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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

Summary


In short, we have covered how to switch, download, and install Moodle's themes. You should now be fairly confident that if asked, you could choose a different site theme for Moodle, find new themes on the Internet, and install those themes on your Moodle site.

Specifically, we covered:

  • What a Moodle theme is and what its relationship is with the main Moodle application.

  • You have learned how easy it is to log in to Moodle as the administrator and to navigate to the Moodle themes' selector page and choose a Moodle theme.

  • You should now know the difference between site, user, course, category, session, and page themes and how they can be prioritized. You have also learned about parent themes and briefly looked at where the theme directory is and what is in it.

  • You then learned to search for a Moodle theme and downloaded it. After this, you learned how to extract and install your new theme in Moodle.

  • Finally, you looked at the theme settings page and undertook some exercises to learn how to...