Title: Tools for Design
Course: From Shabby to Swanky (Carroll, H.) > Section: PD Pages

A list of resources that can be used to spruce up your Moodle!

Tools for Design

Making a Moodle course that looks more like a website is easy.  And the fun part is choosing the colors and images you will use to personalize your class.
Colour Lovers
"COLOURlovers is a creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns, discuss the latest trends and explore colorful articles... All in the spirit of love."

Rather than coming up with your own color schemes or designs, you can choose from over 2 MILLION color palettes and coordinating patterns. For those who want to create their own, that option is available too.

To use the colors from the palettes, simply copy the HEX code into the Color # box.
Pixlr | This image editor offers many of the features found in Photoshop but without software installation and for FREE!  Rather than search around for free pictures and icons, create your own.  Choose from basic to advanced tools.
Gimp | Again, a free image editor much like Photoshop.  This requires installation on your computer, but it's worth the space!
Teachers Pay Teachers | Want to add some clip art to your course?  Teachers Pay Teachers has tons of cute, free clip art for personal and commercial use.  Registration is free.
Daily Overview | More icons to download.  These are also in sets but include some of my favorites like pirate and ninja icons! Downloading from this site is quite simple too.
Flickr | Flickr Creative Commons provides pictures that can be used in your content when attributed properly.
Moodle Share | You can download Moodle courses and lessons from Moodle Share.  Resources are available by content and grade level.
Moodle Feature Demo | You can see a variety of sample sites.  Some of the courses are designed to help you understand the Moodle activities.  Others offer databases of resources to download.