Moodle FAQs

Introduction

Twitter is a micro-blogging and social networking tool (http://www.twitter.com), which is gaining lots of interest as a useful tool in teaching and learning.

This guide will describe how you can use the rss feed from your Twitter account to update in your Moodle course.

Some context

A potential use for Twitter in learning and teaching is as a means of easily updating students about useful links and references. For instance, quickly sharing a useful article that you have read in a newspaper. This is very easy to do, as you can simply text (SMS) the message from your phone (or use an application on your phone).

The problem is one of equity, for instance, how to ensure that those who are not using Twitter can access the information. The answer is to feed all your twitter updates into your Moodle course.

It is a three step process:

Step 1: From your Twitter account, copy the RSS Feed link. The location is illustrated on the image below. The feed address will be structured similarly to http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/xxxxxx.rss

Step 2: in your Moodle course, click on the Turn Editing On button, and then add the Remote RSS Feed Block.

A new block will appear (see below). Click on the link Click here to configure this block to display RSS feeds.

Select the manage all my feeds tab, scroll to the bottom of the page, enter the RSS Feed address you copied in Step 1, and complete the rest of the form.

Step 3: Displaying in Moodle

Your new block with all the tweets from your twitter account should appear in Moodle.