6 Premium Moodle™ Themes Based on Moodle’s Boost Theme (2025 Update)

Posted on 1 May, 2024 by Admin

Moodle’s theme development continues to evolve, and Moodle 5 introduces exciting new features like AI-powered tools and a modern UI built on the Bootstrap 5 framework. The Boost theme remains the foundation for all modern Moodle themes, offering a clean, responsive design and improved accessibility.

Many sites are now exploring upgrades to Moodle 5, but Moodle 4.x is still widely used and supported – and themes built for it continue to be in high demand. Premium Moodle themes based on Boost are designed to grow with the platform, making them a smart choice whether you’re staying on Moodle 4.x for now or planning to move to Moodle 5 in the near future.

Looking for the best Boost-based premium Moodle theme to transform your site? We’ve got 6 professionally designed Moodle themes to choose from – all built on the Boost framework and crafted with performance, usability, and future compatibility in mind.

1. Lumo Theme (Moodle 5.x theme)

Lumo is a brand-new premium Moodle theme designed exclusively for Moodle 5. It’s the perfect choice for sites looking to leverage Moodle’s latest innovations, including Bootstrap 5 and built-in AI-powered features.

Inspired by leading online learning platforms like Coursera, edX, and Udemy, Lumo delivers a sleek, modern user experience with a strong focus on clarity and usability. It’s ideal for education providers, businesses, governments, and training organizations that want a fresh and professional Moodle site.

What sets Lumo apart is its versatile design system. The theme comes with a rich set of layout and style options that you can configure easily through the theme settings – no coding required. You can reorder homepage sections, customize colors and typography, and tailor the look of your site to suit your brand or audience.

To help you explore its flexibility, we’ve created four live demos, each with a unique color scheme and use case:

For Everyone

For Businesses

For Governments

For Universities

Lumo Theme Main Demo Theme Details

Whether you’re launching a corporate training portal or a university LMS, Lumo gives you the tools and design power to make your Moodle 5 site stand out.

2. Edutor (Moodle 5.x & 4.x theme)

Edutor is our best-selling Moodle theme, originally developed for Moodle 4.x and now fully compatible with Moodle 5. With its modern, on-trend design and extensive customization options, Edutor is ideal for corporate training and higher education. It’s built to instantly transform your Moodle LMS into a polished, professional learning platform.

Want to learn more about this theme? Check out Edutor’s main features and settings. You’ll also find useful tutorials on the theme details page under the right sidebar.

Edutor Theme Demo Theme Details

3. Maker (Moodle 5.x & 4.x theme)

Maker is our most popular Moodle theme to date. Trusted by universities and businesses worldwide, Maker offers a clean, professional design with flexible layout options and easy customisation. It’s a great choice for delivering engaging, branded learning experiences.

Want to learn more about the Maker theme? Check out Maker’s main features. Tutorials are also available on the theme details page under the right sidebar.

Maker Theme Demo Theme Details

4. Impression Boost (Moodle 4.x theme)

Impression Boost is a reimagined version of our classic Impression theme – completely rebuilt using Moodle’s Boost theme framework. While the original design inspiration remains, the UI and UX have been significantly modernised. This theme is ideal for users who liked the look of Impression but need a Boost-based alternative for Moodle 4.x.

Impression Boost Theme Demo Theme Details

5. Herald Boost (Moodle 4.x theme)

Herald Boost takes the original Herald theme and brings it up to date with the Boost framework. With an entirely reworked interface, this theme provides a cleaner and more modern user experience, while still maintaining the academic look and feel of the original.

Herald Boost Demo Theme Details

6. Gourmet Boost (Moodle 4.x theme)

Gourmet Boost is a modernised version of our popular Gourmet theme. Fully rebuilt on Moodle’s Boost theme, it offers a refined, visually rich layout perfect for showcasing culinary or lifestyle-related content on Moodle 4.x.

Gourmet Boost Demo Theme Details

Best Moodle Themes for Your Moodle 5 & 4.x Sites 2025 (Free & Premium)

Posted on 30 April, 2024 by Admin

Moodle 5 is finally here. This is another major release that builds on the modern UX and UI overhaul introduced in Moodle 4.x. Moodle 5 continues to improve the overall experience for both educators and learners, with performance enhancements, accessibility updates, and more refined interface design.

Thinking of upgrading your site to Moodle 5.0+ to take advantage of the latest features and offer your users a smoother, more modern experience? We’ve got you covered. Below is our curated list of the best Moodle themes that are fully compatible with Moodle 5.

When we first published this post, many free Moodle themes were not yet compatible with Moodle 4.x. The good news? Theme developers have been catching up—and we’re keeping this post updated with the best options as they become available for Moodle 5. So be sure to check back!

