Connecting, Collaborating and Building Strategic Partnerships Across the Railway Community

Gabriel Stroud, CEO AssessTech, gives the Keynote Speech

Annabelle Marks, SWR and Rosie Alexander, GWR

This open forum also enables the ability to assess key trends across the industry, share knowledge and helpful tips and ultimately create best practice for industry wide eCMS.

If you are an AssessTech customer and are interested in getting involved in the working group and attend one of the quarterly meetings, contact either Rosie Alexander at GWR or Annabelle Marks at SWR for further information.

Using Totara to be more active in your learning journey

Totara is the platform behind AssessBook. As an organisation, Totara has grown significantly, now with over 1500 customers world-wide – half of the NHS access all their learning and development information on the Totara platform. 

Lars Hyland, Managing Director, EMEA for Totara Learning said, “Technology has rapidly changed but the way we approach learning hasn’t.” 

Companies need to be more flexible and consider both action learning and collaborative learning to bring the formal learning more closer to the informal learning opportunities and give people the opportunity to execute the skills they have and improve these skills further.

Action Learning is a mixture of formal and informal learning where an organisation brings individuals together to meet a common learning and development goal and where each candidate determines their own learning needs to meet that goal. Individuals will collaborate with experts and peers online and work together to meet the objective. The organisation will determine;

• Who needs to be involved?
• What learning do they need?
• Who can be the expert?

Engage and Collaborate

Through AssessBook, it is possible to add Totara Engage alongside Totara Learn, which offers organisations a dedicated space and ability to share best practice with controlled groups of individuals and take action! This is a great place for organisations to:

• Post up resources such as videos, documents, polls etc.
• Create group resources
• Have private conversations and invite individuals to comment
• Create discussion threads

This helps share knowledge, solve problems faster and drive innovation across your organisations. Through the reports, management can get a holistic view of performance across the organisation.

If you want to find out how AssessBook can work for your organisational learning and development needs, get in touch at info@assesstech.com.

Some of the new features being developed within MLearn include.

• Mobile push notifications
• Dynamic audiences to make mobile friendly dashboards
• Advanced to all Totara advanced reporting via the App
• Augmented Reality which can be used to create a digital twin model that can be utilised to improve safety training

6clicks Risk Management Tool

Through our partnership with 6clicks, we now have a risk management tool for the railway industry. The 6clicks tool enables organisations to manage all their risk and compliance data in one place and effectively share this across different teams and departments.

We were particularly keen to offer a product in this space to present our customers with a solution around managing the recommendations that come as a result of incident investigations. These often generate multiple actions and issues that involve people in varying roles across their organisation.

Railway organisations may be struggling with challenges such as:

• Process failure
• Lack of accountability
• Managing their issues and risks register
• Capturing information across the business in one centralised area

Other exciting topics were discussed at the forum including verification strategies, simulation and the technology roadmap.  You can watch the recordings from each of the sessions on the day, along with all the discussions and questions asked by the audience below.