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.

Import the Book into Brightspace

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.

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]

If you need more information please contact the NSCC Copyright Office.

Two Methods

1. Common Cartridge file – table of contents displays in Pressbooks, content is read on the Pressbooks landing page. Anyone can upload this file.
2. LTI import – Table of contents for the book is displayed and read within Brightspace

Common Cartridge Web Links File

1. Expand the Download this book menu located beneath the book cover on the book’s Pressbooks landing page.
2. Download the common cartridge (web links) file for your book.
   • File missing: Contact the Copyright Office to have it added.

3. In Brightspace go to Edit Course
4. Select Import / Export / Copy components

3. Select Import components from a course package and press START
4. Upload the Common Cartridge Web Links File

LTI Linking

1. Contact the Copyright Office to have acccess rights activated.
   If you are a NSCC editor for the book you can skip this step.
2. Open your Brightspace course and navigate to Content.
3. Import your Pressbooks hosted book into a module within the Table of Contents.
   • create a new module using the Add a module
   • or use an existing module.
4. Open the Add Existing Activities button.
   • Select the NSCC Pressbooks LTI option

4. All the books you have access rights for will now display as options to select.
   
   • No options: Contact the Copyright Office to have your access rights activated.
5. Select the title you want to import
   • You can  import the entire book or select only the chapters you want.

5. Select the desired material to bring into your course, and click the Select Content button.
6. The import process will start with progress reports as the content is loaded.