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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—deleting the Moodle logo


  1. 1. Navigate to your mytheme directory, right-click on the footer.html file, and choose Open With | WordPad, as seen below:

  2. 2. Find the following two lines of code:

    echo $loggedinas;
    echo $homelink;
    
  3. 3. Comment out the second line using a PHP comment:

    echo $loggedinas;
    /*echo $homelink; */
    
  4. 4. Save the footer.html file and refresh your browser window. You should now see the footer without the Moodle logo, like in the following screenshot:

What just happened?

In this exercise, you learned which parts of the PHP code in the footer.html file control where the Moodle logo appears in the Moodle footer. You also learned how to comment out the PHP code that controls the rendering of the Moodle logo so that it does not appear. You could try to put the Moodle logo back if you want.

Removing the login info text and link

Now that you have removed the Moodle logo, which of course is completely up to you, you might also want to remove the login info link. This link...