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.

Curriculum Management

Curriculum Management
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.
Learning Event Management
The Manage Events module allows administrators, and program coordinators to manage learning events, and allows faculty to manage content and resources with their events.
Curriculum Search
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.
Online Communities
The Communities module allows users to create and manage interactive spaces or websites with features like discussion forums, calendars, announcements, photo galleries, and more.
Integrated Podcasting
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.
Integrated Notifications
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.
Integrated Quiz Support
Entrada's integrated Quiz support allows faculty members to create, manage, distribute and assess both formative and stummative quizzes.
Integrated Google Apps
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.
RSS and iCalendar Ready
Entrada is RSS and iCalendar ready! Give your learners the ability to access information schedules, announcements, events, and more on any device.
Feature List
Curriculum Management
Learning Event Management
Curriculum Search
Online Communities
People Directory
Integrated Podcasting
Integrated Notifications
Integrated Quiz Support
Integrated Google Apps
RSS and iCalendar Ready

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.

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Entrada 1.3.0 Release Announcement

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 installation. Addition of a System Settings module that allows administrators t ...

Entrada 1.3.0 Beta 1 Available

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 SimpsonSenior Web DeveloperMedical Education Technology UnitSchool of Medicine, Queen's University Website: http://entrada-project.orgTelephone: +1 613-533-6000 x78146 ...

Entrada 1.2.0.1 Minor Release

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 of our website or by cloning the Git master branch. For a full list of fixes and enhancements pleas ...