What is Totara?

Totara is a distribution of Moodle, the world’s most popular learning platform, designed specifically to meet the requirements of workplace learning.

Totara is 100% open source software; robust and scalable with all the features you’d expect in a corporate learning management system.

Key Benefits

A flexible engaging learning portal

Totara provides an engaging portal from which learners can access instructor led training, self-paced e-learning and virtual classroom sessions. With Totara you can load content that you create such as e-learning, SCORM packages, PDFs, videos and question banks quickly and easily.

Manages compliance and assessment

Totara provides sophisticated assessment and reporting to ensure and track compliance in your organisation.

Supports social learning

Totara provides a range of tools such as chat, wikis and forums to support informal and social learning, allowing your employees to collaboratively build a body of knowledge that future generations of workers will benefit from.

Cost Effective - No per-user license fees

Totara is a custom distribution of the open source Moodle LMS, the world’s most popular learning platform, bringing the benefits of open source to corporate learning. This means no per-user licence fees and complete and complete access to source code allowing you to tailor the LMS to your exact requirements.

Functionality

In addition to all the great functionality in Moodle, Totara offers the following:

• Competency structures and learning paths – add in your competency structure, link to roles and learning objects to create learner paths.

• Team management – managers can review progress of their staff and allocate additional learning .

Why choose Totara with TDM Open Source Services?
 Our software development team will help you to identify first of all, what type of software development will best suit your needs. Our expertise in the Open Source Software arena and our involvement in a group of highly successful Open Source projects (Moodle, Mahara, Totara, to name a few) means we can analyse your needs and develop additional software only when it is actually needed.

Platinum Partner Status TDM were chosen as the UK's first Totara Platinum Parter and is authorised to provide the full range of services including: consultancy, training, custom implementation (including branding/theming, intergration with corporate/HR systems), hosting and support.

Work-Based Learning We fully embrace Totara LMS, not only through our partnership, but by implementing Totara for our sister company Wyre Academy. Totara LMS is used on a daily basis to deliver blended learning programmes for Apprenticeships and for our own staff. We also have extensive experience with Totara's parent platform, Moodle.

Codeline Contributor Status Our open source software developers have improved upon Totara’s Learning Plan tool by developing an Evidence Tab functionality. This functionality has made it into the core Totara distribution, meaning that all users of Totara can benefit from this example of open source, collaborative innovation. As a core feature of Totara it will be fully supported, reducing maintenance issues associated with customisations and plug-ins.

Flexibility and Value We offer flexible options for development services, providing our customers with best value and competitive prices. To discuss your requirements, please contact our development team: 0333 10 100 89.