Revision history

This release includes the following updates to the iTunes U service: an enhanced summary reports manager view, including a visitors, streams, and downloads chart, a visitors by country chart, and a visitors by device chart; and additional user interface instructional and design improvements.

This release includes the following updates to the iTunes U service: contact information for iTunes U Public Site Manager support; the ability to display courses, along with collections, by language in the the Languages list in your provider page; updated course availability information; and new collection and item artwork recommendations (Apple recommends creating square, 1400 x 1400 pixel JPEG images).

This release includes the following updates to the iTunes U service: enhanced category and tag page image guidelines (with the release of iTunes 11 and iOS 6, category and tag page provider art must be at least 3200 pixels in width and 600 pixels in height); and additional user interface instructional and design improvements.

This release includes the following updates to the iTunes U service: enhanced provider page image guidelines (with the release of iTunes 11 and iOS 6, provider art must be at least 3200 pixels in width and 600 pixels in height); an improved reports manager Summary view layout, including icons indicating media types in the Top Items table; updated courses manager and users manager pages; and additional user interface instructional and design improvements.

This release includes the following updates to the iTunes U service: an enhanced summary reports manager view, including an activity by location chart and top collections and top courses tables; an improved courses manager user interface, including the ability to filter courses; a requirement that you must publish your site to view the reports manager and see daily and weekly reporting information; a requirement that instructors must click “Submit Course to iTunes U Catalog” in iTunes U Course Manager before you can add a course page to your site; and additional user interface instructional and design improvements.

This release includes the following updates to the iTunes U service: enhanced provider page, including a simplified pre-configured provider page for easy first-time publishing; streamlined publishing criteria, including the ability to preview your provider page from the publish manager page; new iPad banner image requirements to take advantage of the iPad with Retina display; new summary reports manager view (displaying daily and weekly reporting charts and tables for your site’s last two full weeks beginning Sunday, plus the current partial week, if applicable, of downloads, streams, and subscribes); updated category and subcategory codes and associated names; updated file format information in the log report; all iTunes U sites can now host content on Apple servers; and additional user interface instructional and design improvements.

This release includes the following updates to the iTunes U service: enhanced user information in an Other Accounts table in the users manager; updated log report information, including the addition of the UserId column containing an anonymous identifier of the user performing the action in your site; and additional user interface instructional and design improvements.

This release includes the following updates to the iTunes U service: Using iTunes U Public Site Manager help updates, including the removal of all iTunes U site transition information.

This release includes the following updates to the iTunes U service: an enhanced courses manager, including the ability to hide courses, a new hidden courses table, and a new to be deleted courses table; updated publishing requirements to include collections, courses, or a combination of both collections and courses; the addition of the collection page Store URL in the Configure Collection(s) dialog Summary pane; and Using iTunes U Public Site Manager help updates, including expanded information for optimizing your server bandwidth and performance.

This release includes the following updates to the iTunes U service: a new reports manager to replace weekly reports, including a details view (daily or weekly reporting information for your site, collections, courses, and items) and raw logs view (daily reporting information for your site in downloaded raw text file format).

This release includes the following updates to the iTunes U service: a new courses manager to add iTunes U Course Manager courses to your site; the ability to add an all courses feature box to your provider page to display all courses in your site; the addition of an iTunes ID column in the collections manager to help identify a collection when working with Apple; user interface instructional and design improvements, including the removal of the Layout Guide for configurable category and tag pages; and Using iTunes U Public Site Manager help updates, including specific information on the restrictions of using secure servers.

This release includes the following updates to the iTunes U service: user interface instructional and design improvements, including an enhanced item upload experience; a See All page displaying all the collections in your Top Collections list; and Using iTunes U Public Site Manager help updates, including instructions on how to view collection details.

This release includes the following updates to the iTunes U service: an improved collections manager user interface, including the ability to delete, hide, unhide, and refresh multiple collections at once, stage content by editing hidden collections, filter collections, view collection details and add collection page URL lists, and select multiple collections and configure attributes such as adding tags, assign contributors, applying themes, and relating collections by media format.

This release includes the following updates to the iTunes U service: iTunes U Public Site Manager no longer displays the second level provider name heading in the upper left corner of your provider page.

This release includes the following updates to the iTunes U service: the ability to add a Languages list to your provider page to view your collections by language.

This release includes the following updates to the iTunes U service: the ability to hide content not ready for publishing; the addition of a new contributor user, including the ability to define users, assign user roles, assign contributors to collections, and sign in to a contributor-only user interface to add and edit content; enhanced manager pages, including the collections manager, themes manager, users manager, site settings manager, and publish manager; the ability to delete themes, a new link element for RSS feeds; enhanced publishing criteria and information; improved email delivery to all administrators; a new “iTunes U” category for uncategorized items; and Using iTunes U Public Site Manager help updates, including details on downloading and opening Portable Document Format (PDF) and electronic publication (ePub) files, globally unique identifier (GUID) definition and details, additional <itunes:order> information, addition of a site request email, additional topics, glossary terms, glossary link, and so on.

This release includes the following updates to the iTunes U service: enhanced file support, including support for electronic publication (ePub) files and improved device support for Portable Document Format (PDF) files; addition of a closed captioned tag for RSS feeds; reporting updates, including new user actions (DownloadPreview, DownloadiOS, and DownloadPreviewiOS) and information; and Using iTunes U Public Site Manager help updates, including additional glossary terms, glossary links, and additional details for publishing, using Podcast Producer, top downloads, image guidelines, highly rated collections, update timing, and related collections by media format features.

Apple introduces iTunes U Public Site Manager, an enhanced version of the iTunes U service for managing public sites in the iTunes Store.