Dear Anne,

Publishing will move your text into a BridgeValley Campus hub from where your students can access it. This "course shell" can contain just your custom text or you can use it for storing other material for your class as well.

For example, this is an example of the UC Davis Campus Hub on teh Chemistry library:

https://chem.libretexts.org/Courses/University_of_California_Davis

If you look at for example the UCD Chem 2BH: Larsen Course shell you will see that this instructor chose to post an agenda, homework, worksheets, and a lab manual as well as the text.

The UCD Chem 124L: Lab Manual is an example of a course shell that consists of just the text.

If you notice in these course shells there is a button (currently) called "downloads". Here you can access a full pdf of the entire book or get files that can be submitted to a printer to get a professionally printed copy of the book. We also have a bookstore which allows students to more easily get printed books but we still have to manually upload the books.

Are you planning on using the same exact book for two classes?

Hope this answered at least some of your questions and let me know if I can help you further. If your text is ready to be published let me know and I will move it into the Campus Hub for you.

Dorte

I have several questions about the next steps in LibreTexts.

I have one class under construction (Consumer Chemistry at BridgeValley CTC) and I’m almost done with the remix. What does publishing actually do?  If I want to use this next semester (Fall) do I publish first? And then how do students access this?

What if they want a hard copy?

Also, I am considering using this for another different class.  I am unsure how to build a different book.  Do I just set up the remixer as with the first one and name it differently? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

 

Anne Cline

Assistant Professor, Department of Science

 

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We just changed the setup so users create their remixes/texts in a sandbox area (not public) until they are ready for them to go public. If you send me information about what library you are working on I can change your account settings: dmadsen@...

Anne Cline
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