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Moodle Theme Development

By : Silvina Paola Hillar
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Moodle Theme Development

By: Silvina Paola Hillar

Overview of this book

Theming is one of the main features of Moodle, and it can be used to customize your online courses and make them look exactly how you want them to,according to your target audience. If you have been looking for a book that will help you develop Moodle themes that you are proud of, and that your students will enjoy, then this is the book for you. We start off by introducing Moodle 3 and explaining what it is, how it works, and what tools you might need to create a stunning Moodle theme. We then show you how to choose and change the pre-installed Moodle themes in detailed steps, and explain what Moodle themes are and how they work. Next, we show you how to change an existing theme and test the changes that you have made. You can not only plan the customization of theme, but also tailor it using advanced Moodle theming processes; this book is your one-stop guide to creating your own personalized Moodle 3 theme.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Moodle Theme Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Dedication
Preface

Customizing Moodle or MoodleCloud's theme More using HTML to define colors


More is a customizable theme which makes it easy to choose the desired colors for the MoodleCloud or Moodle platform course. Another important asset about this theme is that if you do not know how to create or develope a theme from scratch, More allows us to choose different colors.

In this case, we are customizing More from a Moodle platform course. The steps are the same for MoodleCloud. There are some steps that we have to follow in order to customize More:

  1. Enter the MoodleCloud or Moodle platform course.

  2. Click on Site Administration | Appearance | Themes.

  3. Click on More, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. When we click on More, the HTML code charts appear, as shown in the following screenshot:

  5. We can change colors by using a kind of HTML code chart, which was previously explained in the Using HTML tags to define colors section. The following screenshot shows how we can change the text color by just clicking on...