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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

Chapter 6. Locating, Editing, and Using New Icons

In order to modify or completely customize the look and feel of our Moodle course, we also need to pay special attention to icons. We can edit them in order to personalize them and change the layout and see them differently.

Creating icons is more than just developing an image. Icons are saved as Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), therefore this chapter explains how to work with different types of vector graphics formats. We will use diverse, free, and open source tools to edit, enhance, and convert the different vector graphics files.

Different types of vector graphics are involved in this chapter because they can enhance the look and feel of the Moodle course. We can not only use them but also modify them. We can change the vector graphic in order to use a part of it.

We will cover not just changing the icons (vector graphics) in our Moodle course, but also using them in other types of software in order to customize them and export...

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