totara user group webinar | what's new | oct 22 2014

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Totara User GroupWhat’s New? Totara 2.7 and Totara Social

Andy Kirk, Channel Partner Manager,

Totara Learning Solutions Ashley Sinclair, Marketing Coordinator

Totara LMS - what’s new & what’s coming

Totara Social

Totara Learning Solutions update

Andy Kirk

Totara Learning Solutions

Editable interface

Upload icon sets to courses & programs

Enhanced catalogue with faceted search

Self registration and choose your org, position and manager

Fully responsive theme

Update: We will now support IE8 in V2.6 and 2.7

2.6 released in May 2014 with a range of enhancements including:

Editable interface (a precursor to a fully customisable interface in 2.7)

Exhausted your use of existing icons? -Upload icon sets to courses & programs

Enhanced catalogue with faceted search

- More enterprise-friendly, configurable search across categories, custom fields for more targeted searching

Self registration and choose your org, position and manager? Very useful but comes with a caution!

Responsive theme – scale to

work across multiple screen

resolutions

Everything you need to know about 2.6!

See Release notes and full feature descriptionshttp://community.totaralms.com/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=9360

21st October saw the release of v2.6.12 including the support for IE8

What’s coming – 2.7 and beyond

Appraisal improvements

Face to face improvements

Open badges reporting

Graphical reporting

Fully customisable menu

Key theme – polish and ‘deeper’ improvements

to existing feature setDetails of new features at

http://community.totaralms.com/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=9563

Appraisal improvements (based on round of user feedback on Performance Management)

A patch for v2.6 will also be provided

Activation improvements – warning trigger if appraisal is missing information

Assignment improvements - New appraisal auto created when users added to groups

Report improvements- aggregate reporting of closed appraisals, a report to display closed appraisals (and/or exclude them from the other report)

Face to face

Including, but not limited to:

Session note field on sign-up – user enters special requirements

Session self approval

Declare interest in session – for future sessions

Cut-off date / minimum session capacity

Face to face enrolment plugin – sign up while in a course

Enrolment integration via course catalog

User picks position when enrolling – good for cost centre allocation

Open Badges reporting

A new report builder source, ‘New Badges Issued’ - per user per badge.

Filter by badge status

Graphical reporting

Fully Customisable menu

Allows admin to customise the contents of Totara menu via interface

Reorder items

Show/hide items from main screen

Create custom menu items

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An enterprise social learning platform designed to stand alone, or as a companion application to Totara LMS.

Available from your partner from

01st November -31st March as a free trial, then at the same price points as Totara LMS

Influences on this:

70:20:10 Framework, experiential and social learning, professional networking, the changing nature of work and learning – all reflected in customer demand & RFPs!

Intended to:

Complement structured formal learning, record, organise and find knowledge and expertise, provide a user friendly peer to peer network.

CGK have experience of delivering solutions working within this framework already and Totara LMS does have social learning capabilities… now we have a purpose-built platform

Personal feed

Content types … file uploads, blogs, status updates

Display your content… in Pages

… in Groups

And importantly, connect with people

Tenants concept – use the system collaboratively, add themes per department organisations

Highly configurable, plug-able, interoperable (Leap2A spec): open source like Totara LMS. Take it in your direction – stand alone, use with Totara LMS

Bear in mind this is a very early look at Totara Social.

Improvements, development and UI streamlining already underway

Lots more to come……

Come back in November and CG Kineo will be pleased to help!

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