Moodle plugins directory: Adaptable | Moodle.org
Adaptable
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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.
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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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A query: Install the theme and now login with my admin account but it shows the message: "Blocks in this area will only be visible to admin users"
Una consulta: Instale el tema y ahora ingreso con mi cuenta admin pero muestra el mensaje : "Blocks in this area will only be visible to admin users"
¿Que puedo hacer?
Not within my power. Please raise a MDLSITE issue on the Moodle Tracker.
Gareth
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As you have already.
G
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G
I took over Adaptable after Moodle was dropped by the developing institution because I was asked to by my clients. It is now being released here for the benefit of all whenever a client wants an update or new functionality. Thus there may or may not be a version for Moodle 3.11. It could be the case that no clients need it, but instead intend to upgrade to Moodle 4.0 when that is released and then will need a version of Adaptable for that.
Kind regards,
Gareth
A repeat of the same answer to the same question (above) that Elmeser asked:
I took over Adaptable after Moodle was dropped by the developing institution because I was asked to by my clients. It is now being released here for the benefit of all whenever a client wants an update or new functionality. Thus there may or may not be a version for Moodle 3.11. It could be the case that no clients need it, but instead intend to upgrade to Moodle 4.0 when that is released and then will need a version of Adaptable for that.
Kind regards,
Gareth
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
Since 8th June, there is a Adaptable Theme version 3.0.1 available on download on the adaptable.ws site, announced to be compatible with M3.10 and M3.11 . Can you clarify this situation because there are two versions compatible with 3.10 ? Version 3.10.1.2 and 3.0.1 (the version number are a bit confusing because there was a 3.0.2 version in the past ...).
Thanks
Serge