Moodle themes “Gourmet” and “Herald” – How to translate default theme language strings

If your Moodle site’s default language is not English and you are using our Moodle theme Gourmet or Herald you might want to translate some of the theme specific text strings to your site’s default language.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to translate the default theme words and phrases.

Assumptions in this tutorial example:

  • Moodle site’s default language: German
  • Translation task: translate the theme menu text “My Dashboard” to German

Step 1

Log in to your Moodle site as an admin user, and navigate to the language customisation option: Settings > Site administration > Language > Language customisation

moodle-gourmet-theme-langauge-customisation-1

Step 2

Select Deutsch (de) from the language pack dropdown menu

moodle-gourmet-theme-langauge-customisation-2

Step 3

Click the “Open language pack for editing” button and continue as instructed.

moodle-gourmet-theme-langauge-customisation-3

moodle-gourmet-theme-langauge-customisation-4

Step 4

If you are using the Gourmet theme, you need to select theme_gourmet.php in the selection box. If you are using the Herald theme, you need to select theme_herald.php instead.

Go to the “Only strings containing” filter box and enter “My Dashboard” (or any other text you want to replace it with, without the quotation marks).

moodle-gourmet-theme-langauge-customisation-5

Step 5

In the Local customization box, enter the text in the language you want to translate to. For German, this would be “Meine Übersicht”. Save the changes to the language pack.

moodle-gourmet-theme-langauge-customisation-6

moodle-gourmet-theme-langauge-customisation-7

Moodle theme Herald – Useful HTML code for the footer content blocks

We have made another responsive Moodle theme “Herald” and we are going to share the HTML code used in our demo site’s footer content blocks. If you are using Herald you can customise the text/links in the code and use it in your Moodle site.

What the footer content blocks will look like:

moodle-theme-herald-footer-preview

HTML code for footer content block 1

<h3 class="title">About us</h3>
<ul class="list-unstyled">
    <li><a href="http://elearning.3rdwavemedia.com/" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-caret-right"></i>Who we are</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://elearning.3rdwavemedia.com/blog/" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-caret-right"></i>Blog</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://elearning.3rdwavemedia.com/themes/" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-caret-right"></i>Moodle Themes</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://elearning.3rdwavemedia.com/contact/" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-caret-right"></i>Contact</a></li>
</ul>

HTML code for footer content block 2

<h3 class="title">Support</h3>
<ul class="list-unstyled">
    <li><a href="#"><i class="fa fa-caret-right"></i>Help</a></li>
    <li><a href="#"><i class="fa fa-caret-right"></i>FAQs</a></li>
    <li><a href="#"><i class="fa fa-caret-right"></i>Terms of services</a></li>
    <li><a href="#"><i class="fa fa-caret-right"></i>Privacy</a></li>
</ul>

HTML code for footer content block 3

You can generate your own twitter button code here

<h3 class="title">Get in touch</h3>   
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat.</p>                     
<p class="tel"><i class="fa fa-phone"></i><a href="tel:+08001234567">0800 123 4567</a></p>
<p class="email"><i class="fa fa-envelope-o"></i><a href="#">enquires@website.com</a></p> 

<!--//Below is the twitter follow button -->   
         
<a href="https://twitter.com/3rdwave_moodle" class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false">Follow @3rdwave_moodle</a>
<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');</script> 

If you are looking for other useful HTML code widgets you can use in the Herald theme, please check out our previous blog post – Add Useful Bootstrap Components to Moodle Theme Gourmet

Herald – A responsive Moodle theme designed for eLearning

We have launched a new responsive Moodle theme “Herald” for Moodle 2.6/2.7/2.8. It is designed to help you promote your online courses effectively. The landing page UX design is focused on engaging and influencing your site visitors to take your courses.

If you are looking for a conversion-oriented Moodle theme, you need to check out “Herald”!

