126 – Totara

Down 5 places in 201

Totara is a learning management system; an open source distribution of Moodle developed for the corporate and government market.

Website: totaralms.com
Cost: Commercial
Availability: Hosted

Top 100 Tools for Personal & Professional Learning 2019: –
Top 100 Tools for Workplace Learning 2019: 70
Top 100 Tools for Higher Education 2019: –

Past Overall Rankings
2018: 121    2017: 125    2016: 133    2015: –     2014: –    2013: –
2012: –        2011: –         2010: –         2009: –     2008: –    2007: –

Comments from some of those who selected Totara as one of their Top Tools in 2019

  • “Totara is an excellent LMS that can be adapted and customised to meet workplace learning needs. It’s far more than a completion counter!” Senior Organisational Development Consultant, New Zealand

Previous comments

  • “Great LMS and covers all the needs for most companies and the social module handles discussion forums and wikis well.” Bob Schaefer, USA
  • “open source so customers aren’t tied to 1 provider if they don’t get good customer service” Anon, UK
  • “LMS used to manage learning programs for internal employees, partners, and customers” Beth Linden, L&D Manager, USA, 2016
  • “I have worked with and implemented LMSs since the mid 1990s and Totara is by far the best one I have used.” Alexander Roche, Educational Technologist, USA, 2016
  • “simplifies our L&D management requirements for regulators, government, etc allowing more of our time on performance support and career development.” Ian Gardner, L&D Manager, UK, 2016

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