Creating a Remix Map for Remixing in LibreTexts

Start Your Remix Map

Before remixing content in LibreTexts, we recommend you build a Remixing Map in order to predetermine which content you’d like to include in your new remix and how you plan to organize it. While there is no one way to create a Remix Map, here is an example of a Remix Map from Lubbock Christian University that demonstrates one approach to identifying and arranging content before you begin remixing. You can also find other examples of maps in LibreTexts "Building Remixing Maps".

The Remixer lets you use content from across all of the LibreTexts libraries. By predetermining which content you’d like to use, you will be able to speed up your workflow. For example, you can take two chapters from a chemistry book and remix them with three chapters from a biology book, or use sections from each rather than entire chapters. The Remixer automatically renumbers chapters and sections as needed.

The map is especially helpful in ensuring you have the content laid out in the order in which you want it to appear in your remix; this way you don’t have to spend excess time searching for content to add to your remix as you go and will make the entire process much more efficient.

Not only can you add books from other libraries, you can also create a remix that includes chapters/sections from several libraries and bookshelves including Campus bookshelves. If you are planning to do so, it is important to first make a “Remix Map”.

Remix Map Key Elements

A Remix Map contains:

The template of your book (the product of your remix) with all the chapters listed
All the LibreTexts content you plan to remix for each chapter
The location (URLs) of the content you intend to use
The order you want it to be in the final book.

Curated and edited by Cristina Moon from Creating a Remix Map for Remixing OER in LibreTextsby LibreTexts; licensed CC BY 4.0, this guide is available under a CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise noted.