Mapping the E-learning journey- Rachael Faulkner, Warwickshire CC

1. Mapping the eLearning
Journey (and then some!)
WILMa - Organic and
Emergent
Rachel Faulkner, Alison Ward &
Nikki Bagworth
Warwickshire County Council

2. Autumn 2012 *
● Agreement sought from key stakeholders to close down an
ongoing project (for which a robust spec had been drawn
up)
● Business Case written for a WCC LMS / eLearning project
presented to key stakeholders and potential sponsor

3. December 2012
● Presented to WCC Technical Design Authority to ensure alignment
to ICT strategies and policies
● Agreement to continue - we got the go ahead..............
● Key contributors scoped - Legal, ICT, Procurement, Information
Security etc

4. January - March 2013 *
• G-Cloud Store search took place to find a provider
• Learning Pool was identified as the prospective supplier
• Contract and the Terms and Conditions. Main involvement from Legal
Team, WCC Project Leads and Learning Pool
• Basic governance drawn up with Workstreams identified. The
Systems Workstream and e&m Workstream driving the agenda
• Core activities included repurposing training on the functionality and
authoring tool, Administrators identified

5. April - September 2013 *
• Branding – Look and feel and WILMa’s inception
• Authoring / Repurposing training – for “go live”
• Workstreams –
Systems, e & m Learning (including Q&A)
Marketing & Communications
Data management, Evaluation
Training and Development
• The WILMa Community was beginning to develop
• Roles and responsibilities identified
• Considerations - Capacity, time and sustainability

6. April - September 2013 – WCC “One Front
Door” to learning

7. October - December 2013
• WILMa Launch
Communications
Demo’s
Providing support and advice
Drop ins
• Reporting - to evidence
compliance on course attendance
such as Safeguarding, Information
Governance etc

8. January - September 2014
• Average monthly logins 3,700
• Approx. 1200 course completions per month
• WILMa as a vehicle for collaboration
• New ‘in house’ projects with teams e.g. such as Respect Yourself
Campaign
• ELearning with Partners Internal to WCC and external
Content Jams -
• Making Every Contact Count - with Public Health (WCC, West
Midlands, England) other local authorities
• Prevent - with Warwickshire Police and West Mercia Police
• External partners interested in using the functionality
e.g. Warwickshire Association of Local Councils (WALC) as a
‘strawberry plant’ organisation (fits with WCC objectives)

9. 1st October 2014 - First Anniversary
Photography Competition for the WILMa
banner, communications, LP events
Ongoing work
• WILMa Community – continues to grow
• eLearning Development Project Plan
• Totara 2.5
• WILMa Roadmap
• Review of Categories
• Use of Programme functionality

10. Next Steps……………
WILMa Roadmap
• Encore
• Adapt
• Totara 2.5 – what does this mean for WILMa?
• Increased engagement with WILMa customers
• Data upload – ongoing phased approach
• Implementing the new look “Categories and Programmes”
approach
• eLearning Development Project
• Business Process Review to enable an effective ‘one front
door’

11. Thank you to colleagues for their continuing
hard work to make WILMa possible……
you know who you are.

12. Thank you for your time.
Any questions?