Totara LMS. Key benefits. Key Features

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1 Totara LMS Synergy learning with help you to achieve your business objectives through effective learning and development with this game-changing Learning Management System (LMS) Today, more than ever, the achievement of your business objectives is dependent upon the knowledge, skills and experience of your workforce. Totara LMS enables you to deliver learning effectively through individual learning plans which reflect your employees roles, training needs and objectives. Totara provides a functionally rich learning platform which can be implemented quickly and at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions. Key benefits An engaging learning portal Totara provides an engaging portal from which learners can access instructor led training, self-paced e-learning and virtual classroom sessions. With Totara you can load content that you create such as e-learning, SCORM packages, PDFs, videos and question banks quickly and easily. Manages compliance and assessment Totara provides sophisticated assessment and reporting to ensure and track compliance in your organisation. Supports social learning Totara provides a range of tools such as chat, wikis and forums to support informal and social learning, allowing your employees to collaboratively build a body of knowledge that future generations of workers will benefit from. No per-user license fees Totara is a custom distribution of the open source Moodle LMS, the world s most popular learning platform, bringing the benefits of open source to corporate learning. This means no per-user licence fees and complete access to source code allowing you to tailor the LMS to your exact requirements. Key Features Competency structure to which you can link roles, learning resources and courses Organisation and position frameworks allowing allocation of position/organisation specific competencies, learning and filtered reporting.individual learning plans track on-the-job training, guide development and assess progress toward career goals and company objectives. Face-to-face training management and self-service booking Sophisticated reporting - personalised Management Reporting Dashboardand Custom Report Builder Enhanced theme branding to ensure you can fully reflect your own brand

2 Powerful, yet simple A clean and easy to use interface, with a flexible theming framework to fully re-brand the system for your organisation. Individual learning plans for every employee, based on job roles and competencies, provides quick and targeted access to relevant learning. A way for employees to network, share ideas and tap into expert communities. A complete solution With our extensive experience creating solutions for online education, Synergy Learning has an in-depth understanding of what is required for businesses to successfully facilitate CPD- now Totara provides the tools to take it to the next level. We offer everything you need to fully integrate Totara in to your business; Installation Training Effective management of your learning process Configuration Hosting Support Themes Customisation Consultation Schedule, manage and report on classroom training and workshops using either self-service or manager approval for bookings. Add your own competency framework as the basis for curriculum planning, analysis of developmental needs and creation of learner paths. Create or import management hierarchies so that managers can actively manage the development of their team. Synergy Learning have provided us with a new way of delivering training and their expertise and commitment to the project has been invaluable to us. Patrick Gallen, PwC Staying on top of what s going on A sophisticated assessment engine allows you to create assessments from question banks and track scores and completion rates. An easy to use and flexible report builder allows you build and schedule your own reports, and assign these to users such as team or divisional managers. Integrate with HR systems such as SAP and Oracle to keep your entire organisation s compliance data in one place. Reached the limits of your existing LMS? With Totara there are no per-user license fees, meaning you can scale to enterprise level without breaking the bank. Having access to open source software code means you can build upon our best-of-breed LMS to create innovative solutions for your specific context. The partner network means you won t be held to ransom by your vendor come annual renewal time. Totara provides a range of subscription levels designed to deliver enterprise-grade product support including training, documentation, issue reporting, maintenance releases, patches and upgrades. End-user technical requirements Operating system Microsoft Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7 Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Ubuntu Linux (Unity Browser Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or (preferably) above Firefox 3 or above Safari version 4 and above Client-side JavaScript enabled To find out more about our Totara services please contact us at: For me Synergy Learning s greatest strength is in how they treat our every question, problem, or development proposal with the utmost attention to detail. Kevin Donaghy, Marie Curie

3 Assessment and compliance Your Compliance training is not just about meeting legal and regulatory requirements, it is often critically important for personal safety. Totara will help you Totara has a range of assessment options including a sophisticated assessment engine where you can create assessments from banks of questions and track scores and completion rates. You can also load assessments developed with popular 3rd party authoring tools.. Many of our customers operate in highly regulated or safety-critical environments where compliance is understandably a primary issue. Therefore the ability to determine compliance criteria and maintain a clear and accurate audit trail is a must-have feature. Assessment setup Create multiple question banks for use within a topic, single course, course category or for site-wide use. Generate assessments using one or more question banks, with randomisation if you wish. Set course completion on assessment completion or score, or any other activity such as e-learning or classroom session. Import SCORM assessments created using authoring tools such as Quizmaker. Records and evidence Report on individual questions, user scores and provide automated feedback. Track completion of individual activities such as e-learning, classroom sessions and assessments. Track completion of courses where pre-determine completion criteria have been met. When appropriate, manually grade submitted activities and use free-text responses. Maintain current and historical records of active and completed learning for all employees. Run in-depth reporting on which personnel have passed, completed or not completed assessments and compliance training.

