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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


To summarize, in this chapter you have learned how to install Firefox Add-ons to greatly improve the functionality of the browser in terms of web development. You have learned how to create a new CSS. You have also learned how and why you use our own CSS rather than edit the current files from your theme directory. You now understand how to set Moodle's config file to pick up any additional stylesheets that you might use and understand more about Moodle's theming process.

You have learned how to change some of the common elements on our Moodle site by using CSS. You have explored the concept of web accessibility and why accessibility issues are important.

Specifically, we covered:

  • Installing Firebug and the Web Developer Toolbar

  • Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Moodle

  • Changing the default font

  • Setting the font color and font size

  • Setting the link colors (unvisited, visited, and hover)

  • Changing the background (color and/or image)

  • Accessibility in the Moodle environment

Now that you've learned...