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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Is there a way to change the background color on the alert (theme_aardvark | generalalert) that I am missing or somewhere in the code I could edit? I think the 'snowalert' was taken out in a recent version and we'd like to tone the red alert color down a little.
I am running moodle 2.9 and the latest version of your amazing theme but there seems to be some problem with the ajax.
For example when i click on the "Add an activity or resource" link the box opens but nothing works as the browser tab becomes unresponsive. I have to refresh it again. The same problem happens when i click on "Add Question" button. It opens a box in translucent state and gets stuck there. The problem doesn't occurs when I switch to a different theme.
any help would be much appreciated.
Thank You.
I also want to thank you for your contribution. Your theme is wonderful. We used it last year and we're still going with it this year with our 2.9 moodle version. But I have to confirm the same bug reported by Exam Pariksha in the previous message. When we click on the "Add an activity or resource" link the box opens but nothing works as the browser tab becomes unresponsive. I had to change the theme temporarily because teachers couldn't add neither resources nor activities since the last update. I tested it with Firefox and Chrome under Linux and when I switched to a different theme the problem disappears. In other words, I'm reporting the same issue of Exam Pariksha.
Thank you Shaun
A temporary fix for the "Add activity or resource" problem is to navigate to "Site Administration=>Appearance=>AJAX and Javascript page" and uncheck the "Activity chooser default" option. Now you would be able to add activities or resources without switching the theme. This is just a temporary fix that will disable ajax functionality for that area.
Hopefully there aren't too many other bugs.
Is there a way i can add a center block to the frontpage. If that is not an option, is there a way i can make the 'site news' frontpage above the topic section?.
what i want to do is to add an image above the site news, but this is not possible as anything added will be on top it. This is why i was thinking of adding a block to the front page. I am using Moodle 2.8 with the awesome aardvark theme
Thx in advance.
BTW thx for earlier answer.
Ta
Gary
I'm getting this error everywhere in site administration->server also in site administration->Developement
that "a required parameter (sesskey) was missing " on the bottom of the page and also on the top I'm getting something like "[MAIN CONTENT GOES HERE - unhQF5sFss] "
Any idea why this is happening??
When I'm trying other themes I don't get any of these errors.
Thanks.
Thank you.