 Hello, happy Halloween and welcome to the October PressFix product update. I'm Steel Wagstaff and we're going to start by covering some of the things that we've worked on lately that we've released that we want to be excited to share with you. The first set of features that we want to show you are some recent changes to the PressFix directory. So what I want to start is by showing you that when you first visit the directory, you're going to notice that the default display order now will now show you in the order of recency. So more recent books will, more recently updated books will always display near the top. So you'll always generally see a fresh set of books as the directory is updated showing you the more recent books at the top. However, once you perform a search, so for example, if I were to search history, you'll notice that the display order over here is now displaying based on relevance. So we have a relevance based filtering and search mechanism. Anytime you apply a search term or and or a filter that the search results will automatically try to display based on relevance. So for example, I might say I want books that have five H5P activities about history that have history in them. And so it's going to try to look for relevance so title obviously is a high relevance activity these top books will probably have titles. They'll probably have covers they may have descriptions. And so we're trying to display some orders and relevance now. Once you've performed the search, you can of course choose to change back to date updated, and this will show you the more updated books first, or you could change to alphabetical order. And you can see them displayed in alphabetical order here. So those are some of the options that are now available. You'll see that if we were to clear this out like if I were to take the search term out. And remove the filter. It will switch back to just displaying in the default last recently updated order, but that's a new feature that we've added it's a it's a relevancy based filtering searching. And the Travis has really been instrumental helping us think about that as the librarian, and we'll be continuing to work with us on future improvements for displaying more relevant search results and a couple other things that Travis helped us to do one is, you'll notice that if you see a book that has a cover. This right here is the link to the book so if you were to launch this it would like it would click this link it would launch the book. So will the cover as well so if I click the cover. It will also launch the book in the real world as well as the title. If you find a book that has h5p activities, you'll see here we're displaying how many h5p activities there are. In this it was going to tell you how many of these interactive components user has created in their book and clicking on this link will take you to a special h5p listing page for each book. So for example this digital workbook has 131 h5p activities. So it will also show you the names of the activities and if you want to see what the activity looks like you can say, oh here's the crater lake activity, and then you could reuse it or embed it, or clone the book and get it if it was embedded in the book. You can also expand all of them on a given page so you can see 20 at a time to kind of scroll through and see what kinds of activities of book has if you're thinking about adopting it, or wanting to see the range of interactive possibilities. And then at the bottom you'll see some pagination when there's a bunch of activities like 130. You'll see we put 20 per page so you can scroll through and see the next set of 20, or the third set of 20, or so forth. So that's a new feature that we've added and we think that's going to help people find and quickly identify. Any kind of interactive content that we want it earlier in the chat there was a question about the h5p thing that I was showing, does the page that shows h5p activities show all the h5p activities in a books back end or just the ones that are embedded into pages. This is going to show you all of the h5p activities that have been created in that book, even if the activities only like a demo activity or only partially built this h5p list page will include it. And so someone could look at it and be like oh that is useful that is not useful. Now, it says right here only the ones that have been inserted into book content will be included if you clone this book. So if this book has 20 h5p activities that haven't been inserted anywhere and you clone the book. It won't clone the 20 that weren't inserted anywhere it will only clone activities that have been inserted into public openly licensed content in your book. So that's a nice protection if you're the author and you've got something that's not quite ready for building yet, but it's also nice if you want to share a work in progress h5p activity. There'll be available there and someone could download it imported to their book and then finish it so it's a way to share things that aren't finished but only clone the things that are, and that's kind of the kind of compromise that we built for that. I'm going to pause my screen sharing presentation, and I'll pass it over to Travis who's going to talk a little bit about some stuff that he and Lee have been working on related to collections and directory. Thanks to y'all hi everyone. Once again I'm Travis the press books librarian, and I'm excited to tell you all about collections. So collections are there basically we are grouped by a particular theme like like healthcare or interactive we are. The topics are chosen based on general demand feedback from the we are community and and resources available in the directory. And we created collections for a few reasons. One is that the directory keeps getting bigger. And for anyone looking for we are we we wanted to surface some of the, the content that we think is really exceptional. So when a collection visits the directory for the first time. It can be kind of overwhelming there's a lot of content to sift through and collections help bring that exceptional we are to the surface. We also hear from librarians and faculty that certain subjects are in demand or are underrepresented in we