Some faculty members find it useful to include an RSS feed in their Moodle courses. These can be from Swarthmore hosted sites (ex: WordPress course site), or from other publicly available sources.
- Log into the Moodle course and turn editing on
- On the left menu click Add a Block. If the left menu isn't visible, click the "hamburger" button on the top left of the page.
- Choose Remote RSS feeds from the dropdown.
- The page will reload and there should now be a block in the right column 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, look for the setting labeled Choose the feeds which you would like to make available in this block. Click the red link labeled 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.