 Hi, everybody. Welcome out to the May Pressbooks product update. I'm Steel Wagstaff, the product manager at Pressbooks. I'm really excited to share with you some of the things that our development team has been working on and that we have released to our users. The first thing that I want to share has to do with what we all know and love is H5P activities. This was actually an idea that came to us from BC Campus, Alan Levine in particular. They've been working on what they call the cooking in the H5P kitchen with Pressbooks. One of the things that came across was, so here's an example of a Pressbooks chapter that has an H5P activity embedded in it, and then down below there's another H5P activity. It's a chapter with multiple H5P activities. These work just fine, but when you produce an export, we're going to have a little placeholder that says there was an H5P activity. We can't show you interaction in a PDF, but you can find it at, and then we linked people to the chapter previously. What Alan said would be nice would be, he said it'd be really nice since instead of just linking me to the chapter, I would love it if you linked me to the specific activity because sometimes there's multiple activities in the chapter and people want to know which activity. We didn't have the ability to do that until we added a filter with H5P. Our developer Oscar, he wrote a pull request that added this to H5P. They accepted it. They included it in their last release of their plugin, and now we've included what we need to do on the Pressbook side. If you come into a book and you produce an export of a PDF, what you'll see is something that looks like this. Now if I were to come into that same chapter, you'll notice, let's say that was chapter one, right? You can see there's, it's going to say an interactive H5P element has excluded. You can view it online here and you'll notice that instead of just a regular link, there'll be a little hash and this will be this specific ID for that activity. So if I were to come down further, I'm going to expect this is going to link me to that cloud barriers assignment within a chapter. It will take you directly to the activity. That's going to be useful in the PDF exports if a student or someone wants to know exactly what activity that they want to be taken to. So that will work for anything that's been added by shortcode with JR's question. We're adding the little ID when we process the shortcode. So you can use that as of now if you're using one of our hosted Pressbooks Networks. If you're using an open source network, you need to update the latest release of Pressbooks and make sure that you have the latest release of the H5P plugin because they require each other for that to work well. So that's kind of a cool feature. We're excited about that and that helps for people that are reading offline or online. I saw a question in the chat which was about the new feature and the new feature was if you want the new H5P anchor links, yes, you would need to generate a new PDF export of any books that have H5Ps and that should just happen automatically. Another kind of thing that you'll notice is in a book you can turn on downloads and make file export downloads available to anyone in the world from the book's home page. When you do that, just a quick refresher, if you want to do that you come into your book, you click on settings and you click sharing and privacy and you will see an option that says share latest export files. If that is set to yes then what will happen will be the most recent version of any of the files that you have produced that's available here will be displayed for download on your book's home page. So here on my book's home page you'll see there's a link that says download this book. Here's a book that has a bunch of different download files available. We have cleaned up and clarified some of the labels so that they read a bit more clearly. This says print PDF versus digital PDF so that you know which version is which. We've also renamed the common cartridge exports so that that's a little bit clearer to users. It used to just say web links and people weren't sure what that meant. This is a common cartridge file with web links and these are various flavors of common cartridge file with LTI links. To see the different files that are available here you just produce a new exporter. Just update this on your site and you'll just see that the labeling has changed there for the download files. When I come to export you'll see that the labels have also changed here on the other formats page. They just become a little bit clearer and I'll talk a little bit more about that in a second. Another change that we made was for network managers. If you are a network manager on a press book's network you have what's called a user list and this is there's the default WordPress user list that looks a bit like this so this is what open source users see. For the people that we host with we provide an improved user list with greater sorting and filtering tools and here you'll see you'll be able to get more information about a user so I'll say tell me more about this SteelWagstaff character and I'd click info and we'll show you a little capsule of stuff that they've done and then it shows you a list of all the books that this person's an administrator in, how many revisions they've made, when they last made a revision so you can get a sense where this person is active. Well there's some cases where let's say Steel asked me to change his email address for him so I could click edit to edit this user. Previously that edit link took you to their user account at the network root that was a kind of little bug and now if you click the edit link here it will take you to the actual, their kind of expected user profile page for you to be able to make the changes and things that you need. So that's just a small fix but it's a couple people had noticed involved as a bug so we fixed where this edit link points for the users from that user list available to network managers on a PressBooks network. So the next thing that I want to show has to do with our LTI plugin. So if you are using PressBooks LTI 1.3 plugin you're going to notice that there's a few features available. Now this is something that not everybody has on their network. Some networks don't use our LTI 1.3 plugin, some networks don't have the LTI plugin at all but for people that host with us that are using the LTI 1.3 plugin you're going to see a new setting here and it's going to say common cartridge create export files designed for use with instead of showing you the LTI version numbers which was confused or the common cartridge version numbers that was confusing to people. What we've done is we provide different versions because actually the different LMSs support them slightly differently. Until they all support them the same way we need to provide different versions depending on the LMS you're using. So at the network level you can now decide which version will be the default version for your users. So for example if you're on a campus that uses Moodle you might want to say okay let's make the common cartridge exports with LTI links for Moodle. If you're a canvas campus you might say canvas, if you use Blackboard Detailer Sakai you might say this, if you're a consortium that supports all of them you might say okay let everybody have all of them. Come into an individual book you'll see