Course Building Follow Up: LMS allowing learner sign up with Twitter?
April 30, 2024 5:57 PM Subscribe
I’m building a business course for a client and looking for an LMS software recommendation. Following on from my most recent question, it would be very helpful if the course software would have students register / log on to take the course with their Twitter login. Suggestions gratefully received!
Response by poster: Thanks all! These learners are already using a product from the client which requires a twitter account. I’m not authorised to change this requirement but you’ve definitely passed me some good points to share with the client.
posted by The Last Sockpuppet at 8:57 AM on May 1
posted by The Last Sockpuppet at 8:57 AM on May 1
>These learners are already using a product from the client which requires a twitter account. I’m >not authorised to change this requirement but you’ve definitely passed me some good points to >share with the client.
I used to be like you. I would endlessly fret over something like this. I would then turn down the job out of (in retrospect), a naive sense of perfectionism. And guess what, someone else would come along with the immediate stipulation that their process of, for example, email signups would only be allowed. Then, all of a sudden, the silly rule (like Twitter signups only) just became irrelevant.
posted by jacobean at 10:05 AM on May 1
I used to be like you. I would endlessly fret over something like this. I would then turn down the job out of (in retrospect), a naive sense of perfectionism. And guess what, someone else would come along with the immediate stipulation that their process of, for example, email signups would only be allowed. Then, all of a sudden, the silly rule (like Twitter signups only) just became irrelevant.
posted by jacobean at 10:05 AM on May 1
Twitter login is a very specific thing but you may have more success looking for an LMS that has external OAuth support. OAuth is a standard approach to sharing account information with external service, so even if the LMS doesn't explicitly support Twitter if both platforms are using the same connection standard it should be reasonably easy to connect everything up.
Twitter famously charges for API access in a way they didn't used to, so I'm not sure if this approach will cost money.
https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/authentication/guides/log-in-with-twitter
There are also free auth management tools like Keycloak that a developer can use to manage these sorts of connections, which may or may not be out of scope for your project.
posted by Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug at 11:47 AM on May 1
Twitter famously charges for API access in a way they didn't used to, so I'm not sure if this approach will cost money.
https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/authentication/guides/log-in-with-twitter
There are also free auth management tools like Keycloak that a developer can use to manage these sorts of connections, which may or may not be out of scope for your project.
posted by Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug at 11:47 AM on May 1
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You'll quickly discover that there is a whole ocean of LMS products out there with a substantial number of them being geared towards the corporate market.
I know a Twitter login would probably be very handy for you but please don't obsess over this. Just get your students to sign in with their email addresses. Sometimes you need to change your process to fit the software. This one of those times. Otherwise, it just becomes distraction.
posted by jacobean at 4:42 AM on May 1 [1 favorite]