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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.
1) Ah okay, I know that feeling...
2) I used the AMOS translation tool and some strings are missing from the development version. I didn't write them down, but one I remember is "Search Courses" from the search box.
3) Yeah, makes sense. I thought about bug fixing work and some other stuff, e.g.: Inclusion of Font Awesome for navigation icons, a user image (if available) instead of an icon on top, display of course tiles also in course areas (if chosen), etc. So basically little steps which imho make a better experience.
All the best,
Helmut
3) That sounds great . As Mike said it would need to be configurable in the theme settings, so you could add a different header layout including a user icon but would also need to add an option so that admins could choose which type of header they wanted to use.
We don't actually use that header on our main site as we inject a centrally controlled header using jQuery that has icons / updates from other systems (email alerts, library returns etc) so there is quite a lot of scope to improve that.
You can see what this looks like here if you are interested: http://1drv.ms/1GFWbr3
Have you tried to assign a custom CSS to the header and footer classes?
Thanks for pointing this out, I think Mike has replied to you to say you can do this in the custom css settings for now. We will add this as a setting in the theme shortly
.headermenu a {text-decoration:none;} / .nav li a:hover {background-color:transparent;} / #coursetitle {display:none;}
Is there a way to hide the top nav items: Home / My home / Events / My sites / This course? They are all so I don't think its possible via css. The problem we have is that we already have a top menu so having thse items as well fills up the whole top nav bar.
We were quite pleased to see ULCC adding our theme to their list as it is particularly useful for us to get feedback from other colleges and Universities. It should be fairly easy to add options to turn each of those items on and off, we will try and add it this week.
Would you be able to send me a screenshot of this and I can help with it? I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to, but that's more likely me being tired than your description!
Thanks
Below is from debugging:
Invalid get_string() identifier: 'unreadnewnotification' or component 'message'. Perhaps you are missing $string['unreadnewnotification'] = ''; in lang/en/message.php?
line 348 of /lib/classes/string_manager_standard.php: call to debugging()
line 6971 of /lib/moodlelib.php: call to core_string_manager_standard->get_string()
line 221 of /theme/bcu/renderers.php: call to get_string()
line 169 of /theme/bcu/renderers.php: call to theme_bcu_core_renderer->bootstrap_process_message()
line 87 of /theme/bcu/renderers.php: call to theme_bcu_core_renderer->get_user_messages()
line 38 of /theme/bcu/renderers.php: call to theme_bcu_core_renderer->render_user_menu()
line 90 of /theme/bcu/layout/includes/header.php: call to theme_bcu_core_renderer->user_menu()
line 27 of /theme/bcu/layout/columns1.php: call to require_once()
line 915 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to include()
line 845 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to core_renderer->render_page_layout()
line ? of unknownfile: call to core_renderer->header()
line 1649 of /lib/setuplib.php: call to call_user_func_array()
line 2502 of /lib/weblib.php: call to bootstrap_renderer->__call()
line 2502 of /lib/weblib.php: call to bootstrap_renderer->header()
line 90 of /course/loginas.php: call to notice()
Notice: Undefined variable: OUTPUT in /var/www/moodle/theme/bcu/renderers.php on line 99
Fatal error: Call to a member function pix_url() on a non-object in /var/www/moodle/theme/bcu/renderers.php on line 99
What version are you using?
Thanks
we are on version 1.1.1