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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

Rendering parts of icons


We have found where the icons of the Add an activity or resource are placed on the server. It is time to render part of an icon and to check how it changes in Moodle on-premises. We will work with the forum because in this example we will modify two icons. Therefore, in order to check which icons we are working with, we will add a forum activity in Moodle on-premises. After adding the activity, we will add a post to the forum and this is the result. We will focus on the icons that we will render, they are shown in the following screenshot:

The icons that are circled are the ones that we are going to change. Therefore, these are the steps that we have to follow:

  1. Locate the icons. They are in the following path: Moodle30\server\moodle\mod\forum\pix, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Click on the t folder. These are the icons that are in the folder and will be rendered, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Tip

    We have just located the icons that we will render...