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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

Using Sublime Text to edit code


We use Sublime Text because it is a colorized and highlighted syntax text editor and we can identify the code easily. Furthermore, Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows, and Linux. In order to work with Sublime Text, follow these steps:

  1. Visit the following website: https://www.sublimetext.com/ .

  2. Click on Download, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Download Sublime Text for free in order to evaluate it and then a license must be purchased to continue using it, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. After installing Sublime Text, run it.

  5. Copy the code that has just been edited from the Moodle course.

  6. Paste it in Sublime Text, as shown in the following screenshot:

  7. The text is plain without any colors whatsoever. Click on View | Syntax | CSS, as shown in the following screenshot:

  8. The code looks colorized and highlighted, as shown in the following screenshot:

Tip

Because the code is colorized and highlighted and not just plaintext, it allows us to more...