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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 really been getting stuck in to creating your theme. You have created the header and footer and added your own logo. You have also changed the fonts and set the link styles throughout your Moodle site. You have learned how to create your own menu bar and add links to it. Finally, you have learned how to change the icons so that you can completely customize your theme.

Specifically, we covered:

  • Modifying the header

  • Creating the menu

  • Creating the footer

  • Setting the font and link styles

  • Changing the icons

Now that you have made some good headway into creating your blackandblue theme, you can move on to getting right under the hood. In the next chapter, you will learn how to style the blocks including the background and block headers. You will also learn how to style the login screen and make the breadcrumb trail fit your theme's style.