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Moodle 1.9 Theme Design: Beginner's Guide

Moodle 1.9 Theme Design: Beginner's Guide

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Overview of this book

Moodle is a highly extensible virtual learning environment and is used to deliver online teaching and training materials. Theming is one of the main features of Moodle that can be used to customize your online courses and make them look exactly how you want them to. If you have been looking for a book that will help you develop Moodle Themes that you are proud of, and that your students would enjoy, then this is the book for you.This book will show you how to create themes for Moodle, change pre-installed Moodle themes, and download new themes from various resources on the Internet. It is filled with suggestions and examples for adapting classroom activities to the Virtual Learning Environment.This book starts off by introducing Moodle, explaining what it is, how it works, and what tools you might need to create a stunning Moodle theme. It then moves on to show you in detailed steps how to choose and change a Moodle theme, and explains what Moodle themes are and how they work. It shows you how to change an existing theme and test the changes that you have made.The latter half of this book will start you off on the road to creating your own themes from scratch. It provides detailed instructions to guide you through the stages of creating a stunning theme for your Moodle site. From planning theme creation, through to the slicing and dicing, and more advanced Moodle theming processes, this book will give you step-by-step instructions to create your own Moodle theme.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Moodle 1.9 Theme Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
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Glossary of Useful Terms and Acronyms

Chapter 1. An Introduction to Moodle

Chapter 1 introduces Moodle, explaining what Moodle is and how it works. It will also cover why Moodle should be used. It is compared to other Course Management Systems (CMS) and Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) and it details Moodle's pedagogic principles. This chapter also outlines why the book has been written and who its intended audience is. Finally, it discusses what software and hardware tools you will need, and makes some assumptions with regards to the ICT and web design/development skills needed to get the most from this book.

In this chapter, we shall cover:

  • What a Virtual Leaning Environment (VLE) is

  • What types of VLE there are

  • What are the advantages of using a VLE

  • What Moodle is

  • Why we should use Moodle

  • What we will be doing in the rest of this book

  • What skills we will need

  • What tools we will need

If you teach or are involved in information technology for an educational institution, you will have probably heard the terms Course Management Systems (CMS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), and Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs). These three terms can effectively be grouped into one and for the purposes of this book—you will refer to them as VLEs. Ever since the beginning of the Internet, there were promises that technology would transform the way by which education and learning takes place. However, this didn't happen straightaway. Rather, these transformations have evolved slowly over time, and this evolution in the way in which teaching and learning takes place is only now finally being realized.

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