9:07 a.m.
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-optio…n/>: 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-downl…
(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@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