LibGuides: OER: Create Your OER Using the LibreTexts Platform: OER Remixer: Establishing the Framework of LibreTexts Book

OER Remixer: Setting Up the Framework for Your LibreTexts

Login to Access Conductor Page (Business Concepts)

Begin by logging into your Conductor Page.

Click Create Book as seen below. This creates a template for your project.
Click OER Remixer .

Fig. 1 OER Remixer Button

Build Your Framework - Chapters and Pages

You will build the framework for your book (chapters and pages) in the OER Remixer and Save to Server.
When you Save to Server your chapters and pages will be loaded into Workbench, LibreTexts editing tool, where you can create the individual pages of your book.

Fig. 2 OER Remixer Panel

Troubleshooting the OER Remixer

If you arrive at the OER Remixer page and the OER Remixer does not appear, first refresh the page to see if it is just a slow connection to LibreTexts. If that doesn't work, return to the Project Properties page and click the OER Remixer . button again.

Using Your Course Map or Blackboard Shell as Basis for a Remix Map

Your Course Map or Blackboard Shell is your starting point for creating your LibreTexts textbook. Your first step is to create a Remix Map. Decide how you will "translate" your course into individual chapters. Will you establish chapters based on weeks? subjects? topics?

It may be helpful to use your Course Map and Blackboard Shell to set up an Excel Spreadsheet as a guide to your layout for your Chapters and Pages. The goal is to create an OER that makes sense as a standalone textbook for a general audience beyond your classroom. You may choose not use all of the material you would for class, and you might want to add additional materials where it would make sense for a textbook.

If you are linking to OER textbook/pages from your Blackboard Shell, the Remixer Tool allows you to insert them into your new textbook:

Building a Remix Map (LibreTexts Tutorial)
Before using the OER Remixer, it is important to construct a Remixing Map. This can take many forms and does not need to be constructed online. In essence it is a table of contents for your remix and a good place to start would be the ToC of a textbook that you like. Examples provided.
OER Remixer Tool
The OER Remixer tool allows the rapidly assemble of customized Remixes from existing sources on our comprehensive and ever-growing libraries. See the Remixer Tutorial in Chapter 7 of the Construction Guide for more details for an explanation of the Remixer's interface and videos to a walkthrough videos of how to do basic tasks with the OER Remixer. Your Remixing Map is stored automatically on your computer as you build, so you do not have to complete your Remix in one setting. If you switch to a different computer, you will want to save the Map. See screenshot below.

OER Remixer (Business Concepts)

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3.2: Building Remixing Maps
Before using the OER Remixer, it is important to construct a Remixing Map which is a framework or outline for your OER. This can take many forms and does not need to be constructed online. In essence it is a table of contents for your remix and a good place to start would be the ToC of a textbook that you like.