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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

Learning about Moodle themes in MoodleCloud


Moodle themes are part of Moodle plugins but MoodleCloud does not support plugins, therefore, as it has already been mentioned before, themes in MoodleCloud are limited. As a default, MoodleCloud has the More theme, as stated in the MoodleCloud website: https://moodle.com/cloud/faq/ , and it is shown in the following screenshot:

In order to change the MoodleCloud theme in a simple way, we can follow these steps:

  1. Click on Turn editing on.

  2. Click on Site administration | Appearance | Themes | Theme selector. The current theme of our MoodleCloud course appears, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. The current theme of our MoodleCloud course is set by default. In order to change the theme of our MoodleCloud course in a simple way, click on Clean on the left-hand side margin, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Within the clean theme, we can customize Invert navbar, Logo, Custom CSS, and Footnote, but we are not customizing them right now, so click...