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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

Styling the breadcrumb trail


Sometimes you might find it necessary to style the breadcrumb trail to give it a specific look. The breadcrumb trail is the trail of links that take you back one page at a time, and are designed as a navigation aid so that you can navigate up one level easily.

The breadcrumb trail in Moodle is visible only on the inner pages of Moodle, so you will need to click on the Miscellaneous course category that is visible on the front page when you are logged in as administrator.

As you can see from the preceding screenshot, this doesn't look too bad, and can easily be left alone. However, for the benefit of education, we shall make some small changes to this, by using CSS.

Finding the style used for the breadcrumb trail is a little difficult, as ordinarily it just appears as the normal link style. So first you need to find out what the breadcrumb is called, and the best way of doing this is to change your theme to one that has had its breadcrumb styled.