Sam Barbee shares 'Unlocking Talent with Totara’ at Learning Pool Live 2013

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