Download - Totara Roadmap September 2011
Sven Laux, Totara Product [email protected]
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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