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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 8. Exploring Layouts

Whenever we design a Moodle course, we have to bear in mind the target audience. That is the reason why there are so many themes available to download in order to align with the myriad goals or needs of the users. In this chapter, we will explore all the layouts available at the time of writing, and the different styles that we can apply to them in order to adjust the theme to our audience.

There are some themes that happen to be much more customizable than others; in other words, changing the skin, look, and feel, of our course is simpler in some themes than others. Therefore, in order to cater to our needs, we need to explore the themes and their profile in order to decide which one we shall customize our Moodle course with.

There are themes suitable for academic as well as corporate usage; we can change the look and feel in order to modify them a little bit and adapt them to the situation in which we will use them. Moreover, there are themes that are suitable...