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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 with your account manager would be beneficial to understand the set-up you require.

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 it would be handy to chat with your account manager to understand if multitenancy will meet your requirements.

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.

Moodle is not being phased out from the Hubken offering. We have received feedback from clients wanting to understand more about the Totara products and so we felt running the webinar and setting up the Switch Hub was a great way for Hubken clients to explore their options should they feel they need something different. If Moodle is working well for you, that’s great!

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.

Switching is very easy – once you have made the decision to switch, your AM will collect some information from you for our Implementation and Infrastructure teams to review.

Once their assessment is complete, we will be able to provide you with a confirmation that we can switch the site and make you aware of any other considerations.

Downtime for the switch will be needed – this is envisaged to be no more than 2-3 days.

Yes – any amounts that have been paid for the current term of Moodle provision that has not yet been used can be offset against your new invoice for your new term on Totara.