TAFE NSW - Customising Moodle

TAFE NSW – Customising Moodle Quicksilver Moodle theme… Designing Moodle from the frontend “In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer….Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.” Fortune By Steve Jobs January 24, 2000 © 2012 Department of Education and Communities, TAFE NSW eLearning Hub | www.ehub.tafensw.edu.au

TAFE NSW – Customising Moodle What do we have to work with Page Page - header Header Page - content region-main-box region-pre region-main-wrap region-post-box region-mainregion-content region-content region-content course-content Page - footer Footer © 2012 Department of Education and Communities, TAFE NSW eLearning Hub | www.ehub.tafensw.edu.au

TAFE NSW – Customising Moodle Desktop zone 1 Desktop zone 2 Left Zone 1 (Top strip) Right Zone 2 (Bottom strip) Left Zone 3 (upper toolbar) Right Left Zone 4 (lower toolbar) Right Main content background (region under course material)Column 1 (Pre) Topics Column 2 Post Left Footer Middle Right © 2012 Department of Education and Communities, TAFE NSW eLearning Hub | www.ehub.tafensw.edu.au

TAFE NSW – Customising Moodle Quicksilver features… course overrides, layout, custom design“We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.” Fortune magazine Steve Jobs January 4, 2000 © 2012 Department of Education and Communities, TAFE NSW eLearning Hub | www.ehub.tafensw.edu.au

TAFE NSW – Customising Moodle Top Level Course:Establishes Institute Branding Course 57: IT Faculty Course 52: BrandingBusiness Faculty Branding © 2012 Department of Education and Communities, TAFE NSW eLearning Hub | www.ehub.tafensw.edu.au

TAFE NSW – Customising Moodle Quicksilver benefits…multiple designs, theme consolidation, savings “Design is thinking made visual” Saul Bass © 2012 Department of Education and Communities, TAFE NSW eLearning Hub | www.ehub.tafensw.edu.au

TAFE NSW – Customising Moodle Lessons – design for your audience! Switch on designers mode / purge cache Decide what is critical content (usability)Users / audience - Levels of technical ability (coders /non coders/ ICT phobics)Planning your design before you implement - decide what is going to be global Re-useable graphics and code Don’t use tables unless basic and content is structure semantically Keep design detail away from crucial content or make it subtle Design best practice not too may styles of design elements Banner sizes recommended – no more than 200px Good example ABC Prioritise content - Main content should not sit at the bottom of the page Structure your style sheet with a TOC © 2012 Department of Education and Communities, TAFE NSW eLearning Hub | www.ehub.tafensw.edu.au

TAFE NSW – Customising Moodle Whats the next stepbug fixes, default skins, simplified settings page"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.“ Isaac Bashevis Singer © 2012 Department of Education and Communities, TAFE NSW eLearning Hub | www.ehub.tafensw.edu.au

TAFE NSW – Customising Moodle User contribution Hi I’m Natalie Moodle Queen Natalie Mark FionaNorth Coast Hunter Western © 2012 Department of Education and Communities, TAFE NSW eLearning Hub | www.ehub.tafensw.edu.au

To see North Coast Institute implementation visit: moodle.northcoast.tafensw.edu.auor additional help, contact Natalie on twitter: @moodlemuse © 2012 Department of Education and Communities, TAFE NSW North Coast Institute

TAFE NSW – Customising Moodle Visit us at:contact me: renee.lance@tafensw.edu.au ecommunities.tafensw.edu.au www.ehub.tafensw.edu.au © 2012 Department of Education and Communities, TAFE NSW eLearning Hub | www.ehub.tafensw.edu.au

TAFE NSW – Customising Moodle Resources Stephen Anderson http://www.webdirections.org/resources/stephen-p-anderson-keynote- sustaining-passionate-users/ Six Circles – UX design Frameworkhttp://uxmag.com/resources/six-circles---an-experience-design-framework Love marks www.lovemarks.com © 2012 Department of Education and Communities, TAFE NSW eLearning Hub | www.ehub.tafensw.edu.au

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