# Adding content

#### A few thoughts on course design

There are many guidelines with Moodle course design tips out there in the web - but this documentation is not the right place to give a "best practice" summary. So I would rather like to focus on a few points and show how the theme's typography and css classes can help you.

##### Use a consistant course design

Theme Lambda already uses a special layout for course sections and section titles. To place some informations to each section, you can for example use the `.alert` classes. With this class you can make use of the different color to attract the user’s attention by having a contrast with the white background.

Read more about the `.alert` classes.

But remember: Don't use the course page for content, only place small infos, hints or summaries there.

##### Use labels to guide your users

Theme Lambda's `.heading` classes can help you to place your tasks and resources in a clear structure to guide your users. The headings will help you to add some visual weight.

Read more about the `.heading` classes.

##### Topic 0 - the starting point of your course

There are many different options (and many different views!) how to design the top of a specific course:

- Course title with image and subheading:
  You can make use of the `.course-pano` class to it to create a visually appealing page header.

  Read more about the `.course-pano` class.

- Tabbed navigation:
  With this alternative you can provide an attractive starting point for your users which can also be used as a menu to link to the topics of your course.

  Read more about including tabs.

- Default course title:
  In Theme Lambda, you can also use the standard course title - this way the title will be displayed in a consistent design to the other theme elements by default.

##### Summing up

In the screenshot you can see how the suggested theme elements can work together to form a Moodle course. Activities, resources and labels are placed only as samples, so don't bother thinking about why students should explore Moodle in a "Creative Writing" course... :)

See also:

- https://docs.moodle.org/32/en/Courses