#1 most frequent
United States of America
27.5%92 installations of 335
What is Totara LMS?
Totara Learning, headquartered in Wellington offers the Totara workforce learning management system with core LMS (Totara Learn) integratable social platform (Totara Social), support for instructor led learning, and cloud storage for learning materials, available on cloud.
Categories & Use Cases
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Top Performing Features
Course authoring
Users can develop and assemble online learning content.
Category average: 8.6
Course catalog or library
Learning content is organized into a course catalog or browsable library.
Category average: 8.5
Learning content
The vendor offers high quality pre-made courses or assets. These may be specific to certain industries or technologies.
Category average: 7.5
Areas for Improvement
Assignments
Users can assign courses/curricula to individuals or groups, with due dates.
Category average: 8
Mobile friendly
Students or employees can access content from mobile devices. Course authors can develop responsive learning content.
Category average: 7.5
Social learning
Includes features for collaboration and knowledge sharing among peers.
Category average: 6.3
Who Buys & Uses Totara LMS
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
24.2%81 installations of 335
#3 most frequent
Australia
9.3%31 installations of 335
Totara LMS is the Total Employee Development Platform and the Only One You'll Ever Need!
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We currently use Totara LMS for employee development and compliance management, which is key for us in the real estate industry with many federal, state and local laws that must be followed. For learning development, we currently use the e-learning side, which allows us to easily roll out this program to our many site users that are not housed at the corporate office - particularly out of state.
Pros
- The reporting feature is excellent, particularly with the automated reports that help us to stay on top of compliance.
- Totara LMS offers a wide range of learning topics from which to choose, including certifications.
- Totara LMS is very customizable, which allows us to brand and select the courses, plans and reports that are helpful to us.
Cons
- The expansive capabilities of Totara LMS out of the box can be intimidating to those first starting out with an LMS.
- Cost of deployment is high and the ramp up is time consuming.
- Help documentation is limited, but we hear it will be improved in the future.
Return on Investment
- Totara LMS has helped increase our employee retention by 15%.
- Totara LMS has drastically improved our employee learning and development processes that weren't in place prior to having this system.
- Totara LMS has decreased the time the onboarding process takes by 1 day.
Other Software Used
Yardi Voyager, AvidXchange, Canva
Easy to use, lots of functionality which is constantly being added to
Pros
- Easy user interface with good ability to brand to your own environment.
- Relatively easy to administrate yourself.
Cons
- Reporting can be a little inflexible - sometimes, the report cannot be customized to have all the columns you need as they are not available from that area of the LMS.
- Graphic reporting needs some more work to be a bit more professional looking.
Return on Investment
- Compliance risk has noticeably decreased as we are now sitting at about 96% compliance.
- Overall training spend markedly decreased as we can give people access to online alternatives
Other Software Used
Articulate 360, Adobe Captivate
Totara is great!
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use it as our Learning management software. It allows putting in place various training materials, interactions, clips, and forms. The organization development manager can easily follow up on performance, scores, distribution, etc. Reports are not bad. Connectivity to the Active directory with SSO allows easy access. This is meeting eLearning and compliance requirements.
Pros
- Distribute elearning
- run exams
Cons
- UX
- Reporting
Return on Investment
- saved frontal training
- more employees passed training and faster
Other Software Used
SAP SuccessFactors, Greenhouse
