Checklist for Instructors in Student-Authored Pressbooks Class

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Hi there,
As I work with more faculty who are using Pressbooks in the classroom, I’m wondering if anyone else has seen or come up with a checklist for instructors to ensure their students-authored book is “complete”.

After having one or more consultations with the faculty member, I typically do 1-2 workshops with students on their rights as authors, what OER means, CC, as well as training them on Pressbooks. I find that the instructors are usually overwhelmed or may not want to take a very active role in the book (or with Pressbooks) in the beginning. I’m hoping to find or create a sort of checklist that the instructor can use to make sure they have copyedited and reviewed the students work for citations/attribution, completed book metadata, exported correctly, etc.

Just wondering if anyone else has seen such a resource or has advice on this! Thanks,Lauren

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BCcampus has a great checklist for accessibility: https://opentextbc.ca/accessibilitytoolkit/back-matter/appendix-checklist-for-accessibility-toolkit/. I wonder whether @apurva has something a bit more generalized for textbook authors flowing out of The Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks (So Far). Closest thing I could find is https://press.rebus.community/the-rebus-guide-to-publishing-open-textbooks/chapter/example-proposed-formatting-workflow/

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The formatting workflow is probably the closest document, but it doesn’t include things that would be relevant in the case of a student-authored project (eg. making sure you have necessary agreements/MOUs for each contribution). An easier to navigate checklist might be a good starting point for newer authors! @olray we’d love to point to one if you end up cobbling something together. The workflow is really more of a documentation of what we’ve been doing as ‘habit’ before a project release, so I’m happy to talk through things with you if you’re trying to put together something more concrete.

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Many thanks, @apurva and @SteelWagstaff! I can see how both the Rebus Guide formatting workflow and BCcampus accessibility checklist will be helpful in putting together such a checklist.

At the moment I’m also looking at perhaps cloning and editing the UC Berkeley Pressbooks Guidelines for a UW-specific guide, and adding such a checklist to it. But in the meantime the checklist will likely be a google doc. I can definitely share this once I get it finished.
-Lauren

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The UC Berkeley Pressbooks Guidelines are great — their chapter on “Publish your book” may also help as you’re putting together a new checklist. Thanks, Lauren!

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