Apple-Feed does not show up in Collections as an option

Institutions that are new to iTunes U have to provide their own Media hosting and RSS feeds. Apple no longer allows uploading to their servers other than those institutions that have joined before 2009. The only wrinkle is the new Course Manager, where materials can be uploaded for courses in the "My Materials" area.

Ok. That makes sense I guess.

Any case, does anyone have any suggestions on how to host the media and the RSS data? This is not something I've ever had to do.

Hi all,

So after roaming the desert alone for days, and reading this thread (and some additional info from johagan), here's how I got my site live.

Let me start by saying that, while I understand Apple's dedication to Collections, I happen to feel that Collections would be more useful on College and University sites, while I feel that my K-12 district will be using Courses almost exclusively.

That being said, in order to go live, we need to have 6 Collections, each with one "item". And since a collection page essentially just links to an RSS Feed, I needed to create 6 "dummy RSS feeds" and 6 items.

So what I did was just that.

I found this link- http://www.eiu.edu/iTunesU/files/iTunesUAdministratorsGuideChapter7_Managing_iTu nesU_Course_Pages.pdf

Page 100 shows how to create an RSS Feed (for those of you that have some HTML knowledge).

I created 6 HTML files (one for each of my buildings), and then the "item" pointed to 6 PDF files that I created that simply had each school's name and web address. I uploaded the 12 files to my school's website server, and entered the 6 HTML addresses as the Feed URLs in the Site Manager.

Voila! I was able to go live.

I have the same questions and problem, any guidance would be appreciated