News

The News tool uses RSS to bring dynamic news to your site. RSS is a data format used to syndicate news on the web. It allows continuously updated content from a remote news site to appear on another website.

To set up your site to display news, the instructor or site owner must specify a URL pointing to an RSS news feed. An RSS news feed is a specially formatted list of news articles. You can find RSS feeds by using an Internet search engine (e.g., Google or Yahoo). Sites that distribute news in RSS format are called "news feeds". The News tool is an RSS "news aggregator" (or news reader) that reads and displays content from RSS news feeds. You can usually identify an RSS feed by the .xml or .rss in the URL.

In addition to news, some websites use the RSS format for information that is updated often, such as blogs, events listings, or the revision history of a book.

• To access this tool, select News from the Tool Menu in the site.

  Note: Depending on how the news feed is named in your OWL site, the title may appear differently in your Tool Menu list.