that that setting depending on the network settings may also be available at the book level. So a book user could override this if you give them permission or they might just inherit what you've told them they have to have. Then when you come to export you'll see these different common cartridge export options instead of saying 1.3, 1.2, 1.1 we now just tell you which LMS you want to use it for. So hopefully that's a bit clearer and easier for people so that they don't have to deal with version confusion and they just say oh I'm looking for this LMS. So the way that this works is I would say I come into press books. If the 1.3 plugin is activated and grading is turned on for a chapter this is that results for LMS feature. You'll see at the bottom of your chapter so this is a chapter that has a bunch of H5P activities. You'll see this chapter has been configured for grading and I've added four different H5P activities that total 16 points. They have a start date and end date a grading scheme and there will be a canvas only option. So canvas supports a kind of cool thing with common cartridges that the other LMSs support a little differently. If you want to tell your export that this should be brought in as an assignment in canvas not an external link you would click this button and then underneath it you'll see how many points do you want this to be worth in your canvas gradebook. You can obviously override and change this in the LMS but it's nice to specify it here because it's auto-configuring. So I saw that was 11, 16. I could say 16 or I could say 10 or I could say 32. What press books will do is they'll calculate a percentage value and send it with this denominator to the LMS. So here I've just configured this particular chapter to be an assignment with 16 possible points. So I save that setting and now I'm going to go to export and in this case I want to use this with canvas. So I'll click common cartridge with LTI links canvas. That new file will be available from here. I'm going to download it. I would then come into canvas here and I'm going to say import course content. Once I pick my common cartridge I pick the file I just downloaded and I'm going to say all content. The LMS, different LMSes handle this slightly differently but in canvas it finishes, it looks real nice. I've already configured tool and now you'll see in modules one of those chapters I just brought in as not an assignment but the other three are all assignments in canvas now and they have the point values automatically set for me. So a student could come in and launch this but they would see would be the press books activity. They would do all the H5P stuff and a grade would show up for them in the gradebook with the value of 16. If I decided I didn't want it to be worth 16 I could change that here in canvas and I could say oh I see let's actually make that with 20 or whatever. So you can still configure it in the LMS but that press book set just saves you the time and makes it a little bit easier if you're planning to use that as a graded activity with canvas. Okay so I just talked for a long spell and showed a bunch of features. I'm going to pause the screen share and look for questions and take any questions that people might have. Another thing that I won't demo but that I'll tell you about is just yesterday when we did our deploy we bumped everybody and upgraded to the latest version of WordPress and WordPress is now using a newer version of something called jQuery which is a JavaScript library that handles behavior. We have now updated the jQuery in press books in press books book and in Aldine some of our themes so that we're no longer using deprecated jQuery it should work with the latest versions of WordPress. If you're an open source user and you've bumped WordPress to the latest version and you're noticing some JavaScript problems it means that you probably also want to upgrade to the latest versions of those press books plugins and themes so that you get those jQuery fixes that Delcine actually worked on so thank you Delcine. Okay so the most exciting thing that I'm really looking forward to sharing is that we have a second version of our press books directory the new v2 redesigned version of the press books directory. First of all I want to say thank you to everybody who gave us user experience feedback on the first version was super helpful for helping us make this better and more beautiful. We contracted with the company called Plank Design to do a redesign rebrand of this that matches our new marketing site so if you haven't seen it if you went to pressbooks.com you would see a similar look and feel so this is our new pressbooks.com website and the directory has a similar aesthetic here. Some of the big notable features you'll note is now when you visit the pressbooks directory this take the tour button will always be prominently displayed in the top right. When you click take a tour you'll see a nice little JavaScript overlay that tells you about this pressbooks directory and it will take you through the directory and teach you about all the various features so this will tell you about how to search for books what it searches and what it does not search it will show you a sample query and explain what this is searching for here's another query that shows you it's kind of explaining how Boolean operators work on this site so this will tell you how to use not and and those kinds of things or exact searches shows you how to perform a search by clicking the button it'll show you where search results appear it'll show you how you could change the number of books and the way that books are sorted here and then it will show you how the facet filters work so you can start to drill down without searching using these facet filters and this one will show you how you could apply some include filters it will actually apply three of them and you'll see that your book results change when you have active filters applied they will be up here and you can see that they're active here you can clear click them clear them by clicking on them which or by clicking the clear all button and so the tour will actually clear them for you and then it will show you how a book card is set up and what's in there and it will kind of help you understand the book card and the different components of the book card so the tour is really nice and at the end of the tour it points you to the guide chapter or it will just end so that's there it's prominent displayed up here it's also linked from here you can launch the tour here and you can also find our guide here so the directory should be a nice kind of self explanatory tool for most people it is really powerful so you'll notice we're starting to build out these collections those will be coming soon on the actual directory once we have the collections the idea would be let's say you want to find books about diversity equity inclusion well we have a librarian now working at press books which is really awesome for us and our marketing director Lee they're building a collection you would be able to click this cover and it would apply the diversity equity inclusion collection for example and you would see a bunch of books which have been tagged with that particular collection name in that collection so there's going to be a series of featured collections and then we're building out more collections over time which will help you find books on a given