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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—deleting the login info text


  1. 1. Navigate to your mytheme directory, right-click on the footer.html file, and choose Open With | WordPad (or an editor of your choice), as seen below:

  2. 2. Find the following two lines of code:

    echo $loggedinas;
    echo $homelink;
    
  3. 3. Comment out the first line by using a PHP comment as shown below:

    /* echo $loggedinas; */
    echo $homelink;
    
  4. 4. Save the footer.html file and refresh your browser window. You will see the footer without the Moodle logo or the login info link, as seen in the next screenshot:

What just happened?

In this task, you learned about those parts of the PHP code in the footer.html that control whether the Moodle login info text appears in the Moodle footer, similar to the Moodle logo in the previous exercise. You also learned how to comment out the code that controls the rendering of the login info text so that it does not appear.

Have a go hero—adding your own copyright or footer text

The next thing that you are going to do in this...