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@MoodleNews Fave Moodle sites – great sites!

melissa — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:27:22 +0000

Check out @MoodleNews blog post, Happy Friday: my top 5 favorite Moodle sites, which lists some of Joseph Thibault’s favorite Moodle sites. I’ve always loved Leeds City College Moodle site but this list made me aware of a few other awesome sites! I’m loving http://www.moodleinschools.org.nz, check it out!

Review of Moodle 1.9 Theme Design on MoodleNews.com @moodlenews

melissa — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:46:45 +0000

Check out my review of Moodle 1.9 Theme Design on Moodle News.

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Two book reviews coming! @packtpub

melissa — Tue, 18 May 2010 14:48:52 +0000

I’m very excited to read and review two books from Packt Publishing.

Moodle 1.9 Theme Design: Beginner’s Guide

Create your own Moodle theme from the graphic design stage right through to the finished complete Moodle theme
Offers design examples and ways to create appropriate themes for different student age groups and styles
Effective planning for creating and modifying new themes, customizing existing themes, and enhancing them further
Clear focus on beginners with ample screenshots and clear explanations to facilitate learning

Moodle 1.9 Extension Development

Develop your own blocks, activities, filters, and organize your content with secure code
Thoroughly covers key libraries of Moodle and best practices to use them
Explore the Moodle architectural concepts, how it is structured, and how it works
Detailed examples and screenshots for easy learning

These two books are probably the most exciting to me to begin reading out of all the Packt Publishing books I’ve read. I’m currently into the 3rd chapter of the Theme Design book, which I will be reviewing on MoodleNews.com. It should be posted on Moodle News within a few weeks and the Extension book I will be reviewing on this blog.

Great resource for theme builders!

melissa — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:33:44 +0000

Patrick Malley has given all of us Moodlers a great resource to use when beginning to customize a Moodle theme. He has “created a new theme – an antitheme really – for workshop attendees to use as a starting point for their projects.”

Stripdown is nothing more than a stripped-down theme that loads the Moodle Standard stylesheets first. It actually contains no style of its own. That’s for you to work out. Before adding these styles, it looks just like..” read more

I have always said I am surprised there are not more Moodle theme designers and resources like this. It seems like there are tons of resources for other programs like Worpress, Joomla, etc. I have not yet downloaded and tried this but hope to take a look this week. Hopefully these types of resources will keep coming!

Related Links:
Patrick Malley.com
Stripdown: A New Theme for Moodle
Download Stripdown
NewSchool Learning – Official Moodle Partner (themes)

Making your Moodle site look good!

melissa — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:39:37 +0000

This post is inspired by me finally getting read/write permissions to our Moodle server! Since last summer when we installed Moodle we have wanted to add themes, plug-ins, modules, edit the php, etc. Yesterday, that day came. Today, I am searching for recommended modules, plug-ins, course formats, themes and other small tips to make our Moodle site look good. I’ve added Book and Tab Display modules from Moodle.org. Now, I want to ramp up our Moodle site theme and layout. We force our users to use their My Moodle page, so I will also try and make that page look good.

Please give me your favorite Moodle themes, modules and tips! Comment on this post or Tweet me!