Totara Academy; Engage Workspaces

Richard Chambury

Jan 10, 20222 min read

Learning management systems (LMS) deliver and manage skills development, communicate essential information and provide robust reporting, particularly to evidence regulatory compliance. The LXP, however, radically transforms the learner experience.

engage your employees with collaborative learning with Totara Engage

Workspaces are powerful collaborative areas where social and informal learning can flourish. Using workspaces in Totara Engage, learners can add resources, collaborate with their peers and set up personalised notifications so that they’ll never miss anything important happening within a space.

The key benefits you can gain from implementing the Totara Engage module include;

Sharing and learning in the flow of work.
Seamless integration with Microsoft Teams, Slack, Totara Perform and Totara Learn.
Playlists simplify the sharing and curation of all forms of content, from microlearning, articles, and blogs, to photos, podcasts and videos.
Peer-to-peer interaction complements formal learning programmes and processes to nurture a vibrant culture of innovation and engagement throughout your organisation.
Learning in the flow of work gets more done, more efficiently and accurately.

alongside your core learning, these raise productivity, performance and motivation levels

Setting up workspaces and enabling users to get started with this functionality. Workspaces allow users to have discussions with specific groups of users and add learning resources for everyone in the workspace. Workspaces can either be public, private or hidden.

let’s have a look at how to create a new workspace

This video is taken from the Totara Academy course -Workspaces in Totara Engage.

Academy is unlimited. Free. Simple to access. Available 24/7/365

There are over 200 modules available within Academy, covering basic user management, to setting up courses, how to add SCORMs, create formal tests. There are predefined learning programmes which form introductory programmes and once you enrol they act as valuable resources moving forward.

You can sign up for the Academy courses here. It's free. It's unlimited. Your team can access training 24/7/365. When new team members come on board they can access training immediately to get up to speed. Why wait, register and get started today or get in touch for more information.