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Moodle Theme Development

By : Silvina Paola Hillar
Book Image

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

Selecting and downloading a Moodle theme for Moodle 3 on-premises


We can download Moodle themes for our Moodle on-premises course, and we can do that from the following website: https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=category&id=3 . We can look for a theme which is suitable for Moodle 3 on-premises; in this case, we are going to choose Essential, as shown in the following screenshot:

We click on Essential in order to be able to download the Moodle theme. The following screenshot appears, click on Download in order to download the theme, as shown in the following screenshot:

After downloading the theme, the file will appear within the Downloads folder, as shown in the following screenshot: