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How do I add a News tool?
Updated onArticleIn the target Sakai site, select Site Info from the Tool Menu.
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What is the News tool?
Updated onArticleThe 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 in another web site.
To set up a 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. An RSS feed can be identified by the .xml or .rss in the URL (e.g., http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/Movies.xml or http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss).
In addition to news, some web sites use the RSS format for information that is updated often, such as blogs, events listings, or the revision history of a book. Site owners can add more than one News feed either when setting up the site or at a later time via Manage Tools in Site Info.
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How do students view announcements?
Updated onArticleAnnouncements are displayed in several locations. Students may view them from Home, from an individual course or project site, or from the Announcements tool.
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How do I change Announcements tool permissions?
Updated onArticleBy default, students may only read announcements that have been posted by instructors and other instructor-type roles (e.g., Teaching Assistant). Permissions can be changed so that students may create, edit, delete, and even access draft versions of the announcements not yet published.
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How do I merge announcements?
Updated onArticleThe function to merge announcements allows for a central course to push out announcements to other courses. For example, a Nursing Program includes twenty different courses. But a single Nursing Program Master course or project site could be used to push announcements out to all twenty of the Nursing Program courses. Announcements that are merged from the Master course cannot be edited or deleted in the individual Nursing Program courses. Those courses could create additional announcements that would apply to their specific course only. Those would appear in addition to the announcements merged from the Master Course.
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How do I reorder announcements?
Updated onArticleIn the target Sakai site, select Announcements from the Tool Menu.
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How do I delete an announcement?
Updated onArticleIn the target Sakai site, select Announcements from the Tool Menu.
Sakai 22 Instructor Guide Announcements
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How do I edit an announcement?
Updated onArticleIn the target Sakai site, select Announcements from the Tool Menu.
Sakai 22 Instructor Guide Announcements
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How do I add an announcement?
Updated onArticleIn the target Sakai site, select Announcements from Tool Menu.
Sakai 22 Instructor Guide Announcements
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What is the Announcements tool?
Updated onArticleThe Announcements tool allows for the delivery of messages to the entire class, to groups, or to specific sections within the class. Participants will see the Announcement message displayed in the Announcements widget of their Home area, as well as within the course itself. Announcements can be set to show immediately or to show during specific dates. Email notifications can be sent to alert participants of the Announcement message.
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