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 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 (Updated)

We are moving the Pressbooks upgrade to Thursday, February 20^th, 2025 (previously Wednesday, February 19^th).

Please note the new dates and times where you will be unable to login.

From Wednesday, February 19^th, 2025 at 6:00pm to Thursday, February 20^th, 2025 at 1:00pm, Pressbooks (pressbooks.bccampus.ca) will be upgraded to version 6.22.1. You will be unable to login to your Pressbooks account during this time.

Changes:

• New branding for British Columbia/Yukon Open Authoring Platform (pressbooks.bccampus.ca) and BCcampus Open Publishing (opentextbc.ca): In an effort to better distinguish between the Pressbooks site for B.C. and Yukon faculty and the one for BCcampus-published resources, we have made some changes to the appearance of both sites.
• British Columbia/Yukon Open Authoring Platform (pressbooks.bccampus.ca): Replaced the BCcampus logo with a new logo (British Columbia/Yukon Pressbooks logo). The red primary site colour remains the same.
•  BCcampus Open Publishing (opentextbc.ca): Now features a dark blue theme that reflects BCcampus branding. The BCcampus logo remains the same.
• Improved sharing options: Users who visit a book have the option to share a book and specific chapters via social media. 
• LinkedIn and Email sharing options have been added in addition to X (formerly Twitter).
• Book administrators can choose which sharing options to display by going to Appearance -> Theme Options -> Web Options.
• Media Attributions displayed by default: Media attributions display the attribution information (media name, author, source, license, etc.) on uploaded media at the bottom of the chapter where they are inserted. This option is now turned on by default.
• To remove the media attributions, go to Appearance -> Theme Options and uncheck the box that reads "Display attributions at the end of a chapter".
• MathJax formulas render within Glossary Terms and TablePress tables.
• Added new institutions and updated names of institutions.

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