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The Elentra Consortium relies on participant contributions in order to continue expanding the features we offer. Schools frequently develop features that they require but that might be useful to other consortium members as well.
If you have an idea for a new or improved component of Elentra we recommend speaking to a project manager or software developer at your local institution. They can reach out to other schools within the consortium to identify potential solutions or overlapping needs.
Together, we'll continue to build a great integrated teaching and learning platform.
If you discover a bug or issue with Elentra, we would strongly encourage you to report the problem as a bug using our Jira Issue tracker: https://elentra.atlassian.net/projects/ME/issues/filter=allopenissues
If you need access to the issue tracker, please contact Alice Rush-Rhodes on Slack or via email (arush@queensu.ca).
We take the security of the Elentra Platform very seriously. If you believe that you have discovered a security vulnerability please contact us immediately:
Name
E-Mail Address
Telephone Number
Matt Simpson
1-613-533-6000 x78146
Andrew Dos-Santos
1-613-533-6000 x74904
By reporting issues to our team you are helping to create a secure and reliable product.
After your Elentra installation is active, you'll need to configure some system settings before using other modules and features of the platform. Users with the group:role of medtech:admin or staff:admin will be able to access Admin > System Settings. Here you'll be able to configure things like assessment types, event types, location management, grading scales, and departments. Generally this is content that will remain consistent across an entire organization and will not frequently change.
Note that these system settings are at the organization level in Elentra so you can have different system settings for different organizations running on the same installation of Elentre (e.g., undergraduate and graduate medical education).
Which system settings you configure really depends on how your organization will be using Elentra. See the list below for some quick start ideas.
If you want to add users: configure departments (optional) and build cohorts before importing users
If you want to create courses: build curriculum layout and periods in Admin > Manage Curriculum
If you want to schedule learning events: configure learning event types and locations (you'll need courses via Admin>Manage Courses and for rotation scheduling you'll also need to build blocks in the relevant curriculum period but that is done in Admin > Manage Curriculum)
If you want to input grades: configure assessment types (you'll need to configure curriculum layout and periods, and build courses as well but that will be completed elsewhere)
If you want to report using the curriculum inventory: configure assessment and learning event types, and curriculum layout and periods (you'll also need courses, events, and gradebooks setup but those are managed elsewhere)
Instructions for managing some system settings are included here. Other instructions are included with their related module. See a sample list of system settings below.
There are over 100 database settings options in Elentra to allow you to meet the needs of your organization. These setting options are controlled through the database, not the user interface, and therefore must be enable/disabled by a developer. You can view the complete list of database settings in the Technical Documentation. Additionally, each feature landing page (e.g., Gradebook) in this documentation includes the database settings relevant to that feature
For ME 1.20, the following database settings were introduced:
events_default_color (allows you to set a default color for events added to the calendar, can help with school branding)
events_limit_color_update_trigger (used to control whether events with recently added or updated links change color)
community_display_guest_enrollment
community_allow_leave_community (used to control whether users can leave communities they were added to by an admin)
gradebook_assessment_bonus_marks (used to control whether to allow a course gradebook to accept values over 100%)
people_display_group_role (used to control is users' group and role are displayed in People Search results)
calendar_display_rotations (used to control whether or not to show learners their rotation schedule in the event calendar view on the dashboard)
calendar_display_rotations_clinical_event_threshold (if empty, system will show learners rotations and clinical events on their calendar, if you enter a value, e.g. 3, calendar will show both clinical events and rotations until that value is exceeded, at which point it will no longer show the rotation on the learner's calendar)
calendar_display_rotations_excluded_courses (can enter course ids, excludes those courses from learner calendar api, use to hide specific courses from learner calendar)
logbook_log_inactive_rotations (used to control whether or not to allow learners to create logbook entries for courses where their enrolement in the curriculum period has passed)
assessment_delegation_auto_submit_single_target (on by default, controls whether or not a page will auto submit when there is a single target in a delegation task)
duty_hours_options (allows you to configure which duty hour options display to learners)
assessment_display_tasks_from_removed_assessors (when enabled, will display assessment tasks from assessors that have been removed from the distribution)
event_objectives_filter_by_course (allows you to configure whether or not to automatically apply a course filter on the curriculum tag selector used on a learning event page)
What’s New in Elentra ME 1.20
Read about What's New in Elentra ME 1.20 in Elentra Collaborate.
