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title: "What is Totara Learn?"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://totara.help/llms.txt
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# What is Totara Learn?

Totara Learn is a robust, powerful Learning Management System (LMS) that allows you to deliver targeted learning via courses, programs, certifications, and learning plans.

The learning content you create can contain a content you create within and outside of Totara, instructor-led events and other blended learning content.

See each section below for more information on Totara Learn's main features.

## Courses

[Courses](/18/docs/courses) are the primary way to deliver learning in Totara Learn. A course comprises a number of [activities and resources](/18/docs/course-activity-types) for learners to complete or access. You can configure the completion criteria for [individual activities](/18/docs/activity-completion) and for the [whole course](/18/docs/set-up-course-completion-conditions). Once you've created a course and added your activities, you can enrol learners so the relevant users can start working through the learning materials. Your courses can also be organised into [categories](/18/docs/what-are-categories), which can make it easier to find content or assign access rights.

## Programs and certifications

Programs and certifications both allow you to create structured sets of courses that enrolled learners will need to complete in a specified order. This allows you to guide learners along a pathway of related learning materials. Certifications are different from programs in that learners will need to recomplete the certification after a set amount of time. If you prefer, you can set up a separate recertification pathway so learners don't have to recomplete all of the original courses that they completed on their first time.

## Learning plans

[Learning plans](/18/docs/what-are-learning-plans) allow learners and managers to work together to create tailored plans that will help learners to reach their personal development goals. These plans can include a number of [components](/18/docs/configure-learning-plan-components) based on your requirements: courses, competencies, learning objectives and programs. As a Site Administrator you can [set up learning plan templates](/18/docs/create-a-learning-plan-template), which can then be assigned to learners with [content specific to that learner's aims](/18/docs/add-content-to-a-learning-plan).

## Content marketplace

[Content marketplaces](/18/docs/what-are-content-marketplaces) allow you to expand your site with content from external providers. By default you can set up marketplaces for [GO1](/18/docs/go1) and [LinkedIn Learning](/18/docs/linkedin-learning), but you can also create your own marketplaces to provide access to more content.

Join the [Totara Community](https://totara.community/) for more resources to help you get the most out of Totara.

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