Moodle can be fully customized in terms of layout, branding, and device support. It must be stressed that certain aspects of changing the look and feel require advanced design skills. While you, as an administrator, will be able to make some adjustments, it will be necessary to get a professional designer involved, especially when it comes to styling.

The two most relevant components for customization are the Moodle front page and Moodle themes. Before we cover these areas, let's try to understand which part is responsible for which element of the look and feel of your site.

In the screenshot on the following page, have a look at the front page of the Moodle site after we have logged in as administrator (designed by, and courtesy of, Synergy Learning). It is not obvious which parts are driven by the Moodle theme and which ones by front page settings. The following table, which looks at the page's elements from top to bottom, sheds some light upon this: