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News Feed

Hello,

What is the best way to add news feed to the home page?

Thank you,

Marina

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Hi,

I am very interested in this and creating an 'Elearning News' Dashboard on our system.

Many thanks

Adam

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Hi Adam

If you are wanting to display content from outside of Totara then you can add the Remote RSS feed block.

To get RSS feed from within Totara activities - select Enable RSS feeds under Site admin > Advanced features and then enable RSS feed for the activity you want the feed for. Blogs, forums, database and glossary activities support RSS feeds.

regards

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Hi, Craig,

I enabled the RSS feed in the Advanced features, but when I try to add a new forum activity, I don't see any options to turn on RSS feed for that forum. Am I missing something? Or looking in the wrong place? Or is forum not the best option to create a blog-like section?

Just FYI, I have already created an RSS feeds, which worked, just can't get it to display on the home page.

Thank you,

Marina

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Hi marina

The RSS feed for the forum activities need to be enabled at the Site level first - through Site Admin > Plugins, Activity modules > Forum .

The forum in the course should then have the RSS option.

RSS tracking

For the feed that doesn't work check that it is a valid feed through https://validator.w3.org/feed/

regards

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You can add a Latest News Block to your front page. In the org I work for we use the Karousel block (3 of them) to make announcements on our front page.

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