Titus Roadmap
See what's coming up in the Titus product roadmap
For an overview of the dashboard watch the adjacent video from Product Lead, Edd Clementson.
❓ About the Portal
Welcome to the Titus product roadmap area.
It is here where we hope to keep you updated on changes to our key products. Over time, this area will contain more information. Any feedback we receive to improve this experience, is greatly appreciated.
Product Lead – Edd Clementson
The LMS theme portal has been created to showcase the Moodle LMS 4 theme and portray ideas and enhancements for the future.
It has been introduced as an opportunity for clients and prospects to not only vote on ideas and express how important and useful they could be, but also submit new ideas for review and approval by the Titus team and wider customer base.
To submit a new idea for the Moodle LMS 4 theme, please provide as much detail and context as possible, to help us understand your requirement. This button can either be found at the top right of this portal (larger resolution screens):
Or at the bottom left of the portal (hiding behind the 🍪 cookies popup!)
We hope you find this portal useful in viewing upcoming features and areas that we may work on for the theme. Any feedback is greatly appreciated!
📝 LMS 4 Theme Release Highlights
🚀 ‘Thor’ – V1.0.0 (September 2022)
Like the mighty Thor and his hammer, Titus are proud to announce the forging of a new phenomenal eye-catching Moodle theme plugin.
Building on top of the upgraded foundations in Moodle 4.0, Version 1.0.0 ‘Thor’ introduces an array of options and styling choices for 4 key areas of the Moodle LMS 4 platform, the ‘Site home’, Dashboard, ‘My courses’ & the course homepage.
Titus recommend using the Softcourse or Designer course formats, followed by Tiles format, for use with the Titus theme.
Edd Clementson – Product Lead
This initial release focusses on some of the fundamental areas within the Moodle interface that we and our clients felt needed modernising. Many improvements were made in Moodle 4.0 to improve the user experience and interface and we’ve worked hard to enhance these further.
Our initial aim was to focus on the most heavily used areas of the platform, alongside introducing an array of customisation options across these areas, to ensure each platform can be branding easily by administrators.
We value the importance of an aesthetically pleasing learning platform and would love your feedback on this first release.
⚡ Highlights
- – Re-envisioned site home page
- – Updated ‘My Courses’ page
- – Dashboard – Updated block styling
- – Course page improvements – styling changes to ‘Softcourse’ format
- – Alignment of navigation elements such as top nav bar items (notifications, messaging etc).
- – Introducing of site admin ‘Quick links’
- – Huge array of customisation options offered in theme settings for greatly enhanced branding
🎁 What’s inside?
🏠 ‘Site home’ page
A number of brand new features and functionality has been introduced to the ‘Site home’ page (formerly known as the ‘Frontpage’). This includes:
- – Slideshow
- – Shortcuts
- – Marketing tiles
- – Site announcements
- – Available/enrolled courses
📚 ‘My courses’ page
The ‘My courses’ page is new in Moodle LMS 4.0 and provides a more focussed approach for users accessing courses. The Titus theme has improved upon the existing tile styling of this page, by introducing course progress bars on tiles, improving the general display/aesthetics of course tiles and bringing certain functionality to the forefront; this includes the starring and archiving of courses from a users view.
Furthermore, the Titus theme utilises tiles over the full screen width of the page, meaning more course are presented without less page scrolling required. Enhancements to the responsiveness on mobile devices and different screen sizes have also been made.
🧱 Blocks
Through the Titus theme, many small tweaks have been made to some of the key blocks within Moodle LMS 4.0, including changes to the block collapsible block draw where these blocks can reside. There are universal changes improving all blocks, however enhancements have been made in particular to:
- – Timeline
- – Calendar
- – Upcoming events
- – Latest badges
📑 Course homepage
Using the Titus theme, we recommend utilising the free 3rd party plugin called ‘Softcourse’ format (LINK). Not only is it supported in Moodle LMS 4, but also works very well with the newly introduced course index navigation, allowing users to more efficiently and quickly see what is left for them to complete, and navigate between topics and activities.
Through our theme we have been able to enhance this plugin, by modifying aspects such as the display of images more effectively, progress bars and activity counts showing for topics without having to hover your mouse over each tile etc.
