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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—looking at other Moodle sites


  1. 1. Open your web browser and navigate to http://moodle.org/sites/.

  2. 2. Roll your mouse over the Community link and choose Registered sites from the drop-down menu.

  3. 3. Click on the country that you wish to see the other Moodle sites from (I have chosen USA).

  4. 4. If you scroll down the page, you will see a long list of Moodle sites that are hosted in the selected country (USA in my example).

You now need to have a really close look at as many of these sites as you can, so that you can get an idea of what you might want from your planned Moodle theme. It is definitely worth taking notes at this stage, otherwise you might forget some of the elements that you would like as apart of your own theme. Don't take hours and hours here because you will very quickly go beyond the point that this exercise becomes useful. It is also worth pointing out that not all of the sites listed will allow us access. If so, just go to another one. It is also worth noting that...