Theme parents: Moodle Bootstrap Theme (Bootstrap Base)

Theme details: http://elearning.3rdwavemedia.com/themes/herald/

Demo: Default | Blue | Green | Purple

Responsive-Moodle-Theme-Herald

100% Money-Back Guarantee

We confidently offer a 100% money-back guarantee with all of our Moodle/Mahara themes. If you decide you don’t want to use it and email us why within 14 days of buying, we promise you a full refund.

How to make your Moodle course public without asking user to log in as a guest

By default, users need to log in to see a Moodle course. However, sometimes you might want to make a course public so the users can click the course title and go straight into the course in the way we have in our Moodle theme Maker demo site

.

Some of you may already know that you can enable the course guest access so the course is accessible publicly, but you will soon discover that after the users click the course title your Moodle site will still ask them to log in (please see the screenshot below). For users who don’t know Moodle well they are very likely to be deterred at that point as they think they will need login credentials to be able to see the course. What they don’t realize is that to unlock the course all they need to do is to click the “log in as a guest” button.

moodle-login-page-guest

In this tutorial we will show you how to turn off the login page and make your Moodle course truly public.

Step 1

Log in to your Moodle site as an admin user, and navigate to the course you’d like to make public and enable the guest access (tutorial here). Save the changes.

moodle-login-course-guest-access

Step 2

Navigate to the user policies page: Administration > Users > Permissions > User policies. Tick the checkbox next to “Auto-login guests” and save the changes.

moodle-login-auto-login-guest

That’s it. Now anyone clicks your course title will be taken directly into the course itself without being asked to login.

Moodle theme Gourmet – Useful HTML code for the footer content blocks

The product listed in this blog post is deprecated and no longer available.
Looking for a Boost-based Moodle theme? Checkout our new products.

Some of our customers who bought our responsive Moodle theme “Gourmet” wanted to configure the three theme footer content blocks the same way we did on our Moodle theme demo site. So we’ve decided to share the HTML code used in our demo site’s footer content blocks for you to use. If you are using Gourmet or any Bootstrap based Moodle theme with footer content input fields you can customise the text/links in the code and use it in your Moodle site.

What the footer content blocks will look like:

moodle-theme-gourmet-footer

HTML code for footer content block 1

<h3>About Us</h3>
<ul>
    <li><a href="http://elearning.3rdwavemedia.com/themes/gourmet" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-caret-right"></i>About Gourmet</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://elearning.3rdwavemedia.com/themes/" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-caret-right"></i>Premium Moodle Themes</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://elearning.3rdwavemedia.com/blog/" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-caret-right"></i>E-learning Blog</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://elearning.3rdwavemedia.com/contact/" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-caret-right"></i>Contact us</a></li>
</ul> 

moodle-theme-gourmet-footer-1

HTML code for footer content block 2

<h3>More info</h3>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed eu nisl ut tortor imperdiet feugiat ut consequat diam. Praesent id lorem ante. Sed lobortis bibendum ante, in placerat justo rhoncus vitae. In eu imperdiet mi. Aliquam erat volutpat. Morbi molestie augue dui, vel dignissim mi rutrum et. Fusce convallis, nisl ut faucibus aliquet, elit ligula vestibulum est, in malesuada velit sem id risus.</p> 

moodle-theme-gourmet-footer-2

HTML code for footer content block 3

<h3>Contact us</h3>
<div class="row">
    <p class="adr clearfix col-md-12 col-sm-4"><i class="fa fa-map-marker pull-left"></i><span class="adr-group pull-left"><span class="street-address">College Green</span><br><span class="region">56 College Green Road</span><br><span class="postal-code">BS16 AP18</span><br><span class="country-name">UK</span></span></p>
    <p class="tel col-md-12 col-sm-4"><i class="fa fa-phone"></i>0800 123 4567</p>
    <p class="email col-md-12 col-sm-4"><i class="fa fa-envelope"></i><a href="#">enquires@website.com</a></p>
</div> 

moodle-theme-gourmet-footer-3

If you are looking for other useful HTML code widgets you can use in our Gourmet theme, please check out our previous blog post – Add Useful Bootstrap Components to Moodle Theme Gourmet

Add Useful Bootstrap Components to Moodle Theme Gourmet/Herald/Impression/Labland/Element

The products listed in this blog post are deprecated and no longer available.
Looking for a Boost-based Moodle theme? Checkout our new products.
This tutorial was originally written for the Gourmet theme but it also applies to the themes Herald, Impression, Labland and Element.

