Dear Pressbooks User,
As a Pressbooks account holder in pressbooks.bccampus.ca<http://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/>, you have been placed on a mailing list to receive notifications about upgrades, service outages, and other events that affect your Pressbooks account. These outages will also affect open textbooks that are hosted in BCcampus' internal instance of Pressbooks (opentextbc.ca<http://opentextbc.ca/>).
UPGRADE NOTICE
From 6pm on Tuesday March 19th to 1pm on Wednesday March 20th, Pacific Time, Pressbooks (pressbooks.bccampus.ca<http://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/>) will be upgraded to version 6.17.1. You will be unable to login to your Pressbooks account during this time.
Changes:
* New Create Book and Clone Book buttons added in top menu.
* New icons in side and top menus.
* Size of decorative images on Admin Dashboard are reduced.
* Buttons in Organize page have been changed to improve visibility.
* Improvements to Book Info:
* Contributors:
* The New Contributor buttons have been removed. You must now go to the Contributors page (Book Info -> Contributors) to add to your list of contributors.
* The list of all contributors can be viewed in a dropdown menu.
* A Remove button has been added to facilitate removal of a contributor.
* Move Up and Move Down buttons have been added to facilitate changing the order of the contributors. This order will be reflected in the book’s metadata.
* Subjects:
* The Primary Subject now has a default option, which is “The Arts”.
* Additional Subjects are now listed without having to type in 2 or more characters. You can still type to narrow down your search.
* The fonts and formatting of both Subject dropdown menus have been changed to improve readability.
* The Institutions dropdown menu has changed its font to improve readability.
* Copyright year will be output in exports on all relevant licenses.
We are 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 by replying to this email. Looking for more information? Check out the Pressbooks Updates page<https://open.bccampus.ca/pressbooks-updates/>.
Sincerely,
The Open Education Team and BCcampus Support
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