Materials created and stored in Yale's instance of Pressbooks can be brought into your Canvas course site for easier reference for students.
The Pressbooks integration with Canvas @ Yale does not let you search for and select content that you did not clone or already create.
To bring materials into Canvas, you must first create the content in Pressbooks or create a "Clone" of the materials you want to use in Pressbooks so a copy of the content is associated with your Yale Pressbooks account.
At this time, Yale community members must request a book be cloned or created. Please reference the Get Started page on the Yale Pressbooks website for information on requesting a book.
- Navigate to your Canvas course site and click to go to the Modules section in the Course Navigation.
- If you do not already have a module where you want to add Pressbooks material, click the "+Module" button in the top-right corner and create a new module.
- In the module where you want to add the Pressbooks materials, click the "+" icon.
- In the pop-up window to add an item to the module, click the drop-down menu and select "External Tool."
- From the list of external tools available, find and select "Pressbook Content Selector."
- A new pop-up window will open with all of the Pressbooks materials you have created or cloned to your Pressbooks account.
- Check off the chapters / sections of the Pressbooks materials you want to add to the module.
- When done, scroll to the bottom of this pop-up box and click the "Select Content" button.
Depending on how many different chapters there are in all of the materials you created / cloned on Pressbooks, this pop-up box can be very long. You must scroll to the bottom though to click this button for the materials to be selected and brought over.
- The Pressbooks materials are now shared in your Canvas course and module.
- Remember to publish the module and Pressbooks content in Canvas if it is not already available.
For questions about adding Pressbooks material to a Canvas module, please email [email protected].
For training on Pressbooks and requesting a Pressbooks resource, please reach out to [email protected].
For Pressbooks account issues or questions regarding the Pressbooks network, please reach out to [email protected].