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

• This block uses the PHP twitter oauth library from https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth
• block_twitter is found in the Moodle Plugins repository: https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=block_twitter
• Report a bug or suggest an improvement: https://github.com/iamandrew/moodle-block_twitter/issues

Thanks

Thanks to Caroline Kennedy for ideas & suggestions

Copyright

2016 Andrew Davidson