Adding a collection

To add content to your site you must create collections containing the course content, series information, or items you want to share with your users.

To add a collection:

1. Click Collections at the top of iTunes U Public Site Manager.

2. Click the Add button.

3. Choose one of the following from the pop-up menu:

   • Provider-Hosted Feed. Choose Provider-Hosted Feed to add a new collection from a feed URL hosted on your servers, type the feed URL, and then click Add. For example, http://www.example.com/rss/provider-hosted-collection.rss.

   • Apple-Hosted Feed. Choose Apple-Hosted Feed, if available, to add and edit a new collection from a new RSS feed hosted on Apple's servers, click Add, and then use the feed editor to add channel and item details and upload content.

   iTunes U Public Site Manager adds the new collection to the collections manager page.

If you add, remove, or hide a collection or course or update an iTunes U Public Site Manager page, you must publish your site for the changes to appear in iTunes U in the iTunes Store. Publishing changes can take up to 24 hours to appear in the iTunes Store.

Notes:

• If you create a feed using port numbers other than the default port 80 (for example, in the feed URL, or in image or enclosure URLs), use port 8080.

• For more information and guidelines on creating iTunes RSS feeds, see the iTunes Podcast Technical Spec located at http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html.

Related Topics

• “About collection pages”

• “Assigning contributors to collections”

• “Customizing a collection page”

• “Viewing collection details”

• “Applying themes to collection pages”

• “Relating collections by media format”

• “Previewing a collection page”

• “Filtering collections”

• “Sorting collections”

• “Hiding a collection page”

• “Deleting a collection page”

• “About the feed editor”