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News basics

Audience: 

  • Learner [1]

Accessing News

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.

Audience: 

  • Learner [1]

Dismissing 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.

Audience: 

  • Learner [1]

Restoring a dismissed news item

On the News page or Global News page, click Restore from the context menu of the news item you want to restore.

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

Audience: 

  • Learner [1]

Subscribing to a 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.

Audience: 

  • Learner [1]

Global News

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

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

Audience: 

  • Learner [1]

Source URL: http://staging.docs.d2l/en/News%20basics

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