This three-page guide makes a great handout for students and explains all you need to know to get started.
Find the answers to questions frequently asked by students and teachers.
Get the all the technical answers for your imaging and printing needs.
Browse our FAQs to answer any Blurb or Blurb BookSmart questions you may have.
Watch this tutorial and get familiar with all things BookSmart. Learn how to: create your book; work with photos, text, and layouts; upload your book, and more.
Follow these step-by-step instructions to use one photo across two facing pages.
Learn how to transfer your book from one computer to the next.
Browse all of our tutorials to answer any Blurb or BookSmart questions you may have.
Blurb books have become a great way for students and teachers to create books of their best work. Portfolios, group projects, exhibition catalogs, and school promotional materials are just a few examples of the teacher and student projects created using Blurb.
Our free bookmaking software, Blurb BookSmart® is easy to learn, featuring drag and drop simplicity along with hundreds of professionally designed layouts. Classes can also share or sell their books online with school — or class-specific storefronts. This Educator Resources Center offers educator FAQs, handouts, and video tutorials — all of which can easily be integrated into any class curriculum. For our complete list, please see links to the left.
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1) Get your students to shoot high quality images rather than trying to use the low res
ones from their cameras.
2) Have students really look over their grammar and spelling before going to press.
3) Have them take some chances and try out ideas with layout and sequencing before going to press.
4) Encourage students to work together on large projects to produce books from class assignment.
5) Have a test soft cover book built into the project so they can see one printed and make corrections or adjustments before they do a hard cover edition.
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