Totara Learning Solutions update

Andy Kirk, Totara Learning Solutions

Learning Pool Totara Seminar Nov 19 2014

2.6 recap

2.7 – Reporting improvements

- Customisable menu

- Appraisal improvements

Longer term?

Editable interface (now improved with fully customizable

menu)

Upload icon sets to courses & programs

Enhanced catalogue with faceted search

Update: We will now support IE8 in V2.6 and 2.7

2.6 released in May 2014 with a range of

enhancements including:

Editable interface (a precursor to a fully customisable

interface in 2.7)

Exhausted your use of existing icons? -Upload icon

sets to courses & programs

Enhanced catalogue with faceted search

- More enterprise-friendly, configurable search across

categories, custom fields for more targeted searching

What’s coming – 2.7

Appraisal improvements

Reporting improvements

- Graphical & Badge reports

Fully customisable menu

Key theme – polish and ‘deeper’ improvements

to existing feature set

Details of new features at

http://community.totaralms.com/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=9563

A patch for v2.6 will also be provided

-A range of improvements including warning trigger if

appraisal is missing key information or membership

-New appraisal auto created when users added to

groups

aggregate reporting of closed appraisals, a report to

display closed appraisals (and/or exclude them from the

other report)

-If a user’s manager changes after activation, it will be

reassigned

- Appraisal improvements

Dynamic is the key word – it also addresses the

Issue of when users join (or leave) a group*

They will be assigned to any related appraisal if they

join, or it will be ‘Closed’ if they leave

* A group can be mean a user’s organisation, their

position or belinging to an audience

2.7 – Reporting improvements

Open Badges reporting

A new report builder source, ‘New Badges Issued’ - per

user per badge.

Filter by badge status

Allows admin to customise the contents of Totara menu

via interface

Reorder items

Show/hide items from main screen

Create custom menu items

Open links in a new window

Customisable menu

The bigger picture and Beyond

Future enhancements

Extended product line – Totara Social

High Priority feature enhancements