Totara is a distribution of Moodle, the world's most popular learning platform, designed to meet the requirements of corporate learning. This session demonstrates some of Totara's inbuilt social tools including blog, chat, comments, forum, tags, wikis and the integration of web 2.0 services such as Youtube and Flickr. We ARE the web, so lets get social with our learning!

1. LearnX Asia-Pacific 2011
Getting Social with Totara LMS
Presented by Chad Outten
www.mylearningspace.com.au

2. Totara overview
Corporate distribution of Moodle
Informal, blended & social learning
Content management
Competencies, hierarchies & positions
Assessment & compliance
Individual learning plans
Team management
Dashboards
Custom reporting

3. Poll
Which sites have you used this month?

4. Trends
Australia 2010 subscribers
10.4m internet1
4.2m mobile wireless1
8.2m mobile handset internet1
81% 1.5Mbps+1
7h+ social media2

5. Unique users
Australia September 2011
Facebook
YouTube
Wikipedia
Wordpress
LinkedIn
Twitter
0 4 8 12
millions
3

6. Why get social?!
Popular
Engaging
Empowering
Constructive

7. Tools
Blog Comment Chat Forum
Wiki Tags Poll Messaging

8. Food for thought
Tell me & I forget.
Show me & I remember.
Let me do & I understand.
见 记; 见 记 ;
-Confucius4

9. References
1. Australian Bureau of Statistics, 8153.0 - Internet Activity,
Australia, December 2010
2. Nielsen Online, APAC Social Media Report, June 2010
3. Traffic estimates from Google Double Click Ad Planner
tool, July 2011
4. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chinese_proverbs
http://totara.mylearningspace.com.au
http://www.totaralms.com
Images sourced under Creative Commons license from
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
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10. www.mylearningspace.com.au
info@mylearningspace.com.au
1300 438 567 (GET LMS)
youtube.com/mylearningspace
twitter.com/mylearningspace
linkedin.com/in/mylearningspace