Using Totara for onboarding

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  • Join the conversation

  • Did you know that we have a dedicated workspace on onboarding, where you can share experiences and ask questions of the Totara team or other Community users? We encourage you to join this workspace as part of completing this course so that you can share best practice ideas and ask questions.

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  • Confidence check

  • Before we get started, how confident do you feel now in creating an onboarding experience using Totara?
    

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  • Reflect

  • This course is all about onboarding, so it’s likely your organisation is onboarding new starters. But before you think of the best way to onboard, think about your experiences of being onboarded to a new organisation. 

    How did it feel when you started a new job? What did you enjoy about being onboarded? How could your experience have been improved? What did you feel was missing from your own onboarding experiences? 

    Now think about these questions:

    • What makes a good onboarding experience? 

    • How can a good onboarding process help new starters? 

    • What is the impact across an organisation when onboarding is done badly? 

    Make some notes of your thoughts. If you are willing to, please share your thoughts in the onboarding workspace. 

  • This course

  • Starting a job in a new organisation can be both an exciting and stressful time for any new employee. Making sure anyone new joining your organisation feels both welcomed and confident that they can deliver their best work requires a great onboarding experience. 

    With Totara, you’ll be able to standardise and automate the experience for new starters to ensure individuals are engaged immediately and that they’re not missing out on any valuable information. You can also create personalised learning journeys based on an individual’s role to ensure any new user gets a targeted onboarding experience.

    As part of the onboarding experience you can also add new employees into your continuous professional development program to ensure that their initial targets are clear. You’ll also be able to set up a career pathway for an individual to ensure that once they’ve had a great start, they’ll continue to thrive for years to come in your organisation.  

    In this course you’ll look at: 

    • Examples of how organisations are currently onboarding their new starters
    • Totara features you could use when setting up your own onboarding program

    At the end of this course you’ll be asked to put what you’ve learnt into practice by taking a short quiz. Once you’ve passed the quiz you’ll earn a course badge.

  • Onboarding in a nutshell

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• Experience onboarding

  Experience onboarding
  • Every organisation is different. Deciding how you best onboard your new starters will take some reflection on your part. 

    
    

    To help you think through what the onboarding experience could look like for your teams take a closer look at how other organisations are currently onboarding their new starters. 

  • Onboarding with The Met Office

  • Join Brendan Kilshaw, Learning Technologist at the Met Office UK as he explains how the Met Office onboards their new starters. 
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  • You can learn more about the Met Office and their learning platform here.

  • Onboarding with Catalyst

  • Join Ella Tugwell, Head of Internal Services at Catalyst IT and Sam Taylor, Senior eLearning Consultant at Catalyst IT as they show you what happens when a new starter joins. 

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  • You can learn more about how Catalyst IT onboards their new starters in an extended video here.
  • Onboarding with Salisbury Group

  • Join Jill Scott, the People and Organisational Development Director for Salisbury Group as she shows us how new starters are added to their Totara platform. 
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  • Onboarding with Watts Water

  • Join Rebecca Braunert-Plunket, the e-learning Program Manager at Watts Water. 
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  • You can learn more about the Watts' case study here.
    
• Creating your own onboarding experience

  Creating your own onboarding experience
  • Building an onboarding checklist

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  • Getting started with onboarding

  • You've just seen how some organisations are using Totara to onboard their new starters. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at the features available in Totara to make the onboarding experience as positive as possible for your new starters. There are links to other training courses that can help you make the most out of all of Totara's feature set. 
  • Scorm-pakkeGetting started with onboarding
  • Creating an onboarding experience

  • Hungry for more knowledge? In this activity you’ll be making the decisions around how to onboard new people at a global pizza restaurant chain. You'll have a series of choices to make as to how you’d like to set up your platform to orientate new users. Maybe get a slice to eat whilst you're working through this activity. 
  • Scorm-pakkeCreating an onboarding experience
  • Guide: How to get your new people off to the best possible start

  • Onboarding has changed. People are no longer coming to a workplace to meet each other and risk being isolated from their very first day of work. In this guide we’ll consider how you can onboard your new starters in a hybrid world. The guide will help you to ensure each new employee starts feeling connected, understands their role and knows how to succeed as they continue their career with you.
  • FilGetting off to the best possible start
  • Confidence check

  • You’ve nearly completed this course, so take a moment to reflect on what you now know about creating an onboarding experience. How confident do you feel in building an onboarding experience in Totara?

  • AfstemningConfidence check
• Prove it

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  • Test me*

  • Complete this 10-question quiz to prove your knowledge of onboarding. You’ve got three attempts and you’ll need a score of 90% to pass. Good luck!

     Duration: 15 mins

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• Resources

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  • Workspaces:
    

  • URLOnboarding with Totara
  • Related courses:
    

  • URLAudiences
  • URLCompetencies in Totara Perform
  • URLCreating users
  • URLDashboards and basic theming
  • URLGetting started with quizzes
  • URLGoals
  • URLLearning plans
  • URLLocalisation
  • URLPrograms and certifications
  • URLReports
  • URLSCORM activities
  • URLSite-level user management
  • URLWorkspaces
  • Help documentation:

  • URLCurrent learning block
  • URLConfigure guest access
  • Case studies:

  • URLThe Met Office
  • URLCatalyst
  • URLWatts Water
  • Further reading:

  • URLGallup (2017). State of the American workplace report
  • URLJeske, D. and Olson, D. (2022), Onboarding new hires: recognising mutual learning opportunities
  • URLHyland, L (2022). Why it’s time to integrate your learning technologies
  • URLJennings, C and Broadhurst D. (2022) Performance beyond the skills obsession. What high performing organisations do that others don’t
  • FilInfographic: The virtues and perils of the employee lifecycle