Elentra ME User Documentation
Elentra ME 1.16
Elentra ME 1.16
  • Introduction
  • What's New in Elentra ME 1.16
  • Support
    • Feature Requests
    • Reporting Issues
    • Elentra Learn Webinars
  • System Setup
    • Organisations
    • Location
    • Departments
    • Event Types
    • Assessment Characteristics
    • Assessment Response Categories
    • Evaluation Response Descriptors
    • Grading Scales
    • Restricted Days
  • Curriculum Management
    • Curriculum Layouts and Periods
    • Blocks in a Curriculum Period
    • Curriculum Tracks
    • Curriculum Map Versions
    • Curriculum Tag Sets and Curriculum Tags
    • Context-Based Linkages
    • Hot Topics
    • Curriculum Search
    • Curriculum Explorer
    • Curriculum Matrix
  • User Management
    • Create Users
    • Manage Cohorts
    • User Permissions
      • Clinical Faculty Checkbox
    • User Disclaimers
    • User Metadata
    • User Incidents
    • User Profile Preferences
    • Profile Photos
  • Student Management
    • Disciplinary Actions
    • Formal Remediation
    • Leaves of Absence
    • MSPR
    • Observerships
  • Communities
    • Community Types and Uses
    • Creating a Community
    • Community Pages
      • Announcements
      • Discussions
      • Document Sharing
      • Events
      • Galleries
      • Polling
      • Quizzes
      • External URL
      • BasicLTI Consumer
    • Managing Communities
    • Subscribing to Community Notifications
    • Public/Guest Accounts
  • Courses
    • Creating Courses
    • Course Setup
    • Course Content
    • Course Enrolment
    • Course Website
    • Course Groups
  • Scheduling Events
    • Creating and Managing a Schedule
    • Copying an Existing Schedule of Events
    • Recurring Events
    • Parent Child Feature
    • Lecture Capture
  • Event Pages
    • Learner View of Learning Events
    • Event Setup Tab
    • Event Content Tab
    • Event Attendance Tab
    • Event History Tab
    • Event Statistics Tab
    • Reporting on Events
    • Recurring Events Tab
  • Calendar
    • Calendar Subscription
  • Units/Weeks
    • Creating Units
    • Learner View of Units
  • Cases
  • Clinical Experience
    • Accessing My Learners in Clinical Experience
    • Logbook
      • Set Curriculum Tags as Loggable
      • Course Setup Required to use Logbook
      • Learner Use of Logbook
      • Logbook Reporting
    • Lottery
      • Managing Lotteries
        • Lottery Cards
        • Creating a Lottery
        • Editing or Deleting a Lottery
      • Managing Stages
        • Stage Cards
        • Creating a Stage
        • Editing or Deleting a Stage
      • Managing Options
        • Options
        • Adding an Option Rotation
        • Editing or Deleting an Option Rotation
      • Learner Ranking
        • Ranking Interface
      • Managing Variations
        • Schedule Variations
        • Generating Schedule Variations
      • Publishing the Schedule
    • Rotation Schedule
      • Granular Clinical Scheduling
    • Electives
    • Leave Tracking
  • Assessment & Evaluation
    • System Settings
    • Assessment & Evaluation Admin Dashboard
    • Rating Scales
    • Creating and Managing Items
    • Creating and Managing Forms
    • Form Templates
    • Distributions
      • Rotation Based Distributions
      • Delegation Distributions
      • Learning Event Schedule Distribution
      • Date Range Distribution
      • Adhoc Distribution
      • Feedback Options (Distribution Step 4)
      • Target and Task Release Options (Step 5)
      • Important update re: evaluations in ME 1.14
    • Faculty Access
    • Learner Use
    • Program or Curriculum Coordinator Use
      • Assessment and Evaluation Badge
      • Admin>Assessment & Evaluation Tab
      • Delegations
      • Distribution Reviewer
    • Reporting
      • Access to A&E Reports
      • Evaluations Reports
      • Assessments Reports
      • Leave Reports
      • Distribution
      • Weighted CSV Report
      • Sample A&E Reports
  • Competency-Based Medical Education
    • Setting Up CBME: Overview
    • Mapping Curriculum
      • Auto-Setup Curriculum Tag Sets
      • Populate CanMEDS Competencies
