Totara Learn is a flexible learning management system designed to meet diverse educational needs. Its adaptability supports personalized learning environments and facilitates efficient training across sectors.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Totara Learn | 1.0% |
| Moodle | 3.0% |
| Cornerstone Learn | 2.5% |
| Other | 93.5% |
Totara Learn provides a comprehensive platform that enables organizations to deliver effective learning experiences while adapting to changing requirements. Known for its customizable nature, it allows modifications to better align with specific institutional processes. It supports integrations that enhance the learning ecosystem, making it efficient for businesses looking to improve employee training and development.
What are the key features of Totara Learn?Industries like healthcare, retail, and finance implement Totara Learn to address specific training challenges. Its flexibility aids in meeting compliance standards, onboarding processes, and continuous professional development unique to each sector, ensuring tailored learning experiences that support strategic goals.
| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
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| Developer, Tech Lead at iT corner | 4.0 | As a developer, I customize Totara Learn, a paid multi-tenancy LMS useful for institutions. It efficiently manages user courses but needs UI improvements for better usability and AI integration. I have previously used Moodle as an alternative. |
| Customer Success Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees | 3.5 | I found the main challenge with Totara Learn to be understanding its capabilities for managing training in a distributed organization. The need for different tenants arose to organize training offerings centrally, which was not fully grasped initially. |
I am a developer. If anyone wants to customize their Totara, I do that. I am a software engineer. I know how to customize Totara.
Some clients want to use Totara. They buy a subscription from Totara and hire developers to customize it according to their requirements. I fulfill those requirements as a developer. I am not a Totara partner. Totara is a paid LMS. Anyone who wants a multi-tenancy learning system can use Totara. It can manage colleges, universities, and more.
Totara's compliance is very good. They are maintaining GDPR and other regulations. Compliance is okay; there is no problem with compliance. They are maintaining compliance.
It's already an LMS. I can install it as a web application. It's a plug-and-play LMS. You can buy a subscription, create users and learners, feature courses, and enroll students who will then be able to access their courses.
The multi-tenancy features of Totara Learn are the most useful for training efficiency.
Multi-tenancy is helpful because it allows for separate instances for different organizations or departments within a larger institution. For example, a university with multiple colleges can use Totara Learn to create separate instances for each college, with each college having its own courses and resources. These courses are not shared with other universities but are given to the super admin who controls Totara.
All colleges have their separate identity, and resources can be shared with other colleges if desired. This functionality is very helpful in Totara to distribute and separate resources effectively.
The look and feel is not good. Totara Learn needs to improve its look and feel and make it easier to use and more user-friendly.
The interface is okay, but sometimes it's messy. Totara needs to improve the UI part as well and make it easier to use for the admin side.
AI capabilities are in beta phase. I think they have implemented some AI features in the model, but right now, I'm not aware of what AI features have been implemented. So, Totara also needs to implement some AI things in the model, like suggesting courses according to users' needs or interests.
I have been using it for six to seven years now.
It is a software, so we might face issues in almost all areas. We might need to choose a lot of things according to the loading problems, sometimes image loading problems. These types of things need to be improved.
So, I would rate the stability a seven out of ten.
Totara supports all types of businesses, so we also cover all business models, including small, medium, or enterprise businesses.
I would rate the scalability of this solution a nine out of ten because it's very easy to scale the system. You can scale it anytime.
Totara has support, but I think we need to buy it. If you have a developer, you can easily manage without Totara's support. In the case of Totara, if you want support, it means you can scale six out of ten.
They don't have good documentation. They don't have a lot of appropriate answers in their forum. They don't have a good support team. You need to depend on your developer.
Neutral
I have also used Moodle.
It is very easy to setup. It's in the cloud. It takes four hours maximum.
I would rate my experience with the initial setup a nine out of ten, with ten being easy and one being difficult set up.
It's not expensive. It's user-based. If you want to plug in, you can use that plan. It's not expensive. I think it's around $100 or something if you want to use it.
You can buy the system and implement it on your hosting. If you want to use their hosting, it will cost more.
For people who need a highly scalable, multi-tenant LMS on a low budget, this is a good option. It's a very good option in the market, low-priced, and a very good LMS.
Overall, I would rate it an eight out of ten.
The challenge was understanding the entire solution, particularly its capabilities for managing training within a distributed organization. As part of a group of companies, some with training hubs and others working differently, the need for different tenants arose. This helps organize the training offerings centrally, addressing the challenge of a multi-tenant solution, which wasn't fully grasped initially.
I have been using the product for a year and a half.
The tool's deployment is not complex.
I rate Totara Learn a seven out of ten.
