eText Higher Ed Monthly Steering Committee Meeting

January 2011

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Agenda• v4.3.1 successfully released last weekend • Upcoming iPad and eText releases• v1.0 app now available via the App store for

download • Process for creating iPad versions of eTexts that

were already created in the past • Custom Hotspot Spreadsheet revisions • Feedback from NSM and time for Q&A on your

iPad questions

v4.3.1 Release

• Deployed 1/9

• Addressed a few bugs that needed to be fixed prior to the next release

• Details on our Wiki

Upcoming Releases

• v1.01 iPad– Due out Jan / February– Bug fixes

• v1.1 iPad– Due out Spring– New features

• v4.4 eText– Projected to be deployed by Spring– Will focus on back-end Authoring and Content Manager

improvements– Begin Documentum integration work– No user enhancements to be added

iPad App now available!

Downloading the eText iPad App

• Go to Apple iTunes Store• Search for “Pearson eText• Select “Free” and then “Install”• Make sure you are running on iOS 4.2. • Enter your existing MyLab/Mastering

credentials into the app to gain access*

*If you have access to MyLab/Mastering products that contain eTexts but the eTexts are not yet available on the iPad, your credentials will not work. You will receive an invalid error message. This message has caused some confusion and we plan to clarify the messaging in the next release.

Creating iPad view for new eTexts• In addition to adding the usual files to the ftp site make sure that

you provide us with the following:– Hi-Res PDF of the book cover– png file of custom icon in addition to swf file

• Complete the HED/INT’L eText Conversion Request Form – iPad view required is automatically selected “yes”– iPad view will automatically allow the user to download

chapters• SMS will need to be set up to include the following for iPad:

– SMS Site ID 15102 will need to be added – Create Module ID for iPad view

• Once you review and are ready to publish, complete the Promotion Request Form

Creating iPad Titles for pre-existing

eTexts • Titles that were originally created more than 6 months ago

may be archived.

• For those titles, they will need to be retrieved from archive which can take a period of time.

• If you have a number of titles that you know you will be going back and requesting iPad views of, feel free to contact me so we can check to see if those titles are still on our ftp.

• If they are no longer on the ftp we can coordinate requesting all of those titles at one time instead of individually.

Custom Hotspot Spreadsheet Revisions

• Why have they been revised?- We now support new link types (H.264, Jazz etc.)- You can better communicate to us what links should not appear in the iPad view

• The spreadsheets and documentation on how to use them will be added to the wiki shortly.

THANK YOU!

Janet MarhefkaPhone: 201-236-7037

janet.marhefka@pearson.comVisit our Wiki:

http://cmsna.pearson.com/groups/etext/