You can provide access to repositories to external users via RSS feed, or provide access to external repositories to federate learning objects or harvest metadata.
Note: You must enable the RSS feed configuration variables before you can provide RSS feed access to users.
- On the navbar, click LOR.
- From the tool navigation, click Manage.
- From the Learning Object Repositories table, click the repository name.
- From the More Actions button, click External Access.
- Click Edit.
- Modify any of the following settings:
- To allow users to subscribe to this repository's RSS feed, select RSS.
- To enable external repositories to harvest the metadata from this Brightspace Learning Repository, select Harvesting.
- To enable external repositories to federate the learning objects in this Brightspace Learning Repository, select Federation.
- Click Save.
Enable an RSS feed for a repository
- From the Admin Tools menu, click Config Variable Browser.
- Enable the following configuration variables:
- d2l.Tools.LOR.RSS.AllowBrowsePathRSS
- d2l.Tools.LOR.RSS.AllowRepositoryRSS
- d2l.Tools.LOR.RSS.AllowCollectionRSS
- To limit the number of items in a feed, set the d2l.Tools.LOR.RSS.MaxFeedItems configuration variable.