Announcements

The Elentra Consortium is pleased to announce the formation of a CBE Data Visualization and Reports Working Group. The goal of these meetings is the create tools needed to understand how learners are progressing through your competency-based curriculum.   This Working Group is open to everyone, regardless of being a consortium member. Our first meeting is schedule for February 3rd, […]

On September 13th, 2021 version 1.22 was released to the community. Below is a high-level summary of the improved features and functionality you can expect. Microsoft Teams Learning Event IntegrationContributors: Elentra Consortium Core Team Sponsored by University of Singapore (NUS) This exciting new integration allows Teams to be set up in a Learning Event based on the course enrolment. Once […]

On April 27th, 2021 version 1.22 was released to the community. Below is a high-level summary of the improved features and functionality you can expect. Location ManagementContributors: Washington State University, Elentra Core Team A refreshed Location Management module has been rewritten in EJS 2. The new user interface has  an updated look and feel. Custom Course ContactsContributor: UCLA Users managing […]

On behalf of the Elentra Consortium community, I am pleased to announce that Elentra ME 1.20 and the 1.19.1, 1.18.2, and 1.17.3 maintenance releases are now available to all consortium participants. For more detailed information and changes related to this release, please read our comprehensive What’s New in Elentra ME 1.20 for administrators documentation or the associated Jira Release (1.20.0, 1.19.1, 1.18.2, 1.17.3) for technical […]

On behalf of the Elentra Consortium community, I am pleased to announce that Elentra ME 1.19 and the 1.18.1, 1.17.2, and 1.16.3 maintenance releases are now available. For more detailed information and changes related to this release, please read our comprehensive What’s New in Elentra ME 1.19 for administrators documentation or the associated Jira Release (1.19.0, 1.18.1, 1.17.2, 1.16.3) for technical staff, which includes a […]

We are excited to share an article that was published today on GitHub.com about the Elentra Consortium at Queen’s University’s use of the GitHub platform: https://github.com/customer-stories/queens-university This article gives Elentra some wonderful exposure (right beside Pinterest, Qualcomm, SAP, and Spotify), but it also highlights and markets how universities can use GitHub to collaborate on software development. For further information or […]

On behalf of the Elentra Consortium community, I am pleased to announce the immediate release of Elentra ME 1.18, as well as maintenance releases of Elentra ME 1.17.1, 1.16.2, and 1.15.3.

Release Announcement On behalf of the Elentra Consortium community, I am so pleased to announce an early Christmas present… the release of Elentra ME 1.17, as well as stability releases of Elentra ME 1.16.1, and 1.15.2! This notice was sent out to the Elentra Community Mailing List in December but was mistakingly not posted on our website. This message is […]

The Elentra Consortium is pleased to announce the third release of Elentra CPD so far in 2019. Elentra CPD 1.3 is a relatively significant step forward for the application. In addition to a large number of behind-the-scenes improvements, administrators now have a great deal more flexibility when creating and managing Programs. For detailed information about changes in this release, please […]

On behalf of the Elentra Consortium, I am pleased to announce that Elentra ME 1.16 has officially been released. Our primary focus of this release was to enhance and improve existing features within the software, as well as addressing bugs that have been fixed or reported by our community. This quarterly release cycle also included maintenance releases of Elentra ME […]

The Elentra Consortium team is pleased to announce the release of Elentra CPD 1.2. This marks the second Elentra CPD release so far this year and is a significant step forward as we begin to implement Laravel and Vue.js technologies within the software. In addition to approximately 20 fixes and improvements, the most significant change in Elentra CPD 1.2 is […]

Learn from the experts. Share your ideas. Network with colleagues. Elentra Engage 2019, where the community becomes our network. Sponsored by the Elentra Consortium, this annual invitational event brings together faculty, administration, and technical staff from international consortium member medical schools to provide a rich educational, leadership, and networking experience. The 2019 conference will again have a track that is […]

