Dear BCcampus 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/>). If you do not wish to receive
these email notifications, please let us know at support(a)bccampus.ca.
UPGRADE NOTICE
On July 7, 2022, we were unsuccessful in updating Pressbooks. We have rescheduled this
Pressbooks update to July 20, 2022.
From Tuesday, July 19 at 6:00 PM to Wednesday, July 20
at 12:00 PM Pacific Time, BCcampus Pressbooks
(pressbooks.bccampus.ca<http://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/>) will be upgraded to version
5.35.0. 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 6:00 AM and
7:00 AM PT on July 20, 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 who 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<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