Totara Community Updates

New Academy training available + Hear from one of our award winners

 
Matt Linaker
New Academy training available + Hear from one of our award winners
by Matt Linaker - Wednesday, 3 February 2021, 7:38 AM
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This week there are some great things to sign up for including a customer webinar and a brand new Academy program and course. 

We’re running a webinar with Totara’s Chief Learning Officer Lars Hyland right now! Don’t worry there’s still just enough time to join today for the session: Talent Experience or Talent Management: Which boosts engagement?

In today’s webinar, you’ll learn how talent experience and talent management translate to employee engagement. We’ll review which one will help you effectively build a competitive, agile and future-proof workplace in a fast-changing world. 

Register for the webinar which starts today at 4:00 PM London / 11:00 AM New York

If you miss the webinar you can watch it on-demand here

Webinar: 17th Feb 4:00 PM London / 11:00 AM New York From spreadsheet to LMS - Totara's best manufacturing project 2020

Etex is an experienced international building materials company which aims to inspire people around the world to build living spaces that are ever more safe, sustainable, smart and beautiful.

Etex Building Performance UK worked with Totara Alliance Partner Chambury Learning Solutions to start from scratch with a learning management system (LMS) to replace their basic spreadsheet-based learning records. Etex needed to create locally relevant content to help bring the site to life and engage its learners. As a result of COVID-19 and the UK’s national lockdown, Etex Building Performance needed to keep 500 furloughed employees engaged, informed and reassured about pandemic developments, as well as equipping them with the skills to learn off-site throughout the lockdown.

Join Genevieve Tofield, Learning and Development Manager as she walks us through Etex’s journey and discusses lessons learnt throughout the process. In the webinar, you'll learn how Etex:

  • Went from spreadsheet to LMS
  • Saw a staggering 284% increase in usage over the pandemic
  • Built an award-winning project

Register for the webinar 

New Academy program

We know many of you are already up to speed with the features in Totara Learn 12, and may be ready to upskill in the new Totara Talent Experience Platform, Totara 13. If so, we've got just the program for you. Our New and improved program focuses on features that were new or updated in the Totara 13 release. If you've started any of those courses already, they will contribute to your program badge.

New Dashboards and basic theming course

When it comes to business systems we could ask the question: do appearances really matter? For your users to be both comfortable and have an engaging user experience, then the answer has to be a resounding ‘Yes’. Creating aesthetically pleasing and engaging spaces for learning and performance is a challenge you’ll be able to master by theming your Totara site and by using dashboards to create personalised areas for your users.

Take our updated Academy course to learn how to:  

  • Customise a theme and edit the front page

  • Add your organisation’s logo and favicon

  • Change the colour of text and buttons

  • Create a dashboard

  • Add featured links

  • Set up user tours

  • Add videos, images and blocks

Enrol in the course today

New Financial and insurance infographic

We’ve just released a new infographic talking about the learning and HR challenges that financial organisations face today. 

Take a look at the new infographic

Are you new to Totara or looking to upskill? 

If you’re new to learning about Totara then you may wish to start upskilling by taking the course Totara Learn for Beginners. Or if you’d like to learn more about Totara 13 have a look at the courseWhat is a Talent Experience Platform?Why not learn something new by accessing all of the Academy courses here?

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Hope to see you in a webinar soon!