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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781786463210

Length 302 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

HTML

Tools

Moodle

Concepts

Learning Management System

Author (1):

Silvina Paola Hillar

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

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

Editing front page area content

We can edit the front page area content using four blocks. The blocks that we will edit are the ones located under the heading. We can add any valuable information or images to enhance the look and feel of the Moodle course. In this case, we will also customize the Essential theme for Moodle on-premises. The blocks that we will work with are FRONT PAGE AREA CONTENT, MARKETING SPOT ONE, MARKETING SPOT 2, and MARKETING SPOT 3. They are shown in the following screenshot:

The screenshot shows the location of the blocks to edit. The location described in the section that we will work with is the full width of the page between the slide show and the Marketing spots. The following steps are a guide to how to customize and edit these blocks using information related to the Moodle course. These are the steps that we have to follow:

Under Administration, click on Site administration | Appearance | Themes | Essential | Front page.
Scroll down the page and complete the...

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Authors (1)

Silvina Paola Hillar

Silvina Paola Hillar

Silvina P. Hillar is Italian and has been teaching English since 1993. She has always had a great interest in teaching and has done a lot of research on teaching methodologies, management techniques and embed them into e-learning and teaching. She has also explored different types of e-learning combining them with Moodle. She also researches on multimedia assets that enhance teaching and learning through VLE platforms. She tries to embed the learning of students through new resources that are appealing and innovative for them. In this way, she ensures that multimedia stimulates different thinking skills as well as multiple types of intelligence. She is an English teacher, a Certified Legal Translator (English/Spanish), and has a postgraduate degree in Education (graduated with honors). She has worked at several schools and institutions with native English speaking students and students of English as a foreign language, and as an independent consultant for many international companies in the capacity of an Interpreter, Translator, and Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) Course Designer. She has always had a passion for technological devices concerning education. Formerly, videos and cassettes were a must in her teaching lessons; the computer was, and still does, play a big role. Her brother, Gastón C. Hillar, designed some programs and games for her teaching. Lately, she has been teaching using Moodle and the Web. She believes that one of the most amazing challenges in education is bridging the gap between classic education and modern technologies. She has authored: Moodle 1.9: The English Teacher's Cookbook, Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook, Moodle 2.5 Multimedia Cookbook second edition, Mind Mapping with FreeMind and Moodle 2.3 Multimedia Video Course. When not tinkering with computers, she enjoys travelling with her son, Nico and her love, Jorge, with whom she spends wonderful time.

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