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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 Add an activity or resource icons in our Moodle on-premises


We have just modified a quiz icon and we need to find the other icons in our Moodle on-premises. We can also render parts of icons in order to modify them as we desire. Therefore, we need to find where they are so that we can edit them.

We enter our Moodle on-premises, and after logging in, we enter the desired course and click on Add an activity or resource. Under Activities, the following activities appear, as shown in the following screenshot:

We can find the icon of the assignment in the following path: Moodle\server\moodle\mod\assignment\pix. The following icons appear, as shown in the following screenshot:

In this case, three different bitmap images appear, that is to say, we have the icons saved with three different extensions: .gif, .png, and .svg. Previously, we have converted the SVG into PNG using Inkscape. We can convert an SVG to a GIF using Inkscape, but we can use other software to do it, such as Paint for...