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Hello Everyone,
You are receiving this email because you are either a key contact at your institution for
BCcampus Open Education, a member of our Pressbooks Advisory committee, or a member of the
BCOEL listserv.
Webinars and videos
Pressbooks Training webinars were discontinued on October 10, 2018 and will be replaced by
the [ https://video.bccampus.ca/channel/Pressbooks%2BTutorials/66388 | Pressbooks Tutorial
Video Series ] . It is anticipated these videos will be completed by Spring 2019.
Upgrade
The BCcampus Pressbooks instances will under go an upgrade on October 18 to version 5.5.3.
See [ https://open.bccampus.ca/pressbooks-updates/ | Pressbooks Updates ] for more
information. Improvements will include:
* 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. 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 [
https://tablepress.org/ | 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 [
https://opentextbc.ca/pressbooks/part/plugin-features/ | Plugins ] chapter in the
Pressbooks Guide . (Note that this feature has been enabled since August.)
* Cover Generator tool: More information to come.
For more information, see [
https://pressbooks.org/blog/2018/09/12/pressbooks-5-5-0-mcluhan-2-5-0-and-m… |
Pressbooks 5.5.0 release notes ] .
See our new, updated Pressbooks Guide ( [ https://opentextbc.ca/pressbooks/ |
https://opentextbc.ca/pressbooks/ ] ) for support.
Regards,
The BCcampus OpenEd team
Lauri Aesoph, Manager, Open Education
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