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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

Chapter 3.  Setting Up Logos in Moodle Themes

In this chapter, we will use the UI to cover how to design a logo for Moodle on-premises and MoodleCloud. We will use an online logo designer since it can be used on our computer or smartphone, and it works on different OSes. Logos are very important for a Moodle course since they represent the organization that we are working for. We need to upload an image to enhance the look and feel of our Moodle course.

We are also going to change the Favicon of the Moodle course so that all the logos are new and the look and feel changes. Therefore, we will learn how to do this with the Essential theme in Moodle on-premises. We will add a header background image to the Essential theme in a tiled style so that the image is repeated throughout the header.

In this chapter, we shall cover the following topics:

  • Designing a logo

  • Adding a logo to MoodleCloud in the More theme

  • Adding a logo to the Essential theme in Moodle on-premises

  • Downloading a Favicon

  • Changing...