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About HowToMoodle Leading UK Moodle expert and Totara partner over 10 years proven track record in helping clients optimise their e-learning experiences! We deliver effective and innovative e-learning platform support services that help you to create engaging learning experiences and benefit from measurable ROI. Hosting Training Branding Consultancy Application & technical support E-Learning content creation Development and integration 02 Totara Overview www.howtomoodle.com
Why choose us? Delivering solutions since 2004 Moodle and Totara partners Our team have multi-sector experience so we can empathise and work effectively with clients Our consultants and technical team have an average of 8 years experience working with Moodle-based systems Cost effectiveness. Our services combine great value with optimum flexibility so that your project achieves maximum ROI Services for small clients through to large-scale projects, customised to suit your needs and budget Reliable and transparent. We re upfront with our clients and provide pragmatic advice on what s achievable. Core Services Moodle and Hosting Totara Trainingpartners Branding Application and in-house technical support ELearning content creation Consultancy Development and Integration It was good dealing with people in a teaching and learning environment - practitioners, not just technicians and web developers. Laurina Rushworth Shrewsbury Sixth Form College WE VE WORKED WITH justaskus@howtomoodle.com 0330 660 1111 03
Achieve your business objectives through effective learning and development with the game-changing Totara Learning Management System (LMS). Today, more than ever, the achievement of your business objectives is dependent upon the knowledge, skills and experience of your workforce. Totara LMS enables you to deliver learning effectively through individual learning plans which reflect your employees roles, training needs and objectives. Totara LMS provides a functionally rich learning platform which can be implemented quickly and at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions. Great for Businesses Public Sector Totara LMS is used by: Charities Education Key Benefits: An engaging learning portal from which learners can access instructor led training, self-paced e-learning and virtual classroom sessions. You can load content that you create including SCORM packages and videos quickly and easily. Supports social learning Totara LMS provides a range of tools such as forums, chat and wikis to support informal and social learning, enabling your employees to collaboratively build a body of knowledge for future generations of workers. Manages compliance and assessment Totara LMS provides sophisticated assessment and reporting to ensure and track compliance in your organisation. No per-user license fees - Totara LMS is based on the open source Moodle LMS, bringing the benefits of open source to corporate learning. This means no peruser licence fees and complete access to source code allowing you to tailor the LMS to your requirements. 04 Totara Overview www.howtomoodle.com
Key Features: Organisation and position frameworks enabling allocation of specific competencies, learning and filtered reporting. Individual learning plans track on-the-job training, guide development and assess progress toward career goals and company objectives. Competency structure to which you can link roles, learning resources and courses Face-to-face training management and self-service booking Sophisticated reporting - personalised Management Reporting Dashboard and Custom Report Builder Enhanced theme branding to fully reflect your own brand Automated allocation of learning Powerful, yet simple A clean and easy to use interface, with a flexible theming framework to fully re-brand the system for your organisation. Individual learning plans for every employee, based on job roles and competencies, provides quick and targeted access to relevant learning. A way for employees to network, share ideas and tap into expert communities. Effective management of your learning process Schedule, manage and report on classroom training and workshops using either selfservice or manager approval for bookings. Add your own competency framework as the basis for curriculum planning, analysis of developmental needs and creation of learner paths. Create or import management hierarchies so that managers can actively manage the development of their team. Staying on top of what s going on A sophisticated assessment engine allows you to create assessments from question banks and track scores and completion rates. An easy to use and flexible report builder allows you build and schedule your own reports, and assign these to users such as team managers. Integrate with HR systems (e.g. SAP and Oracle) to keep your organisation s compliance data in one place. Reached the limits of your existing LMS? With Totara LMS there are no per-user license fees, meaning you can scale to enterprise level without breaking the bank. Having access to open source software code means you can build upon our best-of-breed LMS to create innovative solutions for your specific context. The partner network means you won t be held to ransom by your vendor come annual renewal time. A complete solution At the core of all Totara LMS service options lies great product support combined with a continuing stream of innovation. Totara LMS provides a range of subscription levels designed to deliver enterprise-grade product support including training, documentation, issue reporting, maintenance releases, patches and upgrades. justaskus@howtomoodle.com 0330 660 1111 05
