Responsive Mahara Theme “Fabfolio” Launched

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Recently we launched our first Mahara premium theme “Fabfolio” which is designed to visually match our most popular responsive Moodle theme “Ergo”. If you are thinking of or planning to have a seamlessly integrated Moodle and Mahara installation (“Mahoodle”)… Read more

How to customise CSS in our premium Moodle themes

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We’ve got more and more customers who have bought our premium Moodle themes deciding to apply small changes/tweaks to the theme CSS file to meet their own design needs. If you are in this situation please read on. Read more

How to clear Moodle theme caches

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“Why are changes not applied when I update my Moodle theme files, even when I clear my browser cache?” I was puzzled by this question when I started out designing themes for Moodle many years ago. If this is also an issue for you, read on. Read more

How to add a Facebook Comments Box to your Moodle site

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Adding a Facebook Comments Box enables users to easily make comments, which is a nice way to enhance the social media aspects of your site. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to add the Comments Box to your Moodle site’s side column Read more

Premium Moodle Themes – “Ace” and “Brizzle”

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We have launched our first two premium Moodle Themes and they have proved to be very popular. I thought I’d write a quick guide to illustrate options available in their of their theme settings page for our old and future customers alike. Read more

6 User Experience related new features in Moodle v2.3 – A quick visual guide

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Moodle 2.3 was released on 25th June 2012. Below is a quick visual guide I put together to illustrate the 6 new features in this release which, in my opinion, greatly improve Moodle’s user experience. Read more

How to generate and issue a course certificate to learners using the Moodle certificate module

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Not long ago I was asked if it is possible for Moodle to generate and email a certificate to learners who have passed a particular exam (Moodle Quiz). After looking into the matter, I’ve found a way to do just that. Read more

How to add Twitter and Facebook buttons to your Moodle site

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Adding Twitter and Facebook like buttons to a website is always a good idea if you’d like to spread the word about your site through social networking. In this tutorial I will walk you through how to add the commonly seen buttons to your Moodle site. Read more

How to add a promotional banner to your Moodle front page

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If you have seen our new premium Moodle Theme’s demo site, you will notice that there is a promotional banner placed on the Moodle’s front page. By default, Moodle’s front page is the site landing page, and landing page is … Read more

How to use Dropbox as a Moodle file repository

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If you have a Dropbox account and also use Moodle, you will be glad to know that in Moodle 2.x you can connect the two together and use Dropbox as a Moodle file repository. Read more

How to set Moodle’s user login page as the site’s landing page

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It is possible to change Moodle’s default landing page to the user login page so that only site registered users are able to proceed further. Read more

How to check your Moodle site’s version and build

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As a Moodle site administrator it’s always handy to know your installation’s version and build to be able to identify version or build related bugs and decide if you need to upgrade to the latest version. Read more