Slide show in header

Slide show in header

by Marie Rupprecht -
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Hi everyone, 

I am hoping that you can help me with this. I am having a couple of challenges adjusting the slide show function below the header of my Moodle page. 

1. I was able to add content and publish it, but the slide show does not automatically move when you enter the page. They start moving, once you've clicked on the arrows on the side but they used to move automatically. What do I need to do, to get the slides back to moving autonomously? 

2. The distance between headline and text in the respective slides is very big, whereas the distance between text and "Read more"-icon is very little. That makes it very un-appealing... Does anyone have an idea on how to change this? 

3. Somehow, the pictures that I insert into the slides get cropped "randomly" in the presentation. Are there any guidelines on the size / format of pictures to be uploaded? 

Thanks so much in advance to all of you. Any help is appreciated!

Best, Marie


I am using the Moodle 3.5.9 version, my main browser is Firefox (I've tried other browsers as well) and my operating system is Windows 10

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Re: Slide show in header

by Shirley Gregorczyk -
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Which course activity are you using to add your content?
Book
Lesson
Label
Page
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Re: Slide show in header

by Marie Rupprecht -
We're using pages, however, this does not refer to course slides: I am trying to add a slideshow with general information upon the homepage of our Moodle page. When entering our URL, the first thing that pops up right below our header is a show of three small sliders that are supposed to move and present information such as "new course available xy" and "test your knowledge abc"...

I hope that this helps you to help me smile
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by Melanie Scott -
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I think you are referring to functions in a theme. Maybe check your theme settings?
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Re: Slide show in header

by Marie Rupprecht -

Hm this doesn't work either - there is nothing about the cropped images and the line distance to be altered in the theme. The slides are now moving in Safari, but still not in Firefox and Internet Explorer...not sure what to do about this...but thanks anyway. 

Does anyone have another idea? 

I am using the "Essential" theme by the way.

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Re: Slide show in header

by Melanie Scott -
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I know you are still on 3.5...but FYI, Essential has reached end of life (won't work if you choose to upgrade beyond 3.6) and there is no support for it at this point...

So...about the cropped images--if the image doesn't fit in the space provided, Moodle crops it. You could dig in and find out the appropriate dimensions and resize your photo using file blender or something but you can't stop the crop. According to some old posts, 40 px X 40 px? The page header's height max is 64 px.

I'm not sure what you mean about the line distance--did you modify text size for the slide caption? That might change the way they display. You can't change the size of the title (without fiddling with the actual theme). You may need to look at more settings than just the slideshow heading--the header, general settings regarding page width, etc.

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Re: Slide show in header

by Marie Rupprecht -
Hi Melanie,
thanks so much for your support and the tipp about Essential not being continued...

About the cropped images: I have cropped all images beforehand so they should fit into the slider (actually, one of them does fit very well, but the two others which have the exact same size do not fit at all). Not sure what to do about that... sad Any other ideas?

About the line distance: I did not modify the text size, but the header and the rest of the text are entered in two separate boxes. I could not find any way to change the distance between those two boxes yet, so I eliminated the content for the header box and added the header to the text box. It looks a bit better now. Will have another look at the header settings and general settings.
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