This videos shows how to embed a HootCourse widget into Moodle.
So here I am at HootCourse.com and the course that I have set up here is called BOCSM and
you'll see my HootCourse feed here HootCourse.com.
Now I can type a message into the feed here from HootCourse.com.
And just include the hashtag and update it and it will appear in the feed.
Or what I can do is embed a widget in a course management system and that gives students
the option to actually participate in the HootCourse from the course manage system without
actually leaving the course.
So let me show you how to do that.
Over here to the right you'll see that I have the option to invite more students or embed
so I'm going to click on "embed."
And it provides me with a few options.
This will give you a tab that kind of hovers to the side of your course.
I find that this option is a little difficult to see some times.
I'm going to click on in-line HTML and this is the option that I want.
I'm going to go to the box to the right and highlight that entire set of code and copy
it to my clipboard which is Command + C on a Mac or Control + C on a PC.
I'm demonstrating this on Moodle.
Moodle makes it really easy because it's simple to add an HTML text block to the top layer
of your course and that's not so easy to do in other course management systems like Blackboard
so you have to bury it somewhere where it's just not as visible.
So I have editing turned on and I'm going to go down to the bottom here where I can
add a block and click on "Add HTML."
This is my new HTML block and I want to configure it so I'm going to click on configuration.
I'm going to leave the title blank and then down in the box, what's key here is that you
not paste it immediately.
What you need to do is in the toolbar, click on the icon that looks like the "less than,
greater than" icon.
And when you mouse over it, it will display as toggle HTML source.
Click there.
Now your in HTML text mode.
I usually get rid of that little guy just by deleting it.
And now paste the code that you have saved to your clipboard.
Paste on a Mac is Command + V and on a PC it is Control + V. So now I've pasted the
code and I'm going to click "save changes" and there's my widget.
It's that simple.
And know what I can do if I were a student, for example, is just click in the box and
post an update from my course management system.
This time I'm not going to include the hashtag.Let me say one more thing.
If I were to click this box here, it would include that update on my Twitter profile
which would make it public.
By not clicking there, it only appears in our course feed which means only those members
who have joined our course see it.
So it's actually using the Twitter API but it's keeping it a private exchange only between
those who have been invited to join the HootCourse.
So let's click "update."
Ok, good.
So that worked.
And that's how that works.