Totara Learn offers you the ability to adapt the system in accordance with your business objectives and user circumstances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Most of the opportunities for making a much better resolution are being applied at this moment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Flexibility and individualized plans. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There’s extremely nothing to dislike concerning Totara platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Totara Learn is great for getting clients up and running with an advanced Learning Management System quickly. At BuildEmpire, we build custom solutions for our clients, and the fact that Totara Learn has some amazing features already means we can take the technology even further - in considerably less time than starting from scratch.

Examples of features we love are the seminar functionality (with attendance tracking and resource management), GDPR compliance, learning plans (allowing users or managers to build a customised syllabus of courses for each user or team) and the detailed reporting (completion reports and grades)… all of which are customisable. Totara Learn offers an enhanced platform for learning, not just standard courseware delivery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Because there are so many features of Totara Learn and so much extensibility, it can be difficult for new administrators to get to grips with the system. Most administration teams will need some form of training. Of course, the good news is that Totara spend a great deal of time training and supporting their partners like us (BuildEmpire), so clients have the advantage of being able to work with a partner to avoid this problem.

One area for development for Totara would be to extend their platform further than just an LMS. We meet with clients who regularly need an LMS as part of a CMS, or who need an LMS to have a shop front, or a product catalogue. Currently, we are happy to integrate these additional platforms to sit alongside Totara Learn for our clients, but it is food for thought for Totara. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The report builder is probably the best functionality of Totara. With another LMS, you could spend hours building different bespoke reports to give you and/or the managers above you the information they need. But with Totara Learn, you can schedule pre-built and custom reports to send automatically, saving you a huge amount of time and effort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are really a lot of benefits to Totara compared to other truly expensive LMS providers, so it's hard to pick out any disadvantages. If you buy Totara straight off-the-shelf, it needs a bit of magic to make it look pretty, but most Totara partners will brand it with you colours and logos as a basic level package and it makes the LMS look really attractive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the best things of Totara is the position and organization hierarchies, and how it is imported from the client’s CRM. It allows us to create and focus to very concrete audiences.

Other great features are the possibility to manage teams (the manager role), the possibility to create programs, certifications and recertification and all the Appraisals and Feedback 360º. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes, all the previous work to set up all the options that automates functions are little laborious.

Another thing that we miss is a mobile app. Even so, it's important to say that the responsive design of Totara learn allows you to use it in the mobile phone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I enjoyed the fact that Totara is flexible to suit the needs we required. It was easy to navigate and create the reports we needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The search function was a little cumbersome. An upgrade to be able to find items easier would be a great improvement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At Xtractor we really appreciate the flexibility of Totara Learn. We've implemented Totara for a rich variety of purposes, with user bases ranging from less than 100 users to high above 50 000. Both we and our clients also like the flexibility in terms of starting up quick and small, and then being able to smoothly move on into a larger scope at a later stage. This is supported both by a rich and highly configurable feature set, as well as as the wide range of API:s and plugins available.

On a more detailed level, some specific features we love would be *dynamic audiences* - making it possible to pin point the right learning, content and features to the right users, *fully responsive and accessible UX" - works great on any device, *dashboards and reports* - supports the right information to the right person in a flexible and user friendly way. As a Totara partner, we actually also do like the *freedom* that our clients experience, their easy exit possibilities (to move to another partner or do it themselves) really keeps us at our toes. And, did I mention *flexibility*..? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a new admin, the first look at Totara Learn's capabilities can be a bit frightening - it is a feature rich platform with lots of possibilities. The trick to solve this is to have a dialogue with an experienced person, such as one of our LMS-consultants, who can guide you through the overall possibilities and, more importantly, guide you into the areas that are most relevant for you. The standard look'n'feel of Totara 'out-of-the-box' could be a bit more inspiring, but that's something that can easily be fixed and adapted into your organisation's brand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are many features that Totara Learn LMS provide. The main features we like are as follows:

Positional framework: The position frameworks provide a basis for enhancing functionality such as Audiences and position bases reporting in the LMS

Competency frameworks: The competency framework allows for self- and manager assessment as well as competency gap analysis for role based competencies.

Appraisals: This is a feature that many companies require but there a lot of expensive tools that provide a solution but that is only available during office hours. With the feature being integrated in Totara Learn, it makes it easy for managers and learners to access the tool after hours.

Moodle based: As the system is based on Moodle, the customers can identify with the product. The feature also ensures that there is a big online user community and collaboration provides one with quick solutions. The online help files are also very good in providing basic guidance.

Easy implementation: The system is easy to implement and turnaround time is quick.

Customization: As it is open source, the system lends itself perfectly to be customised to suit the needs of the customer. Customers also change regularly and it makes it easy to comply with the changing needs.

Badges and Custom Certificates: This feature is a very popular feature that seems to promote learning and competition among learners.

Easy to use: The interface is intuitive a learners are able to easily navigate the various sections the LMS provides.

With continuous enhancements being made the product will evolve to one of the leading LMS providers if one looks at the Gartners FrontRunners Quadrant Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The reporting feature is limited in it's functionality. There is a requirement to create comprehensive government reporting which requires data from various sections of the LMS into one report. This functionality is limited. One is however able to use third Party reporting software to extract the data and build the required reports. I am however sure that this issue will be addressed in future.

We have also found that there is a need for a lower subscriptions in what we refer to as "Tier 2" and "Tier 3" customers. They want a LMS but does not have the budget for an expensive version. They do however also want to utilise some of the features not offered by a Moodle implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do we like best about Totara Learn here at Team Chambury?

It's Flexibility; we can 'bend' Totara to meet our customer needs. Its open source and our developers can manipulate the code to make it truly reflect local needs.

It's Highly Configurable; there are so many configuration options we can make the LMS work exactly as our customers want stying within core functionality.

It's identity; the LMS can be made to look exactly like the customers website, reflect local branding and truly enable their staff to not raise they are in another system, This makes user engagement so much higher and easier.

It's Integration capabilities; linking to other internal systems providing single authentication from any device anywhere. Linking to HR systems to update user data and management hierarchies as often as required. We can also send data to external systems.

It's Online course building tools; you don't need fancy expensive authoring tools, Totara's core activity builder allows you to create interactive attractive content easily without any authoring experience. Yes you can upload or link to SCORM objects, but its not necessary.

It's Cost Effective; our customers don't like huge invoices that they would get with proprietary systems. It fits with public sector budgets.

It works on any device. Anywhere.

It's support. Even though it's open source there is a fully dedicated development team and technical support meaning that if, and I say if we get any issues, they are fixed, tested and released very quick. We get bug, security and new feature patches every month and a major upgrade every year - in 2018 we are getting two .!

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We don't dislike much about Totara Learn. In fact I can't think of anything at all that we don't like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In my eyes, over the past 5 years of using Totara Learn, I have been pleasantly surprised by the growing functionality available to organizations. Both Totara and the Partners that implement Totara can add, developments, plugins, integrations to the platform at will. If there is an organizational requirement for a particular functionality, there is almost always a way to achieve this.

We love the power that we have to take control of our Information Security, being able to host the platform in any way we see fit. Whether that is an onsite self-hosted solution or a fully hosted solution by a partner who is fully secure and show a history of penetration testing. Organizations can feel confident that their information is safe and secure without the hardship of having to being tied down to an inflexible LMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No LMS is perfect, so we are very much looking forward to improvements around the reporting within the Performance Management functionality to improve. With some development work and time, co-funded by a group of clients, I am sure we can make this powerful functionality even more robust. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.