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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

Designing your design


After you have done all of the research necessary to make sure that you have all of the assets in place to create your Moodle theme, you will need to plan a design. The first stage in this process is to browse through the Internet for designs that you like, and see if you can replicate them in Moodle. I don't mean make an exact copy of a website that you might see, as Moodle has specific elements that need to be considered, such as the sideblocks, the administration screens, and so on. However, you can copy a color scheme, or the structure of a website, such as its navigation structure, its menu, or header layout. If you have a closer look at Moodle, it is relatively easy to see what elements can be copied from other websites or from other Moodle themes.

So let's go and have a look at some other Moodle sites.