🧭 Navigation
Numerous enhancements were made by Moodle for Moodle 4.0, however our Titus theme builds on these even further! Changes have been made to the display/padding/utilisation of the top navigation bar, from moving the placement of the edit toggle, to introducing a brand new ‘Admin quick links’ drawer to help administrators (or users with certain permissions at a system level such as the ‘Manager’ role) navigate to key admin areas.
Several colour pickers have been introduced specifically for the top navigation bar, such as the colour of the top bar, the highlighted colour if a core link (e.g. ‘Dashboard’) has been selected and the colour of the text on the top nav bar.
The notifications & messaging drawer panels have been reworked to provide a more modern interface, and the course index navigation (within a course) and block drawers have been modified to improve spacing and usage across different devices.
🎛️ Miscellaneous
An array of additional changes have been made through our Titus theme. This includes a large selection of colour pickers to allow organisations to customise/brand their platforms. For instance, there are colour pickers for each of the newly introduced activity type icons, and colour pickers for the different event types available on the platform (e.g. shown through the upcoming events block).
Additional colour pickers are available, including:
- – Link
- – Body text
- – Header text
- – Progress bars
- – Primary buttons
- – Secondary buttons
- – Footer icon
- – Footer icon background
- – Top navigation bar
If your branding is more rounded or ‘jagged’/straight edged, the border radius of key elements can be changed to reflect your brand.
Fonts can be uploaded, or linked to from Google, again helping to ensure your platform matches your brand more closely.
We have also introduced the ability to import and export theme settings. This is particularly useful not just for when Titus are performing upgrades, but also if there are sandbox/test/staging sites alongside a production site, meaning configuration across multiple platforms won’t take any extra time.
🕊️ The release squad
The hardworking smithies of this release:
Edd Clementson – Product Lead
Connor Young – Developer (Release lead)
Kristian Burgess – Graphic Designer
Release icon: Nordic icons created by Freepik – Flaticon
📝 LMS 4 Theme Release Highlights
🚀 ‘Odin’ – V1.1.0 (February 2023)
Titus are again proud to announce the forging of a new release for our Moodle theme plugin. Like the wise one-eyed Odin and his affinity to magic, this crafted release covers a broad range of improvements across the platform .
Again, building on top of the upgraded foundations in Moodle 4.0, Version 1.1.0 ‘Thor’ introduces a new option login page variant, a new calendar drawer, improved calendar/event page aesthetics, a new improved ‘ learning category’ page, the ability to have a ‘dark theme’ by changing key background colours and more.
Titus recommend using the Softcourse or Designer course formats, followed by Tiles format, for use with the Titus theme.
Edd Clementson – Product Lead
This second release focusses on the course category area that needed some love and care put into it. Improving the ‘self service’ mechanism through Moodle will provide a clearer user experience for users.
Alongside this, we have introduced a new calendar drawer, that shows the calendar block and upcoming events, that can be expanded and collapsed no matter where you are in the platform. We have also introduced a new login page variant that admins can choose to use, along with making a host of changes to allow for darker based themes (dark background colours etc).
Again, we value the importance of an aesthetically pleasing learning platform and would love your feedback on first release.
⚡ Highlights
- – New login page variant
- – Increased flexibility on site home for adding blocks
- – Newly styled course library/catalogue
- – Improved course index menu (new ‘Course home’ and expand/collapse buttons) for improved user experience
- – New calendar drawer
- – Improved calendar & upcoming events pages styling
- – Starred courses now appear first on the ‘My Courses’ page
- – New colour settings cater for darker themes to match client branding (i.e. dark background colours)
- – Footer icon presented can now be updated with other fontawesome icons
🎁 What’s inside?
🏠 ‘Login’ page
A new login page variant has been introduced for administrators to select. It provides another modern interface for the first port of call for many users.
The login page is split into 2, with the image being used for the left hand side, and the right hand side being home to the login fields.
🏠 ‘Site home’ page
We have added the ability to add blocks onto the Site home page in the central region. You are able to add blocks into a central 1 column block region and/or use a 3 column block region below.
