VP Customer Experience Jim Yupangco teamed up with Totata Technical Guru, Lori Davis, to showcase the great features and benefits of Totara, including:
•Designing organizational structures and hierarchies to reflect your organization
•Managing and linking competencies to roles, learning resources, courses, activities and audiences
•Creating individual development plans to manage staff performance
•Facilitating online and face-to-face sessions, assignments and assessments
•Utilizing dashboards and Management Reporting
•Reflecting your brand through Theme Branding functionality
3. presenters
Lori Davies
Technical Solutions Consultant
Jim Yupangco
VP, Customer Experience
4. overview
introduction to Lambda Solutions
about TOTARA LMS
features that make Totara the ideal workplace
LMS
hierarchies: position, organization, competencies
learning plans
enterprise reporting
demo
paradigm shift on training budget
future releases
5. about Lambda Solutions
working with Moodle since 2003
develop and contribute to the Moodle community
150+ Moodle installations hosted & supported
managed hosting, application support, custom
development & integration
8. Management
Repositories
Team
Calendar
Competencies &
Organizational Roles
Content
Management
User
Management
Messaging &
Notifications
Learning
Activities & Types
Course
Management
Integration w/
other systems
Social Learning
Audience
Management
F-2-F Training
Support
Individual
Learning Plan
Enterprise Reporting
Dashboard
(Learners & Managers)
Totara
Sync
Program
Management
Badges
9. ACCREDITATIO
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course/
resource
program
positions
organizatio
n
competenci
es
HIERARCHIES
f2f support
audience user team
USER MANAGEMENT
cycled
scheduling
badges
10.
11.
12. key features demo
Hierarchies
position
organization
competencies
Learning Plans
Enterprise Reporting
14. Totara 2.4 Release
Feature Description
Improvements to
Classroom Module
The following functionality will be built upon the existing Face-to-face module, but extending it
in a number of key areas:
• Training rooms management
• Instructor conflict management
• Bulk upload of attendees
• Bulk messaging attendees
• Bulk mark attendance
• Enhanced notification functionality including three types of notifications (auto-populated,
template sourced, and custom made)
Open Badges Ability to issue, manage and display digital badges supporting Mozilla’s Open Badges
initiative. See http://www.openbadges.org/en-US/
Enhancements to
Learning Plan
functionality
• Learning plan evidence tab
• Auto-update of learning plan content
• Improvements to plan templates
Moodle 2.4
functionality
Inclusion of all Moodle 2.4 features including:
• Performance improvements
• Assignment module improvements
• Workshop module improvements
• Course format plugins
• Theme improvements
• Improved TinyMCE integration
• Integration of external calendars
16. supported organizational goals
Organizations
Hierarchies
Teams
Content
Repositories
Skills &
Competencies
Compliance
Performance
External
Content
Communities
of Practice
Individual
Learning
Paths
Accreditation
Certification
Recognition
Badges
17. Upcoming webinars
Creating a business case for eLearning in
Healthcare
Thursday, August 15, 11:00 am -12.00 pm PDT
Designing Engaging Interactive Online
Learning for Adults
Thursday, September 19, 11:00 am -12.00 pm
PDT.
Hello everyone. Welcome to our webinar on Totara LMS: LMS for Workplace Learning
Today’s webinar is sponsored by Lambda Solutions
Our presenters today, are Lori Davies, Technical Solutions Consultant from Totara, and myself, Jim Yupangco, VP of Customer Experience from Lambda Solutions.
In today’s webinar we will
briefly introduce you to Lambda Solutions
talk to you about Totara LMS
and more specifically on the features that make Totara an ideal cost-effective workplace LMS for your organization
Lori will provide us with an high-level tour/demo of these features
we will also briefly talk about the positive impact Totara has your overall training budget
finally we’d like to show you what’s in store in the upcoming release of Totara.
Lambda Solutions is Moodle Partner as well as a Totara Solutions Partner. We have been working with Moodle since 2003.
We continue to contribute to the Moodle community through our monthly HOW TO webinars.
We offer services in and around Moodle and Totara, such as Managed Hosting, Application Support, and custom development and integration with other systems like HR and information management systems.
These are just some of our clients in the healthcare, corporate, government, and academic organizations
A distribution is a ready-made extended version of a standard product with its own particular focus and vision.
Totara is an LMS specifically focused on the requirements of corporate, industry and vocational training in contrast to a standard release of Moodle which is focused on learning management systems for the academic setting.
Totara is a Moodle distribution focused on corporate learning, the features of which are built upon the best practices learned from the needs of other organizations.
This is just a birds eye view of some of the features Totara offers to support corporate organizational learning. These features focus on three key domains for competency-based learning: hierarchies, user management, and accreditation.
Hierarchies are the fundamental building blocks for aligning an organization and its position framework with the required competencies and skill sets. Totara allows you to build custom frameworks that fit your organization.
In virtue of the frameworks that have been established in the hierarchies, users can then be managed into teams and “audiences”. By audience we mean site-wide groups that can be automatically assigned to courses or groups of courses or course programs.
Totara supports accreditation and compliance through badges or “digital artifacts of recognition” for courses or competencies achieved. Of course just like Moodle Totara is also able to issue PDF certificates for courses completed. For compliance purposes, especially for recurring or cyclic scheduled courses or programs Totara has a Program Management feature that allows you to establish repeatable cycles of course releases and notification.
Our key features demo will cover the following:
Open Source provides flexibility in design, and facilitates customization and integration with other systems.
The fact that Totara is License free makes it affordable to serve very large communities and to maintain multiple internal and external Learning Portals
Pre-hire assessment
Use and external Totara portal for pre-hire assessment
Organizational Hierarchies
Onboarding
Learning Plans, Individual Learning Paths, and Competency based learning make it easy to roll out personalized onboarding programs
Competency based learning
Competencies and skill profiles can be loaded and synchronized with other systems
Communities of practice
Informal workplace and social learning helps people serve external communities while sharing one Content Management System
Repositories and external content access