Aardvark

Themes ::: theme_aardvark
Maintained by Shaun Daubney
The original 'menubar' based theme for Moodle, evolved for the modern student. NO LONGER BEING DEVELOPED
Latest release:
964 sites
381 downloads
299 fans
Current versions available: 7

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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Contributors

Shaun Daubney (Lead maintainer): Shaun is the main creator and maintainer of the Aardvark project and is an eLearning developer based at Newbury College.
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Mary Evans: Mary contributes a lot towards this theme and has been a great supporter of the project since its early days.
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  • It's only an avatar...
    Sun, 8 Jan 2017, 9:39 AM
    You can't change the block widths as these are coded in a specific way. If you change one thing then you need to change lots of othere bits of code too.
    As for Docking blocks well I am not sure what settings your site has but AARDVARK has the capability to dock blocks if your site has docking enabled.
  • It's only an avatar...
    Sun, 8 Jan 2017, 9:41 AM
    All the
    All the scripts for the dock are inherited from Bootstrapbase.
  • Edwyn Omar Valladares
    Sat, 14 Jan 2017, 1:59 AM
    I need to hide or delete the right column?
  • Алексей Буренко
    Sat, 14 Jan 2017, 5:01 PM
    it must be when 3 column, but not when 2
  • Алексей Буренко
    Sat, 14 Jan 2017, 5:02 PM
    hide....
  • It's only an avatar...
    Sun, 15 Jan 2017, 10:39 AM
    @Edwyn: The easiest way to remove the right column is to Turn editing ON and either delete the right column blocks, or move them to the left column. Then when all the blocks are removed, the right Column will not be visible anymore, as the main content area will get wider.
  • It's only an avatar...
    Sun, 15 Jan 2017, 10:48 AM
    @Алексей Буренко
    First of all sorry I missed reading your original post. Are you using the latest version of Aardvark?
    If you are then can you please give me a link to your site so that I can see why this is happening?
    Thank you
  • Алексей Буренко
    Sun, 15 Jan 2017, 4:01 PM
    @Mary Evans
    i am using the latest version
    here is links with login and pass
    http://test.ippo.dn.ua/mod/assign/view.php?id=162
    http://test.ippo.dn.ua/mod/quiz/view.php?id=166

    login mirohost
    pass mirohost1
  • It's only an avatar...
    Mon, 16 Jan 2017, 4:06 AM
    You need this CSS thtat has been removed from Moodle 3.2 Bootstraptheme

    /** Start Legacy styles. Deprecated since Moodle 2.9. See MDL-48160 for further information. **/
    .content-only #region-main.span9, // Two column layout with no block or all blocks docked.
    .empty-region-side-post #region-bs-main-and-pre.span9, // LTR with no post area.
    .empty-region-side-pre #region-bs-main-and-post.span9, // RTL with no pre area.
    .empty-region-side-post #region-bs-main-and-post.span9 #region-main.span8, // RTL with no post area.
    .jsenabled.docked-region-side-post #region-bs-main-and-pre.span9, // LTR with all post blocks docked.
    .jsenabled.docked-region-side-post #region-bs-main-and-post.span9 #region-main.span8,
    .jsenabled.docked-region-side-pre #region-bs-main-and-post.span9 { // RTL with all pre blocks docked.
    width: 100%;
    }

    .empty-region-side-pre #region-bs-main-and-pre.span9 #region-main, // LTR with no pre area.
    .jsenabled.docked-region-side-pre #region-bs-main-and-pre.span9 #region-main { // LTR with all pre blocks docked.
    float: none;
    width: 100%;
    }

    .empty-region-side-pre #region-bs-main-and-post.span9 #region-main.span8, // RTL with no pre area.
    .jsenabled.docked-region-side-pre #region-bs-main-and-post.span9 #region-main.span8 { // RTL with all pre blocks docked.
    float: right;
    }
    /** End Legacy styles **/
  • It's only an avatar...
    Mon, 16 Jan 2017, 5:32 AM
    There is something wrong, even with that CSS...I am trying to find what is happening with the page. It could be that the body classes are not being added to the page.
  • Алексей Буренко
    Mon, 16 Jan 2017, 5:46 AM
    @Mary Evans
    Thank you for help very much
    I think moodle bootstrap was changed and bugs appeared
    We`ve changed theme to standart - clean
    If the author not going to support theme in the future, we dont want any problems with upgrades to new versions
    Thanks to author for opportunity to use this nice theme, but moodle need continuous upgrades...
  • Edwyn Omar Valladares
    Tue, 17 Jan 2017, 1:25 AM
    Hi Mary and thanks for your help. It does not work, delete all blocks in the right column and always appear the space. http://capacitacion.caderh-elearning.org/clb/
  • werner cyrmon
    Wed, 18 Jan 2017, 3:33 PM
    how do I get the large Logo in the middle of the login page?
  • werner cyrmon
    Wed, 18 Jan 2017, 3:36 PM
    ... and the name of the month in week/calendar display are always in english, regardless what laguage I configure in global/course settings ....
  • It's only an avatar...
    Fri, 20 Jan 2017, 3:50 AM
    Hi, Calendar takes month names from your Computer, so you must change that to use your preferred language.

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