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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

Locating the information of a title element


We can change the styles of different elements, among other things, and as long as we learn how to edit CSS, we can completely change the look and feel of our Moodle on-premises. Step by step, we can learn how to identify the different elements so as to make changes to them.

In this example, we will locate the titles in order to add changes to them. First of all, we need to inspect the element in order to edit code and enhance it. We will change the font and size of the letters. After logging into Moodle on-premises, these are the steps that we have to follow:

  1. Highlight the element to inspect and right-click on it.

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

  3. The code appears, and you need to identify the element.

  4. The element is shown highlighted in the following screenshot:

  5. The code reads as follows:

          .title { 
              padding: 3px 0 8px; 
              margin: 3px 8px 4px; 
              border-bottom: 1px solid #f1f1f1...