Assessment and Compliance Your compliance training is not just about meeting legal and regulatory requirements, it is often critically important for personal safety. Totara LMS will help you manage your compliance programmes. Totara LMS has a range of assessment options including a sophisticated assessment engine where you can create assessments from banks of questions and track scores and completion rates. You can also load assessments developed with popular 3rd party authoring tools. Assessment setup Create multiple question banks for use within a topic, single course, course category or for site-wide use. Generate assessments using one or more question banks, with randomisation if you wish. Set course completion on assessment completion or score, or any other activity such as e-learning or classroom session. Import SCORM assessments created using external authoring tools. Records and evidence Report on individual questions, user scores and automated feedback. Track completion of individual activities such as e-learning, classroom sessions and assessments. Track completion of courses where completion criteria is met. Manually grade submitted activities and use free-text responses. Maintain records of active and completed learning for employees. In-depth reporting on which personnel have passed, completed or not completed assessments and compliance training. 06 Totara Overview www.howtomoodle.com
Learning Plans Your people are your greatest asset, as the saying goes. Totara Learning Plans allow your learners to develop the specific competencies needed to improve performance in their present position or to prepare for new responsibilities. The plan provides quick and targeted access to relevant learning whether face to face events or e-learning; and enables employees to see their progress at a glance. Learning plan templates Create multiple learning plan templates based on user groups. Dynamically pull competencies and courses into learning plans. Personalised Learning Users or managers can create learning plans for different areas of development, such as current and aspirational positions. Learners can personalise plans by setting due dates, priorities and objectives. Learners can use the development plan to manage the scheduling of their courses and other learning activities. Additional competencies and courses can be requested by the learner or added by their manager. Learning records Completed learning plans contribute to an employee s record of learning. Managers can monitor the ongoing progress of their team s development. justaskus@howtomoodle.com 0330 660 1111 07
Totara LMS Reporting To make the right decisions quickly, you need timely and targeted information at your fingertips. A key feature of Totara LMS is its powerful, flexible report builder that ensures you have a complete picture of usage, progress and achievement across your business. Totara LMS also includes a set of pre-configured dashboards which give each primary system role (Learner, Manager, Trainer, Assessor, and Administrator) an overview of key information. My Dashboard page Provides timely and key information related to role such as alerts, tasks, statistics, news and events. Pre-built dashboards for each system role. Allows personalisation by the user. Report Builder Build your own reports from scratch Export reports to a variety of formats such as CSV. Add in customised search filters to allow users to drill down into data. Report on numerous data sources such as e-learning and assessments. Assign pre-built or custom reports to any system role. Filter reports by organisation, position or user information. My Reports tab Pre-built reports for each system role. Allows personalisation by the user. Scheduled reports can be sent via email at specified times. 08 Totara Overview www.howtomoodle.com
Content Management Create content online or import courseware from external sources. Totara LMS has a wide range of content authoring and management capabilities allowing you to create a course with both content and activities. Totara LMS enables you to insert almost any kind of web content into your courses. There is also a huge range of learning activities - e.g. lessons, wikis, forums and assignments. As well as creating your own content, you can add SCORM authored in external tools. Unlike other LMS products, you don t have to ask your vendor to add new content, you can simply add as much courseware as you like, by yourself. Totara LMS gives you the best of both worlds, a solution that covers both authoring and learning management, and allows you to use your favourite external authoring tools. Content creation Create course areas - containers for multiple resources and activities. Create web pages within courses Add resources to courses (e.g. documents, slider, audio and video) Enable user generated content (e.g. wiki and forum discussions) Create quizzes and surveys Advanced features Use conditional access so that a specific activity cannot be started until a prior activity has been completed or passed, while allowing other activities to display with no restrictions at all. Use the permissions system to enable specific users with appropriate permissions to edit courses or add new content. You can assign these permissions on a per-course or site-wide basis. Use course groups to display different content and activities for different groups of learners, such as differing levels of ability or differing focus areas within a course. justaskus@howtomoodle.com 0330 660 1111 09
Social Learning Research shows that 70% of learning takes place in real-life, on-the-job experiences, so you need an LMS that supports informal and social learning activities. Totara LMS supports the popular 70:20:10 learning model which has a strong focus on informal and workplace learning. With Totara LMS employees can network, share ideas and tap into expert networks. The sophisticated search facility also allows learners to access specific learning objects just in time to support their performance in specific tasks. Many organisations make collaboration an active part of the overall learning process, using collaborative events as part of a planned, blended learning curriculum. Totara LMS supports social learning through a range of interactive activities including wikis, blogs, discussion forums, chats and other social networking and support tools. Social Networking Wikis allow employees to collaboratively build a body of knowledge around key topics Employees can publish to the wider organisation using blogs Forums allow employees to create and engage in online, asynchronous discussions Chat rooms allow for real-time, synchronous discussion. 10 Totara Overview www.howtomoodle.com
