Theme Boost Union is an enhanced child theme of Boost which is intended, on the one hand, to make Boost simply more configurable and, on the other hand, to provide helpful additional features for the daily Moodle operation of admins, teachers and students.
This theme requires Moodle 4.0+
The Boost theme in Moodle core is not really configurable, many things are hardcoded and can only be changed with tricks or with core hacks. This theme intends to provider simple settings for admins to let them configure important settings easily without thinking about the inner workings of the theme.
On the other hand, many Moodle installations share the same basic functional needs like the possibility to add an imprint page or a footnote. This theme intends to provide these basic features without needing to fiddle with other plugins.
One highlight is the main design principle of Boost Union: As soon as it is activated on a Moodle site, it does not change anything yet and simply behaves as Boost from Moodle core does. The admin can enable and configure only the theme features he needs and does not need to care about side effects from other, disabled theme features.
Install the theme like any other theme to folder /theme/boost_union
See http://docs.moodle.org/en/Installing_plugins for details on installing Moodle plugins
After installing the theme, it does not do anything to Moodle yet.
To configure the theme and its behaviour, please visit: Site administration -> Appearance -> Themes -> Boost Union.
There, you find multiple setting pages:
In this tab there are the following settings:
This setting is already available in the Moodle core theme Boost. For more information how to use it, please have a look at the official Moodle documentation: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Boost_theme
This setting is already available in the Moodle core theme Boost. For more information how to use it, please have a look at the official Moodle documentation: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Boost_theme
In this tab there are the following settings:
This setting is already available in the Moodle core theme Boost. For more information how to use it, please have a look at the official Moodle documentation: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Boost_theme
This setting is already available in the Moodle core theme Boost. For more information how to use it, please have a look at the official Moodle documentation: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Boost_theme
In this tab there are the following settings:
With this setting, you can override Moodle's default content width without manual SCSS modifications.
In this tab there are the following settings:
Here, you can upload a custom image (.ico or .png format) that the browser will show as the favicon of your Moodle website. If no custom favicon is uploaded, a standard Moodle favicon will be used.
This setting is already available in the Moodle core theme Boost. For more information how to use it, please have a look at the official Moodle documentation: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Boost_theme
This setting is already available in the Moodle core theme Boost. For more information how to use it, please have a look at the official Moodle documentation: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Boost_theme
This setting is already available in the Moodle core theme Boost. For more information how to use it, please have a look at the official Moodle documentation: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Boost_theme
With these settings, you can overwrite the Bootstrap colors which are used within the Moodle GUI.
With these settings, you can overwrite the activity icon colors which are used within courses.
In this tab there are the following settings:
With this setting a back to top button will appear in the bottom right corner of the page as soon as the user scrolls down the page. A button like this existed already on Boost in Moodle Core until Moodle 3.11, but was removed in 4.0. With Boost Union, you can bring it back.
In this tab there are the following settings:
This setting is already available in the Moodle core theme Boost. For more information how to use it, please have a look at the official Moodle documentation: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Boost_theme
In this tab there are the following settings:
With this setting, a hint will appear at the top of the Moodle page if JavaScript is not enabled. This is particularly helpful as several Moodle features do not work without JavaScript.
In this tab there are the following settings:
Whatever you add to this textarea will be displayed at the end of a page, in the footer. Refer to the setting description on the settings page for further instructions.
In this tab there are the following settings:
With these settings, you can add rich text content which will be shown on the imprint page.
In this tab, you can enable and configure multiple information banners to be shown on selected pages.
In this tab there are the following settings:
With this setting a hint will appear in the course header if the user has switched the role in the course.
Show hint in hidden courses
With this setting a hint will appear in the course header as long as the visibility of the course is hidden.
With this setting a hint will appear in the course header when a user is accessing it with the guest access feature.
With this setting a hint will appear in the course header if the course is visible and an enrolment without enrolment key is currently possible.
This plugin also introduces these additional capabilities:
This capability is used to control who is able to configure the theme as non-admin. By default, it is assigned to no role at all.
