Getting the most out of Wimba Create

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Including Live Websites
3. Visual timeline presentation
4. Sharing presentations online
5. Including Youtube resources
6. Mindmapping within Wimba Create
7. Decision trees for contextual learning
8. How to utilise Pop ups
9. Flexible self test quiz making using Hot Potatoes
10. Linking to other places within your tutorial
11. Hotspots from images
12. Drag and Drop labelling activities
13. Customising the way your tutorial looks
    1. Existing Schemes
    2. Creating a new scheme
    3. What is customisable?
    4. Adding a Logo
    5. Changing colours and presentation of your scheme
    6. Changing the background colour of the course name
    7. Changing the footer, background and font colour
    8. Altering the fonts (In the index)
14. Frequently Asked Questions

Changing the background colour of the course name

Open up the cg.css file by double clicking the mouse on it. Within this file find this section (although the background-color may be different depending on your original template) -

 
/*Header*/

#header {
background-color: #9999cc; <u>{This will be changed}</u>
padding-left: 6px;
padding-right: 6px;
margin-left: 10px;
margin-right: 10px;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
padding-top: 4px;
padding-bottom: 4px;
font-size: 1.2em;
font-weight: bold;}
 

The colour scheme use a hexadecimal colour code. The University of Bristol's red is colour #b01c2e which we will be using here but you can search online for a coded colour palette really quickly. For example - Click here for Palette example

So if we change the background colour on the cg.css file code and save it will produce a different output. So if change the above text to this -

 
/*Header*/

#header {
background-color: #b01c2e; {Changed}
padding-left: 6px;
padding-right: 6px;
margin-left: 10px;
margin-right: 10px;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
padding-top: 4px;
padding-bottom: 4px;
font-size: 1.2em;
font-weight: bold;}
 

The new background colour will look like this -

Compared with the previous colour -