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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 plugin course formats


There are several course formats that we can download from the following website: https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=category&id=19 . They change the look and feel of the Moodle course, and the layout for displaying courses. In this section, we will explore the different course formats that we can download. We will focus on the formats that are available at the time of writing for Moodle 3 and Moodle 3.1.

Collapsed topics

This course format is useful when a course has several topics or weeks. It can be downloaded from the following website: https://moodle.org/plugins/format_topcoll . In the event where we want to use this course format, we click on Download and follow the steps mentioned in the previous section.

Socialwall format

This course format will turn the Moodle course into a social learning platform. There are many items that can be edited. We can download this course format from the following website: https://moodle.org/plugins/format_socialwall...