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?

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.	Professional Hosting At TDM we have dedicated servers that are tuned by technical experts to fully support the software platforms that sit on them. Our clients get a hosting service that is customised to their needs and supported by people who are on hand should advice be needed.
Software Administrator Service Additional to our managed hosting services, TDM can act as your own company's software administrator. There is no vendor-lock in, if you wish to withdraw from our service, because we deal in Open Source software, you can simply switch your site to another software maintainer without losing a thing.	Implementation Management At TDM we understand how important it is for your software to integrate with your organisational needs, therefore we help you to project manage the installation and development of your new software solution from concept to realisation. You will receive a visiting expert learning technologist and be backed by a full team of instructional designers, web developers, learning technologists and graphic artists.
Technical Support Team Using a web-based ‘ticketing system’ we ensure issue reporting is simple and well coordinated, and can be accessed by TDM support staff and clients, to monitor and track all reported issues through to successful completion.	Flexibility and Value We offer flexible options for managed services, providing our customers with best value and competitive prices. To discuss your requirements, please contact our managed services team, T: 0333 10 100 89
Customisation In addition we are experts in the development and customisation of Totara LMS which helps our customers meet their learning and business objectives. Please see Development Services or contact our team to discuss your requirements, T: 0333 10 100 89.