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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

Customizing the footer


Obviously, the second thing that you are going to do after you have made changes to your Moodle header file is carry on and change the footer.html file. The following tasks will be slightly easier than changing the header logo and title text within your Moodle site, as there is much less code and, subsequently, much less to change.

Removing the Moodle logo

The first thing that you will notice about the footer in Moodle is that it has the Moodle logo on the front page of your Moodle site and a Home button on all other pages. In addition to this, there is the login info text that shows who is logged in and a link to log out.

More often than not, Moodle themers will want to remove the Moodle logo so that they can give their Moodle site its own branding. So get stuck in with the next exercise, but don't forget that this logo credits the Moodle community.