Product Best Practices
SumTotal supports a variety of product platforms and solutions. This track will provide you the opportunity to learn from your peers and SumTotal staff that share expertise in your SumTotal supported solution. Join in as these sessions will examine best practices and successes using each solution to maximize business results. You’ll also see the latest product innovations from SumTotal, gain insight on implementation experience, and discover how you can apply them to your business.
What’s New in SumTotal 7.6
This summer’s release of SumTotal 7.6 represents a milestone in the evolution of SumTotal’s industry leading talent management suite. This session will feature an up-close look at the features and functionality delivered in this new release. Join SumTotal’s Director of Product Management for a look at an array of added features employees can tap to expand their talent inventory and improve their experience with the system. Highlights include new workflows for defining and assigning required/recommended training to Audiences in TotalLMS, plus the latest enhancements delivering seamless integration between TotalLMS and TotalPerforrmance.
Speaker: Bill Docherty, Sr. Director of Product Management, SumTotal Systems
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Upgrading Docent to SumTotal 7.5: Achieving true Blended Learning in a world wide training organization – The Scania Journey
Join this session presented by Scania, the world’s most prestigious manufacturer of trucks, buses and engines, as they share how they leverage TotalLMS to power their global Training Academy. This presentation will discuss the journey – challenges and successes – of upgrading from Docent 6.5 to TotalLMS 7.5, resulting in the creation of true Blended Learning in a worldwide training organization. Hear first hand experience on justifying the business case, their upgrade and implementation, the creation of a “light LMS” for specific users/markets, the final solution plus lots of lessons learned and open Q&A.
Speaker: Jean-Pierre Bertels, Global TMS Development Manager, Scania
The 411 on OAA: Making Sense of SumTotal 7's Open Activity Architecture
SumTotal 7 users: thinking about creating a structure to combine two or more learning activities? Then today is your lucky day! This is your chance to learn proven tips and techniques for setting up your learning activities correctly from an Open Activity Architecture (OAA) expert. In this session you will explore:
- What's a structure, why would I want to use one, and when?
- What sort of structures are available (subscription v. fulfillment)?
- The pros and cons of using a subscription model.
- The pros and cons of using a fulfillment model.
- Making elements required or optional within your structure.
Speaker: Irene Campbell, Terrabia Consulting, LLC.
Building the Compliance Bandwagon with Groups, Curriculums and Notifications: How Mayo Clinic Took the Hassle out of Safety Training!
Join long time Pathlore LMS users, Mayo Clinic, as they share their best practices in using Groups, Curriculums and Notifications to successfully execute online courses and gap analysis reports to meet their annual Safety training requirements -- for 30,000 employees. Attendees will also learn how their use of the automated notifications, gap reports and more, are saving the Safety department hours of previously-manual work and providing the peace of mind knowing accurate compliance documentation is at their fingertips
Speakers: Jodi Strike, Sr. HR Systems Analyst, Mayo Clinic
Ann Klickman, Safety Systems Support Specialist, Mayo Clinic
Planning For a Cultural Shift – Talent Management Rollout at the LAPD
Does this sound familiar? The decision and selection is made to upgrade or implement a new talent management system but now its time to execute the plan and get the entire organization on board. This is the real scenario the Los Angeles Police Department recently experienced implementing their TotalLMS. Join this session and discover how the LAPD turned to technology to track and maintain compliance in the police profession. Presenters will share the successful efforts to empower officers to take ownership of their own training, and techniques that worked to roll-out the new system and processes to the force Learn from their experience handling change management, moving a user population to a new model, and the marketing efforts involved. Lastly. find out how they merged training mandates and compliance requirements with career pathing, “Killing Two Birds with One Stone”, and how its being effectively tracked in the TotalLMS.
Speakers: Donna Cox, Officer-in-Charge, Online Training Unit, Los Angeles Police Dept.,
Mary Hodges, System Administrator, Los Angeles Police Department.
Introduction to ResultsOnDemand – The “Next Generation”
Join our Director of OnDemand solutions for an up-close look at ResultsOnDemand, SumTotal’s hosted Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) solution. As a potential upgrade route for many of our Pathlore, Docent, and Aspen customers, this session will provide an overview of the platform, a demonstration of features and latest capabilities added, plus an open discussion on the unique benefits of deploying a SaaS solution. Attendees will be introduced to the solution, benefits & features unique to ROD as part of an upgrade roadmap, and an overview of the benefits of SaaS.
