Totara Social Presentation - How social will evolve your workplace

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Social Learning with Totara SocialTotara Learning Solutions, 2015

Andy Kirk| @andytotaralms


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Contents

▪What is Totara Social

▪Benefits of social learning platform

▪Totara Social: a first look

▪Totara Social: key features

▪Totara Social: activity streams

▪Totara Social: content types

▪Totara Social: Groups, Tagging and Friends

▪Administration & Totara Connect

▪Where we are at


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What is Totara Social


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What is Totara Social

Totara Social is an Enterprise Social Learning Platform developed with the aim of facilitating social learning within an organisation.


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Totara Social

▪Can be deployed as a stand-alone application or combined with a traditional learning management system such as Totara LMS.

▪Like “sister application”, Totara LMS, it is open source.

▪Available through product subscription


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Benefits of a Social learning Platform


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Benefits of a social learning platform

▪Encourages peer-to-peer discussions and collaborative learning and content creation

▪Provides a tool to allow institutional knowledge to be recorded, organised, found, and reflected on when needed – more nimble and agile

▪Supports more formal learning, achieved via traditional training

▪Encourages scaffolding of formal and informal learning in a structured way – and not just a forum tacked on the end of an online course


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Blended learning experience

INFORMALFORMAL

Blendedlearning via work-basedactivities

ClassroomActivitiesOnline modulesAssessment

MentoringCoaching

Global networksPeer interactions

Best practice forums


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Totara Social: A first look


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Totara Social: A first look


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Totara Social key features

▪Functionality for building up and curating a personal repository (blogs, pages, ideas, questions, files, etc.) - curating

▪Social networking features (connections, activity streams, status updates, real-time chat, sharing, groups, forums, feedback, recommendations, etc.) - connections


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Totara Social: a first look


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Staying connected and up-to-date

Totara Social has multiple ways for people to interact and stay up-to-date with the events in the company:

▪Activity stream

▪One-on-one and group chat

▪Discussion forums

▪ Internal messaging

▪Email

▪Email digest


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Totara Social: activity streams


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Activity streams

▪Types of activity streams (Home, Individual, and Group)

▪Activity stream (AS) provides one of the ways for everyone to stay up-to-date with what is happening in community

▪People can comment on and subscribe to items related to activities in AS

▪Similarly to popular online social networking platforms activities can be liked/shared


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Like, watch …


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Comment, share …


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Totara Social: content types


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Content types

▪Pages

▪Files

▪Questions

▪ Ideas

▪Blogs

▪To-do lists


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Pages


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Files


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Questions


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Ideas


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Blogs


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Recommendations


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Contributions


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Status updates


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Totara Social: groups, tagging & search


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Groups


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Tagging and search

▪All resources can be tagged, to retrieve and search for related content.

▪Can be integrated with Elasticsearch for powerful search functionality.


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Administration


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Pluggable and scalable architecture


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LMS integration via Totara Connect

▪Centralised account management

▪Single sign-on and single sign-off

▪Sync of users into audience and course related groups

▪Next step: send user related data from LMS to Totara Social (enrolled courses, completion info, audiences, etc.)


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Where we are at


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Where we are at

▪ Latest version of Totara Social - 2.0released on October 6th 2015

▪ Monthly minor releases with improvements and bug fixes

▪ Annual major releases with new features


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Open for BusinessWebanywhereEmail [email protected] www.webanywhere.co.ukTwitter @workplacelearnTelephone +44 (0) 113 3200 750

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