Want to improve your Moodle course’s content design? We have updated our responsive Moodle theme Gourmet to support the useful Bootstrap 3 components so you can easily drop the relevant HTML code snippets into your Moodle courses to enhance design and user experience.

In this tutorial we will list all the code for the components you can use in our Gourmet theme.

Demo: Link
Level: Intermediate
Pre-requirement: Basic HTML/CSS knowledge

1) Slideshow

gourmet-components-slideshow-1

<div id="carousel-1" class="carousel slide" data-ride="carousel">
    <ol class="carousel-indicators">
        <li data-target="#carousel-1" data-slide-to="0" class="active"></li>
        <li data-target="#carousel-1" data-slide-to="1"></li>
        <li data-target="#carousel-1" data-slide-to="2"></li>
    </ol>
    <div class="carousel-inner">
        <div class="item active"><img src="http://3rdwavemedia.com/demo-images/slides/slide-3.jpg" alt="" /></div>
        <div class="item"><img src="http://3rdwavemedia.com/demo-images/slides/slide-2.jpg" alt="" /></div>
        <div class="item"><img src="http://3rdwavemedia.com/demo-images/slides/slide-1.jpg" alt="" /></div>
    </div>
    <a class="left carousel-control" href="#carousel-1" data-slide="prev"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-left"></span></a>
    <a class="right carousel-control" href="#carousel-1" data-slide="next"> <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-right"></span> </a>
</div>   

gourmet-components-slideshow-2

<div id="carousel-2" class="carousel slide" data-ride="carousel">
    <ol class="carousel-indicators">
        <li data-target="#carousel-2" data-slide-to="0" class="active"></li>
        <li data-target="#carousel-2" data-slide-to="1"></li>
        <li data-target="#carousel-2" data-slide-to="2"></li>
    </ol>
    <div class="carousel-inner">
        <div class="item active">
            <img src="http://3rdwavemedia.com/demo-images/slides/slide-1.jpg" alt="" />
            <div class="carousel-caption">
                <h3>Caption One</h3>
                <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</p>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div class="item">
            <img src="http://3rdwavemedia.com/demo-images/slides/slide-2.jpg" alt="" />
            <div class="carousel-caption">
                <h3>Caption Two</h3>
                <p>Aenean vulputate eleifend tellus</p>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div class="item">
            <img src="http://3rdwavemedia.com/demo-images/slides/slide-3.jpg" alt="" />
            <div class="carousel-caption">
                <h3>Caption Three</h3>
                <p>Maecenas nec odio et ante tincidunt</p>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <a class="left carousel-control" href="#carousel-2" data-slide="prev">
    <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-left"></span></a> 
    <a class="right carousel-control" href="#carousel-2" data-slide="next"> <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-right"></span></a>
</div>

2) Accordion

gourmet-components-accordion-1

<div class="panel-group" id="accordion">
    <div class="panel panel-default">
        <div class="panel-heading">
            <h4 class="panel-title"><a data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion" href="#collapseOne">Collapsible Group Item #1</a></h4>
        </div>

