Totara Learn

Avantages

Totara is one of the most complete learning applications for the business world, noting the great detail that it is free, extremely complete where you can manage face-to-face and non-face-to-face training, evaluate the performance of workers, create reports on the progress of each employee to evaluate their evolution, strengths and devilities and all with a very comfortable interface and all this for a fraction of the cost of a private application, as it is focused on the corporate area its functionalities are focused on the development of complete professionals, to teach them the rules of business and strengthen your company, use it!!!!

Inconvénients

Being free may not have the service and attention problems of a proprietary software, this is why you need the support of software specialists for problems that may arise, or solve any inconvenience of the stability of the program.

Avantages

The flexibility that an admin has in configuring this software.

Inconvénients

Inconsistency in different reports. e.g. SCORM reports are filtered differently where as other USer reports are filtered differently.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir Totara Learn 

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Avantages

It is hosted off-site so we don't need to rely on our small Systems team. This is really the true value to me as an LMS administrator as previously it was impossible to upgrade our Moodle versions. Navigating to the courses is very simple. The look and feel is decent. So far it's been pretty stable.

Inconvénients

I would like to see more features that are not already available in the free Moodle LMS system. I would like to see the Reporting features better implemented. I would also like to see support for plug-ins that are currently supported in free Moodle, particularly H5P.

Avantages

The product is easy to implement - it is fairly intuitive for the learner and easy to brand and upkeep as an administrator.

Inconvénients

The moodle base means you have to be careful about retakes - it only records the first one - so if you need certifications updating then plan ahead

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir Totara Learn 

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Avantages

Payment gateway for access to courses is a major challenge. The use of HR import and a Wordpress shop make for a clumsy integration.

Inconvénients

Better certificate issue and management for different instructor groups

Avantages

Totara is open source, so it is highly customizable based on your organization's use case. We are using it for leadership development content, and we have been able to implement custom themes to make the platform our own, and even co-brand content for our clients.

Inconvénients

Its complexity and extensive functionality available can be a bit overwhelming, causing our users to mistakenly use a particular feature because it is very similar to one we built for custom use cases. It has required a ton of development to implement our processes.

Avantages

- Possibility to adapt the learning platform based on the needs of the end-user (fully customizable)
- Audience management for adaptive learning: programs & certifications, activity/course completion tracking, ...
- Design and navigation: responsive themes, dashboards, ... (branding)

Inconvénients

Recommend courses/programs to colleagues (features is not available)
Add more standard features to the course page so that we (as an instructional designer) can create courses that are qualitative for end users. For example, the possibility for end-users to upload video's/podcast/pdfs.

Avantages

I liked the ability to customize and make the system work for our needs. We were able to work with our vendor to add some functionality to fit our business.

Inconvénients

From an admin role it helps to be a little techie/geeky. But the support from our vendor really helped get through that.

Avantages

This LMS has all the characteristics of the well-known moodle plus a set of extra functions for business training, among them the personalization of reports and the planning of individual and group objectives.

Inconvénients

What did you like least about the software?
Some plans can be expensive, but it depends on the provider. By having a subscription you can be calm before the failures or errors that arise, because the support team of the company will help you at any time to solve it.

Avantages

I have tried this platform and I think it is very complete, since it allows you to educate other people individually and train both employees and clients, very good

Inconvénients

Despite being very good, its interface is not competitive with other platforms, they have to develop a better interface because this platform has potential

Avantages

Totara is flexible, customisable and allows us to provide staff training the way we want to.

Inconvénients

Past decisions (especially around the design of appraisals and certifications) have meant that the product isn't able to meet our needs as fully as we might like.

Avantages

It can do everything you expect an LMS can do and is customisable.

Inconvénients

It would be great if it had an observation activity for practical tasks that the 'observer' could completed on behalf of the learner.

Avantages

Open Source
Great standard features
Many possibilities of how it can be used

Inconvénients

Poor Documenation (on the technical side)
Missing important settings in detail (advanced use of features)
Design not very user friendly (blocks overload)

Avantages

We find Totara Learn to be incredibly versatile and we're always finding new ways to use its features.

Inconvénients

You can configure just about everything in Totara, which we found a little overwhelming at first. But once you've set things up and gained a bit of experience, it's fairly straightforward to use.

Avantages

Freedom to learn - still open source and it can grow with company needs. Support for blended learning and the possibility to create courses directly in LMS.

Inconvénients

There is no central notification center. But it is currently under development.

Avantages

The software is highly configurable and allowed us to turn a Learning Mangement System into a Learning Experience Platform.

Inconvénients

Advanced reporting / analytics would be desirable.

Avantages

Incorportate Coporative elements

Inconvénients

The improvements or features grow slowly.

Avantages

Fairly simple server setup

Inconvénients

Almost never does what our clients' needs 100% out of the box. Every implementation we do for a client requires custom made plugins to fill the gaps

Avantages

It does everything we need and more. Complicated to set up but once everything set up it's good to use.
It is great for reports, saves a lot of time.

Inconvénients

It is very complicated to fully set up, luckily we had Chambury to guide and help us

Avantages

Ideal ist der auf Unternehmensbedürfnisse ausgerichtete Funktionsumfang bis hin zum Reporting. Dazu kommt, dass Totara als Open Source Software fast beliebig anpassbar ist.

Inconvénients

Totara benötigt am Anfang auf jeden Fall eine durchdachte Konzeption.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Totara Learn

Avantages

We recommended this software for one of our client to help them with their challenge. Totara offered us the required flexibility to setup and configure the system as required for the project.
The easy way to create and maintain the content, the wide variety of learning activities, the forums etc. made Totata the perfect solution.

Inconvénients

The possibilities offered within the system are vast and thus require some time to understand.

Avantages

Lots of learning tools and options to cater for all kinds of learning approaches, blends and strategies
Flexible product with many options for configurating things via settings
Responsive support and development team

Inconvénients

Some of the older features and architecture are based on Moodle which is less geared for enterprise learning. I know this may change in the upcoming future though

Avantages

Totara is very flexible and easy to use. It provides many features that other LMSs don't have. The report building feature is top notch. You don' t have to be a database expert to create reports. It also allows you to brand the LMS easily. Learning Plans are built into the LMS, so creating things like Individual Development Plans were a breeze.

Inconvénients

Some of the administrative features could use some work. Sometimes when you perform a search (within an administrative task), a list is provided that you have to scroll through. If you have thousands of courses, for example, it makes finding the right course cumbersome. Having search boxes for all administrative tasks would be very helpful.

Avantages

Customizable software, easy navigation for administrator, friendly interface for the learners

Inconvénients

Some notifications are hard coded , which prevent us from customizing them.

Avantages

Out of the box feature set and inherent flexibility of an open source platform.

Inconvénients

The UI is very basic and outdated