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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
Dear BCcampus 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.
UPGRADE NOTICE
On Thursday, January 23, 2020, from 7 am to 10 am, Pressbooks (pressbooks.bccampus.ca) will be upgraded from version 5.6.3 to version 5.13.0. You will be unable to login to your Pressbooks account during this time. However, public access to published textbooks should not be affected.
This is a major update which will provide a number of long-awaited features and bug fixes.
Open Textbooks Theme
With this upgrade, the Open Textbooks theme will officially be removed from pressbooks.bccampus.ca. If you have not already done so, please switch your books to one of the other themes. Clarke is the theme most similar to the Open Textbooks theme, but McLuhan is also a good option. For more information, see Retiring the Open Textbook Theme<https://open.bccampus.ca/pressbooks-updates/#theme>.
New Features
* New admin colour scheme: You can now select a colour scheme that increases accessibility of the Pressbooks Admin interface. This colour scheme increases the colour contrast and underlines all links in the Pressbooks Admin interface. This will not affect the webbook or export files. To enable, navigate to your profile in Pressbooks. Under "Admin Colour Scheme" select "Pressbooks a11y."
* Redesigned exports page: The exports page has been updated to make it easier to manage your exported files. Pressbooks will now store the last three exports of each file format. You can also now sort exports by file format, size, and date exported. You can also "pin" any files that you do not want to be deleted.
* Progress bars: Pressbooks will now display a progress bar when importing, exporting, cloning, and generating a cover.
* Clone h5p activities: H5P activities within books will now make it through the cloning process.
* MathJax Support: MathJax is a JavaScript display engine that translates mathematical markup (LaTex and MathML) into high resolution, accessible equations that can render in any supported book format on Pressbooks.
Bug Fixes and Changes:
* The "Import" tab is no longer accessed from the Dashboard Menu. You can find it under "Tools."
* "LO" KT" and "EX" buttons will no longer appear in Visual Editor toolbar, but those special textboxes can still be inserted from the "Textboxes" drop-down menu.
* A number of updates to increase the accessibility of the Pressbooks admin interface, Digital PDFs, and footnotes.
* Improvements to glossary tooltips. Definitions can now include links and bold and italic text.
* There is a new "Publish" tab in the Dashboard Menu where you can add links to where people can purchase POD versions of a book.
* Glossary terms will now alphabetize correctly
* Licences on chapters in the webbook will now list the book title rather than the chapter title, unless the chapter is under a different licence or author from the rest of the book.
* Additional table classes available from the visual editor.
* Unnecessary alert when saving parts will no longer pop up.
For a full list of updates and changes, refer to the Pressbooks Release Log<https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/releases>.
Sincerely,
The BCcampus Open Education Team and IT Support
BCcampus IT Support
BCcampus | Learning. Doing. Leading.
support(a)bccampus.ca | www.bccampus.ca
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.
Dear Pressbooks User,
Today's scheduled upgrade has been postponed until further notice. When preparing for the upgrade, we encountered a number of issues that need to be addressed before we can ensure that the upgrade will go forward with minimal disruption. We will send out a notice once we determine a new upgrade date.
Sincerely,
The BCcampus Open Education Team and IT Support
BCcampus IT Support
BCcampus | Learning. Doing. Leading.
support(a)bccampus.ca | www.bccampus.ca<http://www.bccampus.ca/>
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. 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).
UPGRADE NOTICE
On the morning of Wednesday, August 28, 2019, between 8:00 AM and 11:30 AM Pacific time, Pressbooks (pressbooks.bccampus.ca) will be upgraded to version 5.9.0. Your account will be unavailable during this time.
Open Textbooks Theme
With this upgrade, the Open Textbooks theme will officially be removed from pressbooks.bccampus.ca. If you have not already done so, please switch your books to one of the other themes. Clarke is the theme most similar to the Open Textbooks theme, but McLuhan is also a good option. For more information, see Retiring the Open Textbook Theme<https://open.bccampus.ca/pressbooks-updates/#theme>.
New Features
* New admin colour scheme: You can now select a colour scheme that increases accessibility of the Pressbooks Admin interface. This colour scheme increases the colour contrast and underlines all links in the Pressbooks Admin interface. This will not affect the webbook or export files. To enable, navigate to your profile in Pressbooks. Under "Admin Colour Scheme" select "Pressbooks a11y."
* Redesigned exports page: The exports page has been updated to make it easier to manage your exported files. Pressbooks will now store the last three exports of each file format. You can also now sort exports by file format, size, and date exported. You can also "pin" any files that you do not want to be deleted.
* Progress bars: Pressbooks will now display a progress bar when importing, exporting, cloning, and generating a cover.
* Clone h5p activities: H5P activities within books will now make it through the cloning process.
* MathJax Support: MathJax is a JavaScript display engine that translates mathematical markup into high resolution, accessible equations that can render in any supported book format on Pressbooks.
Bug Fixes and Changes:
* The "Import" tab is no longer accessed from the Dashboard Menu. You can find it under "Tools."
* "LO" KT" and "EX" buttons will no longer appear in Visual Editor toolbar, but those special textboxes can still be inserted from the "Textboxes" drop-down menu.
* A number of updates to increase the accessibility of the Pressbooks admin interface, Digital PDFs, and footnotes.
* Improvements to glossary tooltips. Definitions can now include links and bold and italic text.
* There is a new "Publish" tab in the Dashboard Menu where you can add links to where people can purchase POD versions of a book.
* Glossary terms will now alphabetize correctly
* Licences on chapters in the webbook will now list the book title rather than the chapter title, unless the chapter is under a different licence from the rest of the book.
* Additional table classes available from the visual editor.
* Unnecessary alert when saving parts will no longer pop up.
Sincerely,
The BCcampus Open Education Team and IT Support
BCcampus | Learning. Doing. Leading.
support(a)bccampus.ca | www.bccampus.ca