        <div id="collapseOne" class="panel-collapse collapse in">
            <div class="panel-body">
                Anim pariatur cliche reprehenderit, enim eiusmod high life accusamus terry richardson ad squid. 3 wolf moon officia aute, non cupidatat skateboard dolor brunch. Food truck quinoa nesciunt laborum eiusmod. Brunch 3 wolf moon tempor, sunt aliqua put a bird on it squid single-origin coffee nulla assumenda shoreditch et. Nihil anim keffiyeh helvetica, craft beer labore wes anderson cred nesciunt sapiente ea proident. Ad vegan excepteur butcher vice lomo. Leggings occaecat craft beer farm-to-table, raw denim aesthetic synth nesciunt you probably haven't heard of them accusamus labore sustainable VHS.
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="panel panel-default">
        <div class="panel-heading">
            <h4 class="panel-title"><a data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion" href="#collapseTwo">Collapsible Group Item #2</a></h4>
        </div>

        <div id="collapseTwo" class="panel-collapse collapse">
            <div class="panel-body">
                Anim pariatur cliche reprehenderit, enim eiusmod high life accusamus terry richardson ad squid. 3 wolf moon officia aute, non cupidatat skateboard dolor brunch. Food truck quinoa nesciunt laborum eiusmod. Brunch 3 wolf moon tempor, sunt aliqua put a bird on it squid single-origin coffee nulla assumenda shoreditch et. Nihil anim keffiyeh helvetica, craft beer labore wes anderson cred nesciunt sapiente ea proident. Ad vegan excepteur butcher vice lomo. Leggings occaecat craft beer farm-to-table, raw denim aesthetic synth nesciunt you probably haven't heard of them accusamus labore sustainable VHS.
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="panel panel-default">
        <div class="panel-heading">
            <h4 class="panel-title"><a data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion" href="#collapseThree">Collapsible Group Item #3</a></h4>
        </div>

        <div id="collapseThree" class="panel-collapse collapse">
            <div class="panel-body">
                Anim pariatur cliche reprehenderit, enim eiusmod high life accusamus terry richardson ad squid. 3 wolf moon officia aute, non cupidatat skateboard dolor brunch. Food truck quinoa nesciunt laborum eiusmod. Brunch 3 wolf moon tempor, sunt aliqua put a bird on it squid single-origin coffee nulla assumenda shoreditch et. Nihil anim keffiyeh helvetica, craft beer labore wes anderson cred nesciunt sapiente ea proident. Ad vegan excepteur butcher vice lomo. Leggings occaecat craft beer farm-to-table, raw denim aesthetic synth nesciunt you probably haven't heard of them accusamus labore sustainable VHS.
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

3) Tables

gourmet-components-table-1

<div class="table-responsive">
    <table class="table">
        <thead>
            <tr>
                <th>#</th>
    
                <th>First Name</th>
    
                <th>Last Name</th>
    
                <th>Username</th>
            </tr>
        </thead>
    
        <tbody>
            <tr>
                <td>1</td>
    
                <td>Mark</td>
    
                <td>Otto</td>
    
                <td>@mdo</td>
            </tr>
    
            <tr>
                <td>2</td>
    
                <td>Jacob</td>
    
                <td>Thornton</td>
    
                <td>@fat</td>
            </tr>
    
            <tr>
                <td>3</td>
    
                <td>Larry</td>
    
                <td>the Bird</td>
    
                <td>@twitter</td>
            </tr>
        </tbody>
    </table>
</div>

gourmet-components-table-2

<div class="table-responsive">
    <table class="table table-striped">
        <thead>
            <tr>
                <th>#</th>
    
                <th>First Name</th>
    
                <th>Last Name</th>
    
                <th>Username</th>
            </tr>
        </thead>
    
        <tbody>
            <tr>
                <td>1</td>
    
                <td>Mark</td>
    
                <td>Otto</td>
    
                <td>@mdo</td>
            </tr>
    
            <tr>
                <td>2</td>
    
                <td>Jacob</td>
    
                <td>Thornton</td>
    
                <td>@fat</td>
            </tr>
    
            <tr>
                <td>3</td>
    
                <td>Larry</td>
    
                <td>the Bird</td>
    
                <td>@twitter</td>
            </tr>
        </tbody>
    </table>
</div>

gourmet-components-table-3

<div class="table-responsive">
    <table class="table table-boxed">
        <thead>
            <tr>
                <th>#</th>
    