      • Accessing Templates for Importing CBME Data
      • Import EPAs
      • Choose Competency and Curriculum Tag Options
      • Import Key Competencies (Program Specific)
      • Import Enabling Competencies (Program Specific)
      • Import Milestones
      • Import Enabling Competencies Mapping Template
      • Import Contextual Variable Responses
      • Reordering Contextual Variable Responses
      • Defining and Uploading Procedure Attributes
      • Trouble Shooting EPA Content
      • Modifying Uploaded Templates
      • Modifying Contextual Variable Responses
      • Manually Mapping EPAs
      • Editing Existing EPAs
      • Viewing the EPA Encyclopedia and EPA Maps
      • Setting Priority EPAs and Likelihood
    • EPA Versions - Overview
      • Using the Versioning Wizard
      • Form Building with Versioning
      • Assessment Plans
    • Managing Faculty and Residents
      • Recommendations for CBME User Roles
      • Learner Levels and Stages
      • Cohorts/Course Lists
      • Setting up Academic Advisor Groups
      • Managing Competency Committees
    • Forms/Tools: Introduction
    • Creating and Managing Forms
      • Form Basics
      • Rating Scales
      • Supervisor Form Template
      • Procedure Form Template
      • Field Note Form Template
      • Rubric Forms
      • Periodic Performance Assessment (PPA) Forms
      • Reordering Items on Published Forms
      • Reviewing Form Feedback
      • Tracking Completion of Tasks and Forms
      • Methods of Assessment Completion
    • Triggering and Completing Forms
      • Setting User PINs
      • Trigger Assessments: Faculty
      • Trigger Assessments: Learners
      • Resident Tool: Assessor Cues
      • PAs Entering Completed Assessments
      • Reopening and Editing Completed Assessments
      • Overview of Outstanding Tasks
      • CBME Dashboard
    • Reviewing Resident Progress
      • Promoting Learners Through Stages
      • Updating Learner Stages
      • Milestone Report
      • Resident Tool: Thumbs Up for Helpful Feedback
      • Pinning Forms, Items and Comments
      • Log Meeting Notes
      • Assessments Page
  • Exams
    • Exam Questions
    • Importing Exam Questions
    • Creating and Managing Exams
    • Exam Information and Settings
    • Exam Posts
    • RPNow
    • Safe Exam Browser
    • Exam Reports
    • Exam History
    • Grading Exams
    • Learner View
  • Gradebook
    • Creating Assessments
      • Group Assessments
      • Attaching a Quiz
      • Attaching an Exam
      • Managing Existing Assessments
      • Copying an Existing Gradebook
    • Entering Grades
      • Faculty View of Public Grading Page
    • Drop Box Assignments
    • Viewing and Reporting on Gradebooks
    • Learner View of Gradebooks
    • Collections
    • Comments in Gradebook
  • Quizzes
    • Creating and Managing Quizzes
  • Notices and Announcements
    • Creating and Managing Notices
    • User View of Notices
  • Polls
    • Creating and Managing Polls
  • Medical Student Performance Records
    • Creating and Managing MSPRs
    • Learner Use of MSPR
  • Clerkship
    • Duty Hours Tracking
  • Portfolio
    • Managing Portfolios
      • Managing Portfolio Advisors
    • Viewing Portfolio Entries
    • Learner Use of the Portfolio
    • Portfolio and Gradebook Integration
  • Learning Object Repository
    • Managing Learning Objects
  • Annual Reports
    • Reporting on Annual Reports
  • Regional Education
    • Managing Regions
    • Apartments
      • Managing Learners and Accomodations
  • User Tools
    • Hide Sidebar
    • Organisation Switcher
    • Display Style Switcher
    • Bookmarks
    • People Search
    • Profile Options
    • Permission Masks
    • RSS Feeds
    • Give Feedback!
  • System Reports
    • Curriculum Reports
    • Teaching Event Reports
    • Learner Incident Reports
    • Usage Reports
    • Assessment Reports
    • External Reporting
    • MSPR Reporting
  • Awards
    • Creating and Managing Awards
  • Rich Text Content and Accessibility Checker
  • Multiple Language Support
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  1. Courses

