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Yes, Totara has a question bank like Moodle. Depending on your version of Moodle you could import this list over to Totara.

Totara and Moodle’s self-registration fields are very similar. The sign-up forms can be adapted to meet your requirements. Totara provides an option for an organisation to be selected.

Within Totara there are two ways in which users can create accounts; these are:

1. Self-registration with approval
   Users from the login page will create an account and then the site admin will be notified and will need to approve the user.
2. Email-based self-registration
   Users from the login page will create an account and then receive an email to confirm their account.

Hubken recommends self-registration with approval as the preferred authentication method for these two options. There are also other alternative authentication methods available with Totara. If you have a specific use case for self-registration, a call would be beneficial.

Yes, Totara has a multitenancy feature. This allows multiple tenants to be active on the site. When they log in they will see different branding (logos, colours, branding, images etc).

Information on multitenancy:

A single, shared instance of software that serves multiple tenants, where a tenant is a group of users who share a common access with specific privileges to the software instance.

A tenant has its own users, learning content such as courses, programs and certifications, performance activities such as appraisals and check-ins, workspaces and its own dashboard and set audience. You decide whether tenants see only their own tenant-based content or a combination of their tenant content and site-level content.

You can also assign responsibility for managing users, learning content and performance activities within a tenant to specific users in that tenant.

Multitenancy can be used for many different scenarios – if you have a specific use case in mind, a call would be beneficial.

Yes. SCORM 1.2 (same as Moodle)

Totara has a centralised notification system. You can manage notifications for Courses, seminars, programmes and certifications. You can add links and change notification content. Html is available within the templates for notifications.

The assignment activity will allow for formal assessments and for your users to upload essays and assignments.

Totara has the same activities as Moodle:

• Assignment
• Certificate
• Choice
• Feedback
• Forum
• Glossary
• H5P
• Chat
• Quiz
• SCORM
• Seminar (only in Totara – online booking tool to manage live, online or face to face events)
• Wiki
• Database
• External tool
• Lesson

The nice thing about the automation and personalisation tools across Totara is that you can start small and simply and scale up as required. 

This means you can pilot a few small audiences to find out what works best for your users, learners and you.  The interface is pretty straightforward and includes contextual help throughout. 

Should you get stuck at any point you can tap into the Totara Help documentation and Totara Academy which provides free-to-access help documentation, learning content, usage examples and best practice ideas across all automation tools.

The reporting functionality across Totara allows you to schedule reports to be run and sent in a variety of formats to people within or external to your site.  This means you can schedule and automate the generation and distribution of a report around certifications and completions to be sent to an outside auditing body.

You can use the Self Approval with Approval authentication option to have new staff members create an account and enter their position and/or organisation information during registration. 

An appropriate user profile field can also be added that users complete when logging on. A dynamic audience rule can then be added to pick this up.

Here at Hubken, we allow the installation of plugins that our clients own and maintain their own plugins, but we do encourage them to ensure they stay up to date with the latest version.

However, we do find it a rare need as Totara’s extensive functionality means it’s simply not necessary. We encourage our clients to use Totara’s core functionality to avoid getting left behind on old versions. Ultimately if you need loads of plugins for the platform to function for you it’s probably not the correct product for you.

For sure. If their Current Learning block on their dashboard doesn’t offer them the information they need, they can navigate to their Learning Plan or Record of Learning to see their progress against all courses, programs and certifications they are enrolled in or have been asked to complete.

Administrators can create course, program and certification completion reports as required and even schedule these to be periodically sent directly to them via email.

There are various methods to show course progress. Admins also have access to a variety of customisable reports via the report builder to view this information.

Hubken also has an exclusive course format tool, that enables learners to see progress for the overall course and sections. The format provides learners with an engaging view that clearly indicates progress at every stage.

There isn’t much of a difference in terms of plugin installation – however, Totara includes all core supported functionality directly in the application so we can ensure its ongoing maintenance, development and security.

Totara v17 has introduced a new, highly flexible API using GraphQL which makes integrating and exchanging data with 3^rd party systems even easier.

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