Welcome to the Moodle Chameleon theme test site

You may try using Chameleon here and in the course About Moodle. Please login first. It's up to you to enhance the themes or change them completely. You will never know how the course will look when you enter - change is part of the game here

The theme will be reset on a regular basis.

Chameleon is part of Moodle 1.6.

How does Chameleon change its colours?

• Shift-click anywhere on the page to open a floating window showing all elements under the mouse
• Click on elements in the list to create a CSS selector - one or as many as you need
• Click on the "Set Styles" button and set the styles of your choice
• View the changes immediately

Chameleon allows almost complete control over styling elements in Moodle. It makes working with themes easier for theme designers and opens up a wide range of experimental uses for interface designers. Just change and work with the changed page and go on optimizing your theme whilst you work with Moodle.

Chameleon makes use of Ajax technologies.

Saving your changes

As you work, you have the option to save changes in a temporary file, or save them to the theme CSS file on the server. All temporarily saved changes may be reverted.

Will it work on my Moodle site?

Yes - the Chameleon theme folder just needs to be placed in the themes folder of your Moodle site. Chameleon is one of the Moodle 1.6 themes.

Simple style changes

A Chameleon hotspots feature is planned, which will enable style changes to be made simply, without requiring any knowledge of CSS selectors.

Chameleon development

Andrew Walker, from Alton College in the UK, is programming the interface for this innovative Moodle theme and brings many valuable ideas and solutions. Many thanks Andy for your great work.

Urs Hunkler