Firstly, a big thank you to everyone who was able to make it to our inaugural EMEA user conference in London. It was great to listen to so many people talking about all things Totara and seeing how the flexibility of Totara has allowed you to meet your objectives in such diverse and interesting ways. Feel free to continue the conversation in the Community and add your ideas for next year’s conference!
If you missed the event or would like to revisit some of the presentations you can access all the slides here. As a follow on to the event do have a look at Lars Hyland’s article all about why enterprise open source is the strategic choice for your learning technology platform.
Brand new sector spaces
You told us that you’d like to speak to more people in your field, so we’ve set up our first two sector spaces centred around healthcare and government. If you’re working in these fields then get involved and start talking to your peers today!
If you are interested in moderating a new sector space please email us at community@totaralearning.com to find out more.
Upcoming webinars
How to create next-level seminars
On the 30th May at 16.00 BST, join Meredith Henson to learn all about what’s new with seminar functionality and how to take practical steps to use seminars in your system. Wes will also be running sessions on seminars on the 26th June at 16.00 BST and 27th June at 9.00 NZT.
Don’t forget you can also take the Academy course on seminars at any time.
Feature-focus session: Competencies
If you’re looking to learn more about competencies, then join Wes as he’ll run you through how you can use competencies to ensure your team are equipped with the relevant knowledge and skills to help your organisation innovate and grow. Join a webinar on either:
June 12th 16.00 BST or 13th June 09.00 NZT
Learn more about competencies in the dedicated Academy course.
Effective animation for learning
How do we build animations that are both visually attractive, but that also ensure people are learning?
Join Totara’s Visual Design Lead Matt Stokes as he takes you behind the scenes and shows you how we create effective animations for learning in the Totara Academy on the 26th June at 10.00 BST.
New Academy courses
We’ve released more version 12 courses in the Academy. Have a look at the following courses to ensure you’re making the most out of your learning platform:
Learn how to group users so you can quickly and easily assign courses, programs, learning plans and goals to hundreds of users at the same time.
This course shows you how to create a new appraisal template and link an appraisal to learning plans, courses and objectives.
Take this course to consider which core functionality is enabled on your site.
Hierarchies and job assignments
Assign learning based on a user’s role or organisation by setting up hierarchies in your system. Take this academy course as we walk you through every step of the process.
ATD is in full force!
If you’re at ATD, then stop by and say hi. The Totara Village is located at stand #1019 at the ATD International Conference and Expo, alongside our Partners, eThink Education, Synegen, Remote-Learner and Moonami.
That’s
all for this week!
Matt
