BCU

Maintained by Jez H, Mike Grant
This is the theme from the moodle site of Birmingham City University. It's based on bootstrap and allows for extensive customisation and some unique features to help improve Moodle's usability.
Price option: Free

Supports Moodle 2.6-2.9 See all versions
Latest release: 11 years ago
Installations: 344
Downloads (last 90 days): 40

Frankenstyle name: theme_bcu
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BCU UI

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Hi Helmut,
Thanks for the compliment.
1) Shortly, I was going to do it on friday, until I realised something I really wanted to include wasn't in there.
2) Which missing strings are you referring to?
3) We welcome any contributions you want to make, we just need it to be configurable. E.g. changing the whole of the frontpage, and it not being configurable would be rejected. If that makes sense? If you're talking about something in particular then just message me smile
Thanks!
Hey there,
First of all, I love the theme!
I just translated the available strings of Release 1.1.1 to German. There are quite a number of duplicates and several others are missing. I saw in your source control, that you just build version 1.2 so I got a couple of questions:
1) When will you make it available for download here?
2) How can I edit the missing strings?
3) What is your attitude towards theme contributors?
Kind regards,
Helmut
Just a little comment to say that this theme is excellent. I find it pretty, the hide/fullscreen feature is smooth, it is easy to tweak, great job!
I'm having a couple issues , I was wondering if anyone could help me out. The images in my slider bar are massive. I can't for the life of me find where to edit this. Also, I was attempting to use an image at the background and it's not appearing on the page. Any advise would be greatly appreciated. I'm new to moodle and have limited html experience. THanks.
Hi David,
You have not lost it (language picker), it was never done properly in the first place. It was rendering in the wrong place and our theme was not respecting its config file settings properly, those issues are being fixed.
Hi Islam,
1) If you don't add code for blocks they wont appear.
If you are talking about the ability to show blocks only to logged in vs guest users we will be adding that to the theme settings.
2) The screen shot is from our website, nothing to do with Moodle other than the fact we follow the same styleguide, however looking at the screen shot your provide it may make sense for us to add a renderer that emulates our corporate site. We will have a think on that one, but for now I am afraid you cannot apply that style.
Regards your point about "make it accessible without logging in" you can control that with the current layouts via "front page settings" which is a core Moodle admin feature:
https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Front_page_settings#Front_page_and_Front_page_items_when_logged_in
Hi,
Thank you for the amazing theme.
I have two questions:
1- Is there an option to make blocks hidden on the front page as default?
2- How can I create a course info page like this one and make it accessible without logging in?
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1BVuLGFV6kATk45UFFwOVpOMVU/edit?usp=drivesdk
Thanks
Great theme!
I've done some work with the CSS and now I seem to have lost the language picker menu which is odd because I basically only changed a few colours and the like.
Can you tell me where it usually is would appear?Assuming it's not been edited out by yourselves...
@Alex, change the fav icon in the pix folder of the theme and then go into the Moodle administration and turn on theme designer mode. This clears all the caches for the files and you should see after a refresh or two that the icon changes. Then turn off designer mode.
Hi I'm trying to work out how to change the themes favicon, could I have some help?
@Jez, favorited ;) Thanks again, great work!
@Chris, glad that helped, remember to favorite our theme :p
@Morgan, we will definitely add those settings, the colour settings are clearly incomplete without them and it shouldnt take long to do.
Hi Jez,
I managed to edit the colours in the CSS, but having it accessible on the front-end would be great.
Thanks.
Hi Jez
That was it, I needed the latest version. Many thanks for your help, keep up the excellent work! smile
Hi Chris,
If you still cannot find that string it maybe that it is not in the version on Moodle.Org yet in which case you can get the latest version from our git repo:
https://bitbucket.org/jezh/moodle-theme_bcu/get/master.zip
(You would have to unpack that and ftp the files or re-pack it with the correct folder name)