Blended Learning Manage your blended learning programs with a mix of online courseware and offline instructor led training. Totara LMS recognises the need that businesses have to manage fully blended learning programs with a mix of learning interventions. Totara LMS allows you to manage a range of face to face learning events from internal classroom sessions to external workshops. Using Totara LMS you can quickly and efficiently schedule face to face events and provide full employee self-service to browse events and book online directly. Totara LMS also has an optional built-in workflow so that a manager can review and approve bookings. Alternatively the manager can book the learner to an event directly. Self service or workflow based User friendly self-service for locating and booking courses. Session details can be sent via email and using calendar systems. Configurable workflow is available for manager approvals. Session Management Events can contain one or multiple sessions. All sessions feed through to the system s training calendar for improved visibility. Custom fields can be created for sessions (e.g. location and type of delivery). Large range of notifications and alerts can be set for a learning event. Administrators can track interest and enrolments to a learning event. Trainers and managers can monitor attendance for each session. justaskus@howtomoodle.com 0330 660 1111 11
Team Management Use competencies and objectives features in Totara LMS to plan development across the team and ensure that individual development plans fit with wider team and organisational objectives, to ensure everyone is headed in the same direction. Totara LMS allows your team managers to get the full potential out of their teams by ensuring that their staff have clear competencies and personal goals, that all team members have an active development plan and by providing tools to monitor progress against objectives. Team Members page One-click access to team members learning plans, user profiles, course bookings and progress records. High level data on numbers of courses and competencies started and achieved. My Team dashboard Configurable dashboard gives up-to-date information about team activity. Tasks section advises the manager on tasks team members must complete. Statistics reporting provides high-level team information. Managers can approve and deny learning event requests. Access team members Learning Plans Access their full learning plan, record of learning and course booking records. Create update, delete and approve learning plans. Allocate new courses, competencies and objectives to learning plans. Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organisational objectives. Andrew Carnegie 12 Totara Overview www.howtomoodle.com
Hierarchies and Frameworks Use Totara LMS to map learning onto job positions and organisational levels Hierarchies in Totara LMS allow you to set up various frameworks that best represent the structure of your organisation. This enables you to input the structures and relationships of job positions and different sections of your organisation. Learning can then be mapped to individual job roles, management levels, departments, teams and groups. Hierarchies are highly configurable to provide the structures which facilitate position and organisation specific learning plans, competency evaluation and management. Tying it all together Assign learners to organisations and positions. Assign competencies to organisations and positions. Assign courses to any competencies. Courses and competencies then automatically appear in learning plans. Competency development Define hierarchies for job positions, organisational structure and competencies. Hierarchy frameworks can use as many levels as you need. Multiple frameworks can be created for different parts of the organisation. Reporting capabilities Organisation hierarchies allow for reporting down the management tree. Detailed reports can be compiled for any level within the organisation. justaskus@howtomoodle.com 0330 660 1111 13
Branding Engage your learners with a distinct branded experience from HowToMoodle. Theme options Design it! theme: From initial concepts to building your bespoke, unique theme Brand it! theme: We use a reference website or developed examples of your brand guidelines to build a responsive theme that fully reflects your organisation s branding Style it! theme: An adaptable, responsive theme that enables you to adapt numerous elements to create an attractive, professional look and feel for your site. Cost effective and quick. Benefits Enhance the user experience from the login page onwards Attractive, responsive designs increase user engagement from desktop and mobile devices Stay connected with a look and feel that reinforces your corporate identity Ensure your Totara LMS site stands out from the crowd A great look and feel goes hand-in-hand with the success of your site. Why choose us Experience. We know Totara LMS as well as what great design looks like. Our work not only looks great, it takes account of how you intend to use the site too. Personal approach. Our client focused approach means that every client is given a personal service that considers your specific needs and requirements. Client range. Our experience working with a variety of organisations - academic, charities, public sector and commercial businesses means that we have a current understanding of trends in each sector. Worth considering Tiles layout - An attractive, modern graphical interface that s the perfect antidote to the standard links and text layout Multi-T - A theme option that enables you to present relevant front page content and navigation to different groups of users on your site. 14 Totara Overview www.howtomoodle.com
Branding Concepts PROFESSIONAL IMPACT LIGHT AND ENGAGING BOLD STATEMENT CLEAN CORPORATE justaskus@howtomoodle.com 0330 660 1111 15
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