totara roadmap september 2011

Sven Laux, Totara Product Directorsven.laux@totaralms.com

Release of version 1.1

View of the roadmap ahead

Questions

Our vision

Our vision

Leading open source LMS for business

Significantly reduce cost of ownership

Focus on end user experience and uptake

Establish clear blue water

RecapThree initial partners were taking Moodle solutions into businesses

Proprietary LMS commonalities

Expensive

Admin focused / difficult for end users / low uptake

Many system owners say they hate them

Moodle is fantastic software but there were gaps

Same enhancements and customisations

We needed a product

Recap

Partners came together in 2009

Totara was conceived

14 months of development

Launch of v1.0 at Learning Tech January 2011

Huge ambitions, good feature set

2 weekly release cycles

Now on v1.0.24

Plenty of ideas

Since Totara 1.0

Took critical look

Functional review

Usability review

Implementations for subscribers, support for partners

Many issues resolved and enhancements made, includingSeveral language packs

Interface improvements

Improved logging

Bug fixes and security patches

Launch of Totara 1.1

To be distributed on 3rd October 2011

New features

Program management

Improved hierarchies

Enhanced learning plans

Enhancements to the report builder

Demonstration

Whats next?

Staying true to our vision and core principles

Aiming at the corporate market

Aiming for a simple end user experience

Close alignment with Moodle

Adopting Moodles version numbering and release cycles

Versioning

Adopting Moodles version numbering and release cycles

Next release is Totara 2.1 in early Q1 2012

Totara 2.1 (Q1 2012)

Benefits from the Moodle roadmap

Features from Moodle versions 2.0 and 2.1

Totaras overall direction

Move towards talent management

Performance review / appraisal process

360 degree feedback tool

Gap analysis

Further enhancementsAudience management

Enrollment management

Enhanced F2F, reporting and hierarchies

An overview

Performance review / appraisals

Potentially a big win

Lots of organisations still work paper based

Set up working group of four subscribers so far

Engagement via the community site

Target:

Full specification before end of 2011

Start development in January 2012

Summary

Version 1.1 out on the 3rd

Keen on feedback

Version 2.1 planned for Q1 2012

Staying close to Moodle

Heading towards talent management

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