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CANCELLED: Pressbooks 5.34.0 Upgrade – May 12, 2022

by BCcampus IT Support

Dear Pressbooks User, The update to pressbooks.bccampus.ca that was scheduled for May 12, 2022, has been cancelled. We will reschedule the update once we can confirm the newer version of Pressbooks is functioning as expected. Sincerely, The Open Education Team and BCcampus Support BCcampus IT Support BCcampus | Learning. Doing. Leading. support(a)bccampus.ca | www.bccampus.ca<http://www.bccampus.ca/>

2 years, 11 months

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Pressbooks 5.34.0 Upgrade – May 12, 2022

by BCcampus IT Support

Dear BCcampus 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 in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection that are hosted in BCcampus' internal instance of Pressbooks (opentextbc.ca<http://opentextbc.ca/>). If you do not wish to receive these email notifications, please let us know at support(a)bccampus.ca. UPGRADE NOTICE >From May 11 at 6pm to May 12 at 12pm Pacific Time, Pressbooks (pressbooks.bccampus.ca<http://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/>) will be upgraded to version 5.34.0. You will not be able to login to your Pressbooks account during this time. Books that are set to public will still be accessible from their webbook homepage, but it is likely that all books will be unavailable for a short period of time between 6 and 7am PT on May 12, 2022. Changes: * Language support for Cherokee. * “Institutions” field can now be filled out on “Book Info” page. * “Import” is now a first-level book dashboard menu item. * Book theme, theme options, and custom styles will now be included when cloning a book. * Improved accessibility of Digital PDF file. * Improvements to “Publish” page. * Links to audio and video content in PDF and EPUB files will take readers directly to the content in the webbook when clicked. * Users that have been invited to a book will display as “pending” until they accept the invitation. * Footnote font size can now be adjusted via PDF theme options. 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 BCcampus IT Support BCcampus | Learning. Doing. Leading. support(a)bccampus.ca | www.bccampus.ca

2 years, 12 months

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Pressbooks 5.26.0 Upgrade – October 5-6, 2021

by BCcampus IT Support

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 in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection that are hosted in BCcampus' internal instance of Pressbooks (opentextbc.ca<http://opentextbc.ca>). UPGRADE NOTICE >From October 5 at 6pm to October 6 at 2pm Pacific Time, Pressbooks (pressbooks.bccampus.ca<http://pressbooks.bccampus.ca>) will be upgraded to version 5.26.0. You will not be able to login to your Pressbooks account during this time. Books that are set to public will still be accessible from their webbook homepage, but it is likely that all books will be unavailable for a short period of time between 6 and 7am on October 6. Changes: * MOBI removed as an export option: The tool Pressbooks was using to generate MOBI files is no longer supported and Amazon has encouraged people to produce EPUB files instead. As such, you will no longer be able to export your books as a MOBI file. Instead, EPUB will be the main eBook format available. * Improved instructions and labels: * Instructions updated on the “Clone a Book” page and the cover image upload on the “Book Info” page. * The label for the Common Cartridge export option has been updated from “Weblinks” to “Common Cartridge (Weblinks)” * H5P improvements: * Links to H5P activities in the PDF will now go to the specific H5P activity instead of the beginning of the chapter. * The H5P listing page of a book will now be broken up into pages with 20 activities per page to reduce load time. * Visual Editor: Automatically insert LaTeX short codes from the visual editor. * Updated default cover images for new books. Bug fixes: * Images without captions will now align properly in the PDF * Fix for an issue that would cause HTML to be inserted in the PDF when a > symbol was inserted in the image alt text. 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 BCcampus IT Support BCcampus | Learning. Doing. Leading. support(a)bccampus.ca | www.bccampus.ca<http://www.bccampus.ca/>

3 years, 7 months

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Reminder! Pressbooks Accounts Will Be Unavailable Tomorrow June 17, 2021 from 5am-1pm Pacific Time

by BCcampus IT Support

Dear Pressbooks User, NOTICE OF OUTAGE ON PRESSBOOKS.BCCAMPUS.CA Tomorrow, June 17, 2021, from 5:00 am to 1:00 pm Pacific Time, Pressbooks (pressbooks.bccampus.ca<http://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/>) will be undergoing maintenance. You will not be able to login to your Pressbooks account during this time. However, during this time you will still be able to view all books set to "public". As a Pressbooks account holder in 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. If you no longer wish to receive these notifications, or you no longer need your Pressbooks account, please email support(a)bccampus.ca with details. Sincerely, The Open Education Team and BCcampus Support BCcampus IT Support BCcampus | Learning. Doing. Leading. support(a)bccampus.ca | www.bccampus.ca

