Pressbooks - Adding other users to your Pressbook [UW-Madison]
On May 26, the custom plugins allowing for some advanced content authoring and reporting features in Pressbooks will be decommissioned, and users will no longer be able to develop graded assignments with Pressbooks or collect learning analytics data. If you have questions or would like assistance planning for this change, please contact the DoIT Help Desk to request a consultation.
This document provides information on how to give other users authoring access to a Pressbook you administer.
To make collaborations easier, Pressbooks allows book administrators to give other people editing access to their books. These instructions outline that process, assuming that the person to be added already has a UW-Madison Pressbooks account. Details to request a Pressbooks account are outlined in this document: Pressbooks - Overview [UW-Madison].
To add another person to your book:
- Log in to Pressbooks: wisc.pb.unizin.org
- Click My Catalog and select the book that you want to add another person to.
- Click Users in the left navigation menu:
- Click Add New.
- Enter the user's UW-Madison email in the Email entry field.
- Select the role you want the user to have in your Pressbook from the Role drop-down menu. The below table lists each user role, and what those roles have access in a book.
Role
Manage Book Users & Settings
Add or Edit Chapters
Publish Chapters
Delete Chapters
Read Chapters
Comment (if enabled)
Administrator Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Editor No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Author No Only their own Only their own Only their own Yes Yes Contributor No Only their own No No Yes Yes Subscriber No No No No Yes Yes - Click Add Existing User.
More information about adding users and the various roles is available in the Pressbooks Guide.