                <th>First Name</th>
    
                <th>Last Name</th>
    
                <th>Username</th>
            </tr>
        </thead>
    
        <tbody>
            <tr>
                <td>1</td>
    
                <td>Mark</td>
    
                <td>Otto</td>
    
                <td>@mdo</td>
            </tr>
    
            <tr>
                <td>2</td>
    
                <td>Jacob</td>
    
                <td>Thornton</td>
    
                <td>@fat</td>
            </tr>
    
            <tr>
                <td>3</td>
    
                <td>Larry</td>
    
                <td>the Bird</td>
    
                <td>@twitter</td>
            </tr>
        </tbody>
    </table>
</div>

4) Buttons

gourmet-components-buttons-1

<p><a class="btn btn-theme" href="http://elearning.3rdwavemedia.com/themes/gourmet/">Theme Button</a></p>
<p><a class="btn btn-default" href="#link">Default Button</a></p>
<p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="#link">Primary Button</a></p>
<p><a class="btn btn-success" href="#link">Success Button</a></p>
<p><a class="btn btn-info" href="#link">Info Button</a></p>
<p><a class="btn btn-warning" href="#link">Warning Button</a></p>
<p><a class="btn btn-danger" href="#link">Danger Button</a></p>

gourmet-components-buttons-2

<p><a href="#link" class="btn btn-primary"><i class="fa fa-heart"></i>Primary Button</a></p>
<p><a href="#link" class="btn btn-success"><i class="fa fa-check-circle"></i>Success Button</a></p>
<p><a href="#link" class="btn btn-info"><i class="fa fa-info-circle"></i>Info Button</a></p>
<p><a href="#link" class="btn btn-warning"><i class="fa fa-warning"></i>Warning Button</a></p>
<p><a href="#link" class="btn btn-danger"><i class="fa fa-exclamation-circle"></i>Danger Button</a></p>
You can change the icons in the buttons to any of the 300+ FontAwsome icons available

gourmet-components-buttons-3

<p><a href="#link" class="btn btn-cta"><i class="fa fa-play-circle"></i>Apply Now</a></p>
<p><a href="#link" class="btn btn-cta"><i class="fa fa-play-circle"></i>Purchase Now</a></p>
<p><a href="#link" class="btn btn-cta"><i class="fa fa-play-circle"></i>Join Now</a></p>

5) Alerts

gourmet-components-alerts-1

<div class="alert alert-success"><strong>Well done!</strong> You successfully read this important alert message.</div>
<div class="alert alert-info"><strong>Heads up!</strong> This alert needs your attention, but it's not super important.</div>
<div class="alert alert-warning"><strong>Warning!</strong> Best check yo self, you're not looking too good.</div>
<div class="alert alert-danger"><strong>Oh snap!</strong> Change a few things up and try submitting again.</div>

6) Quote

gourmet-components-quote-1

<blockquote class="custom-quote">
    <p><i class="fa fa-quote-left"></i>Viverra magna pellentesque in magnis gravida sit augue felis vehicula vestibulum semper penatibus justo ornare semper Gravida felis platea arcu mus non. Montes at posuere. Natoque.</p>
    <p class="people"><span class="name">Someone famous</span><br /><span class="title">Source Title</span></p>
</blockquote>

