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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
If you check the latest version of the README.txt in our GIT repository there are some sample footer snippets you can try:
https://bitbucket.org/jezh/moodle-theme_bcu/src
We use this theme with completion tracking and have not had a problem.
Can you check:
1) Completion tracking is enabled under site administration
2) Completion tracking is enabled in your course
3) It is enabled in your activities / resources
4) That it works in other themes like Clean (which you can change to in your user profile without affecting entire site)
If you get that far and it is working in Clean but not our theme we will need to get some more details from you to try and fix it.
The full title will display if you hover over the tile.
@Ron, in your course settings look for a field called "summary files", if you add an image there it will show up in the tile on the front page.
The default tile image is set within the theme settings.
I am afraid you cannot upload images through the text editor there. You will have to upload them somewhere else and link to them. That maybe something we can improve later on.
You can find html for adding these blocks in the readme file.
Nice theme!
How can I translate the buttons "Hide blocks", "Full screen", "Events" and My Sites"?
When will you be adding the option to disable the tiled view and revert to the default Moodle method of rendering a list which will show more text.
Great theme - thanks so much for offering this to the community.
Quick question - is there a way to make the default state of the theme fullscreen instead of standard view? I tried to find the javascript that triggered the change but I couldn't find it.
Thanks!
Paul
Not sure of the rules on the public themes but are you happy for me to edit the header code to put in a background image rather than just a solid colour.
Also, is it possible to enable blocks on both the left and right?
Doesnt look even to me without this.
Thanks,
You're more than welcome to make any changes you like to it. Fork the code, and make your changes that way you can keep getting updates from our repository
And unfortunately not for the blocks, you could always edit it to add a new block region.
Thanks
Thanks a lot and congrats for the theme.
Could you tell me in which file can I translate the buttons "Hide blocks", "Full screen", "Events" and My Sites"?
Thanks a lot in advance!!