Posts Tagged ‘themes’
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 [...]
Do you dress up your Moodle for the holidays? #Moodlebells
I've seen a few Moodles don some gay-apparel for the holiday season. Share some Moodle holiday love by tweeting or blogging with the #Moodlebells tag. Here are a few quick examples of some Moodle's with digital holiday cheer either added easily using an image or right in the theme. Enjoy and share! Check out three examples with some [...]
Aardvark theme for Moodle 2.0 is coming soon
Mary Evans, a contributor of many great themes to the Moodle.org theme repository just posted a screenshot (below) of her adaptation of Aardvark to be compatible with Moodle 2.0. Check out another of Mary's themes called Premium. Aardvark is a great theme for Moodle 1.9, including custom menus and a insert of the student/user's profile [...]
Opinion: My three favorite Moodle 2.0 themes (Arialist, Magazine & Skyhigh)
Wednesday we ran a quick preview of the new themes included in Moodle 2.0 (there are over 15 with screenshots) which was a very popular post. Today I just wanted to share the three I like the most. A lot of the credit for these great themes goes to Patrick Malley who redesigned the Moodle 2.0 theme engine making these types of themes possible. [...]
