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. 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). If you do not wish to receive these email notifications, please let us know at support@bccampus.ca. 

UPGRADE NOTICE

From May 11 at 6pm to May 12 at 12pm Pacific Time, Pressbooks (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.

 

Sincerely,

The Open Education Team and BCcampus Support