Adding a background image to the course title on the course page

Adding a background image to the course title on the course page

by Kevin Westbrook -
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Over the last year or so I must have spent days trying to find the answer to this. I have a situation where I want to deliver a course that could be for a group of unlinked individuals, but could also be for people from a single organisation. I want to be able to use different copies of the course for each situation. For the unlinked people, I would have my branding all over it, and for the other I would make it clear that it is for their organisation.

My approach would be, if it is possible, to have a standard background to the course name area ("Pre-sessional B2+ ... in the screenshot) and the organisational branding as an image in the "General" section (blue image in the screenshot). As you can see, I can do the latter, but I can find no way to do the former.

Just installed Moodle version 3.10, but I have been trying with 3.8 and 3.9. I am using the Boost theme, updated today, but I am not wedded to it. It is not a live platform - I am running it on my PC at the moment.

Any pointers gratefully received.

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Re: Adding a background image to the course title on the course page

by Gareth J Barnard -
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Is there anything unique in the body classes if you have the course once and instead of your solution, turn on 'cohorts' / 'groups' and have a 'cohort' / 'group' for each of your groups of people? If so then you'd have a means of having targeted CSS backgrounds.
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Re: Adding a background image to the course title on the course page

by Kevin Westbrook -
Thanks for the reply. I will need to put a bit more thought into it, but I don't think cohorts and groups work, although it would be nice if it did. These courses could be running widely separated in time. Also, I am not sure I would want the risk that I could end up communicating with everybody with information that could be confidential to the company concerned by not selecting the correct group when I send a message or set up an activity. I think it would also add a large amount of admin overhead as against having individual courses. Ideally, I want a standard course that I can clone for each customer, change the top image and I am ready to go.
Obviously, it would be much easier to just change the image in the General section of the course, and I will do that if the way I want to do is too complex, but I would guess that there is something somewhere that can be changed. I just don't know what and maybe it isn't that easy! I have no experience in creating themes.
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