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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

Time for action—changing the icon set


  1. 1. Browse to another theme that has been installed by default in Moodle. This is important as you might break copyright laws if you use someone else's icon sets. Try the chameleon theme for starters.

  2. 2. Make a backup of the entire blackandblue folder and paste this onto your desktop.

  3. 3. Copy the entire pix folder and paste it into your blackandblue folder.

  4. 4. Open your config.php file from the root of your theme's folder, and change the following line of code from:

    THEME->custompix = false;

    to:

    $THEME->custompix = true;
    
  5. 5. Refresh your browser, and hey presto: you have a new icon set.

What just happened?

In the last exercise, you learned how to change the icon set by copying a pix folder from another theme and pasting this into the correct place in your own theme. You also learned how to change the theme's config file to tell the theme to use custom pictures. You achieved this by changing the following line of code from:

THEME->custompix = false;

to...