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Pressbooks 5.13.0 Update and Outage: January 23, 2020

by BCcampus IT Support

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

5 years, 3 months

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POSTPONED: Upgrade for Pressbooks.bccampus.ca

by BCcampus IT Support

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/>

5 years, 8 months

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Upgrade and Outage Notice for Pressbooks.bccampus.ca on Wednesday morning, August 28, 2019

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. 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

5 years, 8 months

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Retiring the Open Textbooks theme in Pressbooks

by BCcampus IT Support

Dear Pressbooks User, After much discussion and consideration, we have decided to retire the Open Textbooks theme available in Pressbooks. While this change won't occur for several weeks, we do ask that book administrators switch their open textbooks in pressbooks.bccampus.ca to one of the other available themes in preparation for this change. By switching in advance, you will have the opportunity to review how the new theme affects your book and fix/report any issues that you find. If you do not switch in advance of the change , your books will be switched automatically to the McLuhan theme when the Open Textbook theme is retired. How to change your book's theme To change your book's theme, click the Appearance tab in the Dashboard menu. Under "Themes," you will be able to select the theme you would like to switch to. We recommend switching to McLuhan, Clarke, or Jacobs . You will have to do this for each book that you are the Administrator for. If you need more assistance, watch this: Select a Theme video tutorial What is a theme? In Pressbooks, a theme is a set of styles that can be applied to the entirety of a book. A theme will determine things like font type and size, textbox colours, appearance of headings, and line spacing in all export formats. By default, when you create a new book in Pressbooks, that book will use the Open Textbooks theme, but there are a number of different themes to choose from. What does this mean for my book(s)? Changing the theme of your book will affect the style of your book (font, link colours, text size, textbox colours, etc) and possibly t he number of pages in the PDF, but the content and structure should remain as-is . Once you change the theme, the webbook will be updated with the new styles. Your exports will only reflect the change after you export a new copy of those files with the new theme applied. If you do not want the new theme applied to your exported book files, do not re-export the files for your book. Context for this decision BCcampus built the Open Textbooks plugin at the beginning of the open textbook project to expand the Pressbooks authoring platform to include features that specifically support textbook authoring, such as the key takeaways and exercise textboxes . Over the last few years, as Pressbooks has been adopted by more and more institutions wanting to publish open textbooks, those features have been incorporated as features directly supported by Pressbooks. As such, the Open Textbook plugin (aka theme) currently acts more like a collection of styles, rather than a plugin that enables textbook-publishing functionalities that wouldn't exist otherwise. In addition, it requires a considerable amount of maintenance to be compatible with new Pressbooks updates that are happening all the time, which slows down our ability to keep our Pressbooks instance up to date. Sincerely, The BCcampus Open Education Team and IT Support

5 years, 11 months

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Pressbooks 5.6.3 Upgrade - December 21, 2018

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. 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). We will be updating Pressbooks tomorrow . We apologize for the late notice, but there is a security issue that needs to be addressed as soon as possible. But there is good news! This surprise update means that we get to bring you a lot of great new features just before the holidays. UPGRADE NOTICE On December 21, 2018 , from TIME to TIME, Pressbooks (pressbooks.bccampus.ca) will be upgraded to version 5.6.3. Your account will be unavailable during this time. New features: * Glossary tool: Pressbooks now has a feature that allows you to mark words as glossary terms. In the webbook, the definition will pop up for these words when clicked. In the webbook and all export formats, you can generate a list of all glossary terms in your book's back matter organized alphabetically. See the Pressbooks User Guide for more information: Glossaries . * Expanded webbook table of contents: The table of contents that appears on the webbook home page is now expanded by default so all chapters that are contained within parts will be displayed. * Custom "Part" and "Chapter" labels: You can now customize "part" and "chapter" labels in exports. To do this, go to Appearance > Theme Options > Global Options. For more information, see the "Customizable Section Labels" heading in the Numberless Chapters, Invisible Parts, and Customizable Section Labels chapter in the Pressbooks User Guide . * Descriptive "Next" and "Previous" arrows in the webbook: The "next" and "previous" arrows used to navigate in the webbook will now show the title of the next and previous part or chapter title. * Add Digital Object Identifier (DOI) support at book and section level. * CC0 vs. Public Domain: You can now differentiate between books and resources that are under CC0 licences and those that are in the public domain. Bug fixes and changes: * Issues with the cover generator have been fixed. * Ensure that book language is used for part/chapter labels. * Fix conflict between footnote and media shortcodes. * Increase max_execution_time from 5 to 10 minutes for import, export, and clone operations. * Move the Contributors page under the Book Info menu. * Allow a new title to be entered when cloning a book. * Fix issue where a numberless chapter at the beginning of a book can cause chapter numbering errors in subsequent chapters. * Resize webbook contents when Hypothesis annotation pane is expended * Add Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, and Telugu languages * Differentiate link styles between print and digital PDF * Fix issue where people using Firefox could not open parts from the webbook table of contents Sincerely, The Open Education Team and BCcampus Helpdesk

6 years, 4 months

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BCcampus OpenEd: survey regarding Pressbooks files for OpenStax textbooks

by BCcampus Helpdesk

Hello pressbooks.bccampus.ca users, BCcampus Open Education, in consultation with OpenStax, is conducting a survey of faculty and others at B.C. post-secondary institutions regarding the demand for Pressbooks files of OpenStax textbooks for adaptation purposes. Currently, OpenStax hosts its open textbooks in a platform called CNX. Pressbooks is a widely used authoring and adaptation system. (See the Pressbooks Guide for more information.) If you are interested in participating, please fill out this anonymous survey form: https://open.bccampus.ca/openstax-pressbooks-survey/ This survey will close on November 30 , 2018. Feel free to share this survey with your B.C. post-secondary colleagues. Regards, The BCcampus Open Ed team ( apologies for cross posting ) BCcampus Helpdesk BC campus | connect.collaborate.innovate. helpdesk(a)bccampus.ca | www.bccampus.ca

