RSS allows the most current information published in a website to be made available in a form that is RSS enabled.

The process by which which this occurs is known as syndication.

As this term suggests, each web site is connected to the other using a type of code (atom.xml) known which triggers remote website feedreaders to acknowledge that an update has occured within the primary site. Each subscriber nominates how they want these alerts to arrive - full entry, summary with titles or just titles.

The advantages of syndication are that when changes are made for example to a curriculum document as a result of changes in policy or procedural guidelines then the teachers who are part of that RSS syndication are immediately updated.