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In today’s rapidly evolving workplace, we must continue to learn new skills, gain knowledge and improve performance. Organisations need the capacity to adapt rapidly to be successful.
Today, your learners aren’t just learners. They’re the individuals who make your organisation tick. So as well as supporting their formal learning, they also need to be engaged with the work they’re doing, and able to perform to a high standard. But they don’t want to go to one system for learning, another for collaboration and yet another for their appraisal. They want to combine their formal and informal learning, collaborate in the same space, and tie their experiences into the way their performance is monitored and supported. In doing so, you’ll have an engaged and high-performing workforce, leading to increased productivity for your business.
So what’s the solution? Well, here at Totara, we call this the Talent Experience Platform.
Totara’s Talent Experience Platform combines a learning management system (LMS), a user-centric learning experience platform (LXP) and a comprehensive performance management system under a single and highly adaptable architecture. So if you’re looking to enhance and streamline your employee experience, you’ve come to the right place.
This course is the start of your Totara Academy journey. And what a place to start. Here you’ll explore the feature set, see how it works in practice, and take a peek into some key features to get you started. Along the way we’ll signpost additional training and resources you can access, for free, whenever you’re ready. The course has been designed to be taken in sequence, but you may also choose to dip in and out of activities in any order. We won’t mind.
If you’d like to complete the course and achieve your course badge, you’ll need to pass the mandatory activities which are marked with an asterisk, although we encourage you to explore many more of the activities available in the course. Your badge is valid for Totara versions 15-17. Are you ready to get started?
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Regardless of which Totara products you use, you have full access to the platform that supports them. Key features include:
In this section of the course, you’ll explore a few of these platform features.
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You might find these pages in our help documentation useful as you work through the activities in this section.
You are welcome to attempt this activity as a guest user, but your progress will not be tracked.
Totara Learn is a fully flexible learning management system that empowers you to build customised learning environments that meet your unique requirements. Trusted by thousands of customers around the world, Totara Learn is a scalable way to bring learning to your users in their preferred language, on their preferred device, and personalised by audiences, roles and learning goals.
Key features in Totara Learn include:
In this section of the course, you’ll explore a few of the key features in Totara Learn.
If you want to deliver formal learning content to your learners, you'll want to set up courses. Watch this video to find out how to add a new course in Totara Learn and start adding activities to it. If you want to know more, why not check out our Courses and categories course?
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Good courses are an effective blend of different types of content. That's where activities come in. From forums to SCORM objects, seminars to quizzes, course activities are how you add content and interactivity to your courses. Watch this video for an overview of adding a new activity to a course, or check out our Course Creator program for a more detailed look at the different activities available in Totara Learn.
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You might find these pages in our help documentation useful as you work through the activities in this section.
You are welcome to attempt this activity as a guest user, but your progress will not be tracked.
Totara Engage is a learning experience platform (LXP) that engages, unites and upskills your workforce to deliver high performance and better results. Through peer-to-peer interaction and social learning, Totara Engage empowers your people to create and curate custom content and collaborate in private or public workspaces, all seamlessly integrated with tools like Microsoft Teams. Not just another ‘Netflix of learning’, Totara Engage enables your people to share and collaborate effectively with real results.
Key features in Totara Engage include:
In this section of the course, you’ll explore a few of the key features in Totara Engage.
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You might find these pages in our help documentation useful as you work through the activities in this section.
You are welcome to attempt this activity as a guest user, but your progress will not be tracked.
Totara Perform is a flexible performance management system which supports your business’ performance management model, however you want to work. It provides you with the flexibility to design your performance management schedules and processes, harnessing the power of continuous performance management to boost workplace productivity anytime, anywhere.
Key features in Totara Perform include:
In this section of the course, you’ll explore a few of the key features in Totara Perform.
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This video is best viewed in full screen Duration: 5 mins
You might find these pages in our help documentation useful as you work through the activities in this section.
You are welcome to attempt this activity as a guest user, but your progress will not be tracked.
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Take a look at the following page from our help documentation to learn more about the mobile app.
Ready to show us what you've learnt? This quiz contains ten questions, and you'll need to get 90% to pass. You have two attempts at each question, and we'll give you some guidance along the way if you need it. Good luck! Duration: 15 mins
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You can find more information about Totara features in our help documentation.
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