Login as admin, and access Theme settings Appearance ► Theme settings Insert a valid value in customusermenuitems settings Enable "Mobile services": Plugins ► Web Services ► Mobile Create a Token for the user Click on Site administration ► Plugins ► Web services ► Manage tokens Next, you can do a CURL REST call simulating a WS client with the user token. You need to replace the $wstoken and the MOODLE_URL of your moodle instance curl 'MOODLE_URL/webservice/rest/server.php?moodlewsrestformat=json' --data 'wsfunction=tool_mobile_get_config&wstoken=$wstoken' | python -m json.tool Confirm that you see an entry for the " customusermenuitems " settings