Aardvark

The original ‘menubar’ based theme for Moodle, evolved for the modern student. NO LONGER BEING DEVELOPED
The Aardvark project started in
2008 after a focus group with students led the development of our
somewhat basic and neglected installation of Moodle into a (at the time)
modern and engaging platform. The idea was to drive student use by
creating a colourful, MySpace-inspired, student intranet as the
front-end, with the functionality of a VLE behind it. Pressure from
those students would then ultimately drive adoption by tutors.
Over
the years, Aardvark has been an exciting and arguably inspiring
project, started at Newbury College, but benefiting from the
contributions and expertise of many other developers. It was the first
open-source Moodle theme to include a drop-down navigation menu, a
concept that would eventually become a core element of Moodle theme
engine, and at its peak was installed on over 5,000 Moodle installations
around the world.
Development
of Aardvark slowed down a few years ago as many of its advantages were
adopted as features in the core theme engine of Moodle and a lack of
development time meant that I was no longer able to keep up with the