Make Your Own Custom Theme in Moodle
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In this course, you will learn how to add some excitement to your boring old Moodle site. This includes making changes to the front page settings, theme settings, changing your theme, downloading and installing a new theme, cloning a theme, and customizing a theme’s CSS.
Regardless of your current skill level, there’s something in this course for you. If you’re a Moodle administrator or IT professional who wants to change the look of your Moodle site, this is the perfect course for you. Even if you’ve never written a line of computer code, don’t worry! You will learn how to make startling changes to your Moodle site without ever touching the database or files on the server.
And if you’re a more advanced user: maybe you have a lot of experience using CSS on other platforms but you’re wondering how to write your own stylesheets in Moodle, you will learn how to clone an existing theme and add your own custom stylesheet… then you can apply your CSS skills to take your Moodle site as far as you want.
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IntroductionThis video is an overview of what is covered in this class.
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Moodle Theme Basics
In this video I explain how to see the themes that are installed on your Moodle server, and how to change the theme using the theme selector!
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Front Page Settings
In this video, I describe all of the options available in Moodle's front page settings!
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Theme Settings
In this video, I tell you about all of the options available in Moodle's Theme settings!
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Theme-Specific Settings
In this video, I explain of all the options available in the "Boost" theme's settings, and how to override a theme's CSS from within the theme-specific settings!
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Troubleshooting
In this video I demonstrate two methods for recovering from catastrophic theme-related problems!
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Adding More Content to the Middle of the Front Page
In this video, I show two ways to add your own HTML code to the center section of Moodle's front page!
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Front Page Blocks
In this video, I show you how to add your own content, including custom HTML, in blocks on the front page!
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Downloading, Installing and Configuring a New Theme
In this video, I walk you through downloading, installing, and configuring the "Klass" theme!
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Using Course Images
In this video, I enable the course list on my front page and add course images to the courses on my Moodle site!
