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| A course's appearance can be individualized by the teacher. In general, a teacher can make two courses on the same content and identical activities look very different. This is done by course settings, themes, adding or moving blocks, editing section/topic headings, hiding and revealing activities, adding labels and understanding the use of context upon students. [http://demo.moodle.net demo.moodle.net] has examples of course that look very different from one another.
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| The site administration settings may force some appearance elements upon a course that the teacher can not control.
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| ==Teacher impacts==
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| Most courses have more than one visible vertical columns. The widest column usually has horizontal dividers called sections or topics. The narrow column(s) contains blocks.
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| *[[Course homepage]] - the first thing the student and teacher sees when they enter the course.
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| *[[Course sections]] - These usually contain [[Activities]] and [[Resources]].
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| *[[Blocks|Course blocks]] - There are a wide variety of blocks that can be added to a course.
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| *[[Themes|Course theme]] - The site may allow the teacher to select a theme for their course or activities. A theme is a set of graphical instructions that effect the look and feel of Moodle.
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| *[[Language editing|Course language]] - The site may allow the teacher to force the course to display a specific language. For example the words "Topic outline" in English becomes "Themen dieses Kurses" when switched to German.
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| :''Tip:'' Moodle will initially assist the teacher with the 4 basic principles of web design (contrast, alignment, repetition, proximity) by it's default settings. It also provides teachers with a tool box that includes navigation, text and image editing features to assist the teacherand their students. Ultimately, it is the teacher's responsibility to understand and make the best use of their teaching environment and their course's appearance.
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| ==Site administration impacts==
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| The site may determine many default settings and will impact a course. Typically these settings can be found in the ''Settings > Site administration'' menu. For example the site may limit the use of themes in a course, or place a sticky block that will appear in every course's home page. Here is a list of potential places in the [[Site administration]] menu which have or contain sub-menus with settings that can impact what a user sees.
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| *Advanced features
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| *Course default settings
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| *Grade settings
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| *Language settings
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| *Plugin settings
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| **Activity
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| **Blocks
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| **Filters
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| **Text editors
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| **Repositories
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| **Question behaviors
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| **Question types
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| **Local plugins
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| *Appearance
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| *Front pagee
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| *Reports
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| *Comments
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| *Statistics
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