This capability is used to control who is able to see a hint for unrestricted self enrolment in a visible course (if this feature was enabled in the theme settings). By default, it is assigned to teachers, non-editing teachers and managers.
theme/boost_union:viewhintinhiddencourse
This capability is used to control who is able to see a hint in a hidden course (if this feature was enabled in the theme settings). By default, it is assigned to teachers, non-editing teachers and managers.
This Boost child theme is implemented with minimal code duplication in mind. It inherits / requires as much code as possible from theme_boost and only implements the extended or modified functionalities.
This plugin is published and regularly updated in the Moodle plugins repository: http://moodle.org/plugins/view/theme_boost_union
The latest development version can be found on Github: https://github.com/moodle-an-hochschulen/moodle-theme_boost_union
This plugin is carefully developed and thoroughly tested, but bugs and problems can always appear.
Please report bugs and problems on Github: https://github.com/moodle-an-hochschulen/moodle-theme_boost_union/issues
We will do our best to solve your problems, but please note that due to limited resources we can't always provide per-case support.
Due to limited resources, the functionality of this plugin is primarily implemented for our own local needs and published as-is to the community. We are aware that members of the community will have other needs and would love to see them solved by this plugin.
Please issue feature proposals on Github: https://github.com/moodle-an-hochschulen/moodle-theme_boost_union/issues
Please create pull requests on Github: https://github.com/moodle-an-hochschulen/moodle-theme_boost_union/pulls
We are always interested to read about your feature proposals or even get a pull request from you, but please accept that we can handle your issues only as feature proposals and not as feature requests.
Due to limited resources, this plugin is only maintained for the most recent major release of Moodle as well as the most recent LTS release of Moodle. Bugfixes are backported to the LTS release. However, new features and improvements are not necessarily backported to the LTS release.
Apart from these maintained releases, previous versions of this plugin which work in legacy major releases of Moodle are still available as-is without any further updates in the Moodle Plugins repository.
There may be several weeks after a new major release of Moodle has been published until we can do a compatibility check and fix problems if necessary. If you encounter problems with a new major release of Moodle - or can confirm that this plugin still works with a new major release - please let us know on Github.
If you are running a legacy version of Moodle, but want or need to run the latest version of this plugin, you can get the latest version of the plugin, remove the line starting with $plugin->requires from version.php and use this latest plugin version then on your legacy Moodle. However, please note that you will run this setup completely at your own risk. We can't support this approach in any way and there is an undeniable risk for erratic behavior.
This Moodle plugin is shipped with an english language pack only. All translations into other languages must be managed through AMOS (https://lang.moodle.org) by what they will become part of Moodle's official language pack.
As the plugin creator, we manage the translation into german for our own local needs on AMOS. Please contribute your translation into all other languages in AMOS where they will be reviewed by the official language pack maintainers for Moodle.
This plugin has not been tested with Moodle's support for right-to-left (RTL) languages. If you want to use this plugin with a RTL language and it doesn't work as-is, you are free to send us a pull request on Github with modifications.
The plugin is maintained by
Moodle an Hochschulen e.V.
The copyright of this plugin is held by
Moodle an Hochschulen e.V.
Individual copyrights of individual developers are tracked in PHPDoc comments and Git commits.
This theme is a successor of and heavily inspired by the former theme theme_boost_campus by Kathrin Osswald and Alexander Bias from Ulm University which was maintained until Moodle 3.11 on https://github.com/moodle-an-hochschulen/moodle-theme_boost_campus.
This theme is a collaboration result of multiple organisations.
Moodle an Hochschulen e.V. would like to thank these main contributors (in alphabetical order) for their work:
- Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH), Luca Bösch: Code, Peer Review, Ideating
- lern.link GmbH, Alexander Bias: Code, Peer Review, Ideating, Funding
- University of Lübeck, Christian Wolters: Peer Review, Ideating
- Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW): Funding
Additionally, we thank all other contributors who contributed ideas, feedback and code snippets within the Github issues and pull requests.