About News

Use the News tool to read instructor messages, course information, and other news updates.

News items appear in the News widget, but you can also receive instant notifications about postings through email, SMS, and RSS feeds. See Setting your notifications to learn about creating instant notifications for news items.

Note  The Global News Item icon appears beside global news items in your News widget.

Access the News tool

Do one of the following:

• Click News on the navbar.
• Click News in the header of the News widget.
• Click Edit Course on the navbar, then click News.

Global News

Global news items appear in the same My Home and Course Home pages' News widget as course-related news items.

News help topics

• Managing news items
• Subscribing to News' RSS feed