I would also suggest to look at how other authentication plugins do their job - see https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=category&id=21 for examples.
awwww...to be fair David, this is a hot topic for all educators at the mo.
Googling authentication/plugins and on....is not an enjoyable task for teachers who want to just simply use social media for teaching-to be honest. Tools in hand-will be used-tools that need a bit of work before application-can be a headache....yes-do shout at me! I don't mind.
Cheers,
Dawn
I'm not sure if I expressed myself right. Is there a Moodle authentication method similar to Facebook and Google authentication? I don't want to login to moodle with external users but i want to login to external apps with moodle users.
Well, Moodle includes most (all?) of the common single sign on protocols such as CAS and Shibboleth and a range of others, so its probably more a case of which ones your external apps can use.
Its also possible to use webservices to create single sign on access to specific apps - again it depends on the app you are trying to access and how that app deals with authentication
Understand.
There is a potential gap here for teaching and learning.
You see, using Twitter for example, during sessions is on the increase in education. However, collating the tweets for reflective purposes,as a study aid, is limited...I am led to believe twitter comes with archive limitations.
Gap-fill: collation done in LMS, Moodle. As currently stands it is a case of copying and pasting into LMS.
really, just some thoughts.
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Dawn,
There's stuff like Storify that people in the writing community have been using for several years to pull hashmarked tweets about a specific conference and/or presentation. I haven't done it myself.