Your learning environment comes with a standard theme that is highly customizable. It allows you to control many aspects of the look and feel of your site.The layout of the front page is quite flexible. Once in the theme settings, you can go to the "Block region builder" tab to modify the layout. This tab allows you to add 4 rows of blocks, and specify how many columns (between 1 and 4) for each row. Once you specify the rows and columns you want on the front page, you can save the page to view the layout. You can then go back to the front page and, while in editing mode, add various blocks in the rows and columns.
Step-by-step Guide
To change the look and feelmodify the layout of the front page:
- Go to Site Administration > Appearance > Themes Expand the English or French theme depending on which language you want to modify> English > Settings
- Click on the Settings link the specific area that you want to modify
Once in the settings, you can click on any tab that you want to modify (e.g. Colours, Fonts, Buttons, etc.) and make your changes. Once you have made the changes, click on "Save changes" button at the bottom of the page.
Layout
The layout of the front page and quite flexible. Click on the image below to see the possibilities of the layout.
Sample Themes
The following sample theme configuration are available for download for the 3.9 version. You can click on each image to enlarge it. If you like this theme, you can download the zip file next to each theme, which contains instructions and sample images.
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- "Block region builder" tab
- Enable the "Enable custom block region on front page" setting
- Specify how man blocks you would like for each row
- For example, 3+3+3+3 would add 4 blocks of equal width, while 4+8 would add two blocks, with the 2nd block being twice as wide as the 1st block.
- If you do not need a row, select "Disabled" to hide it.
- Click on the "Save changes" button.
Once you've saved the page, you will see in the "Check your layout" section the layout of your blocks on the front page of your learning environment. You can now go to that front page to add actual blocks (e.g. Calendar block, Slider block, Text block, etc.) to those rows.
The image below shows the general layout of the front page.