Standard themes

Theme selector

An administrator can set a theme for the site in Settings > Site administration > Appearance > Themes > Theme selector.

Different themes may be set according to 'device type' - default, legacy (for older browsers), mobile and tablet.

Go to Settings > Site administration > Appearance > Themes > Theme selector

• Click on the "Select theme" button next to the type you wish to change
• Scroll down to see the previews of the available themes and click on the "Use theme" button to chose the theme
• The next screen will provide information about the theme. Click "Continue"

Note 1: Moodle caches themes so if you don't immediately see changed settings that you were expecting, click the "Clear theme caches" button at the top of the Theme selector page.

Note 2: The selected theme may be overridden if user/course or category themes have been allowed in the Theme settings.

Tip: The MyMobile theme is especially designed for mobile devices.

theme selector showing default and none selected in other theme types

Notes on individual themes

Arialist: does not display the logo at course/course level. This means it is not useful for branding at a category/course level.

Themes that allow you to change a logo

• Arialist (only at home page level) Code to change this: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=192409
• Brick
• Clean (this offers you the File picker to upload your logo)
• Formal White
• Magazine
• Skylight
• Splash

Themes that allow custom CSS

• Arialist
• Fusion
• Non-zero
• Overlay
• Sky High (2 columns)
• Splash

Themes with right hand column(s) only

• Arialist
• Brick
• Fusion
• Nimble
• Non-zero (2 columns)
• Overlay (2 columns)
• Skyhigh (2 columns)

Various forum help that may be useful

1. Changing logo height in Afterburner: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=197924
2. Moving columns in Sky High: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=209626
3. Tweaks to header area in Formal White: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=167544

Standard themes

In alphabetical order here are the standard themes in Moodle:

• Standard Themes - click on any to enlarge
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  Afterburner theme

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  Anomaly theme

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  Arialist theme

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  Binarius theme

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  Boxxie theme

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  Brick theme

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  Clean theme (new in 2.5)

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  Formal white theme

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  FormFactor theme

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  Fusion theme

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  Leatherbound theme

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  Magazine theme

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  MyMobile theme

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  Nimble theme

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  Nonzero theme

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  Overlay theme

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  Serenity theme

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  Sky High theme

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  Splash theme

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  Standard theme

See also

• Theme credits
• Using Moodle What counts as a 'legacy' device type? forum discussion