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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
@Jayapramod You would need to edit the javscript for that which I would not recommend, 444 x 200 is an odd size. If you can produce slider images 1140 x 300 they will work well
1. Frontpage Slider
CUSTOMISE THE CAROUSEL ON THE FRONT PAGE no me deja llamar url..dice que archivos con error no cargados, y o cuando subo una foto sale de tamaño gigante....como puedo bajar a la resolucion de este espacio...que sea mas banner y no tamaño gigante????
gracias
First congratulate you for the excellent theme, I am using all my personal work platforms.
Secondly, I am having problems with the slides. or to be exact with "Frontpage Slider" because when upload images of different resolutions giants I always go on the screen. I want to lower the resolution or the size of the box where cruise slides. www.colegiolapresentaciongirardot.org is my place and I have not podidoo change this.
2.6 moodle use remain attentive to the situation
Thanks for your attention and good heart.
Just a quick two question.
1. This theme requires cdn1.bcu.ac.uk up. Last day we haven't reach that site. As a result of this our moodle site didn't work. After tha i looked site and download BCU Toolkit. How can i install it? Just unzip from theme folder? And also which code must i remove from existing linked to uk site?
2. I customized BCU theme. What will happen my customization if i upgrade BCU theme to the upper version?
Thanks
İdiye ÖKTEN
I think you have pulled the wrong version down from our GIT repository, can you try this download instead please:
https://bitbucket.org/jezh/moodle-theme_bcu/get/master.zip
Our slider images are 1140 x 300 they will work well, but if you go full screen on a large monitor they do look big.
It is possible to edit the jquery to alter the size but I would not recommend it as any future theme updates you make will overwrite your changes (unless you maintain changes in your own GIT).
A few people have asked about this now, I guess it would make sense if this were configurable, it maybe something we go back and look at as we have the same issue and in fact disable the slider on our homepage most of the time for this reason (only using it to notify of changes, events or perhaps "welcome" at the start of the academic year, so being able to switch between different sized sliders would be useful.
In the mean time your best bet is to stick with 1140 x 300.
Congratulation for the excellent theme. Can someone tell me how to put a background image for the login page?