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Moodle 1.9 Theme Design: Beginner's Guide

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Moodle 1.9 Theme Design: Beginner's Guide

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)
Moodle 1.9 Theme Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Glossary of Useful Terms and Acronyms

Summary


Throughout this chapter, you have learned about making basic changes to the header and footer HTML files for your Moodle theme. You have learned that it's relatively easy to make small changes such as replacing the Moodle logo with your own. You have also learned about the importance of checking your changes in several web browsers and how to download and install different web browsers as part of the testing process. Finally, you learned how to check that your changes have been applied by using online services such as Browsershots.

Specifically, we covered:

  • How to add your own logo to your theme's header.html file

  • How to remove the Moodle logo and login info link in the footer.html file

  • How and why it is important to test these changes in different browsers

  • How to download other web browsers

  • How to comment out HTML and PHP code

Now that you've learned about editing the header and footers in your Moodle theme, we will move on to the next chapter to learn about Cascading Style Sheets (CSS...