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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—downloading a Moodle theme for higher education


  1. 1. Browse to Moodle.org.

  2. 2. Go to the Themes section and download the Student Experience theme.

  3. 3. Install this theme and change your Moodle site to use this theme.

As you can see, this theme is aimed at the higher education sector and is therefore clean and simple. It has graphics that are associated with the higher education sector, accompanied by nice, clean, and simple fonts.

What just happened?

You have just downloaded a theme from Moodle.org that has been specifically designed for children. This should give you some idea on what you might need to consider when theming for children. You have also learned that Moodle.org isn't the only site where you can find free open source Moodle themes.

Theming for disabilities

You must always try to ensure that your Moodle themes meet the recommended accessibility guidelines of the country that the Moodle site is aimed at. However, there might also be a specific requirement to ensure...