Dear BCcampus Pressbooks user,
Great news! Pressbooks has been making changes to its interface and functionality based on your feedback. There are a number of new features, updates, and bug fixes that we'd like you to be aware of. Resources providing assistance and more information about the new features will be made available in the Pressbooks Guide closer to the upgrade date.
New features:
* Attributions tool: You can now add attribution and licence information to image files in your Media Library. To make this information display publicly in all formats, check the Media Attributions setting under Theme Options (Global). With this box checked, the information will display at the end of each chapter after your body text and before your footnotes. More information to come. (Thanks to Brad Payne and Alex Paredes at BCcampus for building this feature!)
* TablePress: TablePress makes it much easier to create larger, more complex tables, with more interactive functionality, such as the ability to sort by column. (See TablePress.)
* Improved Book Cloning:
* When cloning, all of the media files from the original book’s media will also import with the book. Previously, cloned books would only retain images. Now, videos, audio files and other media files will also come over.
* Internal links in cloned books will now be automatically converted to point to the newly-cloned book. URLs will undergo this action as part of the cloning process, so that manual conversion isn’t necessary.
* The source comparison tool has been improved so that readers can more easily see the differences between the original source book and a cloned book when the user has enabled source comparison on their cloned webbook. Word counts on source books will now be more accurate too.
* Plugins: Book Administrators now have the ability to activate three different plugins inside their books: H5P, Hypothesis, and WP Quick LaTeX. For more information on these plugins and how to activate them, see the Plugins Features chapter in the Pressbooks Guide . (Note that this feature has been enabled since August.)
* Cover Generator tool: More information to come.
Other changes:
* Fixing the icon size on collapsible chapter subsections
* Generating a smaller cover image for the book homepage
* Improving the design of the navigation links on the webbook for more logical navigation through front matter and back matter
* Improving navigation links for visual clarity and accessibility by moving the cues to the bottom of the screen
* Additions of French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese translations for subject matter categories
For more information, see Pressbooks Change log .
We will be thoroughly testing the updated Pressbooks prior to the release and these improvements should not cause any issues with your existing books. But, if anything does come up, let us know right away at helpdesk(a)bccampus.ca .
Thank you,
BCcampus Open Education Team and BCcampus Helpdesk
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