News engine

Definition

The "news engine" is a kind of Content Management System. Administrators can organize contents into different topics (subject areas) and decide who can post news, look at news, annotate news, moderate news, etc. Frequently the portal is configured to show on the entry page the last stories received. Users usually can submit news (editors with special rights can approve it), display the news on the index page, browse through the topics (click on "topic icons" associated with each story), search through all the contents, annotate contents (i.e. each story has an associated forum). This is a core module of most portals, for some portals there exist also some 3rd party ones with special features.Functions : Submit, comment, edit, delete, rate, search, browse, moderate

Pedagogical interest

Interact by providing new information (to start a story, a project, an activity), comment information made by others (e.g. student work or articles found on the web), organize asynchronous debates, present an expert's view on a theme.