Kevin “J”
Lead maintainer
Course banner builder
Maintained by
Kevin “J”
Course Banner Builder is a Moodle local plugin that lets administrators visually manage course and site banners. It supports source-based rules, inherited banner chains, image and border layers, title overlays, optional slideshows, live previews, and import/export packages for transferring configurations between Moodle sites.
Description
Course Banner Builder
Course Banner Builder is a Moodle local plugin that helps administrators design, preview, and manage visual banners for course pages, activity pages, and site pages. It includes layered image editing, border and overlay layers, banner titles, optional slideshows, source inheritance rules, custom field value sources, guided tours, and import/export packages.
Beta notice: this plugin is currently in beta. Some bugs, layout issues, or theme-specific edge cases may still exist. Please test it on a staging platform before production use and report any issue you encounter.
Visual banner editing
Build banners directly from Moodle with live previews, drag-and-drop positioning, resizing, crop tools, opacity controls, alignment guides, snap behavior, undo/redo actions, and preview formats that match the selected banner layout.
Image layer controls
Add one or several image layers, keep proportions or allow custom sizing, crop images, push layers above borders or overlays, place images above or below inherited layers, and display visual indicators for special layer states.
Source-based rules
Configure banners by course category or by custom field value, then combine sources through inheritance chains. Sources can stack layers cumulatively, rotate random image layers, or apply custom field sources before, after, or instead of inherited content.
Borders and overlays
Add dedicated border and overlay layers with controlled stacking rules. Configure border sides, colour, opacity, thickness, fade, dash style, rounded corners, overlay colour, overlay opacity, and title or border placement above overlays.
Banner titles
Display site, course, or activity titles on top of banners. Configure font, size, colour, alignment, bold, italic, underline, strike-through, all caps, frames, line highlights, shadows, line height, and whether titles appear above borders or overlays.
Optional slideshows
Add dynamic slideshow content above banners with configurable labels, titles, paragraphs, action buttons, overlays, typography, spacing, maximum slide limits, and site announcement expiration behavior.
Course and site support
Manage course banners, activity banners, and a separate site banner. Each context can have its own format, title behavior, slideshow appearance, source rules, and enabled state.
Banner formats
Choose between several layouts, including banners between title and navigation, full-width banners, compact full-width banners, inset wide banners, and wide content banners. Previews adapt to the selected format.
Import and export
Transfer banner packages between Moodle sites, including plugin settings, banner formats, source rules, layers, files, title settings, slideshow settings, categories, and custom fields when selected.
Guided administration
Multilingual guided tours explain the main administration screens, source inheritance, visual previews, layer tables, modal editors, title settings, slideshow settings, and transfer tools.
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