STEP 1: Modifying your Truview content layout. Log in to truview at http://truview.truman.edu and take a look at the way information is laid out on the page. Information blocks are lined up on columns.

In the upper left corner of your browser window, you can see a link called "Content/Layout." Click on it.

STEP 2: Choosing a place for the RSS feed. Upon clicking on the "Content/Layout" link, your browser will take you to a page that represents the layout of your Truview portal. Here you have tools (in the form of buttons) that allow you to shift (up & down, left & right) where content appears, remove content, and add content.

Truview uses the term Channel to represent a source of content. We are going to add a Channel for the News from the Mathematical Biology Initiative's web site.

In the image at the right, I am preparing to place the Channel at the upper right corner of my Truview portal so I'll be sure to see any changes.

Look at the chart that represents the different Channels serving your portal and select a location for the MathBio News. Click on the "Add Channel" button that is in that location.

STEP 3: Adding the MathBio News as a Channel in Truview After you click on the 'Add Channel" button in the Truview layout chart, yoru browser will bring you to a page that lets you choose the type of content you want to slot into the location you selected.

The first thing you do here is select a type of content. Use the "Select a Category" drop-down list and choose "Applications."

Once you have selected the "Applications" category, click on the "go" button.

Another list will appear in a selection window. Scroll down through that list until you see the item "RSS Feed." Click on this item so that it is highlighted.

Once that list is highlighted, click on the "Add Channel" button that should be someonwhere below the selection window. This will make your browser take you to a page that has some controls for configuring the RSS feed.

STEP 4: Configuring the tool. When your browser displays the "Channel Settings" window, you are ready to make some final configurations before the MathBio News is added to your Truview portal.

There are three settings on this page, but you only need modify the first two.

First, paste the URL of the MathBio homepage's RSS feed. This should be http://mathbio.truman.edu/news/RSS. If this does not work, see instructions below for finding the RSS feed's URL.

Second, make sure that the RSS version is set at "1.0x (RDF format)". You can change this setting by selection an option from the available drop-down menu.

Once you do that, your Truview portal will sport the latest in news from the Mathematical Biology Initiative.