Totara Community Updates

Community weekly update: Updated Academy courses + a brand new performance management guide.

 
Matt Linaker
Community weekly update: Updated Academy courses + a brand new performance management guide.
by Matt Linaker - Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 9:29 AM
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Stay up to date with Totara 14 by taking our most recent Academy courses, sign up for tomorrow’s webinar all about breaking down the silos between learning, engagement and performance and download a new guide on building your performance management process from scratch. 

Updated Academy courses now available

We’ve updated more Academy courses so that you can learn about what’s available in Totara 14. Access all of our 14 courses here. Newly updated courses include: 

Localisation V13-V14

Presenting your site in the user's language and time zone is a great start in helping them to feel at home in their learning.

Enrol in this course to explore how to:

  • Change the default country, language and time zone on the site

  • Install a new language pack

  • Customise and edit the default language in the system

Take the course

Audiences V14

Audiences are a powerful tool in Totara, allowing you to group your users in order to assign them learning and performance management activities.

Enrol in this course to explore how to:

  • Create set and dynamic audiences

  • Assign learning to an audience 

Take the course

Site-level user management V14 

There's no point having great content if no one can access it. How users access your content is crucial to a successful implementation.

Enrol in this course to explore how to:

  • Authenticate user accounts

  • Select the most appropriate enrolment strategies for your site

  • Define user roles and permissions

Take the course

How happy are you with your Totara installation?

We’re collecting feedback to help improve the user experience for everyone who uses Totara products. To help us improve we need your input. Take this year’s survey and let us know your experience of using Totara.

New guide - Building a performance management process from scratch

Regardless of the size of your organisation, a practical performance management process will have a transformational impact on your organisation and its employees. It stands to improve employee engagement, workforce productivity, profitability, and even boost the enterprise agility needed to outmaneuver competitors. But where do you start? How do you build a performance management process from the ground up?

Download our new guide to learn:

  • The best practices to implement for a smooth pilot of your performance management program

  • How to navigate your way through the key stages of setting up a performance management process 

  • The simple steps and tools needed to tailor your performance management program around the unique needs of your organisation

  • How to use workplace technology to automate the process and align employee learning and development with your organisation’s objectives

    Get the guide

Upcoming webinars

How can HR break down the silos between learning, engagement and performance?

Join us tomorrow as we look at how to break down the silos between learning, engagement and performance teams. This is critical for organisations looking to tackle the daunting skills challenge of the next decade. Tomorrow we’ll discuss the steps can you take NOW to prepare your people and organisation for the major changes ahead?

Register for this session on the 8th July at 15.00 London / 10.00 New York to find out. 

Create bespoke curricula for your learners with learning plans in Totara

Learning plans allow your employees to access all of their relevant training, competencies and objectives in the same place. Learning plans are easily adaptable and flexible in the way they are put together. Join us next week and learn how to: 

  • Create and edit user-driven learning plans

  • Link courses, competencies, objectives and programs to learning plans

When 14 July at 16.00 London / 11.00 New York
Register

Weekly Community poll

To ensure any new person in your organisation gets off to the best possible start, they’ll need a solid onboarding experience. In this week’s poll we’re asking which Totara features do you use to support onboarding? Could you be doing more to support your new team members? Take the poll and learn which features other organisations are using. 

Have a great end to the week