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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—checking whether your changes have worked


  1. 1. Open your Moodle site in Windows Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox and log in as the administrator.

  2. 2. Open up whichever web browser you haven't already opened, navigate to your Moodle site, and log in again.

  3. 3. Now, all you need to do is switch between the two browsers, either by clicking on the tabs of your two browsers on the status bar or pressing Alt + Tab keys on your keyboard and choosing either Firefox or Internet Explorer. On the following pages are some screenshots of the two different browsers and what your changes look like:

Mozilla Firefox:

Windows Internet Explorer:

As you can see from your own testing and the preceding screenshots, there are minimal differences between the two browsers. Perhaps you might have been thinking that you would have differences to deal with—well, no. The reason you have done these exercises is to get used to checking every change you make as we go along. This is essential, as it's very...