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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—creating the logo, menu text, and login info text


  1. 1. Select the text tool and click on the blue header, and then type in the words Black & Blue. Press the Enter/Return key, and then type the words Online learning by Openzone.

  2. 2. Using your text tool, highlight the top line of text and choose a suitable font from the text menu below the file menu, and set the same colors as set out in the preceding screenshot. The colors are #000000 and #a1b2f0.

  3. 3. Now highlight the bottom line of text and do the same, but choose the following settings. Substitute the font for something thinner if you don't have the Frutiger font.

  4. 4. Click on the text tool again and click on the top black menu bar that you created earlier and type out the following text:

  5. 5. Highlight this text with the text tool and use the following settings to position the text correctly:

  6. 6. Use the text tool again and click on the large blue header on the left-hand side and enter the following text: You are not logged...