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In the Fordson 1.6.1 release we will be introducing a new feature that is just amazing and was first seen in the Moove theme.  We absolutely love the way the Moove theme displays a progress bar for each topic when a course is set to show one topic per page.  

We do a lot of training and this is a feature that allows a learner to quickly see what topics require their attention in a course.  The Moove theme puts these topic sections into 2 columns where we do not with Fordson.  With Fordson we keep it true to Boost core with a single column and only add in the progress display.  We also show the number of activities in each topic as well as the count of completed activities.

I created a short video to showcase some of the new features coming in future 1.6.0 releases as well as the new presets.  Our namesake Dearborn Public Schools preset will most likely become the default in a future release.  

Watch the video:

Version 1.6.1 has been released.  In this version we made the Dearborn Public Schools preset the default. 

VERSION 1.6.1 PRESETS - In this release we changed our default preset to be Dearborn Public Schools. We renamed the previously named default presets to:

1. default.scss  =  K-12.scss
2. default_x   =  K-12 Vertical Block TItle
3. default fullscreen header image  =  K-12 Fullscreen Header Image

Basically the previous presets named default were changed to "K-12". 

A new default background image was also included in this release. 

Topic summary page now includes a Progress bar if using course completion for students.  Show one topic per page is the setting to see this. 

Version 1.6.3 now includes Favicon support.  From the Fordson Admin settings you can upload a favicon for the site.

It does not seem to be a problem with the fordson theme.

It also happens in 'fordson' theme based on the boost theme.

It is a symptom after DB repair a while ago.

Does anyone know a solution?

Below are screenshots and debug messages.

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The course title box overlaps on mobile.

Landscape grows strangely on desktop login.

Hi Chris

Thank you for your wonderful work.

I have a doubt, I believe that simple for you. Using the E-learner scss preset, how to leave only the course header image, only in the course area, and not in the other moodle site sessions?

Sérgio

Hi Chris

Thank you for awesome theme.

We use Fordson theme with Corporate Learner preset on Moodle 3.4+. In Content Areas Frontpage Authenticated User and Frontpage Visitor textboxes we have some text with small site logo image at the end. At fresh instalation text and image were shown ok, but after changing logo image there is only broken link for that image shown. In editor images are shown correctly. Can we use pictures in this textboxes or are we limited to text only?

HI Chris

Thank you so much for your work on the Fordson Theme - awesome.

I have one small issue with the questions not displaying correctly in the quizzes.  Some of the questions I have created are not displayed within the quiz area - see the attachment.

My moodle version is 3.2.1+, we updated to version 3.3.4 ... but had to roll this back as we lost a lot of functionality.  So any ideas how to fix this on 3.2.1+.  

I have altered the styles.css as you mentioned in another thread ... 

I am using Moodle 3.3.3 and Fordson v1.6.6

My issue at the moment is that my quiz questions aren't displaying correctly in the Fordson theme. For some reason the paragraph containing the answer boxes is wrapping itself down the page. This is not the case in other themes. (Except boost that I just tried out of interest).

How can this be easily rectified, it is very puzzling and frustrating for students.

Please see images below.

Thanks in Advance.

Craig.

html code of the question:

(generated by the atto editor in a calculated question)

<p>Calculate the surface area of the cone below, given</p>

<p>q = {col1} cm, &amp;<br>k = {cor1} cm.</p>

<p><img src="http://web3.albionpk-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/moodle/draftfile.php/16/user/draft/746113367/Cone1.PNG" alt="jhv" width="88" height="140"></p>

<p>Surface area = __________ cm² (1 d.p.)</p>

Question as shown in Fordson (and Boost)

Question shown correctly in clean and most other themes:

Chris,

First and foremost, thank you to you and your team for the awesome theme!

Quick question for you that might be of help to others, as well.  Is there a reason that the icon navigation requires a user to not be a guest and logged in (https://github.com/dbnschools/moodle-theme_fordson/blob/moodle33/classes/output/core_renderer.php#L466)?  I am considering removing that requirement for a site I work on so visitors can see the navigation before logging in, but I wanted to make sure there were no security (or other) issues that I was not thinking of.

Thanks, in advance, for your response!

-Jesse

We have an issue where Fordson does not display menus with 2 child links (**). Example:

Parent Item
  -child
     -child**
  -child
     -child**

Is there a solution for this?

Is there a quick way to move 'Hidden From Students'?  My teachers are loving the theme but complaining about the Moodle Scroll of Death because 'Hidden From Students' keeps is forcing each activity to double its original height...  I know this isn't directly a Fordson issue, but thought people here might have a CSS solution or perhaps even a better idea.  See attached for specifics.

Hello!

Since our district updated to Moodle 3.4, I need to redo my modified Fordson theme (which 3.4 broke).  Because of the gamification features I have included in my course, I need to remove the ability to move to the previous/next activity from within the activities themselves.  (I had students see that and they were able to access the "abandoned" gamification features by clicking those links as opposed to discovering the Easter eggs within their assignments. 

In Chrome's developer's panel, I was able to find that the area is related to <div class="m-t-2 m-b-1">, but when I search throughout Fordson (with Netbeans), I can't find that class to edit/remove from the theme.  Since Evolve-D doesn't have those links, I figured it was something that could be edited in the theme itself, and not Moodle core specific.  (I am temporarily back to Evolve-D, to prevent students from accessing those links.)

