressbooks.

Users who attend this session will be able to: 

• Find and clone openly licensed content from the PB Directory
• Find and use appropriate support resources
• Create a new book
• Bring in content from Pressbooks and Word documents
• Create & organize new parts & chapters
• Add basic content to their book (textboxes/headings, footnotes, glossary terms, images, video) 
• Preview changes before publishing and view/restore revision history
• Add collaborators to their book with appropriate roles

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. All registrants will receive a recording of the webinar.

Please be aware that this event is listed in CST here and EST on the google form. This webinar is open to all users on hosted PressbooksEDU networks.

This training session is open to all users of hosted PressbooksEDU networks and is designed for users who have some familiarity with Pressbooks and who want to learn how to publish and prepare their book for distribution.

Users who attend this session will be able to:

• Customize theme options and apply Custom CSS
• Explore and apply a theme
• Add contributors and other metadata to their book
• Understand how they can perform pre-publication checks for quality (accessibility, etc)
• Publish their book content in full or in part
• Create & share PDF and EPUB exports

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. All registrants will receive a recording of the webinar.