LibreTexts Features in Two Minutes
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| Responsible | Justin Shorb |
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| Last Update | 11/13/2026 |
| Completion Time | 1 hour 55 minutes |
| Members | 1 |
Welcome to LibreTexts Features in Two Minutes
Short 2-minute reads to introduce all our services, tools, and new features on our libraries for educators and authors.
Navigating LibreTexts
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Welcome to LibreTexts Features in Two Minutes
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Short 2-minute reads to introduce all our services, tools, and new features on our libraries for educators and authors.
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Academy Online
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Meet Academy Online
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A quick introduction to Academy Online, free self-paced professional development from Academy@LibreTexts.
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Academy Online: Earning Certificates and Badges
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See how an Academy Online course tracks your progress: take the quizzes, earn a certification, level up with experience points and badges, and find every course and certificate you have completed on your profile. Clip length 1:50, from the OctoberFest 2026 session "07 Concluding Comments: The Future is Open" (1:40 to 3:30).
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The Libraries
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Meet the Libraries
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A quick introduction to the LibreTexts Libraries, discipline-based collections of openly licensed textbooks and learning materials.
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Commons: Searching for a Book in the Catalog
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Search the LibreTexts Commons catalog by keyword, then narrow your results with filters for books, assets, mini-repos, library, subject, location, license, author, course and available assets. Clip length 2:22, from the OctoberFest 2026 session "02 Commons & Conductor: Finding Resources" (8:48 to 11:10).
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Conductor
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Meet Conductor
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A quick introduction to Conductor, the LibreTexts workspace for managing OER projects.
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Conductor: Creating a New Project
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Create a new project in Conductor, pin it so it is easy to find, and organize your projects into folders, a big help for campus coordinators working across many books. Clip length 2:05, from the OctoberFest 2026 session "04 Authoring Textbooks I: Remixing" (12:40 to 14:45).
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New in Conductor: Glossary Manager and Restacker
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A First Friday preview from Delmar Larsen (July 2026). 1:46 to 5:57: the new Glossary Manager in Conductor, where you add a term and definition once and attach it to any page, with glossaries at the end of a page, chapter or book and pop-up tooltips. 6:21 onward: the Restacker, a new tool that helps untangle open licensing and attribution for remixed content.
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ADAPT
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ADAPT: Searching the Question Bank by Type and Technology
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Search the ADAPT question bank of more than 330,000 questions and narrow the results by content type (autograded or open-ended) and by technology, including H5P, Forge, IMathAS (MyOpenMath), WeBWorK, basic questions, Accounting and Discuss-It. Clip length 2:30, from the OctoberFest 2026 session "03 ADAPT Homework Intro" (15:00 to 17:30).
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ADAPT: Importing an Existing Course
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Search the public ADAPT courses by subject or author, import one into your own account, clear its dates, and see where to release assignments, scores and solutions to students. Clip length 1:50, from the OctoberFest 2026 session "03 ADAPT Homework Intro" (22:50 to 24:40).
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Connections
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Meet Connections
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A quick introduction to Connections, the LibreTexts community forum for educators and OER authors.
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Connections: Finding the Connections Forum and Seeking Collaborators
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See where to find Connections, the LibreTexts community forum, from the Connections button and the Launchpad, and how the "seeking collaborators" area helps you find colleagues to work with on open education projects. Clip length 1:30, from the Open Education Week 2026 session "LibreTexts ADAPT: Homework Reimagined" (32:00 to 33:30).
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The Forge
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Meet the Forge
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A quick introduction to the Forge, the LibreTexts platform for collaborative, open-pedagogy writing assignments.
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The Forge: Seeing How a Student Wrote an Essay
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Walk through a Forge writing timeline to see how a student drafted an essay: when they typed, when they copied and pasted, where they went back to revise, and the final read-through before submitting. Clip length 2:15, from the OctoberFest 2026 session "06 The Forge" (2:40 to 4:55).
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Jupyter
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Meet Jupyter
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A quick introduction to Jupyter at LibreTexts, live code notebooks you can run and embed in open textbooks.
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Jupyter: Adding Live Code to an Exercise with Binder
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Add a live Binder code cell inside an exercise box on a LibreTexts page, then run it the way a student would, a simple way to make a textbook page interactive with Python. Clip length 3:05, from the LibreFest 2026 session "Building a Text Page with Jupyter Binder" (22:20 to 25:25).
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Interactives
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Meet the Interactives
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A quick introduction to interactive elements in LibreTexts, including H5P activities, simulations and Learning Objects.
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Support Center
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Meet the Support Center
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A quick introduction to the LibreTexts Support Center, where you can get help, search Insight and check system status.
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