{"id":1043,"date":"2015-02-20T08:28:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T08:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2015-02-25T11:54:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T11:54:30","slug":"embed-a-scrolling-rss-widget-into-your-blackboard-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/2015\/02\/20\/embed-a-scrolling-rss-widget-into-your-blackboard-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Embed a scrolling RSS widget into your Blackboard course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RSS\" target=\"_blank\">RSS feeds<\/a> provide lists of news items that can be clicked through to access the originating content. Using a RSS widget embedded into a Blackboard course allows you to embed news items from other websites. There are <a title=\"List of embeddable RSS widgets via Google\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=rss+embeddable+widget&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;gws_rd=cr&amp;ei=2LftVLqWCNDXapT_goAJ#q=rss+embeddable+widget&amp;spell=1\" target=\"_blank\">many RSS widgets <\/a>available that offer embed codes and we particular like <a title=\"Feedwind\" href=\"http:\/\/feed.mikle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Feedwind <\/a>which is highly customisable and currently completely free to use.\u00a0 This RSS widget will scroll automatically through news articles at a rate of your choosing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1044\" style=\"width: 506px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/files\/2015\/02\/rss.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1044\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1044\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/files\/2015\/02\/rss.gif\" alt=\"Example RSS feed embedded within Blackboard\" width=\"496\" height=\"564\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Example RSS feed embedded within Blackboard<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nAs with all third party services Feedwind may change its offering at any time, so make sure to read their <a title=\"terms of use\" href=\"http:\/\/feed.mikle.com\/legal\/\" target=\"_blank\">terms of use<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although Feedwind is incredibly simple to use we have written <a title=\"Add a RSS feed to your Blackboard course\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/isolutions\/computing\/elearn\/blackboard\/addrss.html\" target=\"_blank\">a short step by step guide which is available on our website<\/a> amongst 350+ other Blackboard guides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RSS feeds provide lists of news items that can be clicked through to access the originating content. Using a RSS widget embedded into a Blackboard course allows you to embed news items from other websites. There are many RSS widgets available that offer embed codes and we particular like Feedwind which is highly customisable and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}