Course Management 

RSS in Glossaries 

Moodle's RSS feed works almost the same in the 

Glossary module as it does in the Forum module. 

If RSS is enabled, you will see two additional 

Fig. 48 

fields in Glossary setup (Fig. 48). 

     RSS feed for this activity: This turns RSS on or off. When set to  None,  the RSS feed is 

disabled. When set to  Concepts with authors,  the RSS feed will send out the glossary 

entries with the name of the author. When set to  Concepts without authors,  the RSS feed 

sends out glossary entries without the name of the author. 

     Number of RSS recent articles: This number sets the number of entries that go out via 

RSS. If this number is set to 5, then the 5 most recent articles will be sent to subscribers. 

As new entries get added, the oldest  entry gets replaced on the RSS feed. If your glossary 

gets a lot of posts every day, you will want to set this number high. 

When RSS is enabled for your 

Glossary,  an  orange  RSS  button        

appears on the main page (Fig. 49), 

just like when the Forum is enabled. 

Create a Glossary description that 

tells students about RSS. When a 

user clicks on the RSS button, they 

see 

the 

XML 

code 

displayed         

(Fig. 47), needed by the news reader. 

Fig. 49 

Once a user has the RSS news feed 

link, adding it to a reader (Fig. 50) is 

simple and will then display Forum 

and Glossary aggregated information, 

along  with  other  information  they        

subscribe to.  

Fig. 50 

Bloglines is an example of an online web based RSS news reader. 

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