Northern User Group Slides - WPL - 4th April 2017
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Webanywhere Northern User Group Slides from out 4 April 2017 events. Presentations about content in the workplace and a Totara roadmap.
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Northern User Group Slides - WPL - 4th April 2017
- 2. webanywhere.co.uk Welcome & Introduction Conor Gilligan, Global Head of Division
- 3. webanywhere.co.uk ● 12:30pm - 1:10pm - Lunch ● 1:10pm - 1:40pm - Welcome | Defining The Northern User Group Objectives ● 1:40pm - 2:25pm - Solving Workplace Problems With Engaging Content Presented by Stuart Dyson | Lead Learning Designer ● 2:25pm - 2:40pm - Break ● 2:40pm - 3:10pm - Totara Roadmap | Rob Faulkner ● 3:10pm - 3:45pm - Round Table Discussion: What are the next steps for elearning? ● 3.45pm - Closing remarks Agenda
- 4. webanywhere.co.uk Mobile Learning A guide Solving Workplace Problems With Engaging Content Stuart Dyson Lead Learning Designer
- 23. Totara Roadmap Rob Faulkner Presales Manager
- 24. Totara 9.0 Released October 2016
- 29. Totara 10.0+ Roadmap for the future
- 30. Totara Releases
- 31. Evergreen Continuous delivery of the latest features, release around once a month ● “Bleeding-edge” Totara - tested and production ready, but you’d be the first customers to use it. ● Best way to get the latest features if you really need them ● Going from 9.0 to Evergreen is possible, but moving back is more difficult - only practical to do so at major release points (i.e. when 10.0 is released) ● Minor cost from Webanywhere to keep your system regularly updates ● More significant potential cost if your system has heavy customisation
- 32. New features currently being developed These are either already complete, or due to finish for 10.0 in September...
- 33. Area Detail 1 Reporting A wide range of important and often requested columns and filters are being added to existing report sources (e.g. an 'Event date' column will be added to the Seminar Events report source). 2 Users The 'Browse list of users' admin page is being converted to an embedded report source, thereby adding key functionality and flexibility to this frequently used page. 3 Localisation Totara's translation tool is being updated to support separation of language strings between learner and admin facing interfaces, and export and import of language packs via CSV. 4 Featured links block A new feature that will allows admins to display for their users a very simple set of navigation options (to areas of the platform or external links etc) in the form of visually-rich cards (i.e. large blocks of colour or image based content) 5 Course completion editor A new admin tool for modifying course completion records, similar to the program completion editor 6 Audiences, Courses, and Programs An improvement to make learning available immediately to new users once they've self-registered. With this change, audience membership as well as audience-based enrolled learning (i.e. course enrollment and certification/program assignment) will occur before new users first log into the platform. 7 Appraisals Support for placeholders is being added to appraisal message templates 8 Site registration Approval workflow for self-registered site users. Includes features to provide more fine grained control over which positions/organisations can be selected by self registering users. 9 Progress bar improvements ● Program progress bars will track progress within a course set ● Course progress bars will track course completion criteria and activity completion more granularly (rather than only reporting not started, in progress and complete) 10 360 feedback Two frequently requested improvements are being made: ● Support for self evaluation ● Development of a 360 feedback report source 11 Moodle 3.1/3.2 integration Useful improvements from Moodle 3.1 and 3.2 will be cherry-picked into the platform.
- 34. Short-term horizon Areas planned for work to be done during July - October 2017: Area Approach Graphical reports in report builder Review usability of aggregation and graphing and start re-design to make it simple Replace existing graphing solution with a modern Javascript implementation Performance Management Provide a way to allow users who are not directly involved in the appraisal to access/view the appraisal. Standardise Suspended and Deleted users Make the behaviour of suspended and deleted users consistent across the system UI Kit A UI Kit would improve the efficiency of front end development for both the Totara Team and Partners developing customisations. Investing in this capability early will deliver efficiency in later development cycles and improves our ability to deliver better UX/accessibility. Delivering an improvement by using the UI kit prototype will prove the approach has value and we can then adopt this approach for future developments.
- 35. Medium-term horizon Areas planned for work to be done after November 2017: Course Catalogue Implement a new catalog along the lines of the prototype that has been shared previously. The catalog is one of the highest traffic areas of any site. Improving this area will have one of the largest impacts on the user experience of Totara LMS and provide an experience of browsing for content with modern media-rich elements. Course, program and certification pages Simplify the visual design of how learning through course, programs and certifications is presented, making progress though content and what to next clear. Add virtual classroom as a concept with similar capabilities to seminar activities Develop a framework for setting up an activity as a webinar and API's for partners to create specific integrations for multiple webinar providers
- 36. Product Advisory Board How ideas get into the product: ● Customers suggest things to Partners ● Partners combine this with their own views of the product and market ● These are then fed into the PAB 3 times a year ● This PAB then informs the medium and long-term horizon roadmap ● Ideas become more fully formed as they move through the ‘horizons’.
- 37. Follow the progress and get involved https://help.totaralearning.com/display/TPD/ https://community.totaralms.com
- 38. webanywhere.co.uk Mobile Learning A guide Round Table Discussion