WHY RUN A SEPARATE VLE, eportfolio & TRACKING SYSTEM? Totara LMS for Apprenticeships is a fresh, innovative & unified Learning Management Experience

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1 WHY RUN A SEPARATE VLE, eportfolio & TRACKING SYSTEM? Totara LMS for Apprenticeships is a fresh, innovative & unified Learning Management Experience

2 CAN YOU MAKE SAVINGS ON...? TABLE OF CONTENTS Reduced assessor time in the car? Self-directed learning? Automated gathering of evidence via quizzes and activities? Massive online courses vs small group face-to-face learning? CAN YOU GENERATE A USP THROUGH...? Professional quality, bespokebranded LMS? Showcase e process? Reflective learning & communities of interest Personalised course building facilities? 24/7, Just In Time access? Online tutors, put the woman/ man in the machine? 04 LearnIT-e 06 Totara 08 Totara 09 Totara 10 LearnIT-e Presents Totara LMS for Apprenticeships LMS for Apprenticeships - A Closer Look LMS for Apprenticeships - Open Source Benefits LMS for Apprenticeships - Development Roadmap Consultancy Solutions

3 Courses & Assignments Save time and money by automating the achievement of units, outcomes and criteria via the completion of courses and activities including quizzes and assignments. Presents TOTARA LMS FOR APPRENTICESHIPS No Paperwork, No Risk Assessors don t have to worry about taking the right folders and paperwork out on workplace assessments - they just need a tablet or laptop. No lost paperwork, no risk to personal data. OFQUAL Harvester & Competency Frameworks With just a single click, the OFQUAL Harvester draws down units directly from the Register of Qualifications, Examinations and Assessments site, making it easy to populate your learners programme pathways and individual learning plans. Pathways & plans can be configured according to either positions and/or organisations. Apprenticeships software & programme delivery support for businesses, training providers, colleges & other organisations Just-In-Time Adopt Just-In-Time Learning with a web-based platform. Your learners will benefit from 24/7 access to courses, learning materials and assessment processes as they need it, when they need it, where they need it. You can reduce the delivery costs TotaraLMS for Apprenticeships The software system integrates and Traffic Light System and enhance the learning experience for your Apprentices, Employers, Assessors, EVs & IVs is a fresh and innovative learning management system with a showcase eportfolio facility for extends a custom distribution of Moodle: the world s most widely adopted VLE with Mahara: Using TotaraLMS for Apprenticeships traffic light system - on the learning plan matrix - makes it quick and easy to track exactly how well your apprentices and staff are progressing at a glance. and Training Managers with reflective workplace learning. It is a cutting edge reflective learning Totara LMS for Apprenticeships. designed to make the management of programmes & evidencing eportfolio which enables mobile device uploads of photos, voice Reporting Totara LMS for Apprenticeships software has been specifically designed for the delivery of Apprenticeships and similar Work Based Learning. It offers streamlined competencies more enjoyable for apprentices & their assessors. The system also offers significant cost efficiencies by reducing the recordings and videos. Learner and assessor files, as well as self-directed elearning, all provide evidence for all types of Sophisticated and customisable reports make Ofsted, SfA and Prime Contractor audits straightforward. Internal and External Verifiers benefit from the flexibility of remote access to Learning Plans and eportfolios. Remote tutors benefit from the extremely sophisticated Moodle course gradebook. assessment processes and high need to travel, enhancing distance Apprenticeship frameworks from quality blended learning within a functionality rich platform that is easy to implement. delivery methodologies & using automated, self-directed learning to evidence competencies. ICT or Hairdressing to Engineering or Social Care. Free upgrades from your existing Moodle and Mahara platforms. LEAP2A eportfolio import service also available for Mahara

4 Totara LMS for Apprenticeships A Closer Look Dashboard Simple, engaging & tailorable to your organisation s brand and image. elearning Courses & Activities Showcase eportfolio Pages & Collections Sister MIS Get your own courses & quizzes to tick your boxes(!) Upload evidence via desktop & mobile devices. Gather learner records & programme management data. Made to Measure Your site will always be bespoke-branded. TDM s Software Services team can also tailor, extend & integrate your software in response to your unique organisational needs e.g. OFQUAL Harvester & Hierarchies One click upload of UAN & QAN data to map unit, outcome and criteria competencies to your bespoke organisations, positions & apprenticeship pathways. eassessment Learning Plan & Matrix Improve timeliness of completions with quick, targeted access to a learner progress tracker. Matrix allows interactive recording of achievement. Course Bookings & Reports Supports delivery of blended learning with webinar plugin options, face-to-face activities and training calendar. Sophisticated, powerful and flexible reporting tools. Moodle & Mahara plugins CRM Payment Gateway Recruitment Website & SEO Google Apps Integration Document Repository Library System Video Conferencing VoiP Telephony Integration Website CMS HR System Integration Project Management System and more

