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CANCELLED: BCcampus Pressbooks 5.35.0 Upgrade – July 20, 2022
by BCcampus IT Support 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

Dear BCcampus Pressbooks User, The update to pressbooks.bccampus.ca that was scheduled for July 20, 2022, has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule the update in the coming weeks and will let you know when we know more. Sincerely, The Open Education Team and BCcampus Support If you do not wish to receive these email notifications, please let us know at support(a)bccampus.ca. BCcampus IT Support BCcampus | Learning. Doing. Leading. support(a)bccampus.ca | www.bccampus.ca

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UPDATED: BCcampus Pressbooks 5.35.0 Upgrade – July 20, 2022
by BCcampus IT Support 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

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

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BCcampus Pressbooks 5.35.0 Upgrade – July 7, 2022
by BCcampus IT Support 05 Jul '22

05 Jul '22

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 >From July 6 at 6:00 PM to July 7 at 12:00 PM Pacific Time, 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 7, 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 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

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