are collections really make it easy to define those resources in one place for those looking to create their own we are these books can provide some. These collections feature, they feature beautiful formatting and creative use of interactive elements, and collections also just make it easier to find things. You know, in a perfect world, I think everyone would create we are with no beautiful complete metadata. So collections really help surface resources that might otherwise be difficult to find. I'll show you some examples and where where you can find these collections. If you right right near the top of the directory here. If you click on one of these book covers, it'll display the collection in the search results below down here for the full list of collections we have this search filter here on the left. You'll find the name of each collection and the number of books it contains. If you want to know a little more about them over on pressbooks.com. So that's what we call the collections hub and this is just a page with with brief descriptions of each collection. I can put a link in the chat if you'd like to have a look on your own. We've set up some landing pages as well just for collections that we want to promote on social media. It's not really important to the function of the directory but it's it's here if you want to see a little blurb about what, and what's in each collection and, and maybe what some of the inspiration was. We have blog articles with details about some of the content so there's really a lot to dive into if you're curious. So when we create collections, we, we aim for quality over quantity. Right now they're, they're fairly small. The fine arts collection is the biggest just because the scope is is quite broad. We look for creative commons licenses usually licenses that allow derivatives but there are some exceptions just based on the subject matter. There's a variety of we are rather than having multiple items covering the same material. We look at things like presentation and formatting content and how it compares to other we are interactive elements we generally select original books rather than derivatives, unless the originals are outdated or unavailable, or maybe if a derivative is heavily modified and offers some additional content. So just to go back to the directory. So this is the health care collection here. I've put together not just a bunch of books about health care but I've, I've really looked for a diversity of health care topics so there's, there's more general stuff about a nursing and anatomy but there's, you know there's also stuff about health care, which sometimes gets overlooked in in some programs. There are some great examples of textbooks that have been cloned and tailored to two different course multiple times so now they've got all kinds of fantastic additional content. And it really helps highlight the collaborative nature of we are, and these collections are quite collaborative as well because, you know, often people will reach out to us on social media. And it suggests this book or that book and we've we've made some really great additions that way, and looks band and grow over time these are kind of living collections so we're always thinking about new, new collections and listening to feedback from the community. And it's, it's thanks to the, you know the great we are community for for creating these, these resources and fostering such a collaborative culture and we're excited to have another way to to showcase some of that hard work. I was, I had a question ahead of time from someone in this meeting they said, if these collections look great. Could you show us how I would navigate or find a collection on the directory. Yes, I think you showed that briefly but could you kind of walk somebody through from prospects directory, how they could look within a collection or see which collections we do have available. Sure. So, let's say you want one of the collections that's not listed up here, you could go down to the search filters on the left here, and just expand these, and just click the check mark next to whichever collection you want to see so say for instance you want to see a language learning collection, I'll just click this check mark, and then I'll see all the books in that collection. And I can see up here there are 16 books. This is actually a filter which you can, you can see here so you know just make sure if you have any other filters applied that you're you're clearing those otherwise it might limit your, your search results. This is it it's very, very straightforward. I saw a question in the chat here from Lauren, or maybe a statement, I would love to see a student created books collection. Is that in the works. It is actually that's that's on our, I think that's the next one where we have on the agenda so stay tuned for that. Awesome and then if people had suggestions for other collections they'd like to see, or books they want to have added to existing collections what's the best way to make that request. The best ways is over social media. So you can just tweet at us or, or even contact us on on LinkedIn. We usually respond pretty quickly. Thanks so much Travis it's been really awesome. I think having a librarian on staff at press books that helps to think about metadata thinks about findability, and also thinks about how each of you, many of you are librarians or instructions and are thinking about organizing and finding information for your instructor so thanks for all your work on that Travis and we look forward to what's coming next. Probably a student authored our collection, just as was requested. Okay, the next thing I want to show are some things that are happening with the press book product itself. The first is kind of a minor change but it may be important for some of your users so what I want to share is, if you are a new user to press books and you have been invited to join a book with a role, the next time you log into press books you will see in your dashboard and updated book invitations and book permissions widget. So this book permissions widget will show you what you can do if you have no roles, you can create a book or clone a book that's how you get started. But if