5 Totara LMS for Apprenticeships Development Roadmap TOTARA LMS FOR APPRENTICESHIPS OPEN SOURCE BENEFITS TotaraLMS for Apprenticeships is 100% open source, throughout. Our commitment to open source software means that we don t have hidden commercial licenses. Our subscription services are for support and hosting, not software licensing. There is no per-user licence fee - just a simple, scalable, annual fee structure. BESPOKE BRANDING TDM s team of Web and Graphic Designers can turn an empty, open source software shell into a uniquely bespoke corporate product: Proudly celebrating your own corporate branding and image Using images, animations and visuals to bring your content to life And making the menu bar and the user-interface speak your own unique organisational language. SOFTWARE INTEGRATION Small pieces, loosely joined wrote David Weinberger. At TDM, we believe that: An LMS should serve as an LMS A tracking system is a tracking system And an eportfolio platform is exactly what s needed for eportfolios... but these systems benefit from being unified, interactive and single sign-on. Your management decision-makers also need the flexibility to plug-and-play other useful software solutions such as a CRM, Library, etc. FLEXIBILITY TO TAILOR Sometimes the out-of-the-box functionality just doesn t cut it. That is why TDM s team of Software Developers enjoy working with Open Source Codeline which we can freely edit. We specialise in taking an established open source platform as a starting point, but then, selecting, rejecting, adapting & supplementing that codeline to ensure that the software serves your own very specialist business needs. GIVEN ENOUGH EYEBALLS Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. (Linus s Law by Eric Raymond). TDM s proposition is that your organisation s software will be less likely to be at risk from codeline bugs, security holes and functionality inconsistencies if you choose to combine the skillsets of both: 1. The international community of software developers who are continuously patching and maintaining core codeline of your chosen software platform with. 2. TDM s team of multi-skilled software developers and software administrators who are tasked with maintaining your software on an everyday basis. NO VENDOR LOCK-IN What if TDM decided to discontinue support for the software you use? What if TDM suddenly lost our pricing competitiveness? What if The Development Manager Ltd. (TDM) were to go kaput? None of these worries need concern you. TDM guarantee that you can extract your complete product, content, database and open source codeline for us at ANY point. You can then simply redeploy your codeline on an alternative server arrangement. It is, therefore, entirely down to TDM to ensure that we continuously deliver the right levels of service quality at the right price for you. LOWER TOTAL COST If lots of organisations have an interest in moving forwards the core codeline functionalities of the software you are using, your organisation will stand to benefit from initiatives funded by others. At the end of the day, many organisations will often need broadly the same software functionalities. Why continuously reinvent the same wheels? v 0.0 v 1.0 v 2.0 v 3.0 Use Mahara for reflective eportfolios & Ofqual NOS Unit Assessment mnet SSO TotaraLMS & Mahara Use TotaraLMS position & competency frameworks to manage learning plans Sister MIS precursor to MIS layer on Totara LMS for Apprenticeships Seamless theming between Totara LMS & Mahara A continuous stream of innovation Evidence Tab for assessor-driven Ofqual NOS portfolio evidence (including file uploads, hyperlinks & text entry) Progress Tracker for interactive recording of (e.g. QCF) qualifications > units > outcomes > criteria. Competencies are traffic lighted by: Course completions Assessor decisions on Evidence Tab data Mahara blocks Mahara block submission allows learner to submit a Mahara block to a Totara learning plan OFQUAL Harvester easy UAN/QAN data import from Ofqual registry Ready to roll courses in functional skills ICT, English & Maths, ERR, H&S, PLTS, online tutor skills, course creation & Totara LMS for Apprenticeships courses MIS Layer submits ILR data to SfA via data collection agency API + links to Totara reporting Learner record page showing ILR data and optional centre data Assessor caseload page with restricted verifier access ++ candidate filtering Centre Managers page showing DEFCON status & progress reporting Objectives Templating allows editable & predefined learning plan objectives Rules of Combination Calculator for UANs in QANs Visual progress display graphical options Payment Gateway Plugins for accredited organisations to make direct claims upon learner completion of Units, Awards, Certificates, Diplomas, etc... Further integrations and plugins: Content repositories (e.g. Alfresco) for Evidence Tab VoIP recordings to Evidence Tab Webinar recordings to Evidence Tab You decide the roadmap. Our dedicated developer team exist to be directed by client needs. Popular requirements will quickly make it into core code

6 LEARNIT-E CONSULTANCY learnit-e.com TDM LearnIT-e Consultancy offer flexible partnership alternatives. You pick the mix TDM LearnIT-e offer a full consultancy approach to support bespoke learning management system implementations. According to each client s needs, we offer the following service range Hosting & Server Support Hosting (Cloud options or remote support for local servers) Updates, Backup/Restore & Penetration Testing Software Development Roadmap Totara LMS For Apprenticeships Community Forum, Bug Tracking & Feature Requests Totara LMS & Mahara Support Forums Customisation Theming Services Configuration Services Technologists, Developers & Designers for hire Project Managers for hire Apprenticeship Delivery Training & User Support Software Technologists Software Administrators Instructional Designers Online Tutors End Users Apprenticeship Management Access to funding Contract management Recruitment process management Programme delivery management LMS configuration LMS training LMS administration Managed hosting and end user support Theming and user interface design LMS programming plugins and integrations Database Management Training needs analysis Business impacts analysis Competency frameworks design Instructional Design Learning content development HRD/CPD Programme management TDM LearnIT-e Consultancy is the Totara Community s go to partner for the delivery of government-funded apprenticeships using integrated Totara and Mahara software. TDM LearnIT-e are world-leading experts in Open Source elearning and ebusiness platforms. Bespoke competency frameworks Online learning content Instructional designers Programme managers Trainers Assessors Verifiers Partnering Opportunities We partner with training organisations who want to offer bespoke platforms for their corporate clients. Talk to us about how we can help you provide sites that are tailored in theme, branding and functionality to your clients specific context

7 Learning & Knowledge Management Solutions tdm.co 25a Load Street Bewdley Worcestershire DY12 2AE Green House The Custard Factory Gibb Street Birmingham B9 4AA The Development Manager Ltd. (TDM) includes: Wyre Academy Open Source Software Services LearnIT-e Consultancy