Percipio Totara Integration

Overview

Integrating Totara Learn LMS with Percipio offers you the best of both worlds—Percipio’s engaging learning experience with the rich enterprise-class learning administration of the Totara Learn LMS. You can utilize both systems as you see fit, using features from each to build a learning experience targeted to your organization.

Our goal is the best possible learner experience while simplifying the content management responsibilities of your administrators. The Totara to Percipio integration supports:

Benefits of a Percipio Integration

Integration enhances learner engagement and the learning experience by offering:

  • Rich content experience, including access to courses, books, audiobooks, channels, journeys, and linked content.

  • Better content discovery using images and rich metadata.

  • Social sharing of content.

  • Consistent user interface for all content types.

  • Support for the Percipio ELSA browser extension to aid learning in the flow of work.

  • Use of the Percipio mobile app for the best Skillsoft course, book, and audio book experience.

The Integration alleviates administrator burden in the following ways:

  • Minimizes content administration with an option to use Percipio pre-curated channels.

  • Has support for tracking book and audio content.

  • Content completions are automatically sent near real-time to Totara via xAPI statements.

Integration at a Glance

Version

Totara supports the Integration to Percipio for the Totara LMS version 15.3 or greater and only when Totara hosts the instance. Clients on older versions are evaluated on a case-by-case basis by Totara.

Channel/Journey support

Support for Channels and Journey is coming soon as part of the Totara Integration.

Multi-modal content support

Learners can access courses, books, audiobooks and linked content.

Multi-lingual asset support

All languages supported by Percipio are available.

Compliance support

Compliance content is supported via Content Integration.

Launch mechanism

Totara integration requires a SAML configuration using the customer’s IdP vendor.

Tracking mechanism

Progress and completion data is sent daily.

Content update mechanism

Daily automatic updates for new content.

Content load mechanism

Contact your Skillsoft Services Team to obtain a bearer token and SAML setup information.

Learn More

If you are interested in learning more about a Percipio integration, connect with 360Learning and Skillsoft for a joint discussiona Skillsoft learning solution expert or contact your Customer Success Manager.

How it works

There are three components for making the Totara Learn LMS and Percipio integration work.

1. Automated content deployment to the Totara Learn catalog

Percipio provides a daily, metadata export of the latest, licensed non-compliance Skillsoft content including courses, books, audio books, linked content, and Skill Benchmarks.

All Skillsoft content available to your organization are retrieved through the Skillsoft API. On Totara Learn, you see that:

  • Skillsoft content and metadata are automatically updated.

  • Only the content selected by the administrator are deployed to the Totara Learn LMS

2. Content launch from the Totara Learn LMS to Percipio

When learners launch a Skillsoft content asset in the Totara Learn LMS, the item opens in Percipio. This is accomplished using customer-initiated IdP single sign-on (SSO) and deep linking. For first-time users this SSO process creates a new account enabling Percipio to store user activity and manage the user experience. To configure this element of the integration, the Skillsoft implementation team and your technical team implements SAML SSO.

3. Tracking Percipio user activity back to Totara Learn

As learners access content, Percipio collects details on their activity and delivers that detail to Totara Learn via xAPI.

In addition, all collected data is available in Percipio dashboards and reports enabling the use of these tools to monitor and measure the utilization of Skillsoft content and licenses.