Creating a new custom Theme from a default Player Experience

Administrators can create new custom Themes from any of the default Player Experiences.

The custom theme can easily reflect any organization's branding, such as look and feel.

Chris Van Wingerden

2020-03-13

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Product: dominKnow | ONE | Version: 7.3

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Select the Application Menu.

Click the continue button:
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Select New.

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Select Theme.

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The Theme Browser panel will open. Select New.

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Select a default Player Experience to use as the starting point for the new Theme. For this example select Course Player Experience.

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Select Ok.

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The Theme Designer opens. The Theme Designer has two set-up panels - Styles and Player. On the Styles panel you set up the page-level content styles such as branding colors, font familes and sizes and more. Select the Player option at the top.

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On the Player panel you can set the design and functional options for the navigation bars for the theme. Select Add CSS.

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The Add CSS to Your Theme panel allows you to paste in CSS or LESS to add custom settings to the Theme. If you add CSS or LESS, use the Ok button to apply the changes. Select Cancel.

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When you have completed your settings, select Done.

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Before saving the new theme, add a title, subtitle and description. Select Save.

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On the Theme Browser panel select Close.

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The new theme is not automatically applied to a project. To apply it to the project you are currently editing, select Change Theme on the Home tab.

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Select the new theme.

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Select Ok.

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You can confirm the new theme has been applied because it will be shown in the Theme section of the Home tab.

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So you're ready to start creating your own custom statements... or are you?

Administrators and authors can create a Variant of an existing Theme.

The Variant allows for changing the look and feel or branding aspects of the Theme. A Variant does not allow for changes to the functional aspects of the theme, such as what is displayed on the navigation bars or the options available under the menu.

Basic Steps to Create the Assets

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The theme determines the functionality and design of your project. Only administrators have permission to create new themes. If you need to create a new theme, but do not have permission to do so, contact your administrator. Alternatively, if the changes you require are purely design related, you can create a new variant of an existing theme. Variants maintain all the theme's original functionality while allowing authors to choose their own colors and fonts. See the article Create a Variant f...

The Course Player theme uses traditional eLearning presentation and is built using the Course Player experience.

The Presentation Player II theme uses traditional eLearning presentation. This theme is built using the Presentation Player II experience.

Can someone help me with some instructions on how to do this? Thanks!

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In this use case, we have three buttons on a page and we want to know that all three have been selected before we allow the learner to leave the page. Before this lesson we set up actions so that as the leaner clicks each button a custom variable is increased by 1. Once all three buttons have been clicked the variable's value will be 3.

This lesson outline...

An interactive PDF that outlines Theme Styles and Player options that are available in dominKnow | ONE.

Creating a new custom Theme from a default Player Experience

Chris Van Wingerden

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