Totara is a distribution of Moodle, the world’s most popular learning platform, designed specifically to meet the requirements of workplace learning and development. Totara is 100% open source software, stable, proven and scalable with all the features you’d expect in a corporate learning management system. Transform your organisation’s learning efficiency with Totara. Totara is open source, there are no software license fees, making it a cost-effective solution. It is available for an annual subscription fee which covers patches, updates and new versions plus related costs for our expert services which may include Consultancy, Premium Hosting, Training and Support.
In addition to all the great functionality in Moodle, Totara offers the following key features:
- Manage Programs – manage learning sets that define dependencies and control the order of competencies and courses to be completed by learners. Programs can be applied to an organisational level, position, cohort or individuals and can also be set to recur on a set cycle – this is ideal for annual compliance training;
- Create Learning Plans – Create targeted learning pathways to support onboarding, compliance, organisational change and certification. Develop tailored learning plans to address individual skill gaps based on organisation goals, job roles and competencies. Plans can be created by learners and/or their managers;
- Promote Informal and Social Learning – Totara supports the popular 70:20:10 learning model which has a strong focus on informal and workplace learning. With Totara, your staff can network, share ideas and tap into expert networks;
- Performance Support – Provide access to e-learning, audio, video, slides and more. The sophisticated search function also allows learners to access these learning objects just in time to support their performance in specific tasks;
- Create Blends – Successful learning involves a wide range of methods. As well as rich e-learning delivery, manage all your face to face events through Totara. Provide self-service and course booking;
- Match Your Business Structure – With Totara you can create an organisational framework that matches the complexity of your business. Learners at different roles will automatically receive the plan that relates to them. Everyone is kept up to date;
- Manage Your Teams – Managers can plan development across their team and to ensure that individual development plans fit with the wider team and organisational objectives;
- Track Compliance – Use a powerful assessment engine so that you can create assessments from question banks, track performance and completion rates;
- Report and Evaluate – You can configure dashboards, create custom reports and deploy surveys to ensure you have a complete picture of usage, assessment results and learner feedback;
- Make it Easy for Users – A simple dashboard summarises all of the information your learners and managers need to know, making their experience intuitive.
Bronze
- 500 users
- 5 GB data
- 50 GB bandwidth/month
Silver
- 1000 users
- 10 GB data
- 100 GB bandwidth/month
Gold
- 2000 users
- 20 GB data
- 200 GB bandwidth/month
Platinum
- 5000 users
- 50 GB data
- 500 GB bandwidth/month
Our 12 Month Premium Hosting plans include:
- Migration of content from another host;
- Web domain registration;
- SSL certificate for secure logins;
- Custom branding;
- Totara software installation and updates;
- 99.9% server uptime benchmark;
- Service level agreement;
- Software maintenance agreement;
- Account manager;
- Community portal access;
- Help documentation and tutorials;
- Monthly webinars;
- Test and staging environment;
- Input toward development roadmap;
- Priority bug fixes;
- Intel Quad Core Xeon servers, with RAID-10 configuration and 1 Gigabit per second uplink port speed;
- Automated data backups stored securely on dedicated Continuous Data Protection servers;
- Software configuration;
- System optimisation;
- Security hardening.
We believe there are some key points of difference between us and our competitors. Here’s 7 good reasons why your organisation should partner with us:
- Experts: We are experts in our field, with over 15 years experience in the education and technology sectors. Our knowledge of education and technology enables us to connect our clients with the best educational practice and latest technologies. All our staff are degree qualified with the core holding Masters and Doctorates in their respective fields.
- Reputation: We are an official Totara Partner and are an active members of the Totara Community.
- Client Focus: We are dedicated to empowering our clients and partners with the tools to make their investment a success. We offer them access to our extensive knowledge base including how-to video tutorials, informative articles, FAQs, newsletters and webinars.
- Quality: We aim to provide effective e-learning solutions and to do this exceptionally well. We provide a Service Level Agreement to our clients as our commitment to service quality. We also conduct periodic client follow up and feedback surveys to maintain and improve our quality of service.
- End to End Solution: We can provide expert consultancy to plan, design and implement your project, hosting for the learning management system software and data, and training and support for key stakeholders to ensure a successful deployment.
- Australian: We work in and understand the Australian education and business sectors. Unlike many e-learning companies who may be prepared to compromise the quality of their offerings, we do not outsource projects to third parties in developing countries as a means to reduce operating costs and obtain higher profit margins.
- Corporate Responsibility: We are committed to being a socially and environmentally responsible corporate citizen. We are proud supporters of the One Laptop Per Child Project and are a 100% Carbon Neutral business.