Speaker: Matt Wilkinson , Director of OnDemand Solutions, SumTotal Systems
Power up with ToolBook Authoring and Your LMS
Are you ready to learn more about how SumTotal’s ToolBook and your LMS work together? ToolBook allows you to create content, assessments, and software application simulations. The TotalLMS and Pathlore LMS provide the framework for e-learning, reporting, certification management, and compliance tracking. At this session you will learn how ToolBook and the LMS work together (TotalLMS and Pathlore LMS too) and examine how you can build an effective experience for your learners. At this session you will learn:
- How to create assessments and integrate Flash content in your course
- How to use the Actions Editor to store and retrieve unique course information from your Pathlore LMS or TotalLMS
- How to publish ToolBook content to your LMS
- How to view assessment results in your LMS
Speaker: Michael Hamaoka, ToolBook Solutions Architect, SumTotal Systems
A Classy Approach – Using Class Templates and Other Techniques in SumTotal 7
In an environment supporting 100,00+ employees -- across more than 40 locations around the world -- how do you centralize the LMS process to ensure tighter controls while allowing for fast turn-around to ever-changing training calendars? Learn from the experience of this SumTotal user, Citi, where they will share how using the “perfect class template” process for setting up hundreds of ILT courses and thousands of class offerings in SumTotal 7 has proved extremely effective. Attendees will see how to setup a perfect class template using the offering wizard and take away the “6 Degrees of Copy Makin’” for creation of class offerings. Come explore how at Citi, classes can be “launchable” for integration with a virtual classroom, linked to a website, launch content direct while in class, or when attending to classroom attendance.
Speaker: Lisa Martin, VP Senior LMS Manager, Citi
Click here to download handouts which includes Perfect Class Template Setup & Copy Process, Class Offerings of Launchable Activities.
Upgrading Pathlore to ResultsOnDemand at Texas Tech Univ
Join us to learn the details around Texas Tech University's recent upgrade experience from their long time use of the Pathlore LMS to SumTotal's ResultsOnDemand. This session will provide you with a look at the SumTotal upgrade process, answers to your questions, and highlight TTU's best practice in establishing their business case, functionality comparisons/review, business process improvements, change management and working with SumTotal on the successful go live on the upgraded solution . Kerry Billingsly, Quality Service & Professional Development at TTU shares her lessons learned and user feedback.
Speakers: Kerry Billingsley, Quality Service & Professional Development, Texas Tech University
Matt Wilkinson, Director of OnDemand Solutions, SumTotal Systems
TotalLCMS – Techniques for Better Content Management
Join SumTotal LCMS expert, Jay Chiasson as he presents a look at top techniques for using SumTotal’s TotalLMS to manage and deliver content. A range of LCMS topics from ‘Locking to Check-out’ over to ‘Packing to Publish’ will be discussed at this interactive session. Best practices will be shared and the floor open to lots of Q&A. So grab your questions, tips to share with other users, and have a seat!
Speakers: Jay Chiasson, Techniques for Better Content Management
Going Global with SumTotal 7 – Language Localization and Your LMS
This session will detail which available languages are part of the core SumTotal 7.x product, which can be purchased a la carte, and which are part of the SumTotal Languages Club. Attendees will learn what localization features are and what new languages are on the horizon for the Languages Club and TotalPerformance. Session attendees will take away best practices for authoring content, on boarding, timeframes, terminology, and more when rolling out to an international audience.
Speakers: Jonathan Fear, Senior Product Manager, SumTotalSystems
Sarah Kittredge, Senior Globalization Product Analyst, SumTotal Systems
Ian Hendersen, Rubric, Cory Colton, Citi
SUNRISE SESSIONS
What’s New in Pathlore LMS 6.6
Grab your coffee, and a seat, as this sunrise session presented by Joe Keller, VP Operations, will unveil the added features and functionalities delivered in the new Pathlore LMS Release 6.6. Theme for this release is “Your Product Suggestions”, and at this session you’ll gain an up-close-look at the popular user feedback and how 6.6 puts them all into action. Learn how 6.6 takes your Pathlore LMS to the next level with improvements in the areas of: Usability, Configurability, Mail, Security and Compliance. Time for Q&A will be included, and further discussions will be carried over into the Pathlore LMS User Group meeting that afternoon.
Speaker: Joe Keller, VP Operations, SumTotal Systems
What’s New in ToolBook 9 – Authoring & Developing Web Content
The latest release of SumTotal’s award winning professional e-learning content authoring standard, ToolBook 9 has arrived! Don’t miss this session and your chance to discover new features like Book Explorer View, elegant-looking SmartPages, and enhanced 32-bit authoring architecture for faster development. Join ToolBook expert, Paul Haeke as he unveils how this new release enables content development that looks crisp and compelling, right out of the box. Find out how ToolBook 9 integrates the latest technologies and standards including Microsoft Vista, XML- and CSS-based SmartStyles plus Windows Media Player 9. Developing e-learning contaent for an international audience? If so this session will introduce you to the ToolBook Translation System enabling creation of content in other languages.
Speaker: Paul Haeke, SumTotal Systems
Hosting Services: Upgrading? Why a Hosted Solution is the Right Move
Come discover why 200+ of the world’s largest companies have chosen SumTotal's Hosting Services to deploy their Enterprise Talent Management Suite. At this presentation you will learn how Hosting’s tight integration with SumTotal Product Support & Professional Services allows for easier upgrade process and ability to quickly meet your business needs. Join SumTotal’s Hosting experts and explore how hosting’s singular focus, processes, and product expertise provides benefits not normally realized with in-house IT shops. This session will answer your questions and explain the benefits, technical infrastructure, security, and support for your SumTotal installation provided by SumTotal’s Hosting Services.
Speaker: Ted Haugen, Director of Hosting, SumTotal Systems, Inc.
Bob Leffler, Sr. Manager, Hosting Operations, SumTotal Systems, Inc.
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