{"id":40291,"date":"2022-11-24T21:29:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T21:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/customer-stories\/career-academy\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T21:00:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T21:00:33","slug":"career-academy","status":"publish","type":"customer-story","link":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/customer-stories\/career-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Career Academy streamlined its programme administration process and quiz maintenance with Totara Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Career Academy<\/strong> delivers online learning across five\u00a0countries in a range of categories, including accounting and bookkeeping, administration, management, psychology and counselling and pet and animal care.<\/p>\n

The Career Academy\u2019s vision is to provide students with an outstanding online learning experience.<\/p>\n

The Challenge<\/h3>\n

The Career Academy needed to move to a platform that allowed one course to be included in multiple programmes without having to create duplicates of that course. They\u00a0operate in five\u00a0countries, and each country needed\u00a0its own version of each programme, but the courses included across the five\u00a0countries were too generic for most categories.From a maintenance point of view, it made\u00a0sense to have one version of the programme rather than five. In addition to the need for one course to be used in multiple programmes, they also needed to be able to enrol students into a collection of programmes and have each individual programme\u00a0within the collection released to the student on completion of all of the courses in the previous programme.They also wanted to enhance the online experience for the student and incorporate a range of gamification elements.<\/p>\n

The Solutio<\/h3>\n

Totara Lear<\/a>\u00a0was recommended to The Career Academy on the basis that they\u00a0would be able to have one version of a course that would be included in a range of different programmes, and since this was a major deciding factor they decided to make the change, choosing to partner with LearningWorks.In March 2017, they began migrating content from Moodle to Totara<\/a> and reimagining how their\u00a0programs were delivered. Totara has allowed The Career Academy\u00a0to build country-specific programmes using generic courses, and quality assurance activities are now much easier to complete.As they\u00a0migrated the content from one platform to the other, they\u00a0saw the opportunity to include elements of instructional design that they\u00a0had not used previously, and the inclusion of these new design elements has taken them\u00a0from providing a good online experience to an outstanding online experience.Because they\u00a0were migrating an entire database of course content, they were\u00a0able to reimagine everything, and with the many core features as well as the range of plugins available, Totara has allowed The Career Academy to develop an intuitive and innovative learning platform for its students.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur students absolutely love the new learning platform! Based on the feedback we have received students find the courses very interactive and engaging, and they really feel supported on their learning journey.\u201d – Daniel Hunt, CEO, The Career Academy<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As part of the migration, The Career Academy\u00a0wanted to incorporate elements of gamification and\u00a0create a consistent approach for the creation of every course.They built a ‘master’\u00a0version of the course with a range of options that could be included or excluded depending on the course, and they\u00a0have been able to ensure that every course offered follows the same format, which in turn provides the student with familiarity and encourages then to keep going.As part of the migration, they have added student discussion forums to all courses,\u00a0installed Level-up, designed badges that are awarded for passing assessment items and\u00a0built a range of special badges for tutors to award to individual students.They have also created every single quiz as a random quiz to allow them\u00a0to remove outdated questions and add new questions without interrupting the student learning, and\u00a0have created country-specific dashboards so that they can tailor the messaging and they have recently started using H5P elements within\u00a0courses to provide risk-free comprehension assessments.Additionally, they have created four different certificate templates which align with the level of the programme the student completes.\u00a0 Feedback activities at\u00a0the end of the first course in all programmes, and at completion of the programme,\u00a0ensures that they capture feedback from the students at the beginning and end of their journey so that any issues can be addressed and positive feedback can be taken as an indicator of the success of an outstanding online learning experience.<\/p>\n

The Result<\/h3>\n

The Career Academy is delighted with its Totara Learn platform by LearningWorks.They\u00a0are now able to link one course to multiple programmes, and\u00a0have designed all enrolments to be processed through audiences, as well as being able to release programmes to students based on the completion of prior programmes.They have also successfully implemented a wide range of instructional design elements in a consistent manner across all courses, including gamification elements such as Open Badges, Level-up and H5P, which has improved learner engagement.The use of random quizzes has also reduced issues with quiz maintenance, and they have also improved the quality assurance process by eliminating unnecessary duplication of courses.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe migration to Totara has taken The Career Academy from a good online experience to an outstanding online learning experience.\u201d – Jessie Nankivell,\u00a0Global Academic Manager, The Career Academy<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Furthermore, The Career Academy is very happy with the service of LearningWorks. At every step of the way, LearningWorks were available to provide advice on particular tools or approaches The Career Academy wanted to implement, and LearningWorks helped them build an LMS that exceeded their expectations.They also liked that LearningWorks were happy to think outside the box and come up with solutions that suited The Career Academy’s business model, rather than trying to force\u00a0them into an out-of-the-box solution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tax\/tags":[],"tax\/countries":[750],"tax\/sectors":[799],"org-size":[777],"tax\/solutions":[778],"tax\/topics":[],"tax\/industries":[],"class_list":["post-40291","customer-story","type-customer-story","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/customer-stories\/40291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/customer-stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/customer-story"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tax\/tags?post=40291"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tax\/countries?post=40291"},{"taxonomy":"sector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tax\/sectors?post=40291"},{"taxonomy":"org-size","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/org-size?post=40291"},{"taxonomy":"solution","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tax\/solutions?post=40291"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tax\/topics?post=40291"},{"taxonomy":"industry-tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tax\/industries?post=40291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}