7) Boxes

gourmet-components-box-1

<div class="box box-default">We confidently offer a 100% money-back guarantee with all of our Moodle/Mahara themes. If you decide you don’t want to use it and email us why within 30 days of buying, we promise you a full refund – no questions asked!</div>

gourmet-components-box-2

<div class="box box-border">We confidently offer a 100% money-back guarantee with all of our Moodle/Mahara themes. If you decide you don’t want to use it and email us why within 30 days of buying, we promise you a full refund – no questions asked!</div>

gourmet-components-box-3

<div class="box box-dark">We confidently offer a 100% money-back guarantee with all of our Moodle/Mahara themes. If you decide you don’t want to use it and email us why within 30 days of buying, we promise you a full refund – no questions asked!</div>

gourmet-components-box-4

<div class="box box-theme">We confidently offer a 100% money-back guarantee with all of our Moodle/Mahara themes. If you decide you don’t want to use it and email us why within 30 days of buying, we promise you a full refund – no questions asked!</div>

8) Modal Window

gourmet-components-modal-1

gourmet-components-modal-1

<!-- Button trigger modal -->
<p><button class="btn btn-primary" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal"> Launch demo modal </button></p>

<!-- Modal -->
<div class="modal fade" id="myModal" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="myModalLabel" aria-hidden="true" style="width: auto">
    <div class="modal-dialog">
        <div class="modal-content">
            <div class="modal-header">
                <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">×</button>
                <h4 class="modal-title" id="myModalLabel">100% Money-Back Guarantee</h4>
            </div>
            <div class="modal-body">We confidently offer a 100% money-back guarantee with all of our Moodle/Mahara themes. If you decide you don’t want to use it and email us why within 30 days of buying, we promise you a full refund – no questions asked!</div>
            <div class="modal-footer"><button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Close</button> <a href="http://elearning.3rdwavemedia.com/themes/gourmet/" class="btn btn-primary">Buy Now</a>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

9) Promo Badges

gourmet-components-promo-badges

<p class="promo-badge"><a class="RedDamask" href="#"> <span class="percentage">20% <span class="off">OFF</span></span> <br /> <span class="desc">Online application</span> </a></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="promo-badge"><a class="OliveDrab" href="#"> <span class="percentage">10% <span class="off">OFF</span></span> <br /> <span class="desc">Join today</span> </a></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="promo-badge"><a class="FireBush" href="#"> <span class="percentage">$99 <span class="off">only</span></span> <br /> <span class="desc">Buy Now</span> </a></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="promo-badge"><a class="Mojo" href="#"> <span class="percentage">SALE</span><br /> <span class="desc">Online now</span> </a></p>

10) Labels

gourmet-components-labels-1

<p><span class="label label-theme">Theme Label</span></p>
<p><span class="label label-default">Default Label</span></p>
<p><span class="label label-primary">Primary Label</span></p>
<p><span class="label label-success">Success Label</span></p>
<p><span class="label label-info">Info Label</span></p>
<p><span class="label label-warning">Warning Label</span></p>
<p><span class="label label-danger">Danger Label</span></p>

gourmet-components-labels-2

<p><span class="label label-theme"><i class="fa fa-star"></i>Theme Label</span></p>
<p><span class="label label-default"><i class="fa fa-heart"></i>Default Label</span></p>
<p><span class="label label-primary"><i class="fa fa-leaf"></i>Primary Label</span></p>
<p><span class="label label-success"><i class="fa fa-check-circle"></i>Success Label</span></p>
<p><span class="label label-info"><i class="fa fa-info-circle"></i>Info Label</span></p>
<p><span class="label label-warning"><i class="fa fa-check-circle"></i>Warning Label</span></p>
<p><span class="label label-danger"><i class="fa fa-wrench"></i>Danger Label</span></p>
You can change the icons in the labels to any of the 300+ FontAwsome icons available

How to enable the “docking” feature in Moodle theme Gourmet

The product listed in this blog post is deprecated and no longer available.
Looking for a Boost-based Moodle theme? Checkout our new products.

After launching our responsive Moodle theme Gourmet, several customers got in touch and asked if we could add Moodle’s docking feature to the theme. “Gourmet” is a child theme of Moodle’s native Bootstrapbase theme and it inherits all the layouts and stylings from this parent theme.  Since Bootstrapbase left out the docking feature in early versions of Moodle 2.5.x/2.6.x, docking is also not available in Gourmet. However, based on high demand Moodle developers have now added the docking option into the Bootstrapbase theme (related Moodle ticket: MDL-38923).