you have been invited to join a book, you will get an email about this, but sometimes people delete those emails or they don't read them. So let's say they log into press books, you will see on your dashboard, all of the invitations to join a book that have been made for you so this user Rick has been invited to join this book as a collaborator let's accept that invitation. He's been invited to join this book as an author, and this book as an editor. So now you'll see when Rick goes to this board, you'll see these books that he's joined now are available in his my book list. So if Rick were to log out. And then let's log back in as Rick, and if Rick goes to their admin dashboard, you can see here the other two books they haven't accepted invitations for if and when they accept those invitations they'll also show up in their available list for my books. So we just tried to make it a little bit easier for new users to kind of orient themselves and realize, if you've been invited to join a book, your invitation will just be pending here, unless you accept it or until you accept it. That helps people not forget about pending invitations they have to join books and makes it a little bit smoother for users. Another thing that we did was we have added in our export routines, in particular with McLuhan, people wanted to be able to customize the footnote font size separately from the body font size in their PDF exports. I know Ed Beck has asked us about this as of other people in the past so now in the newest release of press books. There is in your. So to find this you go to a sample book, you come to appearance theme options, and the PDF options tab. And you'll see there always was a body font size choice so let's make this 12 point. And then there's also now a footnote font size which you can make separate so we're going to make that. Let's see the two thirds the size of the body font size. And I'm going to then save these changes. Once I've done that the next time I make an export for my book you'll you'll notice that there is a distinct difference now from the body font size and the footnote font size so I will make a PDF just real quickly here. And then I will download my PDF and show it to you. Here in this book, I have a chapter with footnotes, you can see here my body font size is at 12, and my footnote font size is much smaller. You can change and adjust that as desired for your themes. This will be available in any of the themes that support what we call Buckram. So the majority of press books themes will have this option available, but some of the very old themes will not. If you have that feature and it's not available in your current theme, the advice would be to switch to the theme that does support it. And that's available now for all users. Another thing that we did are kind of couple kind of minor changes but we talked a little bit about the new contributor feature that we've added. If you haven't seen that before but there's a guide chapter all about it that we'll put in the chat but the contributors feature is awesome, and we think it's really powerful, but one of the changes that we made is if I add a new contributor to my book, let's make this person an editor. So I've added Delcine as a contributor to my book. And now I'm going to add Amy as well to this book. And we'll make her an author. When you add new users to your books, we will automatically create new contributors. And when we create the contributor we will bring in the user profile information for them. And we will also bring in their gravitar photo, if there was a photo associated with them. So at the time of creation, if the user had a gravitar photo image, we will import it and size it properly as their contributor profile picture. If you don't like this let's say Amy is like hey that's not actually my face or something you can change it by editing their profile. So let's do a change that we made to the editing profile so friendly human doesn't have a profile picture, but would like one. So here it tells us the images should be square 400 pixels. Previously if you if you uploaded a very large image you can crop it and resize it. But if you have one that's already the right size we will just skip the cropping step entirely so let me show you the two methods. If I upload photos I'm going to select a file here and I'm going to pick a very large. I don't know if this one's large, I think this one's probably too large. And then we will, we get to this stage and we say okay how do we want to crop this okay let's crop it like this it's giving you a crop option. And now this image has been cropped. But if you pick an image that's already been sized correctly. So let me pick one that's already 400 by 400. So this image when I click, except this image, it just applies it doesn't ask you to crop it because it recognizes it's already the right size. So it's a couple of changes that we made for how we handle that contributor feature and try to make that a little bit easier for people to use with their profile pictures. So that's what we've done there for contributors. You can now see that this user has a profile picture as do these others, which were imported from gravatar. And then finally another kind of product change that we made was we improved the logging for our SAML imported. So if you're doing a single sign on with SAML. We now just have better logging in the back end. In case you have problems or you have issues or you had trouble setting it up. This is better logging tools for us administrators. Most of you that are using it are already using it successfully without issue. This is just helpful when you're first setting it up when you run into issues, better logging early helps us diagnose the problem and solve it faster. So that's a pretty minor change but it's helpful for us and our support team. The last thing I wanted to share is what we're working on now and what's coming next. So the big project that we've been working on over the last couple of weeks is improving our export routines, particularly for the EPUB export format. So I'm going to show you in press books right now. When you go to make an export, you have the supported option is the old EPUB 2 standard specification. And then