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BCU
BCU Theme
This theme is no longer being actively developed, please see the forked Adaptable Theme instead.
This bootstrap based theme is in use on a large site and has been thoroughly tested using pretty well every possible permutation of a Moodle course including several third party course formats. It is customisable through admin settings and should serve you well!
Cool features: (at least we think so)
- Toggle to hide show blocks in one click
- Toggle to switch between fixed and full width
- Support for bootstrap elements (Toggle, Modal, see our Bootstrap Elements Plugin Here )
- Choice of two tiled renderers for My Courses on front page, one static and one with overlay
Home Page:
- Jquery slider
- Marketing spots on front page (three or four should render well)
- 2 x info boxes on front page
- My Courses rendered as "tiles" making better use of space
- Four configurable blocks in theme footer (display sitewide)
Navigation:
Top navbar includes:
- Messages icon showing alerts of unread messages + dropdown of users sending messages
- Dropdown with users profile related links
Secondary navbar includes:
- links to home, my home, events
- My Courses drop down list of enrolled courses the order of which is controlled by My Home settings. Students can customise order of this navigation list in My Home. Drag courses to re-order them in My Home and the same order will be reflected in the drop down navigation
- This Course drop down list provides consistent course navigation to activities (replicates activities block), participants and grades
- Ability to add a "help" link into navigation for help pages
Other Features:
- Ability to display a site wide message across the top of the site to notify of downtime or similar
- Truncate course / category names in breadcrumbs, if you have long names and a deep category structure this will come in quite handy! (we plan to apply expanding breadcrumbs on mousever as seen in Essential theme)
- Uses Font Awesome so icons can easily changed
Admin Settings: highly customisable with many settings:
- Color pickers to alter look of theme
- File uploader for slider images
- File uploader for Logo
- Field for stats tracking code (Piwik, Analytics etc)
Credits:
- Full Screen / Show Hide Blocks toggles based the on work by Bas Brands (consider voting for MDL-45269)
- Ideas and code taken from other themes notably Essential, Elegance, Simple and other New School Learning themes (commercial)
- Many thanks to Gareth J Barnard for some very good advice prior to us beginning work on this theme
- Screen shots and video show CUL Activity Stream and CUL Upcoming Events blocks by Amanda Doughty.
If you find any problems please check the issue tracker, hopefully you will find we already have it on our list.
Future Plans: we will be adding more navigation items into the theme (configurable) with the aim of reaching a point where we can disable the administration and navigaion blocks for students giving a simplified more consistent way of navigating courses which is less dependant on the random availability and placement of blocks.
Useful links
Screenshots
Just paste in the url (no html) with the http prefix like http://moodle.org/help and it will add the text / icon for you.
At the moment I don't think you can alter the text via language customization in Moodle for the link text so changing the text from "help" to something else would require a change to the theme. Those strings can be added to the lang pack easily enough (allowing you to use Moodles language customisation to update them), it just looks like they got missed.
I have been a litte to euphoric with my last comment regarding the "Help-Link". In deed I got it work, but one small idea for further developement remains: It would be fine to have the possibility to make the help-Link show up in a new ...href target="_blank"... page.
In fact that is not vital but would be nice.
Rolf
@Rene, yes we will add that option too
If I might ask a more specific question here and it is - how can we control the amount of screen devoted to the displayed slider image?
Thanks for any help that you can offer.....Pete
It's really a gorgeous fresh looking theme. Simple but feature packed. Thanks a lot for that. I was wondering how will I be able to add the feature of hiding blocks in the footer like Essential theme. It's a great little tool for SCORM player pages. I don't know whether it is even possible to add that feature as I guess you certainly do have some controller overlay on the blocks which is letting you hide and unhide blocks. Please let me know if possible and kindly give me some lead I will try to add that feature.
Thanks,
Sumanta
Which feature are you talking about in essential, the ability to drag sidebar blocks to the footer and hide them?
If so I am not sure we need that given our theme allows users to toggle blocks on / off already?
Also you can set SCORM up to open in a new window / popup so blocks need not be an issue there?
If you mean something else like hiding the footer blocks on certain pages we will probably be looking at that in the near future.
If I have misunderstood what you mean please let me know
Very nice theme you've got here. Customisation options are excellent.
One things though.
The "My Sites" link under the header appears on a separate line from the other links. Cant see it like that in your screenshots and looks a bit funny.
and i created anthor langauge the lang switch does appeare
even i go to the lang folder in the them and add new folder with new lang
By the way, gorgeous theme!
Yes we will be putting custom menus back but we want to get icons working with it which has been a bit tricky
@Baraa, we don't need RTL so its not going to be a priority, we will make a note of it and if its quick to do may add it. If you know what needs to be done and are able to give us a patch we can apply it to our copy.
@Dan, what size monitor are you using? I have seen that happen, sometimes on laptops when you go into "My Home" and turn "customize this page" on, but across the rest of the site I have not seen a problem with it. It should collapse some of the menus down to icons on smaller screens, by guess is your screen size maybe somewhere in between it being able to display correctly and collapsing.
If you can send a screen shot and confirm your screen size / resolution that would be a help.