Therefore we have updated our Gourmet theme so docking can be enabled for sites using Moodle versions 2.5.6+, 2.6.3+ and 2.7. For anyone who is interested in enabling the docking feature in our Gourmet theme, you need to follow the three simple steps below:

Important: Do NOT enable the docking feature if you are using Moodle versions lower than 2.5.6, 2.6.3 and 2.7 as it will break the site navigation script! You can either upgrade your Moodle or leave the docking feature disabled.

You can find out your Moodle version following our tutorial here

Example: Moodle Version 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 is lower than Moodle version 2.6.3

Step 1

Go to the Gourmet theme folder and find a file called “config.php”. Open the file using a text editor and change line 38 from “$THEME->enable_dock = false;” to “$THEME->enable_dock = true;

Moodle Theme Enable Dock

Disable Moodle dock (default in Gourmet theme):

$THEME->enable_dock = false;

Enable Moodle dock:

$THEME->enable_dock = true;

Step 2

Log in to your Moodle site as an administrator and navigate to the theme settings page: Site administration > Appearance > Themes > Theme settings

Moodle Theme Enable Dock

Step 3

On the theme settings page, make sure that the option “Allow blocks to use the dock” is checked. Click the “Save changes” button to save the settings.

Moodle Theme Enable Dock

That’s it, now you can enjoy the Moodle dock in our Gourmet theme.

Moodle Theme Dock Feature

Troubleshooting

You followed the steps above but still can’t get the docking feature working on your site?

You need to check your Moodle version. If you are using early versions of Moodle 2.5/2.6 (eg. Moodle 2.6.1) the docking feature is not going to work for you. You can either upgrade your Moodle or disable the dock feature by setting “$THEME->enable_dock = false;

100% Money-Back Guarantee

We confidently offer a 100% money-back guarantee with all of our Moodle/Mahara themes. If you decide you don’t want to use it and email us why within 14 days of buying, we promise you a full refund.

Moodle Theme Gourmet – A new responsive Moodle theme

We have launched another responsive Moodle theme “Gourmet” for Moodle 2.5/2.6/2.7 which is based on our fast selling HTML5 website template “College Green”.

If you are looking for a professional and responsive Moodle theme for your organisation this year you don’t want to miss this one. The theme comes with 4 colour schemes and is packed with features!

Theme parents: Moodle Bootstrap Theme (Bootstrap Base)

Demo: Blue | Green | Purple | Red

Details: http://elearning.3rdwavemedia.com/themes/gourmet/

moodle-theme-gourmet-promo

100% Money-Back Guarantee

We confidently offer a 100% money-back guarantee with all of our Moodle/Mahara themes. If you decide you don’t want to use it and email us why within 14 days of buying, we promise you a full refund.

College Green – A responsive education website template

We are happy to announce our first responsive education website template based on the Bootstrap framework. If you are using Bootstrap 3 as your website’s framework, this Bootstrap theme can be seamlessly integrated to take advantage of it’s unique simplicity and style, with four hand-picked interchangeable colour schemes ready to use straight away.

Based on years of experience designing for the Education sector, this template is tailored specifically for Schools, Colleges, Universities and online educational establishments who want to offer a clean and professional user experience for their users. Built with simplicity in mind, the responsive HTML5 template is ready to use on desktop, tablet and mobile with minimal customisation and is high on usability and low on gimmicks.

If you have any questions or feedback please get in touch.

Template details

Live Demo

A responsive education website template

How to set a different theme for a Moodle course

A lot of you know that you can set a theme for your Moodle site but some of you may not know that you can also set different themes for the courses in the same Moodle site. A theme you set for the course will always override the site theme. Below are the 2 simple steps you need to take to set a different theme for a Moodle course.