For any organisations using 3rd party plugins such as IntelliCart (eCommerce) who often like to position the public catalogue on the Site home page, this will now be possible.
🏠 Course catalogue
We have improved the ‘course catalogue’ area within Moodle in order to bring more information to the forefront. This includes a tile based display of courses, alongside course titles, descriptions, course contacts, number of topics, tags and more.
To get the most out of this page, we highly suggest ensuring the admin setting ‘Course contacts’ is ticked for all applicable roles who you want to appear as part of the course contact dropdowns beside each course.
Additionally, using the tags functionality adds further value to this area. Tagging courses effectively allows for users to see these tags beside each course. Selecting a tag will take the user to the ‘tags’ area, meaning they can see all associated courses/activities/resources that have the same tag.
(Please note: below screenshot is an early mockup provided – end results may vary slightly).
📚 ‘My courses’ page
When courses are starred, these will now appear at the start of the ‘My courses’ list. Starred courses can still be accessed via the ‘My courses’ filters should you wish to view only these starred courses.
📑 Course homepage
We have enhanced the course navigation index within courses, to include a ‘Course home’ button and an ‘expand/collapse all’ button.
The course home button allows users to more easily return back to the course homepage, preventing them from having to use the breadcrumb trail, which is often overlooked.
The ‘expand/collapse all’ button allows user to quickly expand to view all activities in each topic/section within the course, helping users navigate and find resources more quickly. Similarly the list can be tidied by being collapsed in 1 click.
🧭 ‘Calendar’ pages
This release has ‘tidied’ up the month and upcoming events pages (padding/alignment/colours) etc. We have also introduced a new feature called the ‘Calendar drawer’. This icon sits in the top navigation bar that when clicked will reveal a non-editable right hand drawer containing the calendar and upcoming events blocks.
🧭 Navigation
A number of improvements mentioned in other sections affect the navigation around the platform. We have also introduced a setting to remove/hide the ‘Home’ link on the top navigation bar. This can be useful for organisations which wish to have a public site home page but not advertise this to users who are authenticated/logged into the platform.
🎛️ Miscellaneous
This release now caters more widely for an organisations branding. In summary, we have introduced new colour pickers to allow for darker based themes.
The Titus theme (v1.0.0) introduced an array of customisation options around colour pickers for different parts of the platform. Building upon this, we have also introduced the ability to add colour gradients for progress bar colours. Moving forward we hope to allow for gradient colours to be used for other areas of the platform.
The Moodle 4 footer sits at the bottom right of the platform. v1.0.0 introduces the ability to change its size and colour, however now you will have the ability to choose a more suitable font awesome icon, to replace the question mark icon if desired.
🕊️ The release squad
The hardworking smithies of this release:
Edd Clementson – Product Lead
Connor Young – Developer (Release lead)
Kristian Burgess – Graphic Designer
Release icon: Viking icons created by Freepik – Flaticon
📝 LMS 4 Theme Release Highlights
🚀 ‘Loki’ – V1.2.0 (March 2023)
Like Loki, an expert shapeshifter, this release expands its supportability to include support for the Moodle Workplace platform.
Large amounts of architectural work has taken place to cater for Workplace multi-tenancy support, provide a huge array of tenant customisation branding options.
The Moodle Workplace 4.0+ ‘My teams’ block and ‘My Courses’ pages have undergone extensive improvements to provide more aesthetically pleasing Workplace platforms to these fundamental areas.
Edd Clementson – Product Lead
Coming soon!
⚡ Highlights
- – Workplace – Support for the Moodle Workplace product. Architectural work has gone into supporting multi-tenancy and improving per tenant branding/customisation options
- – Workplace – Re-styling improvements for the ‘My courses’ page
- – Workplace – Updated styling of the ‘My Teams’ block
🎁 What’s inside?
🏠 ‘Site home’ page
COMING SOON!
🕊️ The release squad
The hardworking smithies of this release:
Edd Clementson – Product Lead
Connor Young – Developer
Vitaly Potenko – Developer
Steve – Lead Developer
Kristian Burgess – Graphic Designer
Release icon: Folklore icons created by Freepik – Flaticon
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