For assistance with logging into Elentra Collaborate, please either reset your password or contact collaborate@elentra.org.
There are a number of support and communication channels used by the Elentra Consortium in order to adequately address your support needs. If you are new to Elentra development or administration please contact your local designated Elentra Consortium contact or reach out to us at doorbell@entrada.org.
Elentra Mailing Lists (to subscribe please email arush@queensu.ca)
Community List
Elentra Learn List (used to distribute invitations to webinars and training activities)
Developer List
(optional) Weekly School Check-In Web Conference
Bi-Weekly Elentra Consortium Web Conference
Monthly Elentra Learn Training Webinar
We recommend using Elentra on Chrome, Firefox, or Safari.
We recommend Microsoft Edge based on Chromium (released in January 2020).
Elentra no longer supports Internet Explorer.
Interested in learning how to use Elentra ME?
You have landed at our faculty and administrative user training documentation archive. A range of topics are listed on the left and clicking on each will open a subset of menu options. We also recommend using the search tool in the top right.
If you do not find what you are looking for, please feel free to reach out on the Slack #help channel if you have access to the Elentra Slack team or submit a question to questions@elentra.org.
All webinars can be accessed at https://collaborate.elentra.org/community/elentra-learn
At present our monthly webinars are not posted on this site, but can be found on our Elentra Collaborate Intranet Portal https://collaborate.elentra.org/community/elentra-learn. If you are employed at a consortium member school and wish to access a past webinar and have not been added to the Elentra Collaborate site, please contact Alice Rush-Rhodes on Slack or via email (arush@queensu.ca).
Past webinar topics include:
Elentra Learn #39 (January 2021) - What's New in Elentra ME 1.20
Elentra Learn #38 (Nov. 18, 2020) - Workflows in Elentra ME 1.19
Bonus Content (Sept. 2020) - Team-Based Learning in Elentra ME 1.19
Elentra Learn #37 (Sept. 16, 2020) - What's New in Elentra ME 1.19
Elentra Learn #36 (August 12, 2020) - Curriculum Mapping in Elentra ME 1.18+)
Bonus Content (July 2020) - Absence Management Module in Elentra ME 1.18
Elentra Learn #35 (July 22, 2020) - Clinical Experience: Lotteries in Elentra ME 1.18
Elentra Learn #34 (June 3, 2020) - What's New in Elentra ME 1.18
Elentra Learn #33 (May 13, 2020) - Rolling Forward to a New Academic Year (ME 1.18)
Elentra Learn #32 (April 8, 2020) - Clinical Experience Rotation Schedule in Elentra ME 1.18
Elentra Learn #31 (March 11, 2020) - EJS (Technical Focus)
Elentra Learn #30 (February 5, 2020) - GraphQL (Technical Focus)
Elentra Learn #29 (January 15, 2020) - CBME Program Dashboard
Elentra Learn #28 (December 18, 2019) - What's New in Elentra ME 1.17
Elentra Learn #27 (November 20, 2019) - Elentra API (Technical Focus)
Elentra Learn #26 (October 23, 2019) - Elentra JS 2.0 (Technical Focus)
Elentra Learn #23 (July 17, 2019) - Introduction to Elentra CPD
Elentra Learn #22 (May 15, 2019) - What's New in Elentra ME 1.15.0
Elentra Learn #21 (April 10, 2019) - Elentra Collaborate Intranet Portal
Elentra Learn #20 (March 6, 2019) - AAMC Curriculum Inventory Report
Elentra Learn #19 (December 5, 2018) - What's New in ME 1.14
Elentra Learn #18 (November 13, 2018) - Scheduling Tools in Elentra
Elentra Learn #17 (September 5th, 2018) - How to Contribute to Elentra as a Developer
Elentra Learn #16 (August 8th, 2018) - What's New in Elentra 1.13
Elentra Learn #15 (July 11, 2018) - Distributions in Assessment and Evaluation in ME 1.12
Elentra Learn #14 (June 6, 2018) - Elentra Grab Bag: Things you might not know about ME 1.12
Elentra Learn #13 (May 2nd, 2018) - User Experience Development and Process
Entrada Learn #12 (April 4th, 2018) - What's New In Entrada ME 1.12
Entrada Learn #11 (March 7th, 2018) - Using the Entrada API
Entrada Learn #10 (February 7th, 2018) - Communities (types, pages, etc.)