6 years, 5 months

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BCcampus is looking for Pressbooks bug reports

by BCcampus Helpdesk

Hello pressbooks.bccampus.ca users, Over the next two weeks, BCcampus will be tackling bugs in our BCcampus Pressbooks-related plugins, and we are looking for bug reports! If you have noticed issues or inconsistencies while working in the pressbooks.bccampus.ca instance of Pressbooks, please send them to Josie Gray ( jgray(a)bccampus.ca ). Specifically, we are looking for issues related to the OpenStax import option, the Open Textbook theme, and the Common Cartridge export option. Note that some areas of Pressbooks are the responsibility of the Pressbooks Core development team and beyond the control of BCcampus developers. While you can still send Josie these types of issues, they will be reported to and fixed by the Pressbooks development team, and thereby out of BCcampus' control. And don't worry if you don't know the difference, Josie can troubleshoot and report to the appropriate place. If reporting a bug, please provide as much information as you can so we can get to the source of the problem. This may include things like: * A description of the issue * The steps needed to reproduce the issue * A link to an example of the issue * The theme you are using (Open Textbooks, McLuhan, etc.) * Anything else that may be relevant If you have Pressbooks ideas, feedback, or questions that are not related to issues in Pressbooks, please fill out the Pressbooks Feedback form . Thank you, BCcampus Open Education Team and BCcampus Helpdesk BCcampus Helpdesk BC campus | connect.collaborate.innovate. helpdesk(a)bccampus.ca | www.bccampus.ca

6 years, 6 months

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Pressbooks 5.5.3 Upgrade - Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018

by BCcampus Helpdesk

Dear BCcampus Pressbooks user, Great news! Pressbooks has been making changes to its interface and functionality based on your feedback. There are a number of new features, updates, and bug fixes that we'd like you to be aware of. Resources providing assistance and more information about the new features will be made available in the Pressbooks Guide closer to the upgrade date. New features: * 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 (Global). 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 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 Plugins Features chapter in the Pressbooks Guide . (Note that this feature has been enabled since August.) * Cover Generator tool: More information to come. Other changes: * Fixing the icon size on collapsible chapter subsections * Generating a smaller cover image for the book homepage * Improving the design of the navigation links on the webbook for more logical navigation through front matter and back matter * Improving navigation links for visual clarity and accessibility by moving the cues to the bottom of the screen * Additions of French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese translations for subject matter categories For more information, see Pressbooks Change log . We will be 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 helpdesk(a)bccampus.ca . Thank you, BCcampus Open Education Team and BCcampus Helpdesk BCcampus Helpdesk BC campus | connect.collaborate.innovate. helpdesk(a)bccampus.ca | www.bccampus.ca

6 years, 6 months

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Pressbooks 5.4 Upgrade - Friday, July 13, 2018

by BCcampus Helpdesk

Good morning! Great news! Pressbooks has been making changes to the interface and functionality based on your feedback. While these are minor issues, we want you to be aware of what is changing. Changes: * Improved admin bar: The admin bar has been reworked to make Network Admin tools easier to find. This update only affects network administrators (super admins). * Updated markup for all educational textboxes: This change may slightly affect the formatting of educational textboxes currently in Pressbooks. Textboxes added after this update will have headings that are default left-justified without a specific heading level assigned. * Add textboxes as sidebars: There is now an option to have any textbox appear as a sidebar. * Support for PDF exports via DocRaptor * Lightbox feature for images: Linked images in the web book can now appear in a Lightbox when selected. This feature can be turned on and off in Appearance > Theme Options > Web Options. * Fix: A fix for broken internal links in digital PDF exports. 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 helpdesk(a)bccampus.ca. Thank you, BCcampus OpenEd Resources and BCcampus Helpdesk BC campus | connect.collaborate.innovate. helpdesk(a)bccampus.ca | www.bccampus.ca

6 years, 10 months

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Pressbooks 5.3 Upgrade on June 22, 2018

by BCcampus Helpdesk

Great news! Pressbooks has been making changes to the interface and functionality based on your feedback. While these are minor issues, we want you to be aware of what is changing. We are thoroughly testing the updated Pressbooks prior to the release on June 22, 2018 and these improvements should not cause any issues with your existing books. But, if anything does come up, let us know right away at helpdesk(a)bccampus.ca. Changes: 1. Collapsible Content in the Web View. You can now create collapsible content sections in the Web View. Theme Options -> Web-> Collapsible Content. When this is selected when you create content with an h1 tag, the content below it will be collapsed. This will be really useful for including activities, reducing page scroll etc. 2. Customizable Textbox Colours. You will be able to customize the header colour and the background for textbook. Theme Options ->Global->Information box. 3. The Creative Commons API which produced the licensing has been replaced by a custom string. This means that the CC licenses at the bottom of the textbook look a little different. No longer a CC box instead icons. 4. Additions to Tiny MCE Tables plugin including support for % setting on tables (important for responsive design). Thank you BCcampus Open Education and BCcampus Helpdesk BC campus | connect.collaborate.innovate. helpdesk(a)bccampus.ca | www.bccampus.ca

6 years, 11 months

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