On behalf of the Elentra community, I am incredibly pleased to announce the official release of Elentra ME 1.15.0. It has been a busy quarter for our development community, and this release represents a significant amount of work including 2563 commits, 269 Jira issues, code contributions from nine university teams, and is yet another huge step forward for the Elentra […]

It has been 3 years since Entrada CPD 1.0 was first released, and since then, there have been only minimal updates and fixes done to the core code base. Elentra CPD has quietly been doing its job as an application intended to manage all administrative aspects of live/online/blended programs, conferences, and workshops, including learner registration and credit tracking. The Elentra […]

Elentra ME 1.14.0 was released on November 26th, 2018 within our consortium community; however, since then we have had several vital improvements and fixes to the software, as such, the Elentra Consortium community is pleased to announce the immediate release of Elentra ME 1.14.1! This announcement will cover features and improvements that apply to both versions (1.14.0 and 1.14.1). Elentra […]

It is with great pleasure that the Elentra Consortium announces the release of Elentra ME 1.13.0. This is a very special release; it’s the first Elentra-branded version of our ME product, the first release under our new Elentra Community License (ECL v1), and the first release we have managed using Jira and GitHub. A lot of work has been done […]

Entrada Consortium becomes Elentra Consortium In March of 2008, the MEdTech Unit toiled away in a Barrie Street office in the School of Medicine at Queen’s University trying to come up with a name to describe a new collaborative development effort between Queen’s University and University of Calgary. We wanted to do more than just share code with each other; […]

Save the Date September 17–18, 2018 Vancouver, British Columbia Learn from the experts. Share your ideas. Network with colleagues. Entrada Conf 2018, where the community becomes our network. Sponsored by the Entrada Consortium, Entrada Conf is an annual event that brings together faculty, administration, and technical staff from international consortium member medical schools to provide a rich educational, leadership, and networking […]

The Entrada Consortium Community has been incredibly busy over the past four months producing new features and enhancing numerous existing components. There have been over 125 bug fixes, refinements, and enhancements and today we are pleased to announce the release of Entrada ME 1.11.2 and 1.12.0 Consortium Edition. Entrada ME 1.12.0 CBME Enhancements (Queen’s) Competency-Based Medical Education support, which was […]

Over the past four months the Entrada Consortium Community has contributed nearly 140 bug fixes, feature refinements, and major enhancements into the platform and today we are pleased to announce the release of Entrada ME 1.11.1 Consortium Edition. Entrada ME 1.11.1 Full Featured Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) Support (Queen’s) On July 1st, 2017 Queen’s University launched Competency-Based Medical Education to […]

The Entrada development team has selected PhpStorm by JetBrains as the officially sanctioned and recommended Integrated Development Environment for doing PHP development related to the Entrada Platform. For nearly four years, PhpStorm has provided the developers of our Open Source software with a reliable and feature rich IDE that sees continuous enhancements and improvements. Thank you to JetBrains for providing […]

Over the past three months, the Entrada development community has contributed over 90 bug fixes, feature refinements, and enhancements into Entrada ME, and today we are pleased to announce the immediate release of Entrada ME 1.10.0 Consortium Editions. The release of Entrada ME 1.10.0 Open Edition will follow, but is unavailable at the time of this release. Entrada ME 1.10.0 […]

Registration for Entrada Conf 2017 is now open! Learn from the experts. Share your ideas. Network with colleagues. Sponsored by the Entrada Consortium, this annual event brings together faculty, administration, and technical staff from 12 to 15 International consortium member medical schools to provide a rich educational, leadership, and networking experience. This year we are pleased to announce that we […]

Save the Date September 25–26, 2017 Chicago, Illinois Registration for Entrada Conf 2017 opens in June Learn from the experts. Share your ideas. Network with colleagues. Entrada Conf 2017, where the community becomes our network. Sponsored by the Entrada Consortium, Entrada Conf is an annual event that brings together faculty, administration, and technical staff from 12 to 15 International consortium member […]

Over the past three months, the Entrada development community has contributed over 165 bug fixes, feature refinements, and enhancements into Entrada ME, and today we are pleased to announce the immediate release of Entrada ME 1.8.1 and 1.9.0 Open and Consortium Editions. Entrada ME 1.9.0 Secure Testing / Exam module (UCLA) Entrada ME 1.9 can conduct both secured or non-secured […]

