[Bcopen] Re: Math and Latex in Pressbooks - User Research Invitation

Hi Josie, Most our math faculty use a different program to do math textbook, especially question and answer sets. It's quite nice in the way it works. The quizzes seem to have some built in features. I believe it is called MathJax. So, if they looked at that program for suggestion to improve - that would be a way to go. Math folks at UBC also use it. I feel like we would be asking them to change where they publish when it currently works very well for them. I would prefer to see BCcampus offer a MathJax solution instead. Regards Inba From: BC Open &lt;bcopen(a)lists.bccampus.ca&gt; Sent: March 5, 2025 2:59 PM To: bcopen(a)lists.bccampus.ca Subject: [Bcopen] Math and Latex in Pressbooks - User Research Invitation Hello BC Open folks, Pressbooks has reached out to BCcampus to ask for suggestions of people they can talk to get feedback and so they can improve the way that Pressbooks handles mathematical and scientific notation, including improving their LaTeX support and updating or expanding their use of MathJax. They are specifically looking to conduct short user research interviews with "power users" -- people who use LaTeX or math/scientific notation heavily in their teaching and writing in order to better understand needs and pain points and to refine and prioritize improvements and new features. This is a really great opportunity to contribute to the improvement in how Pressbooks handles math and scientific content. If you are interested (or know someone who might be) please send me an email at jgray@bccampus.ca<mailto:jgray@bccampus.ca>, and I will pass the information on to Pressbooks. Thanks! Josie Josie Gray, MDes she/her/hers Manager, Open Education Hear my name<https://namedrop.io/josiegray> Cell: 778-584-7808 * Email: jgray@bccampus.ca<mailto:jgray@bccampus.ca> Bluesky: @josiea.bsky.social<https://bsky.app/profile/josiea.bsky.social> * LinkedIn: josieagray<https://www.linkedin.com/in/josieagray/> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * BCcampus Learning. Doing. Leading. BCcampus.ca<https://bccampus.ca/> * LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/bccampus/> As a settler, I am grateful to live and work in both Moh'kins'tsis on Treaty 7 lands, which includes the territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai Nations), the Tsuut'ina Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda (including the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley Nations). This place is also home to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3. I also spend a considerable time living in wâwâskesiwisâkahikan in the very northern part of Treaty 6, the traditional and continued homelands of the Cree and Métis Peoples.