Webanywhere Northern User Group Slides from out 4 April 2017 events. Presentations about content in the workplace and a Totara roadmap.

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Northern User Group

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Welcome & Introduction
Conor Gilligan, Global Head of Division

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● 12:30pm - 1:10pm - Lunch
● 1:10pm - 1:40pm - Welcome | Defining The Northern User Group Objectives
● 1:40pm - 2:25pm - Solving Workplace Problems With Engaging Content
Presented by Stuart Dyson | Lead Learning Designer
● 2:25pm - 2:40pm - Break
● 2:40pm - 3:10pm - Totara Roadmap | Rob Faulkner
● 3:10pm - 3:45pm - Round Table Discussion: What are the next steps for elearning?
● 3.45pm - Closing remarks
Agenda

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Mobile Learning
A guide
Solving Workplace Problems With
Engaging Content
Stuart Dyson
Lead Learning Designer

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23. Totara Roadmap
Rob Faulkner
Presales Manager

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Released October 2016

29. Totara 10.0+
Roadmap for the future

30. Totara Releases

31. Evergreen
Continuous delivery of the latest features, release around once a month
● “Bleeding-edge” Totara - tested and production ready, but you’d be the first
customers to use it.
● Best way to get the latest features if you really need them
● Going from 9.0 to Evergreen is possible, but moving back is more difficult - only
practical to do so at major release points (i.e. when 10.0 is released)
● Minor cost from Webanywhere to keep your system regularly updates
● More significant potential cost if your system has heavy customisation

32. New features currently being developed
These are either already complete, or due to finish for 10.0 in September...

33. Area Detail
1 Reporting A wide range of important and often requested columns and filters are being added to existing report sources (e.g. an 'Event date' column will be added to the
Seminar Events report source).
2 Users The 'Browse list of users' admin page is being converted to an embedded report source, thereby adding key functionality and flexibility to this frequently used
page.
3 Localisation Totara's translation tool is being updated to support separation of language strings between learner and admin facing interfaces, and export and import of
language packs via CSV.
4 Featured links block A new feature that will allows admins to display for their users a very simple set of navigation options (to areas of the platform or external links etc) in the form of
visually-rich cards (i.e. large blocks of colour or image based content)
5 Course completion editor A new admin tool for modifying course completion records, similar to the program completion editor
6 Audiences, Courses, and
Programs
An improvement to make learning available immediately to new users once they've self-registered. With this change, audience membership as well as
audience-based enrolled learning (i.e. course enrollment and certification/program assignment) will occur before new users first log into the platform.
7 Appraisals Support for placeholders is being added to appraisal message templates
8 Site registration Approval workflow for self-registered site users. Includes features to provide more fine grained control over which positions/organisations can be selected by self
registering users.
9 Progress bar improvements ● Program progress bars will track progress within a course set
● Course progress bars will track course completion criteria and activity completion more granularly (rather than only reporting not started, in progress
and complete)
10 360 feedback Two frequently requested improvements are being made:
● Support for self evaluation
● Development of a 360 feedback report source
11 Moodle 3.1/3.2 integration Useful improvements from Moodle 3.1 and 3.2 will be cherry-picked into the platform.

34. Short-term horizon
Areas planned for work to be done during July - October 2017:
Area Approach
Graphical reports in
report builder
Review usability of aggregation and graphing and start re-design to make it simple
Replace existing graphing solution with a modern Javascript implementation
Performance
Management
Provide a way to allow users who are not directly involved in the appraisal to access/view the appraisal.
Standardise
Suspended and
Deleted users
Make the behaviour of suspended and deleted users consistent across the system
UI Kit A UI Kit would improve the efficiency of front end development for both the Totara Team and Partners developing customisations. Investing in
this capability early will deliver efficiency in later development cycles and improves our ability to deliver better UX/accessibility.
Delivering an improvement by using the UI kit prototype will prove the approach has value and we can then adopt this approach for future
developments.

35. Medium-term horizon
Areas planned for work to be done after November 2017:
Course
Catalogue
Implement a new catalog along the lines of the prototype
that has been shared previously. The catalog is one of the
highest traffic areas of any site. Improving this area will
have one of the largest impacts on the user experience of
Totara LMS and provide an experience of browsing for
content with modern media-rich elements.
Course,
program and
certification
pages
Simplify the visual design of how learning through course,
programs and certifications is presented, making progress
though content and what to next clear.
Add virtual
classroom as a
concept with
similar
capabilities to
seminar
activities
Develop a framework for setting up an activity as a webinar
and API's for partners to create specific integrations for
multiple webinar providers

36. Product Advisory Board
How ideas get into the product:
● Customers suggest things to Partners
● Partners combine this with their own views
of the product and market
● These are then fed into the PAB 3 times
a year
● This PAB then informs the medium and
long-term horizon roadmap
● Ideas become more fully formed as they
move through the ‘horizons’.

37. Follow the progress and get involved
https://help.totaralearning.com/display/TPD/
https://community.totaralms.com

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Mobile Learning
A guide
Round Table Discussion