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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

Editing an SVG file


We will work with Inkscape, which we have previously mentioned. So we run said software and we can edit the SVG of the quiz which is the one that we will change in Moodle on-premises. We can also modify other icons. We will use the drawing options in Inkscape to create the desired icon.

Another possibility is to render some parts of it. When we think of rendering parts of vector graphics, we mean that we are going to use a part of a drawing that we have designed. Therefore, we will not use all the shapes in the file; we will save some of them and select them before exporting them. The aim is to transform the selection of a bitmap.

Run the Inkscape software and follow these steps:

  1. Click on File | Open.

  2. Look for the file to open (the quiz icon saved as .svg) and click on the file.

  3. Click on Open, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Before making any changes to the file, save the file with another name, in order to work with a copy of the original file.

  5. Click on File | Save...