The great thing about Moodle is that it has a consistent user interface. What do I mean by that? One way to think about Moodle is as a suite of teaching tools—a forum, a wiki, a chat facility, and so on. Because the user interface is consistent, you can learn how to interact with one tool and you'll easily be able to pick up using the others. You'll find that all Moodle sites have a familiar feel to them: they look different but they are all used in the same way. How do you make them look different?
You can theme Moodle: that means you can apply your own custom colors and page designs. You can specify your own banner across the top of the page—and your own footer at the bottom. You can rearrange items on the page. But you can't change the behavior of a Moodle site. A Moodle will behave like a Moodle, and you'll get to recognize a Moodle site when you see one.
The Moodle theme you'll see in the pictures in this book (the theme of my Moodle) is called 'standardwhite...