Entrada Learn #9 (December 6th, 2017) - Curriculum Search, Explorer and Matrix
Entrada Learn #8 (November 22nd, 2017) Competency-Based Medical Education in Entrada ME 1.11
Entrada Learn #7 (November 8th, 2017) - Curriculum Management in Entrada ME 1.11
Entrada Learn #6 (October 4th, 2017) - Deep Dive into Exams in Entrada ME 1.10
Entrada Learn #5 (August 30th, 2017) - Deep Dive into Assessment & Evaluation in Entrada ME 1.10
Entrada Learn #4 (July 26th, 2017) - What’s New in Entrada ME 1.10
Entrada Learn #3 (June 28th, 2017) - Setup and Maintenance of Courses in Entrada ME 1.9
Entrada Learn #2 (May 31st, 2017) - Deep Dive into Entrada ME 1.9 Gradebook
Entrada Learn #1 (April 26th, 2017) - What’s New in Entrada ME 1.9
Assessment Flag Severity is a feature that allows an organization to optionally set levels of severity on prompted responses in Assessment and Evaluation items. Instead of treating prompted responses as either used or not, you can create a more nuanced approach to acting on a prompted response item (i.e., if it’s flagged at a certain level, do something).
The default behaviour of a flagged item response on an assessment form is to simply set the “flag” property of the response to 1. On submission of the assessment, flagged responses are checked, and if a particular distribution indicates that specific users (or groups) be notified of a flagged response, an email goes out to them.
The Flag Severity functionality adds another layer on top of this (in addition to also being independent of a distribution). Instead of simply setting the flag property to 1, it sets it to the primary key of the record in the flag severity table.
In the Competency Based Medical Education feature, there’s a flag called “CBME Concerns Notify Directors and Coordinators”; if enabled via an Elentra setting, program coordinators and directors (of the relevant programs) are notified when items that are flagged with this particular severity are submitted. From the forms interface, if there are any organisation specific flag severities defined, the item editing interface presents the editor with an option to select one of the predefined flags (instead of presenting them with a simple checkbox). Form templates (i.e., CBME on demand assessments) use this flag severity functionality to notify program directors and coordinators when someone submits an assessment where the “Concerns” rubric has one of the responses set to “Yes” (meaning there are professionalism concerns, for example).
This page does not need to be configured. It is part of an old clerkship lottery functionality which has now been replaced.
You can configure a list of hot topics and assign those topics to learning events. If you do you can optionally indicate if a hot topic was 'major' or 'minor' when assigned to an event.
Before you do this please be aware that there is very limited reporting for hot topics applied to events, and hot topics can not be applied elsewhere in Elentra (e.g. to gradebook assessments, exam questions, etc.). We recommend that instead of using Hot Topics you create a curriculum tag set that includes the things you want to track in your learning events.
The Bookmarks section of System Settings allows an administrative user to create a list of URLs that users will not be able to bookmark in their personal My Bookmarks list.
Not all development on this feature is complete.
Log in as a medtech:admin or staff:admin user.
Navigate to Admin > System Settings.
Click on the name of the organization you want to manage blacklisted bookmarks for.
Click 'Bookmarks' from the left sidebar.
Click 'Blacklist URL' to add a new entry.
