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Founded in 1997, the Institute of Online Training and Instructional Systems (IOTIS), a division of Athens Technical College, provides instructional design services and a learning management system (LMS) to employees of the Department of Family and Children Services (DFCS) through a long-standing state agency-to-state agency contract.<\/p>\n

The Challenge<\/h3>\n

As a state-funded organization, IOTIS is tasked with supporting the training requirements of several state-run organizations and initiatives (child welfare, financial assistance, etc.) on a fixed budget.\u00a0The training needs of these organizations are quite unique and do not often align to standard learning management system functionality.<\/p>\n

The high level of cost and inability to customize ruled out most commercially available LMS options.\u00a0This led to an extended use of an internally developed, Java-based\u00a0LMS that dated back to 2001.<\/p>\n

While crafted to their original functional requirements, their organization and the training requirements of those they serve had evolved over time and their legacy system and development staff were unable to keep pace.\u00a0This placed limitations on system updates, the type of training content they could offer\u00a0and the availability of relevant and accurate reports and training data.<\/p>\n

The Solution<\/h3>\n

Totara Learn presented IOTIS the unique opportunity to step into an enterprise LMS<\/a> with a range of innovative features, without having to sacrifice the legacy functionality they still needed.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0Totara\u2019s freedom to learn<\/a> provided Athens training staff a robust feature set to offer their training audience an enhanced training experience through use of the following Totara Learn features:<\/p>\n