An Introduction to Totara Social

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Social Learning with Totara SocialTotara Learning Solutions, 2015

Yuliya Bozhko | @YuliyaBozhko


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Contents

What is Totara Social

Facts about Totara Social

Benefits of social learning platform

Blended learning experience

Totara Social: a first look

Totara Social key features

Staying connected and up-to-date

Totara Social activity streams

Totara Social content types


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


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Facts about 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.


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Benefits of a social learning platform

Encourages peer-to-peer discussions and learning to support more formal learning, achieved via traditional training (70:20:10 model)

Provides a tool to allow institutional knowledge to be recorded, organised, found, and reflected on when needed


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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 a personal repository (blogs, pages, ideas, questions, files, etc.)

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


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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 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/unliked


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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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Ideas


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Questions


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Blogs


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Files


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Pages


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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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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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