While looking to add Collections to my district iTunes U, I have no option for an "Apple-Feed" RSS. I have attached a screen shot. Ideas?
Greetings;
Have you migrated your content from the older iTunes U environment to the new Public Site Manager?
Syd Rodocker
Apple iTunes U Administrator
Tennessee State Department of Education
Tennessee's Electronic Learning Center
No. This is a new K-12 setup. I can do just about everything but get the Collections added. How was it done with colleges before, the RSS setup I mean.
I have the same question. I don't get an Apple Feed option for our new k-12 setup either.
I'm in the same boat. I can't publish anything until I get 6 collections available, which is really not a big deal because I don't have content to publish yet anyway, but I don't have an Apple Hosted Feed to select at all.
The instructions tell me to select Apple Hosted Feed, but I can't. Because it's not there. Is this something Apple plans to add to the menu?
Like you guys, I'm stuck.
What is working though is the Course Manager. You can create your course, copy the link, send to a user, and if they have iTunes U installed on their iPad, they should be good to go. So, temporarily, it is a work around.
Yes. That does work. I just tried. Thanks for the tip.
It would be nice if Apple could get this fixed, though. I work for a High School and we're in the process of going 1-1 so the sooner I can get this site up and running, the better.
Agreed. I put in a lot of work to get things planned out to only have this wall thrown up on me.
I know! I guess I shouldn't complain too much, but when I FINALLY got the Approval notice I was all pumped up, told like 20 people (colleagues and faculty) and then kept going round and round through the instructions trying to figure out what I was missing.
Oh well. I suppose that Apple is probably inundated with requests from K12 institutions at this point and will get it taken care of (I HOPE!).
Cheers...
Greetings All;
Our site in Tennessee has been "live" since 2008, and my experience with Apple's iTunes U Support Team has been great. They do regularly monitor these discussions and I'm confident that they will respond.
I wish all of you much success with your new sites! All the best...
Syd Rodocker
Apple iTunes U Administrator
Tennessee State Department of Education
Tennessee's Electronic Learning Center
I have received some feedback from iTunes U, Syd. All it said, in essence, is we need to update the documentation.
At this time, Apple provides hosting for courses created by instructors in the new Course Manager tool. Collections in Public Site Manager are still based on RSS feeds.Apple-hosted collections feeds refers to an earlier version of iTunes U.
We will clarify this in the documentation.
Thanks,
Jason Ediger
Director, Education Content
Apple Inc.
Currently, an iTunes U site must have at least 6 public collections (rss-based feeds) to go live in the public iTunes U catalog. At this time, courses are not counted as part of that six. This will be adjusted in a future update.
Jason Ediger
Director, Education Content
Apple Inc.
So, according to the replies you got from Apple, does that mean we'll have to host our own RSS Feeds? Did they offer any information in regard to how we should do this?
So, according to the replies you got from Apple, does that mean we'll have to host our own RSS Feeds? Did they offer any information in regard to how we should do this?
The only response I got was what I found above. I did contact some other school districts to see what they were doing. The only ones with K-12 iTunes U directories are those who have been podcasting for a few years, so their materials are already up online via RSS. It was easy for them to make the jump.
Apple-Feed does not show up in Collections as an option
