In case you didn’t spot the exciting news, last week we launched Totara Engage on the Community! You can now join workspaces and create, curate and share your own resources with the Community. 

Introducing the weekly Community poll

In Totara Engage you can now use surveys to get feedback from your colleagues around a particular topic. Every week in the Community we’ll create a new poll which we’d love to get your feedback on. This week, we’re asking the question ‘When offices reopen, how are you planning to work?’ Give us your feedback in the poll and we’ll share the results with you next week. 

See what’s new - Join a workspace

Workspaces are a place to ask questions, share your ideas and even upload resources. There are six workspaces now available, focused on the following topics

• Multitenancy
• Reporting
• Personalisation
• Supporting remote working
• Workspaces
• Talent experience trends, reports and analysis

Come and join a workspace and start talking to your peers or get expert advice on your Totara products. If you’d like to add a new workspace, send your suggestions to us at community@totaralearning.com. 

You can learn more about workspaces in the Academy course on Workspaces in Totara Engage or download a guide on workspaces. Share your thoughts about the new feature in the Workspaces workspace!

Create, curate and share resources

Have you seen the new menu items now available in the Community? Under the new Collaborate option, you’ll see Your library. This is your personal Community library, visible just to you! Add resources and view resources that have been shared with you by other Community users. 

Build a new playlist

You can now also create, share and save playlists of resources. Why not add resources you use to improve on the job and share them with others in the Community? 

If you’re thinking about using playlists and resources on your own Totara site, take a look at the Academy course on Playlists and resources in Totara Engage.

Upcoming webinars - Save the date

Digital credentials: Motivating learners to achieve with Totara - 7th April

One way to motivate learners and recognise them for their achievements is through the use of open badges.

Open badges are digital credentials that recognise learners for their achievements, enable course creators to gamify training, create competitive atmospheres and allow learners to showcase their credentials on social networks and e-portfolios.

Join Senior Partner Success Manager Meredith Henson to discover what you can do with open badges on your site and see what’s new in Totara 13. In this webinar you’ll learn:

• How to use badges to motivate learners
• How to add a badge to a course in Totara Learn
• How to gamify the awarding of badges

The webinar takes place on 7th April at 4pm London / 11am New York
Register

If you can’t wait that long to learn about open badges have a look at the dedicated Academy course. 

How to build an adaptable learning organisation through people, process and technology - 21st April

We now know better than ever that change is the only constant, which brings both opportunities and challenges. What we are experiencing is a continuing future filled with uncertainty and volatility. As our planning horizons continue to shrink, HR and learning professionals need to respond quickly and decisively when dramatic turns in business strategy arrive.

Join Josh Bersin, global industry analyst, and Lars Hyland, Chief Learning Officer, Totara, to learn:

• Why Adaptive Learning Organisations (ALOs) outperform other organisations in both business and talent outcomes.
• How to build HR and learning teams that are driven by agility, innovation and experimentation
• What highly adaptable technology characteristics to look for that put you in control, not the vendor
• Why aligning your learning, engagement and performance management radically changes the workplace experience for the better.

The webinar takes place on 21st April at 4pm London / 11am New York
Register

If you can’t make it to the webinars or want to look at other topics have a look at our Webinars on demand which are available to you now. 

Updated Academy course - Courses and categories v13

Courses are the container for your learning content, and will be the place your learners will spend most of their time. Enrol in this updated course to learn how to: 

• Add courses
• Set up and manage course categories
• Add activities to a course
• Enrol users in a course

New ebook - How to engage an isolated and remote workforce with collaborative learning

As a direct result of the pandemic more of us are working remotely than ever before. This creates new challenges for both employees and managers. Brandon Hall Group’s research finds that employees feeling less connected is one of the top five reasons for productivity loss among remote workers! If companies want learning to engage people and drive results, they have to use the tools that enable collaboration to thrive.

Download the new ebook to learn about: 

• The role of collaborative learning in remote work
• Collaboration in content creation and curation
• Strategies for boosting and sustaining collaboration
• Examples of collaborative learning in action

If you’re thinking about how to support a remote workforce, join the conversation in our remote working workspace too.

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Have a great end to the week and see you in a workspace.