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Totara LMS

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Development status
  
Active

Operating system
  
Cross-platform

Written in
  
PHP

Developer(s)
  
Totara Learning Solutions Ltd

Stable release
  
2.7.3 / May 19, 2015; 21 months ago (2015-05-19)

Type
  
Learning Management System

Totara LMS is an open source distribution of Moodle developed for the corporate and government market. Totara is translated into 24 languages and has over 5 million subscribers. The current version of Totara LMS is 2.9 and is based on Moodle 2.9. Totara releases a full but unsupported version of the product publicly via Github prior to each major release

Contents

Main features

  • Cloud Technology and Mobile features
  • Supports SCORM 1.2, AICC, OLSA, xAPI
  • Immediate loading of any file: Word, Excel, PDF, video, audio
  • 24 supported languages
  • Individual development plans
  • Classroom management
  • Team management
  • Competency management
  • Learning paths
  • Program management
  • Sophisticated reporting
  • Enhanced search
  • Interfaces with HR and ERP applications and authentication systems such as LDAP and Active Directory
  • Open Badges
  • Performance Management
  • Certifications

    • Standards

    Totara LMS is programmed in PHP and JavaScript and can use a variety of databases including MySQL and PostgreSQL. Totara is SCORM compliant.

    Awards

  • 2015 New Zealand Hi Tech Awards - Cisco Hi-Tech Emerging Company of the Year Highly Commended
  • 2012 Best of Elearning! Award of Excellence - Best Open Source Solutions
  • 2012 Winner; Open Source Use in Business - NZ Open Source Awards
  • 2011 Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Awards - Best Advance in Learning Management Technology

    • History

    The team that have developed TotaraLMS have also worked on other open source learning software including the ePortfolio system Mahara, Moodle Networks (M-Net), and contributing to the core code of Moodle. The first release of TotaraLMS was 1 March 2011.

    References

    Totara LMS Wikipedia
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