Moodle: Embed Follow and Tweet Buttons Tweet

Last modification by fpucol August 3, 2011, 11:17 am → version: 2 Language: English Average rating: Moodle: Embed Follow and Tweet Buttons 4 by 4 users Viewed: 1266 times

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If you are not signed up for a Twitter account: http://www.tildee.com/EKo9Uj When you have a Twitter account go to http://twitter.com/about/resources. Click on the big "Follow" button to create a button.

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Enter your Twitter user name and edit your follow button options. Then highlight this and copy it.

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Go to your moodle course and click the edit button (the icon of a hand with a pencil) wherever you want to add these buttons to your page.

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Click the "Toggle" button to go to your HTML source mode where you will be able to paste the HTML code you copied from the Twitter site.

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Click at the end of all the text and paste the code you copied in step 2. Now before you save this, go back to http://twitter.com/about/resources and click on the "Tweet" button to create another button.

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Copy HTML code on the right side of the page and navigate back to your moodle course.

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Paste this code at the end of the other code you pasted into your Editor and click "Save changes" at the bottom of the page. Now you will see your moodle course with Follow and Tweet buttons.

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If you click the Follow button you will see your profile, recent tweets, and your followers/following.

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If you click the Tweet button you will be given a pre-typed message with a link that you can tweet to all your followers.

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Now you know how to create and use Twitter follow and tweet buttons in your moodle course. If you want to be able to add a Twitter feed to your moodle course: http://www.tildee.com/plrI7e