Moodle plugins directory: Adaptable | Moodle.org
Adaptable
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Use the Moodle Themes Forum instead.
Important: Please read and act upon "Adaptable, user preferences and GDPR".
Adaptable is a highly customisable responsive two column theme with an abundance of features. The concept behind adaptable is to have a common theme developed and tested by a community of users which can be branded and configured according to each organisations needs. The freedom to brand and customise whilst sharing the burden of testing and development.
- Front page Marketing Blocks. You can display Up to 60 custom blocks with different layout.
- Layout Builders! You can now define a custom layout to add blocks using drag and drop for:
- Front Page
- Footer
- Dashboard
- Course Page
- Fully Customisable:
- Fonts
- Colours
- Block styles (including icons)
- Buttons (including radius)
- Choice of two sliders on home page with custom colours
- News / Announcements Ticker on Home / Dashboard
- Multiple front page course styles
- Extensive custom menus (can be targeted to different users based on custom profile field)
- "My Courses" list can be organised to put older courses in sub menu item
- Dismissible Bootstrap Alerts
- Display site-wide notices using different Bootstrap styles
- Allow users to dismiss alerts once read (persistent between page loads / login)
- Allow re-use of alerts (display again even if user has dismissed) buy updating a "key" field
- Additional layout settings for width, slider width, padding of various elements
- Social icons or Search box in header (admin can choose between the two)
- Activities and Resources Adaptable icon pack improved
- Support for Social Wall Course Format (thanks to Chris Kenniburg for help on this)
- Support for Grid Course Format (thanks to Gareth J Barnard for help on this)
- Mobile settings
- Option to add login form in header on front page
- Favicon uploader
- Background image uploader
- Activities status
- Additional block regions for Adaptable News Slider and other plugins you may wish to add
- Tabs on Dashboard and Course Pages for additional block regions
- Choice of two or three row header
In addition many fields (menus, news items, alerts and help links) can be targeted using custom profile fields, thus it is possible to present different users with different navigation items and notices.
It is also possible for individual users to customise where they want top menu navigation to appear (disable, home pages only, site wide) using custom profile fields.
Adaptable has a lot of settings and may seem daunting at first, our advice is to simply install with the default settings and play with it afterwards.
With a little time you should be able to set up an attractive Moodle site with a high degree of individuality without without knowing any CSS.
Credits:
- Adaptable is a fork of BCU theme and owes its existence to all those credited on that theme
- Adaptable development was initially driven by 3bits e-learning solutions and Coventry University
- Accessibility work and other enhancements funded by UCL working with Titus Learning
- Persistence of Bootstrap Alerts provided by Justin Hunt
- Ideas on Social Wall support provided by Chris Kenniburg
- Help with renderers and other tricky stuff provided by Mary Evans and Gareth J Barnard
- Additional support provided by New School Learning
- Thanks to Bas Brands for helping fixing some issues and adding new features.
- And many thanks to all the volunteers, developers, translators and users for its continuous support.
Advice on migrating from BCU to Adaptable can be found here.
Please, DO NOT ASK for technical support on this page.
Use the Moodle Themes Forum instead.
Version information
To be notified of 'Release candidate' versions, please change your 'updateminmaturity' setting -> docs.moodle.org/en/Available_update_notifications#Update_notifications
| Moodle version | Adaptable version | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 3.9 | 39.1.6 | Last release for M3.9 |
| 3.10 | 310.1.6 | Last release for M3.10 |
| 3.11 | 311.1.6 | Last release for M3.11 |
| 4.0 | 400.1.5 | Last release for M4.0 |
| 4.1 | 401.1.11 | Current release for M4.1 |
| 4.2 | 402.1.3 | Current release for M4.2 |
| 4.3 | 403.1.4 | Current release for M4.3 |
| 4.4 | 404.0.1 | Current release for M4.4 |
| Note: Versions for Moodle 4.1 and above contain some functionality that is available to sponsors only. Always install on a test server to confirm that the theme does what you want it to do before updating or installing on a production server. | ||
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"Would you be willing to fund my time to make a version for M3.11 please? I suspect it will take me between 2 to 6 hours or so.
Gareth"
Dear Gareth, if your not willing to update Adaptable it's OK by me, BUT PLEASE TELL US and stopp this cat and mouse play. If I know, there is no new version coming, I can look forother options ....
As you mentionned, it would take you two to six hours to make a version of Adaptable being compatible with M3.11. Can you please specify the project costs ? With the amount, we could ask our institutions ti participate.
Thanks.
I'm not playing games, this is business. I am willing to update Adaptable if my time is compensated.
Gareth
Thank you. It would be inappropriate for me to state here, but I'll message you.
Gareth
I'd like to know the project costs too...
Alan Curátola .'.
I tried to message you, however its not working / blocked. Could be because your account is new. I don't want to state here. Please see if you can message me.
G
I'd like to know the project costs too.
Miri Lipson
I tried to message you, however its not working / blocked. I don't want to state here. Please see if you can message me.
Gareth
If you mean 'Does it have a slider?', then yes.
Gareth
The project is opensource and its code comes from the BCU, I understand Gareth needs, but demanding from others, "pay me or I won't give you the next version" is not good.
If him don't want or can't continue developing he can just get off the project and let it die.
Maybe others can continue with it or we the users can go to another theme with better support.
It is a good theme and all the effort from Gareth to the project is awesome, I have used it for more than 10 years at my institution and I have modified it on several occasions, never talk here because im ok with almost everything and im developer too so i modded the theme for my institution when i see something wrong.
Maybe i cannot give to much money but i have time to develop a few things or help.
Perhaps we can evolve to create a group of institutions and maintain it or pay to be maintained.
It is the case that, I am working with the version Moodle 3.11+ (Build: 20210527) and I had the version of the Adaptive Theme 3.10. Everything ran fine, (with some restrictions due to some incompatibility of the adaptive theme 3.10 with Moodle 3.11.) But I could work normally in my virtual classroom.
Now I have downloaded the version of the adaptive theme 3.11 and the incompatibility errors are corrected, but it is giving me an error in the activities loaded in the courses, and especially in the activity or resource "tags". The error is that it does not show the link or option to edit, causing that once the label is created and added to the corresponding course, I cannot edit or delete it.
I don't know if someone else gets the same error after installing the latest version of the responsive theme. I would be very grateful if you had an answer in this regard, since it complicates the daily work a bit in the courses of my virtual classroom, since if a label is added with an error or if something has to be added after it is created, it is not possible.
Beforehand thank you very much.
Atte: Franklin S.