Hi all!
This is somewhere between an answer to “What would make your job easier?” and a couple of feature requests/bug reports. I’ll send in proper support requests in addition, but I thought I’d go through the list of items I’ve caught preparing for fall in total while they’re on my mind:
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Cloning texts with H5P activities - This is the first semester where we have a couple of texts with H5P activities being used in classes. Once our texts are published by IU Press editing privileges are handed off by the authors in order to keep the text frozen in time – technically speaking, this means I clone the text into a shared account that only administrators can access. I enter the texts to fix any technical issues or minor formatting problems as needed but otherwise the texts are left alone. Cloning the texts was - well - a bit of a hassle. I had to clone each text twice to get the H5P activities to move, and I just found out that 3 out of 29 in one text didn’t move over. Not hard to fix manually, just difficult to spot when it happens.
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Opening links in a new window - I ran into a technical issue between Canvas, Pressbooks, and Kaltura this semester-start – a faculty member was clicking a link in their Pressbooks text in Canvas (LTI) that should’ve opened in the same window, but instead it threw an error. That got worked out, but it also reinforced my desire for two functionalities:
External link icon: I use custom CSS to add this (https://codepen.io/Bets/pen/KGBqqb) – an icon that gets applied to links opening in a new window that alerts folks they’re being jumped to a new window.
Hidden text for screenreaders: Also custom CSS – I add text that only screenreaders will pick up that warns folks that a link will open in a new window.
The latter bullet covers big QoL improvements for me. I’ve got folks who’re really interested in using them but having to dig into the CSS/HTML can be a bit of a hurdle so I end up doing it for them when I can. All this said, maybe I’m missing something obvious. I’d be thrilled to find out that I’m just unintentionally making more work for myself. 
I’m curious what you all have been running into this semester-start too! We have a couple of new texts going into production and some faculty diving into H5P – it’s really exciting. I even have someone working on our first branching H5P activity. What about you all? Any new fun stuff? Any headaches?