8 OpenPress Accounts
This chapter describes how Wheaton College faculty and staff access and manage their accounts at OpenPress at Wheaton College (Wheaton’s Pressbook instance).
Accessing your account for the first time
The Wallace Library Research and Instruction Department supports a self-serve and openly licensed instance of Pressbooks: Wheaton College OpenPress.
- Before signing in for the first time, fill out the OpenPress Site Registration Request Form.
- After completing the form, go to “Sign In” from the header navigation (upper right) menu
Open Press Home Page - Sign in using your Wheaton College email address
- You will receive a DUO push
- Once you receive the duo push you will land on your OpenPress Dashboard which is where you can create or access your books/projects, change your settings or update your profile.
- You will not have access to book editing until the OpenPress administrators have reviewed your form and registered your book site. Please allow 48 hours for administrators to process your request. Contact librarians_research@wheatoncollege.edu if you have questions or concerns.
For information on how to create a book, see Create a New Book.
User profile
For more information, see Update Your User Profile in the Pressbooks User Guide.
Accounts for students
At this time, students are not permitted to independently use Wheaton’s OpenPress as it is primarily for OER creation and open pedagogy projects. This is to ensure the long-term sustainability of the platform in terms of the technical and personnel resources required to host, run, maintain, and support the platform.
Student accounts will be considered on a case by case basis as we will make exceptions for instructors who want to bring students in to work on an OER either as collaborators or for a course assignment.
Student accounts will be deleted after the project/semester is over.
