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Moodle Theme Development

You're reading from   Moodle Theme Development Build customized themes to make your Moodle courses engaging and interactive

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2016
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ISBN-13 9781786463210
Length 302 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Silvina Paola Hillar Silvina Paola Hillar
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Preface 1. An Introduction to Moodle 3 and MoodleCloud 2. Themes in Moodle 3 on-premises and MoodleCloud FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting Up Logos in Moodle Themes 4. Customizing the Header and the Footer 5. Customizing Elements with CSS 6. Locating, Editing, and Using New Icons 7. Optimizing Themes for Mobile Devices 8. Exploring Layouts 9. Course Formats 10. Extending Moodle Theming to Specific Sections A. Test Your Knowledge Answers

Adding a custom device


Considering the fact that there are new devices and we may not know all of them, we can also add a custom device. We need to check how the theme looks on several devices or we need to check a certain device, which does not appear in the list shown in the previous example, therefore, we need to customize a device. In this example, we can explore a device running on Android such as BLU RH1.

Before customizing the device, we need to check some details, so we will enter the official website at  http://bluproducts.com/r1-hd/ and get the specification. It is shown in the following screenshot:

After checking the specification of the new device, we do not close that tab and follow these steps:

  1. Run Google Chrome.

  2. Run MoodleCloud or Moodle on-premises and log in.

  3. Press the F12 key.

  4. Once you have enabled Toggle device toolbar, go to the left-hand side of the screen where we can find the simulated device.

  5. Click on the downwards arrow next to Responsive.

  6. Click on Edit....

  7. Click on Add...

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