User Guide

Configuring Podcast LX

Enabling the Podcast Tool

System administrators control the availability of the Podcast tool in courses across your learning management system. If the system administrator enables Podcast LX in courses, you can control the availability of the Podcast tool in your course.When enabled by the administrator, podcasts will be available in all courses by default.

Setting up a Podcast

1. Navigate to the Course Tools button for your course or organization.
2. Select the Manage Podcast link.

 

 

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Podcast Information

Once you have accessed the Manage Podcast page, you need to complete some information to configure the course podcast.

 

1. Enter a name for your podcast in the Feed Title field.
2. Enter a description in the Description field.

 

The name and description will appear in subscribers' aggregators when they are viewing the feed.

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iTunes Metadata

Podcast LX allows instructors to specify iTunes-specific metadata for the course feed. This metadata will appear in the Get Info window for the feed in iTunes.

1. Enter information in the Category field.
2. Enter information in the Sub Category field if desired.
3. Click the Browse button to navigate to the album art.
4. Select the image.
   

 

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Options

A podcast generally has an associated RSS feed that allows users to subscribe to the content via a podcatcher, an aggregator specifically for podcasts. Podcast LX allows instructors to make an RSS feed available for their course podcast. If the instructors chooses to make the feed available, an RSS link will be made available to course members for subscription.

 

If the instructor does not want to make course podcast content publicly available, the RSS feed can be disabled so that course members can only listen or view podcast content in the course.

 

 

See the Accessing Podcast Content topic.

 

Select whether the podcast content should be publicly available or accessible only within the course. Once you have selected your podcast configurations, click the Submit button to save the settings.