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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 this chapter, you have learned how important it is to plan ahead with Moodle theming. You now understand the importance of proper project management, and how and when you should create milestones in the theming process. You have also learned the basics of creating design scamps by using graphics manipulation software, and have been why this is a useful process.

Specifically, we covered:

  • The importance of knowing your audience when theming for different groups of people

  • The importance of gathering our assets, and what questions we should be asking ourselves

  • Using paper and wireframing to help us visualize our planned Moodle theme design

  • Using graphics software to further visualize a design so that you can build a complete mockup of our planned theme

Now that you've learned about the planning stages of creating Moodle themes, let's move on to Chapter 7, First Steps: Creating Your First Complete Moodle Theme, where you will put to use the knowledge that you have gained while working through...