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Moodle 1.9 Theme Design: Beginner's Guide

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Moodle 1.9 Theme Design: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Moodle is a highly extensible virtual learning environment and is used to deliver online teaching and training materials. Theming is one of the main features of Moodle that can be used to customize your online courses and make them look exactly how you want them to. If you have been looking for a book that will help you develop Moodle Themes that you are proud of, and that your students would enjoy, then this is the book for you.This book will show you how to create themes for Moodle, change pre-installed Moodle themes, and download new themes from various resources on the Internet. It is filled with suggestions and examples for adapting classroom activities to the Virtual Learning Environment.This book starts off by introducing Moodle, explaining what it is, how it works, and what tools you might need to create a stunning Moodle theme. It then moves on to show you in detailed steps how to choose and change a Moodle theme, and explains what Moodle themes are and how they work. It shows you how to change an existing theme and test the changes that you have made.The latter half of this book will start you off on the road to creating your own themes from scratch. It provides detailed instructions to guide you through the stages of creating a stunning theme for your Moodle site. From planning theme creation, through to the slicing and dicing, and more advanced Moodle theming processes, this book will give you step-by-step instructions to create your own Moodle theme.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 Theme Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Glossary of Useful Terms and Acronyms

Time for action—searching for Moodle themes


In this exercise, you are going to visit the primary resource on the Internet for Moodle themes. If you still have your web browser open, I recommend opening either a new browser window or a new tab.

In your browser, navigate to the Moodle website http://www.moodle.org. Go to the top menu and hover your mouse over the Downloads link. On the right-hand side, you will see that the menu drops down and displays further pages that are available. Choose the Themes section, which is second from the bottom. This will take you to the Themes page of the Moodle database, where you will be able to download the themes shared by other members of the Moodle community. You can see this exemplified in the following screenshot:

What just happened?

In this exercise, you have learned how to browse to the main Moodle.org website and navigate to the Moodle themes database. You can see that there are a lot of themes freely available to download and use. You are encouraged...