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Twitter Feed Block for Moodle

Moodle block which a twitter feed with easily stylable markup

Requirements

This plugin requires Moodle 2.7 or greater

Changes

  • 2016-01-28 - Initial version

Installation

  • Install the plugin like any other plugin to folder /blocks/twitter
  • See http://docs.moodle.org/29/en/Installing_plugins for details on installing Moodle plugins
  • To enable the twitter block to contact the twitter API you will need to set up an application for twitter to use.
  • Visit https://apps.twitter.com/ and login with your twitter account to use this application.
  • For configuration on Moodle, you will need a Consuer Key, Consumer Secret, Access Token, and an Access Token Secret.
  • Once you have these details, fill in the relevant settings for the block in moodle through the plugin administration interface.

Usage

The block_twitter plugin has 2 settings per instance: A setting for the number of tweets to show on the block. A setting for the twitter handle to get a list of tweets from.  Currently only 1 handle per block is supported.

Themes

block_twitter should work with all themes from moodle core.

Further information

Thanks

Thanks to Caroline Kennedy for ideas & suggestions

Copyright

2016 Andrew Davidson