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Prepare your Book for Publication and Distribution with Pressbooks

Date: Mon, Mar 30, 2026
Time: 08:30 AM - 09:30 AM

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.

Using VoiceThread in Canvas: Part 2- Graded assignments and rubrics

Date: Tue, Apr 21, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

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, including the new rubric interface. 

VoiceThread: Creating highly engaged learning communities online

Date: Tue, May 5, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

In this workshop, Dr. Raelynne M. Hale will outline how to transform your online classroom into a highly engaged learning community through the use of VoiceThread. Offering ways to create VoiceThread assignments that promote the three classic forms of engagement for online courses - Student-to-Student, Student-to-Content, and Student-to-Teacher - all in one virtual classroom.