Learning

Obtain greater overall value with our flexible authoring options

Totara provides your organization with the best of both worlds, a comprehensive solution, which encompasses both authoring and learning management, together, while allowing you to use your favorite authoring tools.

• Combine instructor-led, self-paced learning, and social for a blended approach, all in a single course.
• Flexible options; roles and permissions, course progression, group based activities. You have the power.

Develop your people with our Learning Plans

Showcase all the learning, competencies, and objectives your employees are working on now, as well as their upcoming deadlines, what is mandatory, and what to prioritize. Your learners monitor their progress and directly access learning activities from their own plan.

• Manage the process with approval workflows, comment boxes, and notifications.
• Set-up is easy with learning plan templates to structure the workflow between learners and their managers.

Managing compliance, certifications and programs of learning.

Totara and EXP help make managing regulatory compliance simple.

• Define and manage the structure of certifications and recertification paths. Set expiration dates.
• Edit notification templates to automatically send custom messages.
• Run reports on the compliance status of every person in your organization. Track upcoming expirations and progress toward certification renewals.
• Certifications are also integrated with our program management system enabling your team to rapidly build learning paths by grouping courses together into logical sequences and setting the timing between them.
• Assign certification and programs to individual learners or in bulk, by organization, position, or audience.
• Create and export reports on their progress and completions.

Get down to business with our Seminar Manager

Face-to-face learning still remains a highly-effective training method, even in the most modern of corporate enterprises. While this method of learning is archaic, you still need a sophisticated tool to organize and manage the training, schedules, rosters, notifications and attendance tracking across your enterprise.

• Add custom fields to sessions for improved administration. Select from a broad range of notification types or create your own for each learning event.
• Publish in the training calendar for improved visibility.
• Set management approvals.
• Track and report on interest, registrations and attendance for each event.

On the move with Mobile Learning

Out-of-the-box Totara products are designed to be fully responsive – the user interface will adjust seamlessly depending on what device you are using; desktops, laptops, tablets or smartphones.

• Mobile apps are also available through our partner network that can be extended or fully-branded to harmonize with the look and feel of your LMS.
• Learner focused Catalogs

Present your catalog of learning opportunities the way it needs to structured for the team managing and delivering them. We provide you with two interconnected catalogs, making it simple to promote and efficiently manage enterprise learning.

Motivate with Badges

Badges are a simple yet very effective way of accrediting and gamifying learning. Assign badges with any number of criteria, such as completing an activity, a course or a set of courses, or passing an assessment.

Use badges to achieve a wide range of operational objectives:

• Flexible, visual, recognition of performance
• Talent pools – identify pools of talent and specialists quickly and easily
• Motivate teams – badges build reputation amongst peers, and motivate learners to go that extra step
• Extended enterprise – badges enable companies to innovate with their networks, build trust and promote the brand with learning managed across the extended enterprise in a valid and verifiable way.

Management

Managing performance

Powerful tools to manage employee performance.

• Conduct appraisals
• Discussion, feedback and analysis between managers and employees
• Align performance with personal and company goals

Setting Goals

Connect high level goals at the organizational level with detailed objectives at the individual level using a flexible tiered approach.

Getting smart with Appraisals

Conducting appraisals is a core business practice, which is why we deliver flexibility to this central process.

• Generate checklists or questions for the assessments
• Seamlessly assign forms to selected groups, define stages for when the forms need to be complete and send out reminders.
• Monitor progress at any time. Staff can share status updates. Managers see how appraisals are proceeding and follow up when appropriate.

360 Feedback – the full picture

360 Degree Feedback assists managers in asking a wider group of participants for feedback ensuring a greater holistic review of staff member performance.

Skills and Competencies

It’s simple to build competency based learning and performance frameworks within EXP-Totara Learn.

• Create multiple competency frameworks, with and without hierarchies.
• Map competencies to positions, organizations, and courses.
• Competencies automatically appear in learning plans to users assigned to those positions and organizations.
• Link courses to competencies to automatically populate learning plans.

Team Management

Regular team performance check-ins help keep your teams working like a well-oiled machine.

• Dashboard provides up-to-date information about team activity
• Tasks section advises the manager on tasks team members must complete
• Statistics reporting provides high-level team info and trends
• Managers can approve and deny learning event requests
• One-click access to team members’ learning plans, user profiles, course bookings and progress records.
• See info on courses and competencies started and achieved.
• Create, update, delete and approve learning plans.
• Allocate new courses, competencies and objectives to learning plans.

Powerful Reporting

We deliver top of the line flexibility and performance.

• Use the power of Report Builder to build custom reports from predefined report sources.
• Report Builder enables personalization with customized search filters and column selections.
• Assign pre-built or custom reports to any system role.
• Filter reports by organization, position or user information.
• Scheduled reports can be sent via email at specified times.
• Export reports in a variety of common formats.

System

Getting creative with custom look and feel

Your instructional design team has created/sourced an amazing looking and highly-engaging e-learning content, your LMS should also look and feel just as robust. Reach beyond the rigid constructs associated with other learning management systems. Give your workforce a truly unique and memorable learning experience with EXP-Totara Learn.

• Create a fully-responsive environment suited to any sized device with the advantage of HTML5.
• Configure different menus and look and feel for each Audience.
• Create custom learner catalogues.

Talking your language

We translated into many of the world’s leading languages.  Also, it’s easy to customize a language when you want with localized terminology.

• English (US and UK)
• Arabic
• Chinese (Simplified and Traditional Mandarin)
• Czech
• Dutch
• French
• Finnish
• German
• Hebrew
• Italian
• Japanese
• Magyar (Hungarian)
• Polish
• Portuguese (Brazilian)
• Romanian
• Russian
• Slovak
• Spanish (International)
• Swedish
• Thai

Target with Audiences

Have you got different groups of employees, contractors, customers, partners and distributors – all with specific and evolving training requirements? You need an effective way to target these audiences.

• Define, edit, and manage user groups using unlimited combinations of rules built on your organization’s dynamic HR, CRM, and ERP data.
• Define Audiences based on key events within the system, such as completions and logins.
• You can even define Audiences based on other Audiences!

Represent your world with flexible Hierarchies

Hierarchies store your corporation’s entire organization and job structure, so you can manage learning, drill down within reports, and control access to reporting data.

• Browse, search, and select from these hierarchies to define audiences, assign certifications and programs.
• Create reports for any level in the organization.
• Connect HR Sync to your HR system and get your hierarchies updated automatically each day.

Integration across the enterprise

To better manage and develop your organization’s talent, it’s essential your LMS connects with key business information systems. Maximize your return on investment and minimize your data entry tasks with HR Sync.

• People, position and organization data will regularly be updated automatically from your HR system.
• Your CRM is another example of a business information system that’s good to have ‘talk’ to your LMS. Products and services are constantly changing – your extended enterprise needs training. Totara Partners have extensive experience with a large number of enterprise HR and CRM systems including PeopleSoft, SAP, and Salesforce integrations.

Getting it together with Single Sign-On and Web Services

EXP-Totara Learn helps you streamline your user experience through integration with all major enterprise Single Sign On (SSO) standards including SAML, LDAP, NTLM and Shibboleth. EXP-Totara Learn also accommodates any custom system integration through Web Services using protocols such as REST, SOAP, XMLRPC, JSON and AMF. And because EXP-Totara Learn is open source, you’re free to customize the application and write new functions to do exactly what your organization needs. If you need help, our Partners are on hand to assist with any technical expertise. EXP-Totara Learn – a true team player.