Pressbooks is easy-to-use book writing software that lets you create a book in all the formats you need to publish. Pressbooks delivers print-ready PDF files, as well as ebook files optimized to look great on mobile devices.
As a founding member of the Unizin Consortium, the University of Iowa aims to provide students with more affordable access to course content. Whether you are creating your own course material or customizing an Open Educational Resource, Pressbooks can allow you to add, edit, and reorder content on an online book site.
Support articles, how-tos, frequently asked questions, and more are available at the Office of Teaching, Learning and Technology's Pressbooks webpage.
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Maintenance
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The integration between Pressbooks and ICON is being updated and this process will require a moment of downtime. All content already shared using this integration will be unaffected after the update concludes. This update will now allow instructors to bring Pressbooks content into their ICON courses using deep-linking. This will make it much easier, and the new process is now much more flexible.
The platforms behind ICON and Pressbooks will remain available throughout and will be unaffected by this change.
Pressbooks will be down for maintenance.
The SSO login process will be updated. No user impact is expected.
Pressbooks will be undergoing scheduled maintenance and may be unavailable during this time.
Pressbooks will be undergoing scheduled maintenance and may be unavailable during this time.
Pressbooks will be undergoing scheduled maintenance and will be unavailable during this time.
Pressbooks will be undergoing scheduled maintenance and will be unavailable during this time.
Pressbooks will be down for scheduled maintenance.
Pressbooks will be down for scheduled maintenance.
This issue has been resolved.
Pressbooks is experiencing issues with books loading slowly. Support staff are working with Pressbooks Support to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.
Users may experience short service interruptions that could impact the ability to save changes during this time.
UI Pressbooks will undergo scheduled maintenance.
This issue has been resolved.
The Pressbooks service is currently unavailable. ITS support staff are working with the vendor to resolve this issue.
Pressbooks Contact Information
For questions and more information about how to get started, contact the its-helpdesk@uiowa.edu.