Course Setup

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Course Setup: The first section of this page is complete with the information provided when creating the course. If you need to edit any of that information you can do so (see Creating Courses page for details).

Lecture Capture: (New in ME 1.13!) This option will only display if lecture capture is enabled for your organization. This section of this page may also be complete with the information provided when creating the course (see Creating Courses page for details). If you need to edit any of that information you can do so here.

Course Contacts:

  • Assigning someone as a course/program director or curricular/program coordinator will allow that person to edit the course content, including all associated learning events. Their contact information will also be displayed on the course background page if you create a course community/website for the course.

  • Assigning someone as associated faculty will allow that person to be assigned as a grader to exams. Their contact information will also be displayed on the course background page if you create a course community/website for the course.

  • Assigning someone as a teaching assistant can result in that person's information being displayed on the relevant course page (if the appropriate setting is turned on) but will not give the user any additional permissions.

The list of course contact options can be modified by a developer in the language file of the Elentra installation if, for example, you want Course Director to say Program Director.

Course Keywords: This is an optional feature that can or cannot be used in Elentra; by default it is not enabled. Keywords allows you to assign Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to courses and later to specific learning events. The Course Keyword feature is separate from curriculum tag sets and as such has limited reporting abilities when compared to a tag set. (The MeSH keywords are reported on in the Curriculum Inventory Reporting tool if you use it.) If your organisation has a list of keywords to be tracked across the curriculum it is recommended you make those words a curriculum tag set.

To effectively use the MeSH keywords feature a developer will need to import a connection to the the MeSH database to your installation of Elentra. To hide the keywords feature entirely, a developer will need to delete some tables from your installation.

Course Objectives: There are two user interfaces to support adding course objectives. Which interface you see is controlled by a setting technical staff would have to adjust. If you see the heading 'Course Tags' instead of Course Objectives, please see more detail below in the Course Tags section. If you don't see any option to add Course Objectives or Curriculum Objectives it may be because there are no tag sets built for your organisation. Go to Admin>Manage Curriculum to build tag sets.

Map curriculum tag sets or individual curriculum tags to a course by clicking 'Show Curriculum Tag Sets' and clicking through to the appropriate tag set or tag and checking it off. Assigned curriculum tags will be accessible to tag at the event level and in gradebook assessments. They will also display on a course website if you use the standard template and are visible to learners from there.

For your primary tag set displaying under 'Curriculum Objectives' you may see the option to designate a tag as primary, secondary or tertiary. If you use this feature the objectives will be displayed under primary, secondary and tertiary headings on the course page visible to learners.

The curriculum tag set designated as Curriculum Objectives will be immediately visible on the right side. All other curriculum tag sets will appear under "Other Objectives".

Note that if you want students to be able to log specific objectives those objectives should be assigned to the course.

Course Tags: If your Elentra installation is using the Quick Tag Selector setting, you'll see a Course Tags heading instead of Course Objectives. If you aren't using the Quick Tag Selector setting you won't see this section of the page.

  • Select the appropriate Curriculum Period from the dropdown menu.

  • Select the appropriate Curriculum Map Version from the dropdown menu. (Configure a curriculum map via Admin>Manage Curriculum if necessary. More information can be found in the Curriculum>Map Versions help section.)

  • Select curriculum tags from the dropdown menu. Whatever is added as a Course Tag will display on the course page.

  • If you choose to, you can click on a curriculum tag added as a course tag and map it to another curriculum tag. This is context-based linking. The linkages you create will be reflected in the map of the curriculum tag if you have enabled the tag set to be mappable to the appropriate tag set; however, the link will not be automatically recorded in the history of the tag. (It's possible that your organization doesn't have context-based linking turned on. If it doesn't, you won't have this option.)

  • The course tags and any context-based linkages you create will be displayed on the course page.

Course Reports:

Indicate which reports should be available to be generated from this course by selecting them from the available options. In stock Elentra you will see Report Card and My Teachers as available report types. There is no user interface to control which reports are available to which organisations within an installation of Elentra, but the database can be configured to allow specific reports to be accessible to specific organisations.

  • Report Card does not fully function right now but it is intended to allow users to select a learner, and view a table showing curriculum tags as rows, and learning events, simulations, and logbook across the top. In each grid matrix you see a completion rate (e.g. 1/3, 2/5) in terms of attendance and completion. For the learning events the denominator is the number of events where attendance was required and that curriculum tag was applied. The numerator is how many times the learner was present at those events (this tool assumes you are using attendance tracking in Elentra).

  • My Teachers will provide a report displaying the names and email addresses of all teachers active in the course. You can select the teachers you want and generate an email list to quickly communicate with people.

Course Enrolment: This will appear near the bottom of the screen but was already completed during the initial course build. If you need to edit the enrolment you can do so from here.

Course Syllabus: If this feature is enabled users will be able to generate a PDF summarizing the course information provided in the course website tabs. There is a default undergrad template that comes with stock Elentra. Syllabi will be accessible from the Courses tab where all courses are listed. Syllabi will only display while a course is running (i.e., as in during the course's defined curriculum period). Please note that there may be up to a 24-hour delay between enabling a syllabus for a course and it being visible to users because of a required behind-the-scenes action that runs every 24 hours.

  • After completing the required fields in Course Setup, click 'Save'.

Traditional user interface to add curriculum tags to a course
Sample Course Tag user interface