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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

Organizing course content

When we create or design a course from scratch, we have to bear in mind how to organize content, as well as consider the methodology that we will apply for teaching the students. Therefore, we organize the resources and the activities approximately.

We can arrange all the resources together or we can switch between resources and activities. We should provide students with content before designing an activity. Therefore, by taking advantage of Moodle's abundance of different resources and activities, we can create a variety of content for our Moodle course.

To organize the course content, we will work on the Course formats course, which was created in the previous chapter. Follow these steps to organize the course content:

  1. Enter the Moodle course and log in.
  2. Click on Turn editing on.
  3. Click on Edit | Edit topic within a topic block, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Organizing course content

  4. Complete the Section name block, untick the block next to Use default section name...
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