Boost (FREE Moodle Theme)

Live Demo

Boost is Moodle’s core theme and it continues to evolve with each major release. In Moodle 5, Boost is now built on Bootstrap 5, offering improved performance, modern components, and better accessibility support. The theme maintains its clean, minimalist design with an intuitive user experience that suits both learners and educators. If you’re working with a limited budget and need a reliable, no-frills theme to get your Moodle LMS up and running, Boost in Moodle 5 is a solid, future-friendly choice

If you already have a professionally designed landing page for your main site, you can simply link to your Moodle site’s login page from there. Moodle 5 makes it easy to control access – you can choose to require users to log in before they can view any course content or even access the front page. This is especially useful if you want to keep your LMS experience focused and secure.

Lumo (Premium Moodle 5 Theme)

Live Demo Theme Details

Lumo is a premium Moodle theme designed for Moodle 5, tailored to meet the needs of both higher education institutions and professional training businesses. With its polished, modern design and thoughtfully structured layouts, Lumo delivers a high-quality user experience that feels professional and engaging right out of the box.

Inspired by the clean, user-friendly interfaces of leading online learning platforms like Coursera, Udemy, and edX, Lumo brings that same level of design sophistication to your Moodle LMS. Whether you’re building an academic site or a corporate training portal, your learners will enjoy a smooth, intuitive experience across all devices.

Built on Moodle’s Boost theme and Bootstrap 5, Lumo takes full advantage of Moodle 5’s latest improvements in UI, performance, and accessibility. It also offers a high level of customization through the theme settings allowing you to easily adjust color schemes, fonts, and layout options to match your organization’s branding.

Lumo provides a ready-made, professional design solution that saves you the time and cost of custom development. And just like our other premium themes, it comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee, so you can try it risk-free.

Edutor (Premium Moodle Theme)

Live Demo Theme Details

Edutor is a premium Moodle theme now fully compatible with Moodle 5. It’s packed with modern, on-trend design elements and powerful features tailored for higher education and corporate training sites. Built on Moodle’s core Boost theme – now upgraded to Bootstrap 5 in Moodle 5 – Edutor inherits all the latest improvements in UI, UX, and accessibility, making it a future-proof solution for your LMS.

The theme includes 6 professionally designed color schemes to help you get started quickly. You can also fine-tune the color palette, typography, and layout settings via the easy-to-use theme settings panel – perfect for aligning your Moodle site with your institution’s or brand’s visual identity.

Instead of hiring a design agency and spending tens of thousands on custom development, Edutor lets you create a sleek, branded learning portal at a fraction of the cost. Plus, it comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee – so you can try it risk-free. If it doesn’t fit your needs, just reach out for a full refund – no questions asked.

Maker Theme (Premium Moodle Theme)

Live Demo Theme Details

Maker is the best-selling boost-based Moodle theme since Moodle 3.x and it has now been upgraded to be compatible with Moodle 4.0+. This theme has been widely implemented by higher education and small to medium sized business training sites – you can read all the customer reviews on the theme details page.

Like the Edutor theme, Maker theme has a 30-day money back guarantee so it’s risk free to try it out before spending your budget.

Moove (FREE Moodle theme)

Moove is a popular free Moodle theme that continues to be a favorite in the Moodle community. Its Moodle 5 version brings a clean, modern, and streamlined design that aligns with the latest UI and UX standards.

Built on top of Moodle’s core Boost theme, Moove takes advantage of the newest features and improvements in Moodle 5, including the switch to Bootstrap 5. The theme offers a user-friendly experience and a visually polished interface, making it a solid choice for both educational institutions and training providers.

Live Demo Theme Details

Adaptable (FREE Moodle theme)

Adaptable is a long-standing and widely used free Moodle theme, trusted by thousands of Moodle sites worldwide. Known for its extensive configurability, it’s the go-to choice for anyone looking for a free theme with maximum flexibility and control.

With a vast array of settings, Adaptable gives site admins the power to customize almost every aspect of the theme — from layout and colors to typography and homepage blocks. If you’re willing to invest some time, you can tailor the theme to perfectly fit your Moodle site without spending a penny.

Adaptable is currently available for Moodle 4.x, offering full support for sites running that version. However, at the time of writing, it has not yet been updated for Moodle 5. If you’re planning to upgrade, it’s worth monitoring the theme’s development updates or considering alternatives that are already Moodle 5 compatible.