4 Content management Create content online or import courseware from external sources. Totara has a wide range of content authoring and management capabilities allowing you to create a course with both content and activities. Totara enables you to insert almost any kind of web content into your courses. There is also a huge range of learning activities - e.g. lessons, wikis, forums and assignments. As well as creating your own content, you can add SCORM courseware or custom courseware the choice is yours. Unlike other LMS products, you don t have to ask your vendor to add new content, you are free to add as much courseware as you like, by yourself. Totara gives you the best of both worlds, a solution that covers both authoring and learning management, and allows you to use your favourite authoring tools. Content creation Create course areas, which are containers for multiple resources and activities. Create web pages within courses using the web page editing tool Add resources to courses (documents, slides, audio and video) Enable user generated content (journal, wiki and forum discussions) Create quizzes and surveys Advanced features has been completed or passed, while allowing other activities to display with no restrictions at all. edit courses or add new content. You can assign these permissions on a per-course or site-wide basis

5 Hierarchies and frameworks User Totara to map learning onto job positions and organisational levels Hierarchies in Totara allow you to set up various frameworks that best represent the structure of your organisation. This enables you to input the structures and relationships mapped to individual job roles, management levels, departments, teams and groups. Competency development Hierarchy frameworks can use as many levels as you need Tying it all together 1. Assign learners to organisations and positions 2. Assign competencies to organisations and positions 3. Assign courses to any competencies 4. Courses and competencies then automatically appear in learning plans Reporting capabilities Organisation hierarchies allow for reporting down the management tree Detailed reports can be compiled for any level within the organisation

6 Learning Plans Your people are your greatest asset, as the saying goes. Employees are most likely the biggest cost and management challenge in your organisation, and it is critically important to align employee development with organisational strategies. needed to improve performance in their present position or to prepare for new responsibilities. The plan provides quick and targeted access to relevant learning whether face to face events or e-learning; and enables employees to see their progress at a glance. Learning Plan templates Create multiple learning plan templates based on user groups. Competencies and courses can be automatically pulled into learning plans. Personalised learning such as current and aspirational positions. Learners can personalise plans by setting due dates, priorities and objectives. Learners can use the development plan to manage the scheduling of their courses and other learning activities. Additional competencies and courses can be requested by the learner or added by their manager. Learning records Completed learning plans contribute to an employee s record of learning. Managers can monitor the ongoing progress of their team s development.

7 Social learning Research shows that 70% of learning takes place in real-life, on-the-job experiences, so you need an LMS that supports informal and social learning activities. Totara supports the popular 70:20:10 learning model which has a strong focus on informal and workplace learning. With Totara employees can network, share ideas and tap into expert networks. The sophisticated search facility also allows learners Social networking around key topics Forums allow employees to create and engage in online, asynchronous discussions Chat rooms allow for real-time, synchronous discussion Support tools

8 Team Management Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. Andrew Carnegie Regular team performance check-ins will help in keeping your teams working like a well-oiled machine. Use Totara s competencies and objectives features to plan wider team and organisational objectives, to ensure everyone is headed in the same direction. Totara allows your team managers to get the full potential out of their teams by members have an active development plan and by providing tools to monitor progress against objectives. My Team dashboard Tasks section advises the manager on tasks team members must complete. Statistics reporting provides high-level team information. Managers can approve and deny learning event requests. Team Members page and progress records. High level data on numbers of courses and competencies started and achieved. Access team members Learning Plans Access their full learning plan, record of learning and course booking records. Create update, delete and approve learning plans. Allocate new courses, competencies and objectives to learning plans.

9 Totara Reporting To make the right decisions quickly, you need o My Reports tab My Dashboard page Report Builder