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Workforce Modernization for State and Local Government

Deliver better public services and drive your digital transformation with automated workflows and data-led insights that enrich staff development. 

Build a skills-based workforce that’s ready for tomorrow 

Built for the public sector, TotaraGov’s state and local government LMS is the platform you need to ensure workforce readiness.  

Take a data-led approach to accelerate workforce capability and strengthen your public service delivery.

Workforce-ready learning

Get real-time visibility into workforce readiness, backed by defensible, role-based data and reporting. 
TotaraGov - a Single Platform to Modernize Government Workforces through Learning

Accelerate workforce capability

Choose a single, modern platform that reduces complexity, increases efficiency, and is built for enterprise scale.
Build an Agile Public Workforce

Build an agile public workforce

Build careers and retain expertise to create a motivated workforce that strengthens public service. 

Enhance workforce capability with better skills visibility 

Upskill and plan for tomorrow’s challenges with data-led insights: 

  • Workforce capability insights  
  • Identify and prioritize skill gaps 
  • Enables future readiness of leadership and staff 
  • Personal development pathways 
  • Strengthen organizational agility 

Evaluate your current workforce readiness capabilities  

A modern platform that accelerates workforce capability 

Choose a single, modern platform that helps even the leanest L&D and IT teams deliver consistent, audit ready learning. 

  • Designed for the public sector 
  • Reduces complexity 
  • Increases efficiency 
  • Built for enterprise scale 
  • Train beyond your workforce   

Personalized learning that supports workforce modernization

Reduce manual burden on core compliance, reporting and onboarding workflows – empower even the leanest L&D teams to truly engage your workforce: 

  • Create tailored, role-specific learning for every audience  
  • Maintain centralized governance, security, and oversight 
  • Automated assignments 
  • Personalized learning and career pathways 
  • Social learning that shares knowledge and drives engagement 

Build careers. Retain expertise. Strengthen public service. 

Help employees discover new opportunities, develop in-demand skills, and progress their careers within your organization.   

  • Support internal mobility 
  • Promote retention 
  • Share and retain key knowledge 
  • Build the workforce your communities rely on 

TotaraGov’s state and local government LMS enables:

Responsible AI that drives public sector efficiency

Totara’s AI solutions help you create course content, quickly and at scale – with human verification and AI governance baked in. 

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Increase operational efficiency at scale 

Reduce manual burden and automate training administration across complex enterprise-wide learning environments.  

Audit-ready compliance and certifications

Ensure your staff have the latest knowledge and can demonstrate it.  

Automate assignments, recertification and reminders, with enterprise-grade reporting and dashboards that keep essential compliance insights audit-ready and always available. 

Extensible architecture with the flexibility to grow and evolve

Cost-effectively consolidate multiple learning platforms into a single enterprise solution while maintaining department-level autonomy and governance.  

TotaraGov scales effortlessly and evolves with you. APIs and integrations allow you to add new agencies, learners, and capabilities. 

Secure learning for state and local government

TotaraGov is FedRAMP Class C Certified with government-grade secure learning and hosting.   

Protect public-sector data and strengthen cyber resilience through secure, compliant workforce learning.

Train beyond your workforce

Securely deliver learning to employees, contractors, partners, volunteers, and the wider public from a single platform.   

Create tailored, role-specific learning for every audience while maintaining centralized governance, security, and oversight. 

See how TotaraGov can help you modernize your public sector workforce

Frequently asked questions about state and local government LMS

What is a local government LMS?

A local government LMS is a learning management system designed to help councils, municipalities, counties, and other public-sector organizations deliver, manage, and track workforce learning.

It can support compliance training, onboarding, skills development, certifications, career development, and training for external audiences from one platform. 

What should state and local government agencies look for in an LMS?

State and local government agencies should look for an LMS that supports secure learning, flexible configuration, automated workflows, audit-ready reporting, and that works with complex organizational structures.

It should also be able to scale across departments while maintaining centralized governance and visibility. 

How can a local government LMS support workforce modernization?

A local government LMS can help modernize workforce development by replacing manual processes with automated learning workflows, improving visibility into workforce skills, and supporting personalized development pathways.

This gives agencies better insight into capability gaps while reducing administrative burden. 

Can TotaraGov support multiple departments and agencies from one LMS?

Yes. TotaraGov allows organizations to consolidate multiple learning platforms into a single enterprise solution while maintaining department-level autonomy, permissions, governance, and reporting.

New departments, agencies, and learner groups can be added as requirements evolve. 

How does TotaraGov help state and local governments manage compliance training?

TotaraGov automates assignments, recurring certifications, reminders, and reporting so agencies can manage mandatory training more efficiently. Dashboards and audit-ready records give administrators clear visibility into completion, overdue learning, and certification status. 

Can a government LMS help identify workforce skills gaps?

Yes. TotaraGov brings together skills, competency, certification, and learning data to provide clearer workforce capability insights.

Agencies can identify priority skills gaps, assign targeted development, and better prepare employees for changing roles and future service requirements. 

Can TotaraGov train contractors, volunteers, partners, and members of the public?

Yes. TotaraGov can securely deliver tailored learning to employees as well as contractors, volunteers, partners, and other external audiences. Each audience can receive a relevant learning experience while the organization maintains centralized governance, security, and oversight. 

How can TotaraGov help small or lean public-sector L&D teams?

TotaraGov reduces repetitive administration through automated assignments, notifications, reporting, onboarding workflows, and certification management. This allows smaller learning teams to spend more time on workforce development and employee engagement rather than manual training administration. 

Is TotaraGov suitable for large local and state government organizations?

Yes. TotaraGov is designed to support enterprise-scale learning environments with complex organizational structures, large learner populations, and multiple departments.

Its extensible architecture and integration options allow the platform to grow as organizational needs change.