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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 5. Customizing Elements with CSS

In this chapter, we will change the look and feel of our Moodle course, focusing on sizing images and changing colors and fonts, among other things. We will be customizing the elements with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

In order to work with CSS, we will work with both online and offline text editors before making the changes in Moodle on-premise, so as to check how the element changes before making it definite. In this chapter, we will further our knowledge in CSS a little more and learn what we can do with it in order to change the look and feel of Moodle on-premises.

CSS is used to apply styles to the elements in order to change certain attributes of those elements. In this way, we can improve the look and feel in order to make it more attractive.

Text editors are a great tool to bear in mind when changing the look and feel of the Moodle course, since we are making the changes, and at the same time, checking how they look before working with the code...