Enhancing Question and Answer Sections

Why do we need to enhance Question & Answer sections in Pressbooks?

  • Content imported from different systems will have varying methods of displaying questions & answers
  • Standardizing questions & answers throughout the book provides a better user experience
  • Optimizing the display of answers/solutions using footnotes/endnotes improves the offline/PDF experience
    • summary and details tagging only hides the answers for web-users – PDF users will see the answer immediately after the question
    • footnotes/endnotes create a clickable footnote in web version and a numbered endnote in the PDF export

Process to enhance Question & Answer sections in Pressbooks

  1. Adjust the footnote style in Pressbooks settings by visiting Appearance > Custom Styles > PDF. Select the option to Display as Chapter endnotes.
  2. Determine which pages / sections of your book have questions & answers or problems and solutions. Combine separate Problems and related solutions into one page.
  3. Number or align the problems as ordered lists where possible.
  4. Add the solution/answer to each question in Pressbooks visual editor immediately after the problem.
  5. Use the footnote tool to designate the answer/solution as a footnote.

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