Some faculty members find it useful to include an RSS feed in their Moodle courses. These can be from Swarthmore hosted sites (ex: e.g. a WordPress course site) , or from other publicly available sources.
- Log into the Moodle course .
- Turn editing on by clicking the Green button at the top right of the screen.
- Scroll to the bottom left corner and find the block labeled Add a Blockand
Multiexcerpt include MultiExcerptName MoodleEditMode PageWithExcerpt Moodle Home - In the Block Drawer on the right side of the page, click Add a Block. If the right side Block Drawer isn't visible, click the "less-than" button (Open Block Drawer) on the top right of the page.
- Choose Remote RSS feeds from the dropdown.
- The page will reload and there should now be a block in the lower left corner of the course labeled Remote News Feed. Click the gear icon in this block to configure the feed.From the Configuring a Remote News Feed block settings page scroll to the setting labeled Choose the feeds which Block settings dialog will open
- Make your choices from the options here including:
- Whether to display each link's description
- Max number of entries to show per block
- Which feeds you would like to make available in
- the block
- (Click the
- "Add/edit feeds
- Click the Add a new feed button.
- Add the desired location to the Feed URL field.
- Set Shared feed to "No".
- Click the blue Add a new feed button.
- Navigate back to the course.
- Find the Remote News Feed block which you had created earlier. Click the gear icon to finalize the configuration.
- Configure the block to your liking, selecting the feed you've added in previous steps.
- Click the blue Save Changes button.
- " link to add or change feeds.)
- Title of the block
- Whether a link to the original site should be displayed
- Save Changes