About News

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Use the News tool to read instructor messages, course information, and other news updates.

News items appear in the News widget, but you can also receive instant notifications about postings through email, SMS, and RSS feeds. See Setting your notifications to learn about creating instant notifications for news items.

NOTE The Global News Item icon appears beside global news items in your News widget.

Access the News tool

Do one of the following:

Click News on the navbar. Click News in the header of the News widget. Click Edit Course on the navbar, then click

News.

Global News

Global news items appear in the same My Home and Course Home pages' News widget as course-related news items.

News help topics

Managing news items Subscribing to News' RSS feed

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Managing news items

Dismiss a news item Restore a dismissed news item Use the drop-down lists in the Sort Order column to select an item's order. Other items automatically reposition themselves according to the new order. Click Save.

Dismiss a news item

Do one of the following:

Click the Dismiss icon for the news item you want to hide in the News widget. On the News page, click Dismiss from the context menu of item you want to dismiss. Back to top

Restore a dismissed news item

On the News page or Global News page, click to restore.

Restore from the context menu of the news item you want

NOTE You can click Go to News tool from the News widget menu to view all news items on the News page.

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See also

Subscribing to News' RSS feed Setting your notifications

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Subscribing to News' RSS feed

You can subscribe to a News RSS feed and receive daily updates of all news items in an RSS reader. This allows you to access an aggregate of news items without logging into the Learning Environment.

Subscribe to a News RSS feed

1. Do one of the following: On the News page, click

RSS from the More Actions button.

Click RSS from the News widget menu.

2. Click Subscribe to this feed. 3. Click Subscribe.

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