we have EPUB 3 listed over in other formats. EPUB 3 has now been the accepted standard for quite some time and EPUB 2 is quite old. So all of the major book readers now support EPUB 3. And EPUB 3 is really a better kind of more modern standard because it uses the modern versions of HTML and CSS. So you can make well-formatted web books and they will look good in EPUB 3 specification. So this team is working on refactoring our EPUB exports. So in the near future, there will be one EPUB export option and it will be EPUB 3.2, which is the latest version of the specification. We're really excited for this. We're going to be able to fix and clean up some old legacy issues in the EPUB exports. And we think the end result will be cleaner, better, easier to maintain EPUB exports with less confusion about what's the difference between EPUB 2 and EPUB 3. So that's going to be one newest version of the EPUB export for everybody. At the same time, we're also going to be working on cleaning up the underlying HTML and PDF exports. That'll be coming a little bit later, but we want to make better and more accessible exports for your PDFs and your EPUBs. So that's a little bit invisible work, but we do think it will result in just better, easier to maintain exports in the short and the longer term going forward. So what you have been wanting to know about page views and how widely visited your books are. Historically, the way that Pressbooks has supported that is we have allowed network managers to configure Google Analytics as a third party service, which means you send all you Google Analytics ads page tracking information with JavaScript to your site. And then when a person visits the site, it sends information to Google and Google Analytics will present the dashboard to you as the person who's configured it. So that's good for many people, but some people don't want to use Google Analytics for a variety of reasons. And in other cases, the network manager would like to be able to let book authors see their individual book dashboard page views more easily. So we've been working on a solution that we think is both privacy protective and doesn't involve third party tracking software, and that can do this at the level of the book. And so I want to show you some cool stuff that's in the works. So what will happen is at the level of your root site, there will be in your dashboard a little analytics button, and you can configure the date range that you'd like to see for this so I might want to see the last quarter. And this will show me since the beginning of October, the total number of page views I have had on my homepage, and on my catalog page. Maybe I want to look for just the last month. And you'll see on this day it will show me how many page views and visitors I had on each day for a given site for my route site. So I can see this site had 75 visitors and 142 page views on my integration site. And that was 80 more than it was in the previous period. And these are the people that are most commonly referring people to my site. The other thing that's going to happen is in addition to being on your network route site. A similar dashboard will exist for every book on your site. And that's the part that I think is most exciting for book authors and for you as network managers. We still need to get this configured and working correctly for all of our networks it will be very soon, but you might be able to see for example this had 10 page views on October 2. One page view on October 14. This is not the most visited book in the world but more visited books will give you much more interesting information. I'll show you which chapters in your book or pages in your book were visited most frequently. How many visitors how many pages. And you'll also see that there's a few settings that are available so if you want to exclude page views for logged in users. So only people from the open web who are visiting your site. That will be there, and you can decide whether or not to set cookies. Some people don't like setting cookies because it gets stored in a user's browser so you can respect others by saying no cookies. If you turn cookies off you won't be able to know whether they're return visitor, but the feature will function pretty similarly. And then you can also change your default date period and decide whether you want to dump your data after a certain amount of months or preserve it over time. So it's working soon. It's not quite available. It's there on your books but it's not working 100% fully functional but it will be quite soon. And we'll talk about that a little bit more in a future product update and share with you that. But we think that's a really nice feature to help people understand how frequently their books are visited without needing third party software or invading users privacy if you don't want to do that. The first question was, will authors be able to see this not just admins. The answer is yes, anyone who is a book administrator will be able to see that analytics dashboard in their book. I don't think right now that book editors and book authors will see it but I could be mistaken. I'd have to double check on that. Ed was asking about including other information on that page. Right now Ed, we can only include page view information but we would, we're thinking about ways that we can hook and extend this to include some page events. The one that we're most interested in adding support for would be book downloads. So if you've made file downloads available on your web book homepage. That's information that we know everybody would like to have and we're trying to find a way to add that information there. It's still some ways away but that's on our roadmap. You asked about a couple of other things which would be how many clones interact with each of our activities. That's not on our roadmap right now but if we can figure out the page down book downloads. We might look at some of the more difficult ones in the future as well. Thanks for suggesting those. Thanks all for attending the Press to Books product update this month. We're excited to see you in November and appreciate what you do for the open education communities on your various campuses and at your institutions.