Totara LMS is a distribution of Moodle for sophisticated organizations with greater learning needs, such as managing different types of learning, individual learning plans, competencies, and supervisor roles. It provides features like individual development plans, personal dashboards, team management, audience management, and integration with HR systems. Organizations using Totara have seen benefits like reduced administration time, lower direct delivery costs, increased course completions, and savings of paper resources. Future enhancements will include improved usability, better integration capabilities, and a performance management system.

2. Unlocking Talent with Totara

3. What is Totara?
• Totara LMS is a distribution of Moodle for
sophisticated organisations
• 65 partners in 80+ countries
• 325 sites with 116 in the UK with 2.7m+ users
• Learning Pool is a Platinum partner

4. Who is using Totara

5. Why Totara?
Organisations with greater needs:
• Managing a wide range of learning
• Learning depends on roles, service area, function, etc
• On-going development with individual learning plans
• Supervisor / Manager roles
• Competency and objective led rather than course led

6. Improved processes
Reduction in admin
Management Information
Repository
for content
delivery
TOTARA BENEFITS REALISATION OVERVIEW
User Profile
Learning Plans
incl. objectives
+ evidence
Competencies
Benefits
Online Classroom
booking +
Reporting
One stop shop
Blended learning
Reusable resources
Benefits
Benefits
Self directed
Embedding learning culture
Changing behaviours and attitudes
Efficient processes
Reduction in paper
Programme Management
Benefits
Statutory/legislative obligations
Audit trail
Speed to competence
Benefits
Social media agenda
Informal learning
Peer to peer learning

7. Northumberland
• £700k+ saved on direct delivery costs
• 10k+ hours spent in e-learning
• 13k+ course completions
• 1,232 programmes completed
• 1,300 classroom connect events delivered
• 378hrs (£100k+) of admin time saved
• 68kg of papers saved

8. What does it look like

10. Innovation over time

11. Key Features
• Individual development plans
– Courses
– Programmes
– Competencies
– Objectives
– Evidence
• Personal dashboard
• Team management
• Audience management
• Roles and Organisations
• HR system integration

12. Audience Management
• Allows you to create set or dynamic groups
• A wide range of rules can be set, for example:
– Joined in the last 60 days
– In a specific job role
– In a department or location
– Reports to a manager
– Completed a specific course in last 3 months
– Has not yet completed a specific course

17. Programme Management
• Ability to
– define dependencies between courses
– define dependencies based on events and time
– make courses mandatory
– define recurrence
• Ability to assign programmes to individuals,
groups or positions

19. And now…
Enhancements:
• Multiple learning plan templates
• Audience learning plan enrolment
• Usability – e.g. drag and drop
• Better integration – Totara sync

20. Performance Management
1. Online appraisals
2. 360 degree reviews
3. Goal management - strategic and personal
Management
• Form builder
• Workflow builder (including actions and actors)
• Assignment using audience management
• Reporting engine

22. Roadmap
• Gap analysis
– Current & Aspirational role
– Result sets
– Recommendations
• Totara Social
– An enterprise ePortfolio system based on Mahara
– Social capabilities; activity stream, status updates,
groups
– Stand alone or integrate with Totara LMS

23. Have a look for yourself
https://demo.totaralms.com/
Contact
Sam Barbee
sam@learningpool.com