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Moodle Theme Development

By : Silvina Paola Hillar
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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

Exploring the topic course format


Within the courses in our Moodle on-premises, we have already designed two courses. The first course that we designed is Moodle 3 Theme Development. It was created using topics; therefore, we can group activities related to specific subjects. The available courses are shown in the following screenshot:

We will edit the topics section in the Moodle course. Before doing this, we need to be in editing mode, so click on Turn editing on. Afterwards, follow these steps in order to edit the topics within the Moodle_3_Theme_Development course:

  1. Click on the Moodle_3_Theme_Development course, the course created, or the course on Course formats.

  2. Choose topic to edit.

  3. Click on the downward arrow next to Edit and click on Edit topic, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Click on the tick next to Use default section name [Topic 1], so as to write the name of the topic; it is shown in the following screenshot:

  5. Enter a name in the Section name field.

  6. Complete the Summary...