Book Image

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

Testing the code


Before adding changes to Moodle on-premises, it is advisable to test the code. As we have already edited the code, we have to make sure that we have not made any mistakes and that it works. Therefore, we can test it using https://jsfiddle.net/ . These are the steps that you have to follow:

  1. Enter https://jsfiddle.net/ .

  2. Go back to http://enjoycss.com/ and copy the HTML code, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Go back to https://jsfiddle.net/ and paste the code in the HTML block.

  4. Edit the code as follows:

          <div class="title">title</div> 
    
  5. Go back to Sublime Text and copy the code.

  6. Go back to https://jsfiddle.net/ and paste the code in the CSS block.

  7. Click on Run, in the left-hand side margin. The changes are seen in the following screenshot. They are made to the word TITLE: