On this page, we will briefly lay out how you can use Manifold in your classroom. We will provide links to useful documentation as well as suggestions for how you might put Manifold to work for you.

What is Manifold?

Here is a helpful video describing what Manifold is.

For our purposes, Manifold is a great place to put teaching texts and Open Educational Resources.

Why Use Manifold?

Create zero-cost, shareable textbooks and course materials
Ensure accessibility of course material with responsive design that displays well on mobile devices and tablets
Create text-based conversations that encourage sustained engagement with collaborative annotation
Organize course texts into collections or create a course pack
Use Manifold to publish student work and collective class projects
Create aesthetic, dynamic versions of digital course texts

Key Features

Beautiful, readable, accessible longform texts
Annotations -- highlighting, comments, and social media linking
Collaborative comments on resources and classmates' annotations
Resources— audio, video, and weblinks anchored within the text or an associated resource collection
Easy citation tool

Getting Started

Here we will have a guide for teachers to upload their previously prepared course materials (Google Docs, Word docs, Markdown files, Project Gutenberg or Standard Ebooks EPUBs, or HTML). Once you have a Manifold account, please contact us to get Project Creator permissions.