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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

Exploring themes suitable for academic use


There are several themes for Moodle 3.0 as well as for 3.1 for academic use at the time of writing, so we will explore them. We will focus on the themes available for Moodle versions 3.0 and 3.1, although there are plenty of other themes which work with earlier versions of Moodle. When talking about academic use, we mean that we can use them at different levels of education, as well as in institutes. There are condiments that we can add to the themes in order to adapt them to their location.

In order to explore Moodle themes, we need to go to the following website: https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=category&id=3 . On this website are all the themes that we can download for our Moodle on-premises for free; therefore, we will list and explore the ones for academic use.

Contemporary

This is a theme for academic as well as corporate use. It is available for Moodle 3.0 and for earlier Moodle on-premises versions. According to its description...