Moodle plugins directory: Aardvark | Moodle.org
Aardvark
The Aardvark project started in 2008 after a focus group with students led the development of our somewhat basic and neglected installation of Moodle into a (at the time) modern and engaging platform. The idea was to drive student use by creating a colourful, MySpace-inspired, student intranet as the front-end, with the functionality of a VLE behind it. Pressure from those students would then ultimately drive adoption by tutors.
Over the years, Aardvark has been an exciting and arguably inspiring project, started at Newbury College, but benefiting from the contributions and expertise of many other developers. It was the first open-source Moodle theme to include a drop-down navigation menu, a concept that would eventually become a core element of Moodle theme engine, and at its peak was installed on over 5,000 Moodle installations around the world.
Development
of Aardvark slowed down a few years ago as many of its advantages were
adopted as features in the core theme engine of Moodle and a lack of
development time meant that I was no longer able to keep up with the
changes required to make the theme compatible with the latest releases.
Unfortunately I have had to make the decision to cease development of
Aardvark to focus on other commitments.
Aardvark has been an incredible project to work on, and I have learnt a huge amount about PHP and CSS along the way and I would like to thank everyone who has contacted me over the years with their kind comments. Special thanks to Mary L Evans, Patrick Malley and all of the other contributors and supporters who have been part of this journey.
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HOW MUCH TIME IS REQUIRED (WEEKS, MONTHS) TO DEVELOP A THEME OF THIS TYPE??
When I try to export grades in XLS or ODS I just get a page full of symbols, no file or anything.
I have tried it with the Boost theme loaded and exporting works so I think it might be something to do with the theme.
Any ideas? Thanks!
Extra info:
1. at the Website Admin-Level are competencies active and if I switch to other themes, I can still see and set them
2. the theme is with the last plugins for Moodle 3.3 updated.
I really like these theme and I would also keep it
I have an issue with Aardvark theme > when displaying SCORM package in popup window, close button is not working. Have you encountered similar problem?
Aardvark theme is 3.3.1, Moodle version 3.3.2.
Thanks
I have an isstu with new version of Aardvark theme - I cannot connect to my site via mobile app. I was solving this with moodle mobile app team. They made an fix, which was working before update. After update, you changed following functions in classes/core_render.php:
public function get_logo_url
public function get_compact_logo_url
FYI, this is the exact error message returned by your site:
logourl => Invalid response value detected: Invalid external api response: the value is "
so for now, I just uploaded previous core_render.php file to make my site accessible via mobile app
Can you check this please?
Thanks, Michal
Make sure you are using the latest stable version of Moodle and Aardvark and tell me your URL so I can take a look for you.
will this theme be updated to Moodle 3.4?
Thanks
i'm using moodle 3.2 and i want to set a logo in to Aardvark theme. How can i do it?
Thanks