Comprehensive theming and custom Open edX template development by Raccoon GangComprehensive theming and custom Open edX® template development by Raccoon Gang
Custom theming for your Open edX instance is the best way to distinguish your brand and provide unique and memorable online learning experience
Raccoon Gang houses a team of skilled UI/UX and graphic designers, who work in tandem with developers to provide Basic and Comprehensive Theming for your Open edX instance
Our Basic Open edX Theming is Actually Not That “Basic”
3Color scale: your corporate color is applied to the platform
4Custom fonts: we apply your corporate font throughout the platform
5Social icons/links in a footer
6Your custom copy over the heading banner
7Your “favicon” implementation on the platform
8«Show more» button: your main page will look solid and compact.
Our basic theme’s custom features*
1Totally redesigned Certificate
2Full responsiveness of the main page.
Not presented in Open edX platform out of the box
Our custom theming includes
Environment-Ready
Environment-Ready
With Custom theming you can make your LMS and Studio similar to your corporate color palettes or corporate site. We also consult you how to leverage the power of your company brand using theming design
Custom functionality
Custom functionality
Make your site responsive with adding custom features like student dashboards, custom certificate design, courses, progress bars, or recommended courses section
What You Can Expect from Custom Theming by Raccoon Gang
Home Page Features:
Recommended Courses section
Beautiful and attractive design
List of all Courses Features:
Sort courses by subjects
Course Overview Page Features:
Customized course information: course program, information about instructor and course materials
Course Main Page Features:
Custom design for course main page. It shows the schedule and other important information about course to learners
Course Content Page Features:
Course pages are content-centric and minimalistic to focus the learners’ attention on the material
Course Progress Page Features:
Student course score Student progress bar for each course section
Student Dashboard Page Features:
Beautiful and eye-catching design of Student’s Dashboard
Student Profile Page Features:
Students can add information about their education, language, country, local time zone etc. using custom filters
Benefits of custom theming
Friendly design
Friendly design
With our custom theme you can create your own unique platform design to meet your learners needs in best way
Modern Ux
Modern Ux
We always make sure that our theme delivers pleasant and engaging learning experience by implementation of various UX improvements
Look&feel consistency
Look&feel consistency
Our custom theme overrides the standard HTML and CSS settings
We really enjoy working with the Raccoon Gang team and Anastasia is a fantastic project manager! She keeps things moving along, communicates with us regularly, makes sure the team is on track. The team is always willing to adjust to our evolving business needs and we appreciate the support!
The experience of working with Raccoon Gang was really exceptional and we would love to continue to work with the team for further HarvardX functionality...understanding the complex ecosystem of edX is very unique for Raccoon Gang and they are very well positioned to partner with organizations that are interested in innovation online learning with a major focus on Open edX
"...We have a great partnership with Raccoon Gang. They've provided a great deal of support in the implementation of Labster's Next Generation Educational Platform. I'm very happy with the work we've done so far, and I'm looking forward to collaborating on more amazing projects in the future..."
Working with Raccoon Gang has allowed us to automate our deployments, increase the quality of our code, and accelerate our deployment cycle. The Raccoon Gang team are always on task, easy to reach, and deliver great work. We will continue to use their expertise as a dedicated external team for all our Open EdX tasks.
The RG team does their best to provide us with realistic options for software development and integration with our learning management system. It is without hesitation that we recommend Raccoon Gang to others that may be seeking a professional collaborative team to work with.
Yana and all at Raccoon Gang rapidly accelerated our work on the Open edX platform. They are a fantastic team who worked smoothly and painlessly with us in providing next level platform scaling and user experience for our students. All of this was done within budget and on time. Highly recommended.
Raccoon Gang were a trusted business partner before I joined Labster, and we needed to bring some legacy Python 2 Django 1 projects up to date. Raccoon Gang immediately took the lead on the project, and responded whenever I had questions. Even though the project was scheduled over a holiday period they delivered as required. I’ll have no hesitation in asking for their help the next time the team is overloaded.?
Raccoon Gang has been a great partner that has helped us with multiple web development projects. Their experience with hosting OpenedX instances, implementing LTI integrations, and general experience developing education applications has been especially valuable.
Karen DeJarnette
Program Manager at Fast Lane Consulting and Education, Fastlane US
The Raccoon Gang Support team has worked together with me to help resolve issues with our customer's learners. They have educated me and listened to me. We are working on resolving questions quicker and ensuring they are addressed completely with a plan moving forward in case the question is raised by another learner in the future.
I want to thank Raccoon Gang, especially Managers Viktoriia and Yurii, and their teams. ACT is currently working on two big projects led by these teams and both teams are doing a wonderful job to keep our deliverables on track. I know many Raccoons are used to working from home already but even still, the current quarantine provides added challenges to everyone. I (and my ACT co-workers) deeply appreciate the hard work from both RG teams. Thank you!!
"...Working with Raccoon Gang has been such a pleasure. They know their stuff. It only took one call for them to understand our needs and program our x-block the way we needed. The work was done fast and with very high standards. We will definitely be working with them in future projects..."
"...BrainBasket foundation asked the Raccoon Gang to help with the installation of educational platform Open Edx. The RG team had successfully deployed the platform and configured its stable operation. They quickly respond to any questions and comments. Together with the Raccoon Gang we are building a bright future for the country, developing the opportunities for free online education for everyone. We hope on further collaboration with these guys because they do their job perfectly!..."
