Moodle plugins directory: evolve-D | Moodle.org
evolve-D
Introducing evolve-D(earborn). A Moodle theme that is based off More but with an abundance of enhancements that evolved into a new theme. Evolve-D sports a clean, minimal design with a focus on simplicity to minimize distractions. What makes this theme different is it's new approach to the Moodle frontpage. Logged in users are presented with a custom homepage while logged out users get a beautiful login page with a fullscreen image background. You can even opt to use the built in login form or the standard Moodle login form. Each login form has unique styling and a beautiful fullscreen image background.
Features
- Custom login page with fullscreen image background for logged out users
- Simplified, custom Moodle homepage for logged in users
- Two Column theme with blocks on the right
- Support for Moodle's Socialwall Course Format. If you use the Socialwall Course Format the evolve-D theme is the perfect companion as it contains super nice styling for the post interface and timeline posts.
- Four image slideshow on custom homepage
- Visual Separation of Topics/weeks. Unique styling creates a visual separation of weeks/topics with the ability to customize the background color in theme settings.
- Custom Logo
- Marketing Spots at bottom of page
- Fontawesome support
- Custom Menu "My Courses" dropdown
- General and Weather Alert notices for users
- Custom Colors
Moodle 3.2 compatibility
Several people have asked if there will be releases of Evolve-D beyond Moodle 2.9 to be compatible with Moodle 3.2. After much debate we decided the best option was to take many of the features from Evolve-D and to build a new theme moving forward called Fordson. Fordson is a child theme of the new Moodle default theme Boost. Fordson builds on Evolve-D by incorporating a better custom homepage with up to six marketing spots, custom page header image for both the site and individual courses, and of course... Style Presets which can transform your site to give it a unique look and feel! I am even working on an "evolve-D" style preset so that the content areas and blocks will have a similar look and feel to evolve-D with the great new features of Boost.
If you like Evolve-D, I hope you check out Fordson: https://moodle.org/plugins/theme_fordson
Documentation and Setup
https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/Evolve-D_theme
(special thanks to German Valero for creating the doc page.)
General Overview
Version 2.0.2 and Newer Updates and Setup Instructions
Evolve-D is maintained and developed by Dearborn Public Schools. We are a K-12 school district in Dearborn, Michigan.
Moodle 2.9 Note:
If you are using Moodle 2.9 the default homepage for the site is the new User Dashboard. You need to change this in Site Administration > Navigation > Default Homepage for Users. Please force "Site" for all users if you want to use this Evolve-D's custom homepage with icons.
Useful links
Screenshots
Thanks a lot.
I'm messing with the fpcustom.php file to add a list of courses that are available and a link to self-registration.
While doing that I discovered that, if there are not courses available, it defaults to: echo $OUTPUT->main_content();.
That's kind of nice but, when I have custom frontpage active, I can not figure out how to edit echo $OUTPUT->main_content(); (which is the standard front page).
Is there a way to use custom frontpage but still be able to edit the non-custom frontpage?
Also, bugs be that Site Administration is not bolded and it's own block (rather than a sub-block of Admin). I think it would improve usability to have Site Administration it's own block. Any thoughts on that?
Thanks again for the theme and thanks for the help.
I have been busy with our new moodle theme (Pioneer) but I have learned a lot with the new theme and I am planning on implementing several new features for the Evolve-D theme. For the Moodle 3.0 and 3.1 release of Evolve-D I plan on doing a major re-write of the theme to bring it up to speed. This most likely won't happen until next year.
One of those new features will be the ability to use the standard moodle frontpage options and settings even with the custom homepage much like what is implemented with the Pioneer theme. I think having the ability to chose might be best and I plan to work on it next year for Evolve-D. I might also add in "featured courses" as well which would allow you to choose which courses are displayed on the homepage.
Here's one: http://www.aquinascollegecatechetics.com/CFP/
Here's the other: http://birchwoodsolutions.net/groups/
I'm a decent hack at getting CSS and other stuff to work so, if you need any help, ping me.
Wow! I am always impressed with what people can do with these themes! Since the next version is going to be a major update I am open to new ideas and features.
i would like to integrate the "socialwall course format plugin" in the frontpage of "evolved d" theme.
The timeline should appear below the main navigation icons. I guess i can create a "socialwall course" and than make it appear in that position using the frontpage textbox option but i'm not sure how exactly. Any ideas?
thanks you all!!!