Kineo Moodle & Totara User Group Event (July 2012)

Welcome

Kineo Totara/Moodle
User Group

Confidential © 2012 Kineo. All rights reserved.

Agenda

9.30 Welcome & Introductions
9.45 Totara Reflections Richard Wyles
10.15 Totara 2.2 and 2.3 Steve Rayson
11.00 Coffee
11.15 Case studies
12.00 Discussion groups
1.00 Lunch/Networking


• Totara LMS is a distribution of Moodle
o an extended version with a workplace focus
o learning plans, reporting, classroom
management, etc
• Totara is a global partnership
o Joint venture between Kineo UK, Catalyst
IT, and Kineo Pacific
o Network of global partners, over 45 so far

Why is Totara different?

• Open source & extensible
• Subscriptions for service
• No per user licence fees
• Rich functionality at low cost
• Collaboration based business model

Richard Wyles
Totara CEO


Overview
• Innovation and collaboration
• Reflections on our first year
• Looking forward
• Totara Social
• Totara, Mozilla and the Open Badges project

Innovation and Collaboration – principles that guide us
• "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples
then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I
have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two
ideas." - George Bernard Shaw

• "It is the long history of humankind those who learned to collaborate and
improvise most effectively have prevailed." - Charles Darwin


Foundations for success
• Lower cost through open source.
• Ease of innovation and customisation.
 Totara innovates and collaborates
 Kineo (and other partners) innovate and collaborate
 Totara users innovate and collaborate
• Peace of mind from commercial support.
 Totara Subscriptions ensure clients have latest security releases, patch
updates, and fully tested new feature releases.

Highlights to date
• 150 organisations subscribe to Totara
 approx. 50% of clients are from the UK
 Ranges from several corporates with upwards of 200,000 users, 12
with 50,000 users, down to SMEs with less than 500 employees
 All major sectors covered; Retail, Manufacturing, Finance,
Professional Services, Pharma, Health, Vocational Education and
Government.
• Global partner network of 45 located across 23 countries
• Translated into Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew,
Italian, Japanese, Magyar (Hungarian), Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and
Swedish.

Some of the challenges
• RFP’s weighted toward proprietary software outcome
 Proprietary software can recoup with large licensing fees
 More uncertain for an open source vendor, value is transparent to
services supplied
• Recommendations for Re-Framing the Procurement Process
 Research the models, RFI as opposed to RFP
 Split the process – action research with pilots
 Pay for pilots rather than expecting it as pre-sales in the services based
open source model
 Understand total cost of ownership – e.g. scaling up, exit costs with
proprietary

Looking ahead


Totara Cloud
• Global cloud hosting
• Initially focused on organisations
with less than 5,000 users
• Standardised, low cost generic
solution

Totara Social
• Social learning system
• User centred – create and join
teams, develop knowledge and share
• Combines social networking with fast
web page creation, portfolio tools,
groups, journals, resumé builder and
more.
• Rich integration layer with TotaraLMS

How will it be different?
Pluggable, pluggable, pluggable
• Image gallery displays either internal
or external galleries (flickr, Panoramio,
Photobucket, Picasa, Tumblr
• Embed content e.g. Youtube, Prezi,
Slideshare, Vimeo, Box.net, Dropbox,
Google Docs (Google Drive), Windows
Live SkyDrive etc.
• Pull in your profiles from TotaraLMS,
or LinkedIn, Facebook etc.

Create groups, collaborate on content, share and comment

• Share your knowledge, leverage others
• Upload multiple files quickly and efficiently
• Or bring them in from elsewhere


Totara Social – some more features
• Designed for high scalability
• Multi-tenancy – out-of-the-box
• Highly interoperable – via plugins
• Users can tag content as evidence items connecting to
competencies from Totara hierarchies.
• Can automate journal entry and certifications in Totara
Social, when learning activity completed in TotaraLMS
• Automatically relate groups in TotaraLMS to groups in Totara
Social

Networked infrastructure
Single-sign-on feature runs over an encrypted
transport, so the user's passwords is not shared
between sites.


Open Badges project – working with Mozilla

What’s new? Happens now, right?


Open Badges - Why?
• An indicator of accomplishment, skill or quality
• Networked = portability, if desired.
• Learners have multiple pathways to build their skills,
experiences and gain competencies
• Can be more micro than educational achievement tends to
be


• Capture the learning pathway
• Badges can be more granular, aligned to a specific achievement
• Portable, alternative certification model(s)


• Visual recognition of achievement, and metadata links to validation
• Perceived value will differ based on the “use case”, i.e. the context or
community;
 Vocational education
 Professional bodies
 Peer to peer recognition
 Corporate, workplace learning
• Infrastructure to support diversity of contexts with better robustness and
connection to Issuer.

Metadata
• Who was the Issuer?
• Issue date
• Brief description of how badge was earned
• URIs to artefacts, testimonials etc.
• Web service for verification.
 “Did the Issuer issue the badge?”
 “Is it still valid?”


OBI Risks and Benefits
• Infrastructure for alternative credentialing
 Modern society demands new and dynamic skills and literacies.
Requires innovation and flexibility in learning environments
• Anyone can issue accreditations about anything? Won’t this lead to
badge “bling” and therefore badges become meaningless?
 Badges need credibility but it’s within context


More than a badge
• More than a small button with metadata –
OBI provides an open infrastructure that
will underpin presentation of work – e.g.
CPD certification
• A badge / Totara Social combination
enables you to click through to more
detailed levels of evidence and
explanation—documents, assessment
results, testimonials, awards won, video,
and more. i.e. verifiable evidence.

