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.

Integrated Google Apps

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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New Developer Community Online

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 peo ...

Entrada 1.0.0 Release Announcement

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 t ...

Entrada Poster Presentation at CCME

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 ...