Sharing badges to social media from moodle

Sharing badges to social media from moodle

by Renato Alegre -
Number of replies: 9

So my objective is to avoid having students in my moodle site to go to several sites (which process may or may not end up confusing them) such as backpack.openbadges.org, credly.com, etc. in order to share one or many of their earned badges into social media sites such as facebook, linkedin, etc. by having the option to do so somewhere in the moodle site itself.

As suggested before, I know Credly is an option, but it requires going to a third party site, which  distorts the education experience immersion.

I would like to know if currently there is a plug-in I could add or anything of the like that would facilitate me this feature, and if not, how or where could I start developing one.

Has this been attempted before? If yes, what have been the shortcomings/obstacles that have stopped it from being finished; if not, why not?


Thank you for your time.


--Ren

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Re: Sharing badges to social media from moodle

by Yuliya Bozhko -

Hi Renato,

Sharing on backpack.openbadges.org doesn't require students to go anywhere. This is done by directly pushing badges from Moodle to backpack. Like Facebook or any other social network it will still require registration before users will be able to share their badges. In Badge backpack users can share badges with Google+, Twitter and Facebook, AFAIK.

As for your question, I am not aware of any other plugins that would allow direct sharing from Moodle. Feel free to develop one, of course. The question here is whether Moodle would want such feature to be added to core, but that's probably a different discussion...

Yuliya

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Re: Sharing badges to social media from moodle

by Renato Alegre -
Obviously I tried before posting. And this is what I am getting.
http://imgur.com/76GNAMx,SIdS34P

No share option whatsoever.
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Re: Sharing badges to social media from moodle

by Simon Coggins -

From your screenshot:

"You can share these badges by creating Collections (above) & choosing to display them on your networks."

Simon

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Re: Sharing badges to social media from moodle

by Yuliya Bozhko -

In Mozilla backpack, you need to add badge to a collection to be able to share it.


Backpack

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Re: Sharing badges to social media from moodle

by Renato Alegre -

Thank you. I see it now.

Well at least that is one way to go about it :D

However my question remains. I kind of want students to have the option to share badges in a slightly easier way if possible. Is there any way that can be achieved now, soon or sometime in the future?

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Re: Sharing badges to social media from moodle

by Simon Coggins -

Did you know that a badge recipient can just share the badge page URL and anyone with that specific URL will be able to see there badge. For example here is one of my badges from moodle.org:

https://moodle.org/badges/badge.php?hash=e7e62a5b6f02004581875a72658d8189bdf83cbf

That page is accessible as long as the site is publically available (no login required).

They can also download the actual badge image (which has the assertion baked into it) and do whatever they want with that.

Simon


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Re: Sharing badges to social media from moodle

by Gisele Brugger -

Hello

a suggestion: it would be interesting to have on page the name of who received the badge and buttons similar this 

share_social

tks

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Easy way: Sharing badges to social media from moodle

by Miguel Miní -

Easy Way, not the better:

Edit each badge's outgoing message. Include an HTML code as the following (Generated by http://simplesharingbuttons.com )

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fa%2Fifb.edu.pe%2Fimages%2Fcomplemento_mate%2Finsignias%2F2015_1.png&t=Insignia" title="Compartir en Facebook" target="_blank"><img src="https://sites.google.com/a/ifb.edu.pe/images/redes-sociales/facebook.png"></a></li>
  <li><a href="https://plus.google.com/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fa%2Fifb.edu.pe%2Fimages%2Fcomplemento_mate%2Finsignias%2F2015_1.png" target="_blank" title="Compartir en  Google+"><img src="https://sites.google.com/a/ifb.edu.pe/images/redes-sociales/googleplus.png"></a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fa%2Fifb.edu.pe%2Fimages%2Fcomplemento_mate%2Finsignias%2F2015_1.png&title=Insignia&summary=&source=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fa%2Fifb.edu.pe%2Fimages%2Fcomplemento_mate%2Finsignias%2F2015_1.png" target="_blank" title="Compartir en LinkedIn"><img src="https://sites.google.com/a/ifb.edu.pe/images/redes-sociales/linkedin.png"></a></li>
</ul>


Check or change the links to your own badges image. Also edit the alternative texts and the titles.