In this video I'll do an overview of RemUI from Edwiser.org.
Edwiser RemUI is a powerful theme for Moodle it is easy to install and gives Moodle a professional
look throughout the platform this is a great tool for system administrators teachers and students
so here is my Moodle installation and I have installed and enabled the advisor RemUI theme
one of the nice advantages of this theme is that you can customize in a very easy way the home page
for the Moodle installation and as many of you may know it's not very flexible the out of the
box product from Moodle this is an example of a home page now if we wanted to go and modify this
further we can click here on edit mode on the top right and then we can go ahead and modify
any of these components here so if we click on edit change the image here add additional you
can add additional sections on the home page by simply clicking here on that particular section
let's say under features here I want the features option and click on that now at this point all
I have to do is click on configure and choose to modify the feature so it's just a matter of adding
whatever module whatever section that you want to add to the home page on Moodle once you're done
with modifying your home page click to publish and those changes will be posted directly on your live
site now the nice thing about the Edwiser theme is that you can choose different templates for
the home page of your Moodle installation so if we go here under the site Administration and then
go under Edwiser notice that there are various options here so you have the general settings the
dashboard settings the home page settings this is where you can choose to use the Edwiser home page
builders that this is how you'd enable it and then under course settings various settings for
it the footer settings for this for your Mobile Installation the nice thing here is that under the
Importer this is where you can select a different theme for your home page so if I wanted to change
it to let's say to a school you can preview it first so just click on it if you like this take
your home page design with these components you can simply click on import and then it will apply
it to your home page and then you can customize it further in a similar way you can also import
templates for various courses so if we go here to courses you can pick a particular course template
and import it in your Moodle installation now there are some fancy ones here as well for example
there's this one for digital marketing notice the layout it will show them in blocks so each
unit or each week or topic actually each Topic in the typical Moodle installation it'll be displayed
in a separate block and then the activities within that topic that will be part of that block and
obviously you can have and it will look similar to this so here is the template I imported earlier
and then these are the various modules obviously at this point this is the course View using the
ram UI theme notice here on the left hand side you have the various topics and also the items within
each topic so one of the advantage of this theme is that it's very easy and much more friendly to
navigate now obviously here I'm running the latest version of noodle one other thing that is very
nice about this theme is that in addition to the various layouts that you can select
and those layouts you can go here under settings and this is where you can control the various
formats of the display for the course so if I go here under the course format once the Moodle
once they Edwiser theme hasn't been installed this is where you can change type of format
that you want to use for this course so notice I have here the advisor course format and then
it's displaying it as a card layout and it's going to display one section per page now if
I want to choose this layout you can change that and you can change it to show also all
the sections per page and then simply press saved and display and now at this point you'll have all
the activities still nicely being displayed but it's very similar to like the traditional noodle
Scroll of death what we call it so here again you have the three pages you have the different
modules but basically the nice thing about this theme is if you use the card option for displaying
the course content the other nice thing about this theme is that you have here on the right hand side
there's a block drawer so you can actually have all kinds of various modules that you can add
so you can park this away and hide it by using this blue button in the top right if you choose
the edit mode here you can actually add a variety of blocks of content so these are templates from
RemUI that you can add as part of your course to make it more visually appealing for your students
so all you have to do is download it first and then you'll be applying it by selecting it now
another feature within the course view is this Focus mode now Focus mode it basically takes
away any of these other blocks any of the menus on the top and any stuff here on the left and
it's basically giving you an opportunity to just focus on what you're doing click here on Focus
mode and basically allowing me to Simply focus on this particular now I can go in here and complete
the various components and then go to the next activity once I'm done with this particular one
and proceed in a much cleaner way for viewing the content of the course to get out of the focus mode
I need to click on this red button on the top on the far bottom right here and that will get me out
of the focus mode and the menu on the left you can control it from this button here one other nice
thing about this theme is that you can customize the various components of the course and even the
whole site without needing any CSS customization experience so the way you do that is very easy
wherever you see this button here this pen button here under the edit button on the top right
you can click on it and at this point we can modify any of the settings for this so you can
make Global customizations for my site so I can go under the site here put in a favorite icon if
I wanted to then under typography for the body here I can modify the font size and notice it's
it's changing it on the Fly here and giving me a preview you can change the font way to
make it Bolder or medium and so on and then and obviously you can change the text color from the
color palettes right here notice also in here in the bottom you have the different how it's going
to look on on a tablet and then this is how it's going to look on a mobile device as well
so now we can go back here and change let's say the heading 1 Styles additional components that
you can change here is colors for your site so if I don't like that color I can go and simply
modify notice my area right here and variety of other side opponents will be changed and not just
this button here by the way and then the page color and so on and if you ever wanted to reset
any of these settings and you messed it up you can click on this reset button up on the top left
additional customizations are under the primary button you can change the width
and the text size and the font family and so on and then under the defaults this is where
you change the Border colors and all kinds of other components as well so this is a
very helpful and very powerful tool where you don't need to know in a tedious manipulation
of the CSS style sheet once you are done with the changing the settings you can click on Save
and those settings will be applied throughout your site for all the courses in your site now if we
go back here to the dashboard another feature of this theme that is very powerful is that under the
dashboard it depends on the role of the user so if you're the administrator then you'll be able to
see like the memory the CPU usage and the active users and so on and the site if you're the faculty
and the course or the teacher of the course and you'll see other components in this as well so
basically here I check my site usage my 24 hour usage the plugin usage and the recommended plugins
and all that type of things as well updated so here if I'm the faculty and the course and I have
activities due where a student in the course and I have activities do this is where those
activities will show up you can see the courses and the also the progress within the courses
um further down you again see course analytics and you'll pick a specific
course if this is not sufficient or enough for you you can go here under the block drawer and
enable that to display however if you click here on edit mode this is where you can actually add
additional blocks you can add those additional blocks on the right hand side here the right
panel and just simply select the block that you want to add and then you can go ahead
and customize this by clicking on open the live customizer and simply change the information in
a very friendly way hereby simply double clicking and then just typing the new information in there
you can add even additional components within that item that you're adding there's no grids
or buttons and so on so it's very customizable and very friendly just like we added a block
here on the right panel you can add a block on the main dashboard area by simply selecting it
and choosing the particular layout so this comes in very handy if you wanted
to enhance the front page of your Moodle site and that has been one of the issues in the past
where it was not really friendly in modifying customizing that main page or even additional
pages on your front page add additional features layout on the front page you click on download
click on it to enable it and then now it has been added we can click on open Live customizer
and modify it these are just some of the features here there's more behind the scenes it's worthy
of giving it a try particularly if you want your Moodle website to look great this can be purchased
as a separate product or a separate component from advisor.org as a separate add-on to Moodle
advisor has also another product that is that includes a variety of other components such as
the advisor bridge to connect from a WordPress site to Moodle and synchronize the enrollments
and users advisor reports advisor rapid grader forms course formats and so on and all of those
are also part of this advisor super feature kit and the super teacher kit includes the theme and
also the other components so I hope you find this tutorial helpful and give it a try it's
really going to enhance your Moodle site and your courses overall in your experience for your users