Provide a title (this will display on the list of blacklisted URLs) and the URL.
Click 'Save'.
You will get a success message and be returned to the list of blacklisted URLs. Your new entry should display.
To edit an existing blacklisted URL, click on the cog icon in the far right column.
Log in as a medtech:admin or staff:admin user.
Navigate to Admin > System Settings.
Click on the name of the organization you want to manage blacklisted bookmarks for.
Click 'Bookmarks' from the left sidebar.
Either click on the cog icon in the far right column to edit a single bookmark or tick the checkbox beside the URL name, then click 'Deactivate Blacklisted URL'.
Additional content coming soon.
Elentra allows you to connect to other educational technologies through LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability). This allows you to connect to services like Quizlet, Turnitin, Google Classroom, etc.
Log in as a medtech:admin or staff:admin user.
Navigate to Admin > System Settings.
Click on the name of the organization you want to manage LTI providers for.
Click 'LTI Providers' from the left sidebar.
Click 'Add LTI Provider' to add a new entry.
Provide the required information.
Click 'Save'.
Configuring grading scales allows you to apply a grading scale to course gradebooks, weighted collections, and assessments. When managing assessments you can optionally allow learners to view their results using a marking scheme (e.g. percent, numeric) and/or a grading scale (e.g. Honors, Pass, Fail). Both marking scheme and grading scale all also displayed to users when entering grades in Admin > Manage Course > Gradebook.
Currently all grading scales do require a corresponding percentage to be stored in the database and no two letter grades can share the same percentage value.
Only users with access to Admin > System Settings (e.g., medtech:admin or staff:admin users) can edit Grading Scales.
Navigate to Admin > System Settings.
Click the name of the organization for which you want to manage a grading scale.
Click 'Grading Scales' on the left sidebar.
A default grading scale is provided. If your school only has one grading scale it may be fastest to modify the existing default scale to suit your organization's needs. If so, click on the default scale to edit it.
To add an entirely new scale, click 'Add New Grading Scale'.
Complete the required information noting the following:
Title: Provide a title for the grading scale. If the grading scale applies only to one cohort of learners or is in effect for a specific period of time that might be useful to include it the title. Users working in course gradebooks will see the grading scale title when they are specifying a grading scale to use in a collection or assessment.
Ranges: This is where you enter the grading scale information.
The system requires that there be a 0 start percentage to be valid so make sure to include one.
The information you provide in the Letter Grade column is what will display to learners if you choose to display their results in the Gradebook using a grading scale.
GPA is not required and currently doesn't integrate with Elentra unless you have a customization.
Notes is optional and is not seen outside the Grading Scale page.
Click 'Add Range' to add additional rows.
The rows will reorder as you add them so that they display in order. You can click the arrow in the Start % column header to show the percentages ascending or descending.
Note that you do not enter a number to denote the top of the range.
To delete a range click the red X icon in the far right column of the appropriate range.
A Description for the grading scale can be provided. This is optional and is not seen outside the Grading Scale page.
When you've added all the required information, click 'Save'.
You will get a green success message and be redirected to the list of existing grading scales.
To edit an existing grading scale click on its title.
Make the necessary changes.
Click 'Save'.
To delete an existing grading scale click the checkbox beside its title.
Click 'Delete Selected'.
In Elentra, organisation refers to an entity using and managing its own curriculum map version, layouts, tags, courses/programs, learning events, gradebooks, etc. Examples of organisations include undergraduate medicine and postgraduate or graduate medicine. Another example could be nursing or rehabilitation therapy.
You can add and manage organisations through Admin>System Settings. While Medtech:Admin and Staff:Admin users have access to System Settings, ONLY Medtech:Admin can add a new organisation.
Note that this tool is only available to Medtech:Admin users.
Navigate to Admin>System Settings.
Click 'Add New Organisation'.
Provide the required information noting the following: Interface Template: Stock Elentra has one default interface. If you are testing things on an installation with dummy data provided by Elentra, and have different interface options available, we recommend using them only if it has been recommended to you.
