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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 FREE CHAPTER 2. Themes in Moodle 3 on-premises and MoodleCloud 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

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:

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

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