Theme Lambda Documentation

Theme Options

Before you proceed
You should have completed the following steps:
  • Installing the theme
  • Choosing Theme Lambda as your default Moodle theme
  • Adding the menu for the main navigation
If you have missed one of these steps, please go back to the referring section in this document.

Configurable Options

To access the configurable options for Theme Lambda go to Administration > Site Administration > Appearance > Themes > Theme-Lambda.

General Settings Page

You can upload your custom logo here. If you upload a logo it will appear in the header. By default, the dimension of your logo is set to a maximum height of 90px. But you can also choose display your logo with any other height.

Theme Option:

options_logo-01

Result:

options_logo-02

Home button

You can choose from the list of available texts for the home button (the first button in the custom menu):

  1. Short site name: This is the default setting and shows the short site name of your Moodle installation, see also: Short name for site
  2. Frontpage
  3. Frontpage (for non-logged-in users) / Dashboard (for logged-in users)

Set Page Width

Here you can choose from the list of page layouts. Available choices are:

  1. Boxed - fix width wide
  2. Boxed - fix width narrow
  3. Boxed - variable width
  4. Full page - fluid width

Note: A boxed layout is a form of layout where the boundary of the main body is clearly defined. Only with a 'boxed layout' you can make use of a background image for your site.

options-page-width

Here you can choose to select a variation for the header with a centered logo. This will also result in a different profile block and a modal login form at the header to fit with the centered logo:

customized header

Theme Lambda with a background image for the header and a centered logo (see also: Upload a custom header image)

Footnote

Whatever you add to this textarea will be displayed in the footer throughout your Moodle site, e.g. Copyright and the name of your organisation.

Note: The footer is divided into two areas.
  1. Here are the block regions of the footer where you can place any Moodle block.
  2. The text from the settings page will be placed here.

options-footer-01

 

Custom CSS

Whatever CSS rules you add to this textarea will be reflected in every page, making for easier customization of this theme.