Leverage Totara Activity and/or course completion to issue Badges –
enables very flexible criteria

 E.g. viewing a web page or a learner self-marking an item as
complete.
 Starting online discussions or replying to a specific forum post.
 At the more formal level, activity completion, and therefore the
generation of a badge, may be set by achieving a certain score.


Technical Overview
1. Issue smart PNGs instead of dumb jpeg or PDF certificates.
2. Web service approach (using Moodle/Totara’s web services API) will
enable any displayer to verify badges issued by a specific Totara site.
3. Create a new block for Totara that users will be able to place badges into
their profile.
4. Use the Portfolio API to push badges to Totara Social, Mahara, etc.
5. Totara Social blocks will display either a single badge or a gallery of
badges. PNG files that have badge metadata will be identified as badges
(and available to be selected by the new block).
6. Verification – separate library, permissive license (e.g. Apache v2)

What might happen next?

p://neilhammond.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/o
n-badges-visual-design-and-semantic.html
 Evolve, impact on formal education
 Employers & learners may prefer it to standard CV structures

Totara 2.2


• Totara 2.2
o Update based on Moodle 2.2
• Includes new Moodle features
o Better navigation & interface
o Personalisation
o File handling & repositories
o Portfolio support
2.2
o Quizzes and SCORM

File Handling & Repositories

More secure file handling
Improved interfaces
Use files in courses from multiple external
locations including Google Docs, Alfresco


Portfolio Support

Easy integration with Mahara
Set up single sign
Publish forum posts, assignments etc., at
the click of a button


Quizzes

Feedback options
Improved display
Add images/html to feedback
Improved reporting & download options
Better analytics and statistics
Question level reporting


Totara 2.3

• Audience management
• Report
• Classroom management
• Totara Sync

Totara sync

A process which accepts a feed containing three
data feed files: user, positions, and organizations.
Syncs all of the organisation data (hierarchies,
custom fields etc), position data (hierarchies,
custom fields etc) and finally the user profile data
(including custom fields and position
assignments) on a regular basis.


Kohl’s Sync

Totara Sync (160k users,1200 positions get
synchronized)
Audience memberships (800 audiences; 3.5m
audience memberships get synchronized)
Audience enrolled learning (3m course
enrollments get synchronized)


Example of collaborative development

Features developed for clients which
are incorporated in core

Everyone benefits from collaboration


Client Case Studies


Discussion Groups

Split into 4 groups (to be decided)

Performance management – Sven
Hosting & Support – Tim
Implementation Issues – Stuart
Technical Issues – Dani/Tony


Nicola Rowe
Leadership Development Specialist

Jo Djebara
Leadership Development Zone Co-ordinator

48.

Case Study

− Our Users
− Why Moodle
− Challenges
− Biggest success story
− Next Steps
− Features
− Learning

Case Study


• Moodle portal providing access to training courses
and resources
• Courses can be purchased online
• E-learning completed online
• F2F training allocated to training centres
• Roll-out through training centres worldwide
• Each assessment centre has control of own area
• Centrally administrated
• Business reporting

Who we are
The world’s leading provider of
food and support services
Employ 100K+ colleagues
Operating in 7,000+ locations:
schools, colleges, hospitals, rest
aurants, venues and businesses
worldwide
FTSE 100 Company

100,000
learners
• Accessing learning anywhere,

77,000
• Reduced travel and overhead costs

• Improved consistency and quality of learning content
Course completed
• Pushed innovation in our business, supporting sales
bids

30+
• Seen very much as a strategic solution within our
business

courses

Managing Financial Performance

Our Moodle Learning Portal – sample course page

• A secure, feature rich, Moodle learning management system
• The gateway to Compass’ e-learning services and much more
• An engaging, user friendly and scalable platform
• Features for colleagues, managers and administrators
• Integrating seamlessly with Compass’ other people management
systems

• Initially tried out Moodle as an afterthought to service HSE e-learning
• Feedback wasn't great, we needed something better
• We listened to our learners and the business and did our research
• And invested in a new Moodle and e-learning bespoke to our needs
• Moodle is working because it’s flexible and cost effective

• Kineo provide creative flair, great customer service and robust support

• To better engage with our learners, managers and the wider business

• To develop a learning experience that changed previous perceptions and offered the
‘wow’ factor

• To embrace a creative approach that we knew would work at Compass

• To provide a just in time solution offering relevant learning and relaying business
critical training at speed

• To find a partner who would ‘get it’... Kineo

To continue to listen to our people and develop our business...

• 12 months in...

• We’re still listening to our learners and the
business

• Looking to incorporate classroom training and
webinars

• Also considering eAppraisal and 360 feedback

• Keeping an eye on innovation

77,000
courses completed
• A licence free Moodle LMS that learners enjoy using

30+
• An quick and efficient way to deliver new learning
content

• Business buy-in across all functions
courses available

est.
• E-learning now seen as a strategic part of our
operation

£16M+
saved

Together...
Managing Financial Performance Developed a great new Moodle
learning portal
Delivered an award winning e-l
course
Continue to save £s
Gained e-learning buy in
Built a great relationship with on-
going plans to expand our e-l
portfolio

Thank You

www.kineo.com

Kineo Moodle & Totara User Group Event (July 2012)

Recommended

Recommended

More Related Content

What's hot

What's hot (20)

Similar to Kineo Moodle & Totara User Group Event (July 2012)

Similar to Kineo Moodle & Totara User Group Event (July 2012) (20)

More from Kineo

More from Kineo (20)

Recently uploaded

Recently uploaded (20)

Kineo Moodle & Totara User Group Event (July 2012)

Editor's Notes