The Forum provides a mechanism by which you may be automatically notified whenever a new posting is made to the Forum. This is done via a web feature called RSS (Really Simple Syndication).

An RSS feed is a special web page that lists recent changes to a website. For example, websites devoted to current news will provide a feed listing newly posted articles. A program called an RSS reader or aggregator will allow you to subscribe to an RSS feed, after which it will periodically read check that feed and notify you of any changes.

An RSS feed is indicated by this icon:

If you want to take advantage of the course's RSS feeds, you must

There are a lot of RSS readers out there, including a number of high-quality ones that are available for free. A basic web search should turn up quite a few. Increasingly, many email programs and web browsers will include a built-in RSS capability. For example, the Firefox browser and the Micrsoft Outlook email readers will allow you to subscribe to RSS feeds. There are also a number of web-based readers, such as Feedly.