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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
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Totara LMS - what’s new & what’s coming
Totara Social
Totara Learning Solutions update
Andy Kirk
Totara Learning Solutions
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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:
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Editable interface (a precursor to a fully customisable interface in 2.7)
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Exhausted your use of existing icons? -Upload icon sets to courses & programs
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Enhanced catalogue with faceted search
- More enterprise-friendly, configurable search across categories, custom fields for more targeted searching
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Self registration and choose your org, position and manager? Very useful but comes with a caution!
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Responsive theme – scale to
work across multiple screen
resolutions
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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Open Badges reporting
A new report builder source, ‘New Badges Issued’ - per user per badge.
Filter by badge status
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Graphical reporting
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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
Open links in a new window
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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
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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.
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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
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Personal feed
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Content types … file uploads, blogs, status updates
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Display your content… in Pages
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… in Groups
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And importantly, connect with people
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Tenants concept – use the system collaboratively, add themes per department organisations
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Highly configurable, plug-able, interoperable (Leap2A spec): open source like Totara LMS. Take it in your direction – stand alone, use with Totara LMS
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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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Improving performance throughlearning and technology