@EDU_Managers Greetings! Please join us for the April 2025 Pressbooks Product Update, happening this Thursday, April 24th, 2-3pm ET.
Featured topics include:
Quick refresh on items we showed in March but delivered in the intervening weeks (LTI/PB Results Stats Details; Customer-facing release notes; LaTeX/MathJax improvements)
LTI integration notifications to assist with setup & sync
Admin UX & navigation improvements for accessibility
Please bring roundtable topics and questions you’d like to share with the group. The Zoom meeting link and agenda can be found here: Pressbooks Product Update Agendas.
If you’d like to add this and future Product Update meetings to your calendar, click on this calendar invitation. For those who can’t make it, we will make the recording available in this forum.
And here is the Zoom link, in case the calendar invite link is a problem:
Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/583078361 Meeting ID: 583 078 361
We’ve been wading through the challenges and limitations of how to make recurring meeting links actually work on people’s various calendar systems. After today’s meeting (which will use the same Zoom link we’ve used for the past several years), we will post new, refreshed calendar invitations and meeting links.
Hopefully that will solve problems. If not, we’ve identified a couple of workarounds. Apologies for the inconvenience. We also would love for you to join us regularly and we’ll try to make that easy for you.
Thanks to everyone who attended today’s session. We’ll get the recording posted next week after the transcript is ready. In the meantime, here are the slides we shared today:
Also for next month’s Product Update, we’ll be using a new Zoom link and calendar event. Recurring events can be tricky to import into calendars, but here are options if you’d like to make sure Product Updates appear on your calendar:
Click on this calendar link to add the MAY Product Update to your calendar: (We’ll start posting public links for each Product Update when we share reminders about the next session.)
If you want me to add you personally to the Product Update calendar meeting, let me know. I’m happy to do that but for obvious reasons we’re not taking that route with all 600+ Pressbooks Network Managers.
Hi @EDU_Managers! An update on the recording from the April Pressbooks Product Update:
Last month we missed the step of getting the recording transcribed, so we’re doing that now and will post the recording link as soon as the transcription is available.
Quick refresh on recent updates now available: Pressbooks Results/LTI improvements; MathJax/LaTeX support improvements; Customer-facing release notes)
Terms of Service plugin improvements
Admin UX & navigation improvements for accessibility
Doc export bug fixes
Community Roundtable highlights:
Shauna Roch from Fanshawe University described their pilot of offering a chatbot trained on a Pressbook (College Success) to help make the learning experience more engaging, interactive, and helpful.
Misty Allen of Weber State University asked what table/chart tools people have used with Pressbooks, since the H5P Table tool isn’t sufficient for a faculty creator’s needs. Shauna Roch said they’ve had success using Plotly.
I would like to regularly attend these meeting but the calendar and zoom links are broken.