an introduction to totara social
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Social Learning with Totara SocialTotara Learning Solutions, 2015
Yuliya Bozhko | @YuliyaBozhko
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Contents
What is Totara Social
Facts about Totara Social
Benefits of social learning platform
Blended learning experience
Totara Social: a first look
Totara Social key features
Staying connected and up-to-date
Totara Social activity streams
Totara Social content types
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What is Totara Social
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What is Totara Social
Totara Social is an Enterprise Social Learning Platform developed with the aim of facilitating social learning within an organisation.
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Facts about Totara Social
Can be deployed as a stand-alone application or combined with a traditional learning management system such as Totara LMS.
Like “sister application”, Totara LMS, it is open source.
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Benefits of a social learning platform
Encourages peer-to-peer discussions and learning to support more formal learning, achieved via traditional training (70:20:10 model)
Provides a tool to allow institutional knowledge to be recorded, organised, found, and reflected on when needed
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Blended learning experience
INFORMALFORMAL
Blendedlearning via work-basedactivities
ClassroomActivitiesOnline modulesAssessment
MentoringCoaching
Global networksPeer interactions
Best practice forums
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Totara Social: A first look
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Totara Social: A first look
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Totara Social key features
Functionality for building up a personal repository (blogs, pages, ideas, questions, files, etc.)
Social networking features (connections, activity streams, status updates, real-time chat, sharing, groups, forums, feedback, recommendations, etc.)
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Totara Social: a first look
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Staying connected and up-to-date
Totara Social has multiple ways for people to interact and stay up-to-date with the events in the company:
Activity stream One-on-one and group chat Internal messaging Email Email digest
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Totara Social: activity streams
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Activity streams
Types of activity streams (Home, Individual, and Group)
Activity stream (AS) provides one of the ways for everyone to stay up-to-date with what is happening in community
People can comment on and subscribe to items related to activities in AS
Similarly to popular online social networking platforms activities can be liked/unliked
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Like, watch …
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Comment, share …
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Totara Social: content types
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Content types
Pages
Files
Questions
Ideas
Blogs
To-do lists
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Ideas
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Questions
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Blogs
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Files
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Pages
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Recommendations
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Contributions
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Status updates
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Totara Social: groups, tagging & search
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Groups
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Tagging and search
All resources can be tagged, to retrieve and search for related content.
Can be integrated with Elasticsearch for powerful search functionality.
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Pluggable and scalable architecture
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LMS integration via Totara Connect
Centralised account management
Single sign-on and single sign-off
Sync of users into audience and course related groups
Next step: send user related data from LMS to Totara Social (enrolled courses, completion info, audiences, etc.)
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Where we are at
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Where we are at
Latest version of Totara Social - 2.0released on October 6th 2015
Monthly minor releases with improvements and bug fixes
Annual major releases with new features
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