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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 7. Optimizing Themes for Mobile Devices

When designing a theme, we must bear in mind that the theme is not only used in desktops/laptops, but also in mobile devices. As regards mobile devices, nowadays we have to consider many of them. It is impossible to test the theme on every mobile device, but it is necessary to do so when we change the look and feel of Moodle on-premises or MoodleCloud. Furthermore, we also need to check the network connectivity, that is to say the time of response and the latency

In order to test how the new theme is displayed and how throttling works in a mobile device, we can use Chrome DevTool's Device Mode, which simulates a wide range of devices and their capabilities. We can emulate sites across different screen sizes as well as resolutions. We can also emulate orientation.

In this chapter, we will focus on mobile devices and how themes look in them. We will customize different mobile devices because we can find it relevant when theming in our Moodle courses...