Step 1

Log in as an administrator and go to: Settings > Site administration > Themes > Theme settings and tick the “Allow course themes” checkbox

moodle-enable-course-theme

Step 2

Go to the desired course and navigate to its “Edit course settings” page. Select a theme option from the “Force theme” dropdown menu. Click the “Save changes” button and you will see the page refresh and the theme being applied immediately.

moodle-force-course-theme

That’s it. Depending on how you use/organize your Moodle site, you might find this feature useful in the future.

Below are some examples of how the same Moodle course would look when different course themes are applied.

Ergo

moodle-theme-ergo-course-view

Ace

moodle-theme-ace-course-screenshot

Brizzle

moodle-theme-brizzle-course-view

Cantata

moodle-theme-cantata-course-view

Dishy

moodle-theme-dishy-course-view

100% Money-Back Guarantee

We confidently offer a 100% money-back guarantee with all of our Moodle/Mahara themes. If you decide you don’t want to use it and email us why within 14 days of buying, we promise you a full refund.

How to make Moodle grader report easy to read

In a Moodle course teachers can grade students’ work and view the report via the “Grades” option under the “Course administration” (see figure 1). However the default view of the report is not easy to read as there are too many available columns in the table and teachers have to scroll left and right horizontally to be able to see all the column data. Although it is not a big problem when there are only couple of students, imagine that you have more than 10 students in the course – it will get difficult to keep track of whose grade report you are looking at as you scroll the student names column out of view.

moodle-course-grades
Figure 1

Luckily there is a useful “Static student column” feature which can be enabled to make the Moodle Grader report easier to read.

All you need to do is to navigate to Administration > Grades > Report settings > Grader report and tick the checkbox for the “Static students column” option. Click the “Save changes” button before you leave the page.

moodle-grader-report-settings

moodle-enable-static-student-column

Go back to the course Grader report page and try to scroll the table horizontally. You can see the student names column is fixed to the left of the table and it doesn’t matter how far you scroll the table; you always know exactly which student’s data you are looking at.

Below is a figure containing a comparison of the Grader report page before and after the “Student static column” feature is enabled.

moodle-static-student-column-comparison
(The theme used in the screenshots is “Ergo”)

100% Money-Back Guarantee

We confidently offer a 100% money-back guarantee with all of our Moodle/Mahara themes. If you decide you don’t want to use it and email us why within 14 days of buying, we promise you a full refund.

How to add a Twitter timeline widget to Moodle after June 2013

Two years ago we wrote a blog post about how to add a Twitter timeline to a Moodle site via the Remote RSS Feeds block. Unfortunately Twitter fully retired its API v1 in June 2013 which means you can no longer pull in a Twitter timeline via the method described in that old blog post. However, subsequently Twitter introduced a new way for users to embed their own Twitter timelines on websites. In this blog post we are going to walk you through the steps to achieve this.

End result

You can view an example on our theme demo site here.

Step1

Log in to your Twitter account and navigate to the settings page.

twitter-settings

Step 2

Click the “Widgets” option in the left nav.

Step 3

Click the “Create new” button.

twitter-widget-create

Step 4

Configure the widget depending on your needs and click the “Create widget” button.

twitter-generate-widget-code

Step 5

Copy the generated widget code. Also don’t forget to save the widget by clicking the “Save changes” button.

twitter-widget-code

Step 6

Log in to your Moodle site as an administrator. Turn editing on and add an HTML block.

moodle-add-block

Step 7

Configure the newly added HTML block and paste the widget code into the text editor’s HTML source editor.

moodle-paste-twitter-widget-code

Step 8

Save changes and turn off editing. Now you should see the Twitter timeline embedded in your Moodle site.

moodle-twitter-widget-embeded

It is also possible to customize the appearance of the timeline.To find out more on how you can customise the widget further you can check out Twitter’s official documentation for developers.