The Entrada Consortium Development Community is pleased to announce that Entrada ME 1.8.0 is now available in both Open Edition and Consortium Edition flavours. This release packs in many development efforts from Q3 and Q4 2016 including an updated and further refined user interface, refactored course management, course gradebook, assessment and evaluation, and more. There have been 232 Issues (bugs […]

Queen’s University is celebrating its 175th anniversary and to recognize this tremendous event the Entrada Project team at Queen’s University, University of Calgary, UCLA, University of Ottawa, Rush University, and University of British Columbia is pleased to name our latest release Entrada 1.7.5 in honour of the occasion. Entrada began at Queen’s University in 2004 within the School of Medicine […]

Attention Entrada contributors! Join us on Tuesday, May 31st, 2016 for Entrada Conf 2016. This year Entrada Conf is taking place in beautiful Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the unique and innovative “Think-Site” space. Location Think-Site is located one block west of Spadina on Richmond Street West. Located in the Starwood building, it is steps away from the eclectic core of […]

The Entrada project team is pleased to announce the release of Entrada ME 1.6.1. This release is the first version to use the ME branding as part of our Entrada Platform. Entrada ME 1.6.1 focuses primarily on refinements and improvements, as well as updating core components, introducing all new Community templates, and an enhanced Curriculum Search engine. It is also […]

The Entrada Project has been actively developing Entrada for nearly eight years now, and today, as a result of the enthusiasm and hard work of dozens of people from five North American Medical Schools, we would like to announce Entrada Platform™. Entrada Platform is a consistent and integrated suite of software designed to serve the needs of Medical Schools and […]

The Entrada development team has selected PhpStorm by JetBrains as the officially sanctioned and recommended Integrated Development Environment for doing PHP development related to the Entrada Platform. For nearly two years, PhpStorm has provided the developers of our Open Source software with a reliable and feature rich IDE that sees continuous enhancements and improvements. Thank you to JetBrains for providing […]

It is our pleasure to formally announce that the Entrada Community Partner family has once again grown. The University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine is one of the foremost medical schools in Canada, providing learners with the opportunity to study in both English and French languages. uOttawa has joined the Entrada Consortium and the process of implementing Entrada ME (Undergraduate […]

Would you like a better picture of the entire Entrada ecosystem? We have created a 5 minute video called “Exploring Entrada” that clearly illustrates what Entrada is all about, and what it can do for your organization. This video was originally developed for a symposium presentation called “Curriculum Management Systems for Competency-Based Programs” at the Canadian Conference on Medical Education […]

The Entrada development team would like to thank Chris Hartjes (@grmpyprogrammer) for sharing his wonderful PHP unit testing expertise with some of our team on Friday, November 7th at True North PHP. His time and expertise were greatly appreciated as we further develop unit testing practices and procedures within the Entrada platform.

The Entrada project team is pleased to announce the release of Entrada version 1.6.0. This newest release includes some very exciting new features, and significant refinements to some existing features, further empowering our users within Entrada. I would like to thank each of our Entrada Community Partners for your extensive contributions to this release. What’s New? In addition to many […]

A new community partner, a new collaborative software development platform, and a fancy new Entrada software release. Welcome to Entrada 1.5.1. Welcome David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA We are pleased to officially announce that the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA has joined the Entrada consortium as our 4th official Entrada Community Partner. With the help of […]

The Entrada development community is pleased to announce the availability of Entrada 1.4.0 from the downloads page of the Entrada website, as well as the master branch of our Git repository. This release introduces many new features, enhancements, and over all improvements to the platform including: Entrada Mobile 1.1 for iOS, Android, and BlackBerry + Playbook Ability to create draft schedules for Learning […]

The Entrada development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Entrada 1.3.0 from the downloads page of the Entrada website, as well as the master branch of our Git repository. This release introduces several new features, and over a hundred fixes and other various enhancements including: Better multi-organisation support to allow more than one institution to co-exist within the same Entrada […]

