20 February 2024

Introducing 14 new and improved features for Spark theme

Eimear Corrigan

Eimear Corrigan

UX Developer

We’re launching a new selection of premium features to add to your Moodle LMS, Moodle Workplace or Totara Learn LMS. Explore our new Spark theme LMS add-ons.

You can now choose from a selection of 14 new and enhanced premium add-ons for your learning management system. 

Spark — our smart LMS theme for Totara and Moodle sites — was developed specifically to make some of the pieces of custom development that we’re most frequently asked to build widely available to our customers without the need for expensive bespoke development.

We achieved this by creating highly configurable add-ons that can be easily included within the theme. This initially included premium functionality such as intuitive dashboards, marketing spots where you can promote key content without editing HTML, at-a-glance course catalogues, activity bookmarks and team charts.

We’ve now launched an extended selection of premium features and enhancements to existing Spark Theme LMS add-ons that Synergy Learning customers can add to their LMS. They are:

Course Section Completion 

Show learners a detailed overview of their progress on their most recently accessed course.  This add-on displays the overall completion progress of the course as well as a more in depth completion status for each individual section within it.

Branded Emails

Send professional, cohesive and on-brand emails from your learning platform. With the Branded Emails add-on, you can create customised emails for notifications and other emails. Your branding can be set on a platform-wide basis or using different branding for each tenant. 

Useful Resources 

Enrich each learner’s journey by curating dynamic lists of featured activities that you can display anywhere around your LMS. The Useful Resources add-on uses tagging functionality to help you to quickly build a library of learning resources that are easily accessible when your learners can most benefit from them. 

Featured Topics 

Showcase the most recent discussion topics from key forum activities. By tagging forum activities you can display the most important threads in featured areas and drive engagement with key discussions.

Logos

Display the logos of partners, sponsors, third-party organisations or related sites. The Logos add-on automatically cycles through your curated selection of logos to build trust, reinforce your credibility and enhance your reputation.

Marketing Cards 

Promote key courses, content and information around your LMS. Enhancing our existing Marketing Spots add-on, which enables you to add visuals, content and call-to-action elements to any block region within your LMS, Marketing Cards give you greater control over branding and appearance. The cards are fully responsive and will adapt to any screen size and any block region within your LMS.

Marketing Grid 

Enhancing Marketing Cards by giving you the option to display key promotional content in an attractive grid layout. Configure the grid width, image opacity and layout of individual cards to create the look and feel you want.

Marketing Sections 

Transform your LMS into a website-like experience. Highlight essential content that matters to your organisation, including images, engaging text, and dynamic call-to-action buttons.

Style content to create attractive landing pages or align with your website brand, and hide or show content based on whether users are logged in.

People

Introduce your team, guest speakers or other key personnel with a user-friendly feature that can include an image, name, role, biography and link. It’s designed to fit seamlessly into any spot where you want to showcase people playing an important role in your learning, events or wider organisation. 

Multi-Login Enhancement 

Streamline and simplify how people access your LMS if you have multiple login options. Create and reorder separate tabs for standard login, self-registration, single sign-on, guest login and more. Set a default tab for first-time users to channel people to your preferred login flow.

Slides Enhancement 

Create effective calls-to-action with our stunning homepage slideshow. Already highly versatile, you can now configure the responsive height and all-screen aspect ratio for even better results on devices of all sizes. Display images, text and buttons to drive engagement with your LMS.

Testimonials Enhancement 

Our Testimonials add-on has been revamped to give it a much sleeker appearance. Customise the width of the testimonials area, align the content for each individual testimonial and add a photo for extra authenticity. Along with the new simplified look, there is also an option to autoplay through a series of testimonials.

Social Icons

Create an unlimited number of clickable icons to direct learners to your social media platforms or other external sites. Use the rebuilt Social Icons add-on to drive social engagement or create cohesion with other platforms used by your organisation. Choose from preset or custom icons to create the right look.

Help Centre

The Help Centre caters to both site administrators and learners of an LMS site and sits independently from the FAQs add-on, with its own dedicated page.

Administrators can publish help and advice articles, using a structured approach to content organisation that enables learners to easily find relevant information through a user-friendly interface.

Get the new Spark theme LMS add-ons.

All of the add-ons are suitable for Moodle LMS, Moodle Workplace and Totara Learn — get in touch to check if they’re compatible with the version you’re currently using. Just fill out the short form below and we’ll be in touch.

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