University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Distance Education


What is RSS?

An online mechanism for content distribution. News, information, and blogs can be published with RSS. When a new article is posted or a change is made to an existing article all subscribed feeds are automatically updated. The end user will always have the latest information and news at their finger tips. Text, images, audio (including podcasts) and video can be incorporated into RSS feeds.

How Does RSS Impact you?

As an individual, subscriptions to feeds can help keep you up-to-date on important news and information. See below for an example on how to subscribe.

For those without feed readers we have incorporated feeds into our web pages to present the most current news and deadlines. To view this type of presentation just check our external login pages.

How do I Use RSS?

To view RSS feeds, you will need an RSS reader or aggregator. There are a number of free or low-cost online, desktop, mobile and Outlook--based readers available.

Example

An example of configuring one of the many online readers. You can access any online reader from any computer connected to the internet.

To subscribe to this feed using Google Reader;

Go to https://www.google.com/reader/

  1. sign into your Google Reader account,
  2. click on "Add subscription",
  3. enter "http://www.uwplatt.edu/disted/login/feeds/announcements.xml",
  4. click "Add"

You are now subscribed to this feed. Whenever you return to this site you will always have the most current information on your program and semester dates at your fingertips.