Entrada Overview

Entrada is an integrated teaching and learning system with key features that make it ideally suited towards professional programs within higher-educational institutions. Please use the feature explorer below to run through some of the main features of Entrada.

The Manage Curriculum module allows administrators to manage courses within their school. Once courses are added to the system, learning events can be assigned to them.

The Manage Events module allows administrators, and program coordinators to manage learning events, and allows faculty to manage content and resources with their events.

The Curriculum Search module allows authenticated users to search the curriculum based on provided keywords or phrases. The results are displayed in either a list or timeline fashion.

The Communities module allows users to create and manage interactive spaces or websites with features like discussion forums, calendars, announcements, photo galleries, and more.

The People Search module allows authenticated users to search for specific users in the system, or browse users by graduating class or role within the system.

Entrada helps you facilitate the podcasting of content to your learners in a secure way that allows you to keep your content on your server, while still enjoying iTunes integration.

Entrada helps you keep your students up to date and informed with integrated notifications that available directly on their Dashboard as well as through a custom RSS feed.

Entrada's integrated Quiz support allows faculty members to create, manage, distribute and assess both formative and stummative quizzes.

Entrada lets you to give your learners e-mail, personalized calendar, document creation and collaboration right through their browser utilizing Google Apps Education Edition at no cost.

Entrada is RSS and iCalendar ready! Give your learners the ability to access information schedules, announcements, events, and more on any device.

Entrada History

Our community is currently comprised of developers and eLearning professionals at Queen's University and the University of Calgary who have collaborated on the creation and new development iterations of our integrated teaching and learning system.

Since 2004 Queen's University, School of Medicine has been using and developing MEdTech Central, an in-house developed integrated teaching and learning system customized to the suit needs of their medical education curriculum.

Since 2008 the University of Calgary and Queen's University have been working in partnership towards creating Entrada, a distributable open-source version of the MEdTech Central software. Developers and eLearning professionals from both schools work together to suggest and triage development items; program, develop & deploy new items; maintain a common repository of source code; and manage the Entrada Project website.