Entrada News

New Developer Community Online

Released: 2010-06-15 03:55pm

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 source control management to Git as of this morning. All existing developers were notified via e-mail, and any new developers or people interested in watching the project can do so by cloning our public Git repository. For more information on how we are using Git, please see the Entrada_Git_Repository page on the wiki. ...

Entrada 1.0.0 Release Announcement

Released: 2010-05-07 04:00pm

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 what we are sure will become an open and vibrant community dedicated to enhancing teaching and learning through the use of technology. To obtain Entrada 1.0.0 please visit the downloads section of our website, and for those of you who wish to follow our project milestones and progress please visit our Sourceforge project where o ...

Entrada Poster Presentation at CCME

Released: 2010-04-19 04:00pm

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 3rd. We hope to see you there. The official abstract is as follows: Virtually all medical schools utilize some form of learning management system to deliver schedules and curricular content to their students, but these systems are often in private instances that do not facilitate the collaborative, humanities or leadership aspects of medi ...

Entrada 0.8.4 Release Announcement

Released: 2009-12-22 03:00pm

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 see when learners are missing key clinical experiences. New Manage Core Clerkship Rotation Management: Clerkship administrators can now manage clerkship students' core rotations in addition to the already existing clerkship elective management workflow. New Student Dashboard Calendar: A new Javascript weekly calendar and c ...

Entrada 0.8.3.1 Release Announcement

Released: 2009-09-28 04:00pm

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 a 1.0 open source release. Some of the newly introduced enhancements, although there are many more, include: New Permission System: The permission system that handles all of the access controls within Entrada was re-developed using the powerful Zend_ACL component of Zend Framework. This is a great example of our continued commitment to move towards a full embrace of the op ...

Entrada 0.8.2 Release Announcement

Released: 2009-08-12 04:00pm

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 further compatibility to older versions of Internet Explorer, introduces the highly anticipated Quiz Module, and community Mailing Lists (via Google Hosted Apps), as well as gives community administrators the ability to add multiple quiz questions to a poll, to name a few. A full list of features and fixes are available in the Entrada 0.8.1 and 0.8.2 milestones in Trac. ...

Entrada 0.8 Release Announcement

Released: 2009-04-17 04:00pm

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 forum or announcement pages), support for creating and distributing electronic quizzes, significant changes to the people search module, many changes to the learning events tab, and more. A full list of features and enhancements is available in the Entrada 0.8.0 milestone in Trac. ...

Entrada Developer Conference 2009

Released: 2009-04-01 04:00pm

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". ...

Entrada 0.7.1 Release Announcement

Released: 2008-10-17 04:00pm

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. ...