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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—copying the show/hide icons


  1. 1. Right-click on the Hide icon, as visible in the image above, and choose Save image as and then click Save. This should save the icon to the same directory in your blackandblue theme folder. Make sure that this is the case before clicking the Save button.

  2. 2. When the overwrite dialog box appears, choose Yes.

  3. 3. Go back to the Foodle course and click on the icon that you have just saved, to collapse all of the weeks in the course and display the Show icon.

  4. 4. Right-click on this icon and choose Save image as again, and then choose Yes in response to the overwrite warning.

  5. 5. Navigate back to the home page and then change the theme from Foodle back to your blackandblue theme.

  6. 6. Navigate to the Theming Moodle course and then press Ctrl + F5. This will clear the cache from your browser and load the new icons.

What just happened?

In the last three tasks, you have made some changes to the course view in your theme. You successfully changed the font color...