Your Account details include your User Id, Name, Email, and Password for UVaCollab.  In most cases, this information is automatically populated when you are added to a UVaCollab site.  People with Guest logins can change their log in password and update their name and email address if desired.  

When creating folders and uploading files to UVaCollab, folder and file names that contain special characters can affect site participants' ability to download or access the files correctly.

Issues can also arise from uploading files with very long names in excess of 250 characters, or from saving files inside many stacked folders so that the resulting file location is greater than 250 characters.

Note: Some online journals post articles with their entire bibliographic entries in the file names; these names may contain special characters and be very long.  If such a file is uploaded without editing its name, it can cause errors when uploading other files to the same folder.

The News tool uses RSS to bring dynamic news to your site. RSS is a data format used to syndicate news on the web. It allows continuously updated content from a remote news site to appear in another web site.

To set up your site to display news, the instructor or site owner must specify a URL pointing to an RSS news feed. An RSS news feed is a specially formatted list of news articles. You can find RSS feeds by using an Internet search engine (e.g., Google or Yahoo). Sites that distribute news in RSS format are called "news feeds". The News tool is an RSS "news aggregator" (or news reader) that reads and displays content from RSS news feeds. You can usually identify an RSS feed by the .xml or .rss in the URL (e.g., http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/Movies.xml or http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss).

In addition to news, some web sites use the RSS format for information that is updated often, such as blogs, events listings, or the revision history of a book. Site owners can add more than one News feed either when setting up the site or at a later time via Edit Tools in Site Info.

Note: For instructions on how to add this or any other tool to your site, see How do I add tools to my site?