Live Demo Theme Details

Moodle Themes – How To Host Google Fonts Locally (Without Using Google Fonts API)

Posted on 13 July, 2023 by Admin

Do you want to use free Google fonts on your Moodle site but are concerned about EU regulation GDPR? If you’re using Moodle Boost theme or a Boost-based theme you can follow the steps in this tutorial to host your desired Google fonts locally to avoid any potential GDPR compliance issues.

Step 1 – Disable Google Fonts API

If the Moodle theme your site is using is already using Google Fonts API to load fonts from Google’s server, you need to disable the API first.

We have added the option to disable Google Fonts API in our latest Moodle theme Edutor and Maker. You just need to go to theme settings and uncheck a box under the General Settings section.

Step 2 – Download Google Fonts

Head to the online tool Google Web Fonts Helper and download the fonts you’d like to use on your Moodle site.

For demo purposes, we chose DM Sans as our Moodle site’s main font and Mulish as the heading font.

Step 3 – Host Google Fonts

Create a folder called fonts in your Moodle theme folder on your server and upload the downloaded fonts files to that folder.

Step 4 – Add Google Fonts To Your Site

Go to your theme’s settings page and find the Custom SCSS/CSS section. Boost T

In the Raw initial SCSS input field add the fonts definition code.

/* dm-sans-regular - latin */
@font-face {
  font-display: swap; 
  font-family: 'DM Sans';
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 400;
  src: url([[fonts:theme|dm-sans-v13-latin-regular.woff2]]) format('woff2');
}


/* mulish-700 - latin */
@font-face {
  font-display: swap; 
  font-family: 'Mulish';
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 700;
  src: url([[fonts:theme|mulish-v12-latin-700.woff2]]) format('woff2');
}

In the Raw SCSS input field add your custom css code to assign the fonts to relevant page elements.

body {
    font-family: 'DM Sans', sans-serif;
}

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
    font-family: 'Mulish', sans-serif;
}

Moodle Contact Form Plugin – How To Change The Default Form Success Message

Posted on 19 May, 2023 by Admin

Moodle’s Contact Form Plugin provides a simple way to add a contact form to a Moodle course or a Moodle page. After successfully submitting the contact form, you will see a default success message saying “Thank you for contacting us. If required, we will be in touch with you very soon.” If this default success message doesn’t suit your organisation you can follow the steps in this tutorial to change it to something different.

You can try the forms on our Moodle demo site below:

1) Moodle Page Contact Form (Live Demo)

2) Moodle Course Tutor Contact Form (Live Demo)

Step 1

Log into your Moodle site as an admin user, and navigate to the Language customisation page by going to Site administration > Language > Language customisation

Select “English(en)” from the drop down menu:

Click the “Open language pack for editing” button then click “Continue”.

Step 2

Select the php file related to the Moodle Contact Form plugin: local > local_contact.php

Enter the default form success message into the “Only string containing” input field and click the “Show strings” button to proceed.

Step 3

Enter your desired form success message in the “confirmationmessage” input field as shown in the figure below. Save your changes.

How To Uninstall A Moodle Theme Or Plugin in Moodle 5 & 4.x

Posted on 16 May, 2023 by Admin

If you have installed a Moodle theme or plugin which is not compatible with your Moodle version or no longer needed you can completely remove it from your server and database by following the steps below.

Step 1

Log into your Moodle site as an admin user, and navigate to the Plugins overview page by going to Site administration > Plugins > Plugins overview

Step 2

Find the theme or plugin you’d like to uninstall and click the link “uninstall”.

Uninstalling a theme or plugin will delete EVERYTHING (eg. theme configurations and plugin settings) in the database associated with the theme/plugin.

Step 3

Manually remove the Moodle theme or plugin folder from your server. This step is important because if you don’t remove the folder from your server Moodle will detect the folder again and ask you to install the theme/plugin next time you visit your Moodle site’s admin page.

How to Add PowerPoint Slides To Your Moodle Course Using The Lightbox Gallery Plugin

Posted on 3 December, 2022 by Admin

Want to add PowerPoint slides to your Moodle course? By default Moodle doesn’t have a built-in PowerPoint viewer but you can use Moodle’s third party plugin “Lightbox Gallery” as a workaround to achieve the same effect. In this blog post we will walk you through how to present your course content in a PowerPoint style.

You can check our Moodle demo site here to see the example we used in this post.

View Demo Course

Pre Requirements:

1) Download and install the “Lightbox Gallery” plugin.

2) Prepare a zip file containing all of your image slides in PNG or JPEG format.

You can take advantage of all of the wonderful free PPT templates on the internet and export the slides as images. In our example, we used “Minimalist Business Basic Template” from slidesgo.com

Step 1

Go to your desired course and turn editing on. Click the “+ Add an activity or resource” link and then select the “Lightbox Gallery” in the modal window.