3 years, 10 months

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Pressbooks Account Unavailable: June 17, 2021 from 5am-1pm Pacific Time

by BCcampus IT Support

Dear Pressbooks User, As a Pressbooks account holder in 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. OUTAGE NOTICE On June 17, 2021 from 5am to 1pm Pacific Time, Pressbooks (pressbooks.bccampus.ca<http://pressbooks.bccampus.ca>) will be undergoing maintenance. You will not be able to login to your Pressbooks account during this time. However, during this time you will still be able to view all books set to public. Sincerely, The Open Education Team and BCcampus Support BCcampus IT Support BCcampus | Learning. Doing. Leading. support(a)bccampus.ca | www.bccampus.ca

3 years, 10 months

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BCcampus Pressbooks Upgrade Notice - May 11, 2021 from 7AM to 10AM Pacific Time

by BCcampus IT Support

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 in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection that are hosted in BCcampus' internal instance of Pressbooks (opentextbc.ca<http://opentextbc.ca/>). UPGRADE NOTICE On May 11, from 7 to 10am Pacific Time, Pressbooks (pressbooks.bccampus.ca<http://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/>) will be upgraded to version 5.20. Your account will be unavailable during this time. Bug fixes/updates: * The division (÷) sign will now display correctly in the McLulan theme’s PDF exports. * Instructions on the Book Info page have been updated for Thema and BISAC fields. * Updated to Thema version 1.4, which includes 143 new subject categories and 549 new qualifiers. * If your book uses out-of-date BIASC codes, you will now see an alert on the Book Info page to fix it. * Links in the webbook's short and long descriptions will now work. 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 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 BCcampus IT Support BCcampus | Learning. Doing. Leading. support(a)bccampus.ca | www.bccampus.ca

3 years, 12 months

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LaTeX support now available. Sign up for a LaTeX Learning Community session

by BCcampus IT Support

Dear Pressbooks-User Community, In collaboration with open-education librarians in B.C., BCcampus is happy to announce the newly formed LaTeX Learning Community<https://bccampus.ca/event/latex-learning-community/> which will provide monthly one-hour drop-in sessions beginning Wednesday, March 17 at 11am. Whether you’re a LaTeX whiz who needs help transitioning to Pressbooks, a LaTeX newbie who’s still learning the basics, or somewhere in between, the monthly LaTeX Learning Community sessions will allow discussion of LaTeX problems and solutions. Bring your questions, quandaries, and problem-solving skills. These sessions are limited to members of the B.C. and Yukon post-secondary systems. Registration is required<https://events.eply.com/2021OpenLaTeXMarch17>. Sincerely, BCcampus IT Support and Open Education Team BCcampus | Learning. Doing. Leading. support(a)bccampus.ca | www.bccampus.ca

4 years, 1 month

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BCcampus open textbooks now discoverable in the Pressbooks Directory

by BCcampus IT Support

Dear BCcampus Pressbooks User, BCcampus Open Education is pleased to announce the inclusion of its two Pressbooks instances—BCcampus Open Publishing<https://opentextbc.ca/> and the British Columbia/Yukon Open Authoring Platform<https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/>—to the Pressbooks Directory<https://pressbooks.directory/>, launched by Pressbooks<https://pressbooks.com/> as part of their Open Source project<https://pressbooks.org/> last December. This directory provides an index of thousands of books published across dozens of Pressbooks networks around the world. Books can be searched by keywords, subject matter, license, and more. Starting today, users can find BCcampus open textbooks alongside thousands of other public books in the Pressbooks Directory. Learn more on the BCcampus blog<https://bccampus.ca/2021/02/18/bccampus-oer-is-now-discoverable-in-pressboo…>. All books listed in BCcampus Pressbooks instances are included in this directory providing they: * are marked as Public<https://opentextbc.ca/pressbooks/chapter/make-book-public/> * contain 1,500 words or more * do not include the word 'Test' or 'Demo' in the book's title If an author does not want their book included in the Pressbook Directory, it can be excluded from the directory<https://networkmanagerguide.pressbooks.com/chapter/how-to-opt-out-of-the-pr…> by the book's administrator. For more information, see the Pressbooks Directory<https://opentextbc.ca/pressbooks/chapter/pressbooks-directory/> chapter in the Pressbooks Guide. Sincerely, BCcampus IT Support and Open Education Team BCcampus | Learning. Doing. Leading. support(a)bccampus.ca | www.bccampus.ca

4 years, 2 months

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BCcampus Pressbooks 5.17.2 Update – NEW DATE: December 3, 2020

by BCcampus IT Support

Dear BCcampus Pressbooks User, This email is to inform you that we have pushed back the upcoming Pressbooks update by one week. The new update date is December 3, 2020, from 7am to 10am PST. During this period, Pressbooks (pressbooks.bccampus.ca<http://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/>) will be upgraded to version 5.17.3. You will not be able to log in to Pressbooks during this time. You can view details about this update here: Pressbooks Updates: Next Update<https://open.bccampus.ca/pressbooks-updates/#upcoming> Sincerely, BCcampus IT Support and Open Education Team BCcampus | Learning. Doing. Leading. support(a)bccampus.ca | www.bccampus.ca ________________________________ 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. This notice will also apply to open textbooks that are hosted in BCcampus' internal instance of Pressbooks (opentextbc.ca<http://opentextbc.ca/>). UPGRADE NOTICE On November 26, 2020, from 7am to 10am PST, Pressbooks (pressbooks.bccampus.ca<http://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/>) will be upgraded to version 5.17.2. You will not be able to log in to Pressbooks during this time. Changes: * Shape Shifter Feature<https://pressbooks.org/blog/2019/09/24/font-selector-theme-option/>: When using the McLuhan theme, you can select a specific font for headers and body text. You can select different fonts for the webbook, PDF exports, and eBook exports. * New fonts and type faces: New Athena Unicode<https://classicalstudies.org/publications-and-research/nau-download> (characters for English and Western European languages, polytonic Greek, Coptic, Old Italic, and Demotic Egyptian transliteration and more) and BravuraText<https://github.com/steinbergmedia/bravura> (Musical notation). * Pressbook Directory (beta)<https://staging.pressbooks.directory/>: The Pressbooks Directory is a new tool to explore and search for all resources published in Pressbooks (not just in BC). This tool will include all books that are listed as public, and once we update Pressbooks, all public books in pressbooks.bccampus.ca and opentextbc.ca will be listed and findable in this directory. If your book is public but you do not want it to be included in the directory, you will need to change the Sharing and Privacy Settings the book after the update goes live. You can do this by going to the book’s dashboard and then Settings > Sharing and Privacy Settings. If your Book Visibility is set to “Private”, then your book will not be included in the Pressbooks Directory, no matter what the Pressbooks Directory setting is. If your Book Visibility is set to “Public” and you wish to opt-out of Pressbooks Directory, select “No. Exclude this book from the Pressbooks directory.” 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 support(a)bccampus.ca<mailto:support@bccampus.ca>. Looking for more information? Check out the Pressbooks Updates page<https://open.bccampus.ca/pressbooks-updates/>. Sincerely, BCcampus IT Support and Open Education Team BCcampus | Learning. Doing. Leading. support(a)bccampus.ca | www.bccampus.ca

4 years, 5 months

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BCcampus Pressbooks Upgrade to version 5.17.2 - November 26, 2020

by BCcampus IT Support

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. This notice will also apply to open textbooks that are hosted in BCcampus' internal instance of Pressbooks (opentextbc.ca<http://opentextbc.ca/>). UPGRADE NOTICE On November 26, 2020, from 7am to 10am PST, Pressbooks (pressbooks.bccampus.ca<http://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/>) will be upgraded to version 5.17.2. You will not be able to log in to Pressbooks during this time. Changes: * Shape Shifter Feature<https://pressbooks.org/blog/2019/09/24/font-selector-theme-option/>: When using the McLuhan theme, you can select a specific font for headers and body text. You can select different fonts for the webbook, PDF exports, and eBook exports. * New fonts and type faces: New Athena Unicode<https://classicalstudies.org/publications-and-research/nau-download> (characters for English and Western European languages, polytonic Greek, Coptic, Old Italic, and Demotic Egyptian transliteration and more) and BravuraText<https://github.com/steinbergmedia/bravura> (Musical notation). * Pressbook Directory (beta)<https://staging.pressbooks.directory/>: The Pressbooks Directory is a new tool to explore and search for all resources published in Pressbooks (not just in BC). This tool will include all books that are listed as public, and once we update Pressbooks, all public books in pressbooks.bccampus.ca and opentextbc.ca will be listed and findable in this directory. If your book is public but you do not want it to be included in the directory, you will need to change the Sharing and Privacy Settings the book after the update goes live. You can do this by going to the book’s dashboard and then Settings > Sharing and Privacy Settings. If your Book Visibility is set to “Private”, then your book will not be included in the Pressbooks Directory, no matter what the Pressbooks Directory setting is. If your Book Visibility is set to “Public” and you wish to opt-out of Pressbooks Directory, select “No. Exclude this book from the Pressbooks directory.” 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 support(a)bccampus.ca<mailto:support@bccampus.ca>. Looking for more information? Check out the Pressbooks Updates page<https://open.bccampus.ca/pressbooks-updates/>. Sincerely, BCcampus IT Support and Open Education Team BCcampus | Learning. Doing. Leading. support(a)bccampus.ca | www.bccampus.ca

4 years, 5 months

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