Real Simple Syndication (RSS) is a simple XML protocol for sharing news stories across the web. RSS has been applied in a lot of areas, from simple news readers to audio and video distribution through podcasting. Moodle can both create and consume RSS feeds and we'll explore how to do both in this section.
Creating RSS feeds from a forum
We'll start exploring RSS by creating a news feed from a forum. Although forum subscriptions allow users to receive posts through e-mail, syndicating content through an RSS feed allows users to consume content from the Moodle site through another channel.