Step 2

Upload the slides zip file and save the changes.

Tip: You can upload your slide images one by one but if you have lots of images it’s much faster and efficient to zip them up and upload in one go.

Tip: Users can click the NEXT and PREV button or use the left and right arrow key on the keyboard to navigate through all the slides.

How to Hide The Tabbed Secondary Menu From Students In A Specific Moodle 4.x Course

Posted on 8 November, 2022 by Admin

Moodle 4.x introduced a new secondary navigation system which is located in the course header area right under the course name. The navigation menu items are presented in a tabbed horizontal menu bar and Moodle shows different menu items to different users.

In a typical Moodle course, students see four tabbed menu items: “Course”, “Participants”, “Grade” and “Competencies” as shown in the figure below.

In the same course, the course teacher or admin sees many more tabbed menu items in the menu bar. For example “Settings” which links to the page for the teacher to configure the course general settings.

Why hide the course’s secondary menu from students?

The secondary navigation system is a new feature in Moodle 4.x and it provides an intuitive way for users to quickly access course related sub pages. However, if you are using your Moodle course page in an unconventional way you might consider hiding the menu from your students to avoid confusion and distraction. In the example below we will show you a real-world use case and our solution to hide the menu.

Use Case Background:

A customer who is using our Moodle 4.x theme Edutor contacted us about hiding the course secondary menu from their students on specific Moodle courses. The customer sent us their course screenshot (see below) and explained the reasoning behind it.

Use Case Reasoning:

“The reason for this is that we have a few static courses that act as information hubs, so this menu bar is unnecessary and might confuse students. However, we’d like to keep the bar for all of our usual courses.”

Want to borrow this customer’s idea and create similar-looking Moodle courses? Check out Moodle’s course format “Tiles”.

Solution:

Since the course’s secondary menu can not be “turned off” via Moodle’s settings, the only workaround is to hide the menu via targeted custom css/scss code. If you’re using Boost or one of our Boost-based Moodle themes you can follow the steps below to create your custom code to hide the menu in targeted courses.

Step 1 – Get Course ID

First of all, you need to get the ID for the targeted course. The easiest way to find out the course ID is to visit the course page and check the page URL in your browser’s address bar.

A typical course URL should look like this: https://yourmoodlesite.com/course/view.php?id=1 and the course ID is the number following id=

Here is a course on our theme demo site and the course ID is 9 https://elearning.3rdwavemedia.com/moodle/edutor/1/course/view.php?id=9

Step 2 – Add Custom CSS Code

If you’re using one of our Moodle themes you can go to: Site administrator > Appearance > Themes > Edutor (replace with your theme name) > Advanced Settings

Enter your custom css/scss code in the Raw SCSS input field as shown in the figure below. The code example in the screenshot assumes the target course’s ID is 9. If your target course ID is 1 or 5 you need to replace .course-9 to .course-1 or .course-5 in the css code.

The code below hides the course secondary menu in the target course (course ID:9) for students:

.course-9 .secondarynavigation {
    display: none; 
}

The code below shows the course secondary menu in the target course (course ID:9) for the course teacher or admin when editing is turned on.

.course-9.editing .secondarynavigation {
    display: block; 
}

Outcome

Now your students won’t see the secondary menu in the targeted course but the course teacher or admin can still see and access the secondary menu when Editing is on.

Top 3 Free Course Format Plugins For Your Moodle Site

Posted on 7 October, 2022 by Admin

Looking for an alternative course layout to enhance your course design? You can download free Moodle course formats from Moodle’s official plugin directory. In this post we have handpicked the best plugins you can use to make your course look more structured and student-friendly. All of our premium Moodle themes are compatible with the plugins and the screenshots from this tutorial were taken from our Moodle theme Edutor’s demo here.

1) Tiles Format

Tiles format lets you organise each Moodle course section into a tile-like card. This format is great for courses with a “modular” structure. When your students land on the course page they can clearly see an overview of the course modules at a glance. Students can easily find the module they’d like to take by clicking the relevant tile.

Course Demo (Tiles Format)

You have the option to add an icon or a background image to each tile to make them more visual to the students.

You can easily fine tune the tile’s design via the course settings page.

2) Grid Format

Grid format is similar to the tiles format and it displays the Moodle course sections in a card view. Prior to Moodle 4.0, clicking the section card will open the section content in a modal window. However, from Moodle 4x the section content will be opened in a separate page.

Course Demo (Grid Format)

You have the option to upload a background image for each card and adjust the card width and aspect ratio via the course settings.