Any suggestions as to where to look or how to remove those from the theme?

Thanks!

Brian

Ran into another issue, which I am sure will be easy to fix.

The last time, I was able to increase the font size of the activity/lesson titles and the icons in the section pages by adding

body { font-size:  120%; }

.fa { font-size: 120%;}

While it is changing some text, such as those in other blocks, the actual names of the lessons/activities are remaining the same.  I even tried exaggerating it to 300% to make sure it wasn't just my perception; they remained the same.  Since our students primarily use Chromebooks, they liked when I had slightly larger fonts for listing their activities.

I miss the nav drawer customization, because I was able to have course specific links available to Global Studies students (since it was a Global Studies theme).  I contacted the author of the Boost navigation fumbling plugin that you recommended, seeing if it allowed teacher addition of links for specific courses.  If not, I might have to try to add the links somewhere in the theme.

Thanks again for the help.

Hi Fordsonions, Chris,

I've been a learning tech for a little while but always in orgs with very compartmentalised structures, so I've never had to deal with skins or 'under the hood' type matters before. However I'm the sole Moodle wizard here so a lot more falls onto my desk.

I'm currently trying to figure out how to remove the button (now text since I added a logo) that appears in the top bar of the site (photo attached). I'm fairly certain I managed to do this in another theme in the past but I've been running around in circles for about the past 3 hours and finally decided to ask for some help...

HELP!

Thanks, 

Alex.

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Hey folks,

Moodle 3.4.

Looking for some idea why we're missing some font awesome icons in various places, most commonly the delete icons, although many atto icons too. (screen reader, clear formatting, accessibility checker)

This only happens on Fordson 1.7. We have 1.6 and 1.7 installed on the same server and 1.6 is working correctly (The 1.6 branches are renamed and so they don't get updated and so different departments can change the branding colours.)

Any thoughts?

Cheers!

Bob

Hi again Chris (or anyone who may know).

I cannot get the footer to show while a user is logged in. It seems to only display the extra info (web addresses, contact details etc) when logged out. All that shows when a user is logged in is "You are logged in as..." and a link saying "Home".

How can I get the extra info to show on every page?

Much appreciation!

Alex.

Hello!

I'm using Moodle 3.4 and Fordson V1.7 and I've configured the footer with social icons and a footnote, but it seems only display at home page. This is right or I'm doing somethig wrong? It is possible to show the footer in every page?

Thank you,

Marga

Hi Chris,

I have been using your theme for about 6 months - you have done such great work! Thank you for making Fordson available.

I confess that I really should have logged in here to say thanks before now, rather than saying thanks on the one hand and asking for help on the other. Hopefully this will be quick and easy.

Since it's coming up to the end of our first semester using Fordson, I have had a teacher asking about backing up their course. I know this can be done through the admin panel, but I thought teachers of courses should be able to do this as individuals.

I realise now that when a teacher is viewing a course, they only have the "Turn Edit On" button visible, and not the gear menu with backup. Is there a setting I can enable for teachers so that they get the gear menu?

Thanks for your time and help!

Regards,
David.

Moodle 3.4 and Fordson v1.70

Maybe I am being daft - but I cannot seem to add a link to the icons on the custom login page. Unlike the ones on the site home there is no space to input the url. Can you shed some light?

Also - on the same topic of Icons - is it possible to allow urls to be opened in a new tab or browser? I tried the method used on the Navigation bar settings (adding "target="_blank to the end of the URL) and this gives an invalid URL error.

Thanks

Rhys

Hi Chris, 

We are running on moodle 3.4, and I am using Fordson v1.7 to setup the learning site. I am a noob at both css and scss. I have tried to copy over our previous theme settings from essential but it really does not work. Neither are the formats the same at all.

Below are some of the things I need to seek your expertise from:

1) Header:

a) I want to replace the text on the grey box with the company logo 

b) This navigation button should be same color as the background red. However when i added custom css using .btn-secondary, it turned a few other buttons on the page red, which looked really weird and I dont want that.

c) I would like to increase the height of the header to 100px, which will be just nice to fit the logo on the left.

d) How do I change the color for these icons and texts?

2) Footer:

a) I would like the footer background color to be full on the browser page, how to do it? Height to be 80px.

b) For some reason, when I changed the footer background color on the theme the footer words went red too, so unless I highlight them, I can't read anything.

3) Landing page (not logged in)

On this landing page, I want to remove the sign in option. We have customised another login page for when user clicks on the 'Log In' on the far top right. Please advice how to do this?

I know my questions are aplenty but I am really hoping that you can guide me into my first css/scss experience. Thanks in advance!

We have just started using Fordson theme 1.7 with Moodle 3.4, and have had a few staff using Assignments with Advanced grading having difficulty accessing the "Define Rubric" option to change the marking rubric. 

Previously they would have accessed through the  shared Administration block, but this does not seem to show using Fordson. So far the only solution we have found is for the teacher to manually add this block to each assignment using the advanced grading option.

Is there anyway to access the Define Rubric option with just the Fordson options?