The RaccoonGang has been nothing but exception with regards to the planning of, developing and after-service when it came to our edX roll-out. More so, the learning curve on this has been huge for us and RG has simply made it possible with the sharing of knowledge and answering of questions. We would not be in the position we are now where we have a competitive solution in market had it not been for the RG and their teams of supportive staff. I would highly recommend RG to any company.
"...NoticeAbility creates content to inspire and motivate children with dyslexia that leverages the latest OpenEdx technology. We are thrilled to partner with Raccoon Gang because we know they have deep knowledge of EdX, wonderful engineering support teams and the willingness test out new technology at a price that is important for us as a new nonprofit EdTech startup..."
«...Raccoon Gang has collaborated with us in the context of creating an e-learning tool for corporate people in the field of human trafficking in order to raise awareness among the business community. Raccoon Gang has developed the online training platform and the staff has been of great support, flexibility and dedication to our project. We are thankful for what has been achieved…"
"...Yana and the team at Raccoon Gang have enabled us to launch our first ever learning platform, Camara Learning Academy. They ensured the process was seamless with clear and detailed communication through the development and implementation phase and have continued with quality ongoing support as we start using the platform through out our network. I would happily recommend working with Raccoon Gang and will be using their services again in the future..."
"...Raccoon Gang shares our passion to transform education. They listen carefully to what we are trying to do to help teachers improve student outcomes and then they use their deep knowledge of Open edX to suggest alternative solutions. They provide cost and strategic implications upfront and then they deliver timely on budget results..."
"We have used the service provided by Raccoon Gang while transferring our learning web-platform Prometheus based on OpenEdX from a dedicated single machine to the set of Azure accounts provided by Microsoft. Guys from Raccoon Gang did a great job. They deployed a network of virtual servers on several Azure accounts. That system eventually became stable and ready to respond to the high user traffic demand. Raccoon Gang team continually supports our platform. It is our pleasure to work with them"
Our cooperation with Raccoon Gang started in 2018 and it is a great pleasure to work with the team because they share many of the same attributes that we value at Edumedia-Azerbaijan: customer focus, resourcefulness, the ability and sense of agility required to deliver optimal releases and products to customers. With its outstanding management and executive teams, we are happy to work together and create high efficiency.
“...It has been a pleasure to work with the Raccoon gang and I definitely recommend the them! They have been rapid, responsive and very skilled and got impressed how fluid it all went. We moved from a Moodle platform to edX with their help. Our edX solution is to get our customers to increase their excellence in PMI (Performance Management Intelligence by d2o). …”
Kudos to Maryna for her dedication despite not feeling well earlier during the week to deliver the requested changes. Maryna and Tamara have done a great job to understand our requirements and made appropriate project adjustments to cater to the few unexpected surprises found. The development team is very responsive to the issues reported and fixes are done in a timely manner.
Antonella Abategiovanni
Technical Assistance Associate for Latin America, EduFinance
Raccoon Gang supported us into creating, implementing, and branding our LMS using the complex ecosystem of open EdX. We really appreciated Anastasiia and her team for their accountability: always caring for quality communication, time management and flexibility into offering ad-hoc solutions to accommodate our needs. Thanks to RG we can now scale on budget the delivery of our staff training worldwide through our website and mobile app! Thank you!!!
Quick responses at any hour, detailed solutions to issues and helpful documentation. Support staff is also always willing to go the extra mile and assist in correcting or resolving issues from the their end or point of access.
Saad Qobti
Backend Developer at KKU ELD, Project Manager at KKUx, KKUx
Started just as a sketch with some vague requirements, it became a finalized project, all with the work done by your team who completed it in a compact timeline. We're proud of having such a great partner to take the job and make it one of the top learning platform in region. Thank you for your honesty and transparency in communication, I’m sure that the project is in good hands. We will discuss our plans for the next year when we all can work in harmony and get the best out of this product.
It was a good and co-operative collaboration. We will look forward to more such projects together.
I also want to thank the entire RG team, specially, Glib, Yulia, and Olha for their excellent co-operation.
We partnered with the Racoon Gang a long time ago and they were so helpful, knowledgeable and nice people. The reason why we keep partnering with them is because they understand how important it is for our business to have our LMS in shape every day. They are responsive and if there is a problem, their turn-around times are as good as our own support team. It doesn't matter the time-zones, it doesn't matter their workload, they are just super-people. Their Project Management is excellent. They understand the technical aspect but also human behavior.
I wanted to send a brief note complimenting the Raccoon Gang team on their excellent work. The entire team—Stas, Mariia Moskalenko and Ostrochreva, Anton, and Eugene—was thorough, thoughtful, and helpful. I was consistently impressed with the amount of forethought and preparation the team would do before each meeting.
Most importantly, the platform looks and performs beautifully. Thanks to the RG crew, we can continue to offer free courses to hundreds of thousands of charities for years to come.
Regarding your team’s work on the LMS, my team and I are very impressed with the platform and the speed of delivery. We also greatly appreciated the regular updates. The demo last week was well-executed, giving my team a solid understanding of the software. Additionally, the Google sheets file with tutorial links has been very helpful.
In terms of improvements, we don’t have any comments as we were thoroughly satisfied with the entire development process. Keep up the excellent work!
Tetiana Vakulenko
Deputy director
Ukrainian Center for Educational Quality Assessment (hereinafter - UCEQA)
Yigal Rosen
Managing Senior Research Scientist
Harvard University
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Raccoon Gang delivers highly customizable and responsive Open edX platform theming. We have ample expertise with creating theming templates and adding custom styling that ensures responsiveness. Do you need theming services? Contact us, we are always glad to help!