Your Book in Brightspace

Textbook Content Boxes

Share open textbooks in Brightspace using a Textbook Content Box.

• Request the embed code to reproduce the Textbook Content Box in Brightspace.
• The Textbook Content Box can provide stable access to your open textbook in your Brightspace course.
• All open textbooks in use at NSCC have a Textbook Content Box.
• The master box lives on the NSCC Open Textbook Guide.
• The NSCC Open Textbook Guide is the best place to review the open textbooks being used at NSCC.

Brightspace Compatibility

The spine [table of contents with active links to the web book sections] of any NSCC hosted open textbook can be imported into a Brightspace course using the book’s Common Cartridge file.

In file options available [expand the Download this book options] look for for the file type common cartridge (web links).

The end result looks like the book’s table of contents. The content can be edited — new instructor specific content can be added in.

When books are uploaded to a learning management system via Thin Common Cartridge import, the various parts and chapters of a book are brought in as structured modules and discrete links. This allows you to use the Pressbooks content as the backbone of a course and add other LMS-specific activities between the imported Pressbooks chapter links.”^[1]

Requests can be made for these files, for NSCC Libraries Pressbooks published or hosted textbooks, by contacting the NSCC Copyright Office.