Making a Pressbooks Account and Cloning the Template

Throughout this template, we will make use of another Pressbook: The Pressbook User Guide to help you figure things out.

First, you should create your account.

1. log in to https://my.trentu.ca/portal/
2. Search for pressbooks, click the Pressbooks logo
3. This will take you to https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/
4. Click Sign in
5. Click institutional log in
6. Choose your institution
7. Log in using your Trent credentials.
8. Go to “My Books”
9. To create your own copy of the My Learning Journey Pressbook, click Clone Book
10. In “Source Book URL” put https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/learnyjourney/  add your own book’s title, and click “Clone Book”

It’d also be a good idea to familiarize yourself with the Authoring Dashboard. The next pages of the template are spaces for you to share your dreams, goals, thoughts, reflections, and the products of your work. Each page will give you some guidance as to what you might put in there and link to some help or examples. If you find yourself confused about what is a “part” vs. a “chapter” or how to rearrange posts, refer to the The Pressbook User Guide to help you figure things out. If you ever are stuck and want help, reach out to us at online@trentu.ca.