Integrate private Pressbooks content into UM Learn

You may wish to create content for use in your courses that you are not yet ready to share with the world. Follow these steps to integrate private Pressbooks content into your UM Learn course:

1. First, make your entire book private by navigating to the book’s Settings, then Sharing and Privacy page, and selecting Private. This will make the entire book private, so that even if one chapter is published it will not be readable to anyone without access.
2. Now, make the chapter(s) you are interested in using publicly. Do this from the Organize page, checking “Show in Web” beside the chapter(s) you will be incorporating.
3. Contact Campus Manitoba and ask to have the UM Learn integration activated in your Pressbooks account. (Be sure to send your Pressbooks ID and your name.)
4. Once you are activated, sign in to your Pressbooks book and navigate to the chapter you want to integrate. Scroll to the bottom of the page. You should see a section called LMS Grade Reporting. A URL will be provided in bold, proceeded by “To add this activity to your LMS, you will need to provide this launch URL.” Copy this URL.
5. Navigate to your UM Learn course, choose Course Administration, and then External Learning Tools.
6. Choose “New link.” This should take you to a new page. Under “Deployment,” select Pressbooks. Write in a title of your choosing (e.g., chapter title), and paste in the URL you copied from Pressbooks.
7. Now go to “Content,” and select your module of choice, or create a new module. Select Existing Activities, External Learning Tools, and then choose the link name you just created. This will create a link that students can use to access the private chapter.