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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

Organizing course content


When we create or design a course from scratch, we have to bear in mind how to organize content, as well as consider the methodology that we will apply for teaching the students. Therefore, we organize the resources and the activities approximately.

We can arrange all the resources together or we can switch between resources and activities. We should provide students with content before designing an activity. Therefore, by taking advantage of Moodle's abundance of different resources and activities, we can create a variety of content for our Moodle course.

To organize the course content, we will work on the Course formats course, which was created in the previous chapter. Follow these steps to organize the course content:

  1. Enter the Moodle course and log in.

  2. Click on Turn editing on.

  3. Click on Edit | Edit topic within a topic block, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Complete the Section name block, untick the block next to Use default section name [Topic 1].

  5. Complete...