Click 'Save'.
Additional interface template information: The Elentra template is entirely configurable by a developer and if you would like additional interface templates, that is customization that your institution can do. Many schools apply their own branding to the look of Elentra or you might create different templates for different organisations using your installation of Elentra (e.g., undergraduate and postgraduate or graduate medical education organizations).
Navigate to Admin>System Settings.
Click on the name of the organisation you want to manage.
Click on the pencil icon and 'Edit' in the top right to change the existing information.
Make the required changes and click 'Save' in the bottom right.
Assessment response categories (e.g., excellent, good, needs improvement) are used when creating items in the Assessment and Evaluation Module. The categories can also be applied to specific rating scales and when those rating scales are applied to items the response categories will pre-populate.
Response categories are displayed in the order they were added to the system, so use the search function to quickly look for existing categories and prevent creating duplicates. Results will appear as you type.
Navigate to Admin > System Settings.
Click the name of the organisation for which you want to manage assessment response categories.
Click 'Assessment Response Categories' from the left sidebar.
Click 'Add Category'.
Enter the response category.
By default, all categories will be available in reports so uncheck the box if you don't want the category to be available in reports.
Click 'Save'. Remember your new category will be added to the end of the list.
If multiple categories have been created and are overly similar, or you have imported data from another tool and have duplicate categories, you can merge selected categories. To do this, click the checkboxes beside the categories to merge, then scroll down and click Merge Selected.
To delete categories, click the checkbox beside the category you wish to delete and then scroll down and click 'Delete Selected'.
Assessment characteristics should be configured if you plan to use course gradebooks. Within a gradebook you will need to define the assessment characteristic for each assessment added. Each assessment type has different extended options for recording data (e.g. the type of included questions for quizzes and exams, or whether to track late submissions for papers and projects).
Elentra comes with a set of assessment types. These include assessment, exam, paper, presentation, project, quiz, RAT, rating, and reflection. Within each assessment type you can further specify assessment characteristics (e.g. oral exam, written exam, OSCE). While there is no user interface to change the list of assessment types, the assessment characteristics list is completely configurable through the user interface. Assessment characteristics can also be mapped to MedBiquitous Assessment Methods if required by an organisation. Whatever is created as an assessment characteristic can later be applied to the assessments listed in a course gradebook (see image above).
Navigate to Admin>System Settings.
Click the name of the organisation for which you want to manage assessment characteristics.
Click 'Assessment Types' from the left sidebar. A list of existing assessment characteristics grouped by assessment type will be displayed.
Click 'Add Characteristic' to add a new assessment characteristic.
Complete the required fields. The description is optional and is not often seen in other parts of Elentra. (It's possible that in the future if you mouseover an assessment characteristic you'll see its definition but that is not a current feature.)
Click 'Save'.
The newly added assessment characteristic will now appear on the Assessment Types list.
To modify an existing assessment characteristic click on it.
Edit it as needed and click 'Save'.
To delete existing assessment characteristics click the checkbox beside the characteristic you wish to delete.
Click 'Delete Selected'.
Confirm your choice.
You will be returned to the list of Assessment Types.
A list of departments, divisions, faculties, schools or units can be maintained in Elentra and applied in user profiles. This information is in turn used in some reporting tools (e.g. Faculty Teaching Report By Department).
If you import users using a CSV, you can include a column for department and add multiple departments as needed.
Log in as Medtech:Admin or Staff:Admin.
Navigate to Admin>System Settings.
Click on the name of the organisation you want to manage departments for.
Click 'Departments' from the left sidebar.
Click 'Add Department' to add a new entry.
Complete the required information noting the following: Department Type: You can select a department type from a dropdown menu. The options include department, division, faculty, school, and unit. There is no user interface to change this list.
Click 'Save'.
To delete existing entries, click the checkbox beside the item name and then scroll down and click 'Delete Selected'; confirm your choice.
The list of departments will display alphabetically.
