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.
- 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 Block.
- 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 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.