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: 7 years

964 sites

383 downloads

299 fans

Current versions available: 7

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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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Comments

Shaun Daubney
Thu, 29 Oct 2015, 10:27 PM
Sorry about that, I built it on my Mac and used the wrong apostrophe in the version number which broke the rascal. It's fixed now.
B Madd
Fri, 6 Nov 2015, 12:24 AM
Hello, seems like the update to aardvark theme broke my test site today. I now get the following error when viewing the site:
B Madd
Fri, 6 Nov 2015, 12:26 AM
Undefined variable: html Trying to get property of non-object in C:\mypath\Moodle\theme\aardvark\layout\header.php on line 48
Mary Evans
Fri, 6 Nov 2015, 12:55 AM
Could you ask this question in Moodle Themes Forum?bI can give you help fixing this.
Mary Evans
Fri, 6 Nov 2015, 12:56 AM
Here is a link to that forum
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=46
Shaun Daubney
Fri, 6 Nov 2015, 2:11 AM
B Madd: which version of Moodle are you currently on?
B Madd
Fri, 6 Nov 2015, 5:28 PM
Hi Shaun, I'm using Moodle 2.9.2+ (Build: 20151020)
Mary Evans
Fri, 6 Nov 2015, 6:46 PM
@Shaun the problem stems from the header uses a php tag that adds the option to use the inverse navbar thus adding in the class navbar-inverse. However ther is no setting in AARDVARKS for the in the lib.php file, because the style of Aardvark does not need the inverse. So you need to remove that php tag from the header.php in the line mentioned.
Mary Evans
Fri, 6 Nov 2015, 6:53 PM
https://github.com/superawesomeme/moodle-theme_aardvark/blob/master/layout/header.php#L48
Remove... <?php echo $html->navbarclass ?>">
Giovanni Graziani
Sat, 7 Nov 2015, 2:49 AM
How can I add a logo as on theme More or Clean or rather in the navbar? It would be too complicated?
Ked DAFRANE
Sun, 8 Nov 2015, 9:04 PM
How can I add a background on this theme ?? :'(
Yusuf Yilmaz
Wed, 18 Nov 2015, 6:59 PM
Thank you very much for the great bootstrap theme.

Which version of the bootstrap are you using. I am guessing it is not the latest version since some components of bootstrap are not working with the theme. So will you update the bootstrap version anysoon?
Dmitrii Metelkin
Thu, 26 Nov 2015, 11:55 AM
Hi Shaun,
Could you please update git repo by a new version(2.9.7) of the theme. Thanks!
Erdem ÖZYÜEL
Thu, 10 Dec 2015, 9:46 PM
Hi
I am new user of moodle. I use your theme and itis very cool.
How can I add upper menu bar which in first screenshot (student information, IT support)
Mahmut TEKER
Fri, 11 Dec 2015, 4:24 PM
@Erdem, They are called Custom menu items and you can add them on Site Administration->Site administration / ► Appearance / ► Themes / ► Theme settings page on "Custom menu items" . They are explained very well on that page.