3) Collapsed Topics

Collapsed topics format displays the Moodle course sections in a collapsible accordion. Students can click the section title to expand/collapse the section content.

Course Demo (Collapsed Topics Format)

This plugin comes with many options for you to customise the look and feel of the accordion to work with your site’s colour scheme.

How To Upgrade Premium Moodle Themes

Posted on 23 September, 2022 by Admin

Moodle LMS is evolving constantly with improvements and new features. We update our premium Moodle themes on a regular basis to add new features, design improvements and bug fixes. If you’re using one of our premium Moodle themes, you can follow the steps in this post to upgrade your theme without encountering any issues caused by Moodle’s caching.

“Do I need to reconfigure my Moodle theme from scratch after upgrading? Will I lose my theme configurations after upgrading?” These are the most asked questions by our theme customers. The good news is the answer is NO. All of the settings you configured via the theme settings are saved safely in your site’s database and upgrading the theme won’t affect the theme settings and you won’t need to reconfigure anything.

Please Note: if you ever made changes to the actual theme files, the changes will be lost after upgrading the theme and you will need to re-apply them. It’s recommended that you keep a note of all the file changes before upgrading so you can re-apply them after upgrading. Learn the best way to customise a Moodle theme.

Step 1

Turn on Maintenance mode and switch your Moodle site’s theme to the default theme Boost.

Step 2

Delete the old theme folder from your server completely.

Step 3

Check your Moodle site’s version and make sure the theme you’re about to upload to your server is compatible with your Moodle. If not, you need to upgrade your Moodle site correctly first.

Purge Moodle cache: Administration > Site administration > Development > Purge all caches

Step 4

Download the theme zip file. Unzip locally and find the actual theme folder – this is the folder you need to upload to your server later.

Moodle Premium Theme Edutor

Moodle Premium Theme Maker

Upload the theme folder to your server under moodle/theme. Make sure you upload all of the files.

Step 5

Your Moodle site should prompt you to upgrade your theme – follow the onscreen instructions to upgrade.

Tip: if you don’t see the upgrade prompt you can head to the notification page to manually trigger the upgrade process – https://yourmoodlesite.com/admin/index.php

Step 6

Switch your site’s theme from Boost to the upgraded theme. Check everything is okay before turning off Maintenance mode.

How To Hide Course Teacher(s) From Moodle Course Description

Posted on 22 September, 2022 by Admin

By default, Moodle shows course teacher(s) in the course description area right under the course summary. If you don’t want to display the teacher(s) in the course description area you can easily hide the information via Moodle’s settings page.

Moodle Theme Edutor

Moodle Theme Boost

Hide Teacher(s) From Course Description

Go to: Site administration > Appearance > Courses

Find the Course contacts option and untick the “Teacher” checkbox as shown in the screencast below.

Save your changes and go back to view the course description area and you won’t see the teacher(s) below the course summary.

On the other hand, the “Course contacts” option allows you to display many other roles (eg. Course creator, students) in the course description area should you wish to do so. Below is an example of what your course description area will look like if you decided to show other roles alongside the teacher(s).

Moodle Theme Edutor

Moodle Theme Boost

How To Remove The Get The Mobile App Link From Your Moodle Site

Posted on 21 September, 2022 by Admin

By default, Moodle shows a “Get the mobile app” link to site visitors and it points to Moodle’s official app downloading page. Our premium Moodle themes place the link in the site footer area. Moodle’s default theme Boost places the link in the information popover (from Moodle 4.x).

Moodle 4.x theme Edutor

The “Get the mobile app” link is displayed in the footer area.

Moodle 4.x theme Boost

The “Get the mobile app” link is displayed in the information popover.

Remove Link

Don’t want to display the link on your Moodle site? You can remove the link via Moodle’s settings page.

Go to: Site administration > General > Mobile app > Mobile appearance

Find the “App download page” text input field at the end of the page. Remove the link in the field and save changes.

How To Remove The Data Retention Summary Link From Your Moodle Site

Posted on 20 September, 2022 by Admin

By default, Moodle 4.x will show a “Data Retention Summary” link to site visitors. Different themes may show the link in different places. All of our premium Moodle 4.x themes show the link in the footer area. If you don’t want to display the link to your site visitors you can easily remove it via Moodle’s privacy settings page.

Moodle 4.x theme Edutor

The Data Retention Summary link is displayed in the footer area.

Moodle 4.x theme Boost

The Data Retention Summary link is displayed in the popover.

To remove the link you need to go to the Privacy settings page and untick the “Show data retention summary” checkbox and save changes.

Path to the settings page: Site administration > Users > Privacy and Policies > Privacy settings