Quick Start Guides

A podcast is a web-based broadcast of audio or video content that is often delivered to subscribers through an RSS (really simple syndication) distribution mechanism.

Podcast episodes can be played from the course page or sent to the student’s podcatcher, such as iTunes and Juice, or by feed aggregators, such as Google Reader and Netvibes.

 Navigation

Steps

1. Enter a course.
2. Click the Control Panel link.
3. Click the Manage Podcast link.

Podcast Information

1. Enter the name of the podcast in the Feed Title field. By default, the podcast name is the name of the course.
2. Enter the description of the podcast in the Description field if applicable.

iTunes Metadata

1. Enter the category in the Category field if applicable.
2. Enter the sub category in the Sub Category field if applicable.
3. If you want to display a graphic for the podcast, click the Browse button for the Add Album Art field and navigate to and select the image.

Options

1. Select the Visibility option.
   
   If you want students to access the podcast episodes from the course page (no RSS feed), select the In Course Only option.
   
   If you want students to be able to subscribe to the podcast feed, select the Everyone option.
   
   

Note: The Everyone option makes the contents of the feed public to anyone who obtains the URL address.

Submit

1. Click the Submit button.