Fordson : best theme after teacher tests and improvements suggestions

Fordson : best theme after teacher tests and improvements suggestions

by Zabelle Motte -
Number of replies: 2
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Hello,

Our institution had to choose a new theme and we had users tests with teachers that lead to Fordson theme adoption with a high majority of preferences for this theme. Thank you very much for this great design ;-*

While performing these tests, we had some suggestions on the above action menu buttons : it is sometimes possible to reinforce button affordance.

First suggestion reinforce the edit action button with a hover scss.
Here is our scss suggestion :

.btn-success{
  &:hover{
  color:#48a648!important;
  background-color:#fff!important;
  }
}
.btn-danger{
  &:hover{
  color:#d9534f!important;
  background-color:#fff!important;
  }
}

Second, users suggested to put some space between site admin button and edit button :

.siteadminlink{
 .btn{
margin-left:4px;
  }
}

Finally, teachers told us it is not clear the logo and title are actions buttons, so we also reinforced their affordance trough hover scss :


nav.navbar{
.logo {
img:hover{
filter: brightness(70%);
}
}
}
.navbar{
.site-name:hover {
text-decoration:underline
}
}

Hoping this suggestions will help wink


Zabelle

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Re: Fordson : best theme after teacher tests and improvements suggestions

by Chris Kenniburg -
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Hello Zabelle,
I am glad to hear you find value in using Fordson. The great thing about open source projects is that you can make changes and customize Moodle to provide the best experience possible for your organization.

I'll take a look at some of these changes and see what our team thinks. What version of Moodle are you using and what presets in Fordson?

Thanks for the kind words on our theme,
Chris
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Re: Fordson : best theme after teacher tests and improvements suggestions

by Zabelle Motte -
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Hello Chris,

We are running Moodle 3.7.1+ with Fordson v3.7 release 1.2.1 (the last).
We choosed Boost presets with all default layout settings except the following :
- Section Style Chooser : Highilighted section title (with scss customization)
- Block Display Location Options : Sigle Column Boost Default
- login form is not shown and we do not use custom login page (our former theme worded so)
- Enhanced Mydashboard is not used (we already had specific action blocs on our dashboard that we did no change)
- we do not use Content Areas (we allready use blocks with permissions on dashboard)
- we use the possibility to Display enrolled courses under My Course menu, that is very appreciated
- we do not use slideshow nor marketing tiles but these functionnalities are be interresting to make promotion sites

Best regards,

Zabelle