Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide

You're reading from   Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide Build custom plugins, extensions, modules and more

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467119
Length 368 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Tools
Arrow right icon
Authors (2):
Arrow left icon
Jaswant Tak Jaswant Tak
Author Profile Icon Jaswant Tak
Jaswant Tak
Ian Wild Ian Wild
Author Profile Icon Ian Wild
Ian Wild
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting to Grips with the Moodle 3 Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Moodle Plugins - What Can I Plug In? 3. Internal Interfaces 4. Course Management 5. Creative Teaching - Developing Custom Resources and Activities 6. Managing Users - Letting in the Crowds 7. Creating a Dashboard - Developing a Learner Homepage 8. Creating a New Skin 9. Moodle Analytics Appendix

Look and feel

Each plugin can be provided with its own /styles.css script to customise that plugin's look and feel. Over and above that, Moodle provides a flexible plugin-based theming framework--check out the Moodle directory at https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Themes. A new Moodle theme is possibly one of the more complicated plugin types you might need to develop. Go to Eclipse and navigate the PHP Explorer to the theme folder:

The trick to developing a new Moodle theme is to take a pre-existing theme and modify it to your requirements. Take a look in the Moodle plugins directory (https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=category&id=3) for third-party themes.

Let's take a look at the general structure of a Moodle theme plugin. In Eclipse, open the theme/canvas folder:

In the previous screenshot, you will see two folders that have been expanded: layout and style...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at €18.99/month. Cancel anytime