2. agenda
about Lambda Solutions
about TOTARA LMS
features that make Totara the ideal workplace
LMS
hierarchies: position, organization, competencies
learning plans
reporting
demo
paradigm shift on where you spend your
training budget
future releases
3. about Lambda Solutions
working with Moodle since 2003
develop and contribute to the Moodle community
150
+
Moodle installations hosted & supported
managed hosting, technical support, custom
development & integration
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
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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 education 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.
site-wide user groups to be dynamically populated via unlimited combinations of rules built on supplied HR data, user completion records, and other collected user metrics. The feature also allows each group to be assigned to a limitless number of courses and programmes. The feature is especially powerful when used with Totara’s HR Sync (also new in Totara 2.2). With both features enabled, your organisation’s enrolments throughout your learning catalogue will be automatically updated based on your regular HR feed and the extensive range of business rules you define.
site-wide user groups to be dynamically populated via unlimited combinations of rules built on supplied HR data, user completion records, and other collected user metrics. The feature also allows each group to be assigned to a limitless number of courses and programmes. The feature is especially powerful when used with Totara’s HR Sync (also new in Totara 2.2). With both features enabled, your organisation’s enrolments throughout your learning catalogue will be automatically updated based on your regular HR feed and the extensive range of business rules you define.
Totara Program Management allows you to create learning paths for learners where you can define dependencies and control the order and flow of the competencies and courses your learners complete.A program includes completion dates and time limits for your learners to complete each stage of the program. There is also the ability to set up customised messages and reminders that are sent to learners and managers as part of the program.Program management allows you to enrol learners based on their organisation, position, management hierarchy or audience and set different completion criteria for each group if required. Learners can also be enrolled individually.Program Management also handles the requirement for courses to reoccur on a set cycle, such as yearly. This is great for handling compliance training that staff may be required to complete every year.
Hierarchies: Position hierarchy what are postion types? Organizational hierarchy Do you have to use an Org.hierarchy? If so, when? Competency hierarchy Learning PlanReporting
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 PortalsPre-hire assessmentUse and external Totara portal for pre-hire assessment Organizational HierarchiesOnboardingLearning Plans, IndividualLearning Paths, and Competency based learning make it easy to roll out personalized onboarding programs Competency based learningCompetencies and skill profiles can be loaded and synchronized with other systemsCommunities of practiceInformal workplace and social learning helps people serve external communities while sharing one Content Management SystemRepositories and external content access