We are pleased to announce the Entrada 1.3.0 Beta 1 is now available in the beta-1.3.0 branch of the Entrada Git repository. Our testing is very nearly finished, and we hope to provide an Entrada 1.3.0 final release on Tuesday, April 10th. Matt Simpson Senior Web Developer Medical Education Technology Unit School of Medicine, Queen’s University Website: http://entrada-project.org Telephone: +1 613-533-6000 x78146

The Entrada development team has now released Entrada 1.2.0.1. This minor release primarily resolves an issue with the initial database installation, an issue with deployment on Windows servers, and some minor Internet Explorer 8+ incompatibilities. We have also taken steps to prepare for the upcoming Entrada 1.3 release in a few months. Entrada 1.2.0.1 can be downloaded from the downloads page […]

The Entrada development team is pleased to announce the release of Entrada 1.2.0, which is available now from the Entrada downloads page and Git master branch. While new features, existing feature enhancements, and of course bug fixes are often highly anticipated in new releases we would like to take a moment to praise the optimization work that has gone into the 1.2 release. […]

The Entrada development team is pleased to announce the immediate release of Entrada 1.1.0, the much anticipated successor to our first open source release from May, 2010. Entrada 1.1 contains many new features, and a myriad of enhancements and fixes including but not limited to: A new module for Medical Student Performance Record (MSPR) management A new module for regional […]

Today we have launched our new Entrada Developer Community, which will serve as both the community hub and project management system for the Entrada Project. There are still a few small glitches we have to workout (i.e. OpenID support currently does not work), but please feel free to register an account and contribute if you would like. We have also switched our […]

The Entrada development team consisting of Queen’s University, Medical Education Technology Unit in collaboration with University of Calgary, Office of Undergraduate Medical Education, and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, is pleased to announce the release of the open source Entrada 1.0.0 teaching and learning platform. This important release marks the end of our internal development cycle and the beginning of […]

The Entrada team will be presenting a poster at this years Canadian Conference on Medical Education in St. John’s, Newfoundland titled “Entrada: Integrating Social Networking Within a Learning Management System Designed for Professional Education”. We will be doing a brief presentation on May 2nd between 2:00PM and 3:30PM, and there will be a dedicated poster session from 3:45PM until 4:45PM on May […]

The Entrada development team is pleased to announce that the Entrada 0.8.4 release has been tagged in our subversion repository. This development release has several new features and fixes including, but not limited to: New Clerkship Logbook Functionality: Clerkship students can now keep a detailed logbook of their clerkship experience from rotation-to-rotation, and administrators can easily review these logs and […]

The Entrada development team is pleased to announce that the Entrada 0.8.3.1 release has been tagged in our subversion repository, and has also been successfully deployed to the some local Entrada instances. This significant release is the result of the hard work of a number of individuals and collaborations, and it strongly represents the next step on our path to […]

Entrada 0.8.2 has just been tagged in our subversion repository and can now be merged into your local Entrada instances. If you are wondering what happened to version 0.8.1, well it just so happens that we finished both releases at roughly the same time so we decided to only tag the 0.8.2 release. Entrada 0.8.2 resolves many known bugs, extends […]

We are pleased to announce that the Entrada 0.8 release has been tagged and is ready to be merged into your local Entrada instance. This release adds many new features including notification support for communities, new RSS and iCalendar support for the majority of community modules, ability to create multiple module pages with unique content with a community (i.e. 2 […]

The first annual “Entrada Developer Conference” will be held at the University of Calgary from Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 at 1:00PM until Friday, May 1st, 2009 at 12:00PM. This first conference is a wrapper for our first face-to-face developer meeting, development day and “business meeting”.

We are pleased to announce that the Entrada 0.7.1 release has been tagged and is ready to be merged into your local Entrada instance. This release adds a few new features, and fixes several bugs on our way to the 0.8 release. A full list of features and enhancements is available in the Entrada 0.7.1 milestone in Trac.