Posts Tagged ‘themes’
10 new Moodle themes that are out of this world (the Planet series)
Gordon McLeod has created 10 new themes which are all part of his Planet series. Mercury was the first but now available are Earth, Luna, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Pluto, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Check them all out here: https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=contributor&id=1039666. The Planet series are all based on the core theme [...]
Sick of the sun? Check out the Cloudyday Theme by Jason Cleaver
Cloudyday is a cool new theme for Moodle 2.4 by Jason Cleaver which gives you a new course view when you're using the topics format and each topic as a new page: tabs along the side. Check out the Theme entry and screenshots here: https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=theme_cloudyday
New in Moodle 2.4: ICONS
Earlier this year Moodle.org added a graphic designer to their team which might be a driver of some aesthetic changes in Moodle core. A first of many improvements will soon be realized on Moodle sites far and wide. For a sneak peek of the new Moodle icon set you can checkout QA.moodle.net which is running 2.4 beta. Moodle 2.4 is expected for [...]
Moodlebook = Facebooky theme for Moodle 2.2+
Julian Ridden (@Moodleman) has just updated/released his new "Facebook" theme for Moodle which is based on the core Decaf theme by Lei Zhang. The theme mimics the world's favorite social network in color and layout and also includes some nifty drop down navigation. Dropdowns from the main menu bar across the top link to a users course [...]
On the 4th day of #Moodlemas the community shared with me…
4 pretty themes! 3 plugins 2 Cheery images and A freebie Christmas themed Glossary! No doubt that the last 12 months has seen a TON of great themes posted to Moodle.org. Credit is due to New School Learning and Patrick Malley who laid the foundation for themes of Moodle 2.x. A few of my favorite themes that have come out this [...]
Read this now: @Ghenrick’s Moodle 2 Theme White Paper
Gavin Henrick (@ghenrick) has a great white paper out about themes in Moodle 2.0. He highlights and points out all of the things you should consider when thinking of upgrading from 1.9 or simply making the jump to the new Moodle platform. As you may know, themes are a lot different in Moodle 2, providing dockable navigation and full [...]
Top 30 reasons to move to Moodle 2 by @ghenrick
Gavin Henrick has pulled together 3 (three) top 10 lists for why to move from Moodle 1.9 to 2.0. The three presentations are available at his blog and the each already has a voice over presentation video available on Youtube. Each presentation highlights another set of new/changed Moodle features and discusses (quickly) how they impact the [...]
New theme: MMR by Ricardo Caiado
Here's a cool new theme by Ricardo Caiado which has a cool star/sun burst effect in the background. It's hooked up with the Moodle bar and has a nice bright, high contrast for block labels and headers. Check it out in the screen shots below or download it from Moodle.org: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=26&rid=4735
This might be my new Favorite Moodle: TAFE SA Moodle and an update from @ozesteph1992′s
Stephan Schmidt (@ozesteph1992) asked that his team of course developers and Moodle-experts be given due recognition after I posted about his great presentation yesterday . Stephan works at the Department of Further Education Employment Science and Technology, Training And Further Education of South Australia; better known as TAFE SA. He wanted [...]
Moodle.org moves to replace/refresh the Modules and Plugins Database
The Modules and Plugins Database is the treasure chest of Moodle addons and extensions which we've grown to love. Testing new modules and plugins released through that database is both fun and rewarding (because there are so many ways to extend Moodle through new resources, new activities, new blocks, course formats, themes and more). The new [...]
