Unlocking Talent with Totara

What is Totara?

• Totara LMS is a distribution of Moodle for sophisticated organisations

• 65 partners in 80+ countries

• 325 sites with 116 in the UK with 2.7m+ users

• Learning Pool is a Platinum partner

Who is using Totara

Why Totara?

Organisations with greater needs:

• Managing a wide range of learning

• Learning depends on roles, service area, function, etc

• On-going development with individual learning plans

• Supervisor / Manager roles

• Competency and objective led rather than course led

Improved processes Reduction in admin

Management Information

Repository for content delivery

TOTARA BENEFITS REALISATION OVERVIEW

User Profile

Learning Plans incl. objectives + evidence Competencies

Benefits

Online Classroom booking + Reporting

One stop shop Blended learning

Reusable resources

Benefits

Benefits

Self directed Embedding learning culture

Changing behaviours and attitudes Efficient processes Reduction in paper

Programme Management

Benefits

Statutory/legislative obligations Audit trail

Speed to competence

Benefits

Social media agenda Informal learning

Peer to peer learning

Northumberland

• £700k+ saved on direct delivery costs

• 10k+ hours spent in e-learning

• 13k+ course completions

• 1,232 programmes completed

• 1,300 classroom connect events delivered

• 378hrs (£100k+) of admin time saved

• 68kg of papers saved

What does it look like

Innovation over time

Key Features

• Individual development plans – Courses

– Programmes

– Competencies

– Objectives

– Evidence

• Personal dashboard

• Team management

• Audience management

• Roles and Organisations

• HR system integration

Audience Management

• Allows you to create set or dynamic groups

• A wide range of rules can be set, for example:

– Joined in the last 60 days

– In a specific job role

– In a department or location

– Reports to a manager

– Completed a specific course in last 3 months

– Has not yet completed a specific course

Programme Management

• Ability to

– define dependencies between courses

– define dependencies based on events and time

– make courses mandatory

– define recurrence

• Ability to assign programmes to individuals, groups or positions

And now…

Enhancements:

• Multiple learning plan templates

• Audience learning plan enrolment

• Usability – e.g. drag and drop

• Better integration – Totara sync

Performance Management

1. Online appraisals

2. 360 degree reviews

3. Goal management - strategic and personal

Management

• Form builder

• Workflow builder (including actions and actors)

• Assignment using audience management

• Reporting engine

Roadmap

• Gap analysis – Current & Aspirational role

– Result sets

– Recommendations

• Totara Social – An enterprise ePortfolio system based on Mahara

– Social capabilities; activity stream, status updates, groups

– Stand alone or integrate with Totara LMS

Have a look for yourself https://demo.totaralms.com/

Contact Sam Barbee

sam@learningpool.com