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Social Learning with Totara Social
Totara 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
Blended
learning
via work-
based
activities
Classroom
Activities
Online modules
Assessment
Mentoring
Coaching
Global networks
Peer 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 - 2.0
released on October 6th 2015
▪ Monthly minor releases with improvements and bug fixes
▪ Annual major releases with new features

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Open for Business
Webanywhere
Email workplace@webanywhere.co.uk
Web www.webanywhere.co.uk
Twitter @workplacelearn
Telephone +44 (0) 113 3200 750
Webanywhere
6th Floor City Exchange
11 Albion Street
Leeds
LS1 5ES
UK
Totara
Email enquiry@totaralms.com
Web www.totaralearning.com
Twitter @totaralearning
Telephone +44 (0) 1273 862556
Totara Learning
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UK

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