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Theme selector

An administrator can set a theme for the site in Administration > 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 Administration > 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.

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

Afterburner (this offers you the File picker to upload your 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 (this offers you the File picker to upload your logo)
Magazine
Sky High
Splash

Themes that allow custom CSS

Afterburner
Anomaly
Arialist
Formal White
Fusion
Non-zero
Overlay
Sky High
Splash

Themes with right hand column(s) only

Arialist
Brick
Fusion
Nimble
Non-zero (2 columns)
Overlay (2 columns)
Sky High (2 columns)

Various forum help that may be useful

Changing logo height in Afterburner: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=197924
Moving columns in Sky High: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=209626
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
Afterburner theme
Anomaly theme
Arialist theme
Binarius theme
Boxxie theme
Brick theme
Clean theme
Formal white theme
FormFactor theme
Fusion theme
Leatherbound theme
Magazine theme
MyMobile theme
Nimble theme
Nonzero theme
Overlay theme
Serenity theme
Sky High theme
Splash theme
Standard theme

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 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.
 [[File:Themeselector21.png|thumb|center|theme selector showing default and none selected in other theme types]]

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