topic or given subject of interest we would love to know about the kinds of collections that you would like to see that you think would be more useful for you and your users so please tell us the collections that you wish existed and we that's something we're really looking forward to building out based on user feedback in the coming months other things that you'll notice is that the find a book feature is pretty clean here let's say I want to look for education you'll see it brings you down there's 645 results you can jump to page five of those results page eight you can use those pagination tools you can scroll down and see a bunch of them and then there's also pagination here at the bottom we'll scroll you back to the top when you change pagination you can see that the books per page I could see 10 per page which makes them smaller or I can see 50 for page which makes it bigger and then I can change my sort order right now it displays with the most recently updated but you could sort them in alphabetical order it can prefer and then the filters are the part that I really get excited about so let me clear this search out and show you one of the filters that we're building would be recommended books so we're working through these books we told everybody that if you submit a book that has really well-formed metadata and looks complete we're going to start to add it to that recommended list there's instructions for that in our guide but please do encourage your authors to add the metadata that the directory needs to display it well and then you'll start to see that books will begin to be recommended and they'll have a little recommended tag this is just a way of indicating that the book looks complete and has good metadata primarily you'll also be able to sort by license so you could say I don't want any you could exclude a term or include so let's say I don't want any of the all rights reserved books to show up I only want stuff that has an open license and then you'll see that there's a subject filter I can search within this so if I wanted to look for I don't know social I can see sociologies social work social attitude social theory and then I might want to also look for education books so I'll start here we go there's a bunch of education things so I've applied a bunch of different subject filters at the same time and then you could come down and say I want to see books that are in I don't know BC campus and Oregon and Washington so I that's Cascadia for me so let's look here so I've just filtered by those networks and then I might want to say I I don't want anything that student authored for whatever reason you can also use this date picker to say I only want to see books that have been updated since January 1st of this year and I want them in English and I could search by publisher if I wanted to okay I want word count I want them to have at least 10 000 words and they must have at least five h5 or four h5p activities all right let's say one h5p activity and I have found the perfect search that ended up bringing me back one result that's kind of wild that I was able to do that so you'll see here that this is a particular search with a ton of filters applied if I wanted to share this query with someone I could just take this URL and I could send it to somebody else if they open this query it would have the exact filters applied with whatever live updates or changes have been in place I could also say let's get rid of that word count requirement and now there's two results let's get rid of the student authored requirement let's get rid of the last updated let's get rid of the not all rights reserved and h5p activities and here I'm now at 21 so this is something that you can do right now in the press books directory and we are really excited to be bringing you this newer beautiful directory as well as some future upcoming changes that are in the works I'm going to pause my screen share there and take questions from people about the directory a perva mentioned that she would love to see a collection of oar for the trades that is a collection that we are working on actively perva so I think that's going to be one of our first ones that's built and it would be kind of cool to do a discipline subject area featured every month I'll suggest that to Lee I like what I do a lot and rama asked will we be getting similar filter catalog fields at the network catalog level in a future update rama we don't have that nailed down quite yet but on our near term road map this year I would like to update the al dine catalog especially which would be your network catalog and I think many of these kinds of things that we're doing here in directory it would be really nice to give those to you at the network level so this would be kind of the inspiration for what we do at the network level and I I want to talk with the really big consortia like you and bc campus and others to make sure that what we're doing at the network level makes sense for how you're using the catalog so expect to hear from me after we wrap up this directory project okay so a perva asked are there any other filters on the road map so far for example for accessibility whether a resource has been adopted etc these are great questions of perva so I think maybe the inspiration for that question might have been the bc campus catalog so I'll show you that one and I can talk about some of the differences so here at bc campus you'll see that they have a couple of these tags which would say adopted supplementary materials reviewed they're adding this extra catalog metadata the problem that we have right now is almost everything we're displaying in the directory has to come from the press books api which means it has to be input by users at the source and and or added by us afterwards as an act of cataloging and the trick that we're I guess the problem that we're running into is unless we add those features for the network managers or others to add to their books themselves that means that we would have to act as the cataloger and in many cases we just don't know enough about these networks and their books to be able to do that so some of those things would be really nice but we don't have immediate plans to do it if we can add it to the book info page and let people enter it in a uniform way that would be easiest otherwise I think we're going to we've just hired it the press books like resident library and residents so these are the kinds of things that we'll be discussing with with travis in that position and I think that's the the idea is those kinds of things may be coming but there are some kind of technical blockers to it right now that we still need to figure out I want to open this up I will pause this the recording and this is your time to ask the product manager or ask the development team anything you want to know whether it's about future features that are important to you about why something does or doesn't work the way you want we'll take about maybe five minutes for that and then we'll open it up for that community roundtable thanks again everybody for sharing your notes we've added them to the community roundtable in the document if you wanted to see what was discussed outside of the recording feel free to go there and see some of the exciting work that people have been sharing we appreciate all that you do for open education and we'll see you again at next month's product update talk to you then