As of Elentra ME 1.12 there is no user interface to link departments and divisions. There is space in the database to create a relationship between a department and its affiliated divisions and a developer with access to the database can do this work if it is required by your organisation. In a user profile you can assign someone to multiple departments and divisions in order to show their multiple affiliations.
Each department can configure custom profile fields to collect additional information from their members. This allows an administrator to define the custom profile field in terms of the type of information to collect and then create a space in the user's profile for them to provide said information.
In an administrator role, navigate to Admin>System Settings, pick the appropriate organization if required, and click Department from the left sidebar.
Click on the appropriate department.
Click Department Profile Fields
Click Add Field
Provide the relevant information, noting the following:
Field Type allows you to customize how information can be collected. The options are:
Rich text
Plain text
One Line text
Checkbox
External URL (e.g. for people to provide a link to their research project page)
Indicate using the checkbox if this custom field will be required
Click Add
The newly created field will display on a list of custom profile fields. You can edit, delete, or reorder the custom profile fields using the pencil and trash icons, or the Reorder button.
Users can complete their custom profile fields in their user profile, accessible by clicking on the user's name in the top right. Within their profile tab options, they will see a Department Specific Information tab and can provide the required information there. In the example below, there is a one line text item.
If you use the AAMC Curriculum Inventory Report, you can associate Medbiquitous Assessment Methods with specific assessment characteristics you have in your organization. This information is used to help populate the CIR. If you don't do this, unmapped assessments will be reported as "Exam - Institutionally Developed, Written/Computer-based".
Click on any existing Medbiquitous Assessment Method
Check off the relevant Assessment Types (aka Characteristics)
Click Save
You will see a green success message and be redirected to the list of Medbiquitous Assessment Methods
Click Add Assessment Method
Provide a Method title (required)
Optionally provide a description
Check off the relevant Assessment Types (aka Characteristics)
Click Save
You will see a green success message and be redirected to the list of Medbiquitous Assessment Methods
Please see additional details here.
If you use the AAMC Curriculum Inventory Report, you can associate Medbiquitous Instructional Methods with specific event types you have in your organization. This information is used to help populate the CIR. If you don't do this, unmapped event types will be excluded from the report.
Click on any existing Medbiquitous Instructional Method
Check off the relevant Learning Event Types
Click Save
You will see a green success message and be redirected to the list of Medbiquitous Instructional
Methods
Click Add Instructional Method
Provide a Method title (required)
Optionally provide a description
Provide an Instructional Code (required)
Check off the relevant Learning Event Types
Click Save
You will see a green success message and be redirected to the list of Medbiquitous Instructional
Methods
This feature is optional and must be enabled in the settings file to be accessible through the user interface.
Context-based curriculum linkages allow you to map relationships between curriculum tags at the course, event, and unit level. These mapped relationships will be visible on the course, unit, and event pages. While this feature creates records of information in the same way that linking curriculum tags through Admin>Manage Curriculum does, the display capabilities are quite different. Using context-based linkages will allow users to click on curriculum tags from within units and events and see the mapped relationships.
There are different areas where you can build context-based linkages and often they are used in conjunction with the Units feature.
Assign curriculum tags to a course and link them to other curriculum tags. Do this from a course setup page. Assign curriculum tags to a unit and link them to other curriculum tags. The list of tags assigned to a unit will be displayed under Week's Objectives. This information, including the context-based linkages, will also display under the Unit Tags section of a weeks page. Do this from a course unit page. Assign curriculum tags to a learning event and link them to other curriculum tags. If you link your event level objectives to a unit tag the learning event will display on the list of week's objectives and show the connection to the unit objective. Do this from a learning event page.
Having a list of events display on a week's page actually comes from linking the event to a unit, not the context-based curriculum tags.
The Curriculum Map Versions feature allows an organisation to create curriculum maps with specific linkages between curriculum tags. Each curriculum map includes curriculum periods and the curriculum tags and mapped relationships between tags are available to be applied to any features (courses, learning events, gradebook assessment entries, etc.) that exist with the curriculum periods included in a specific map.
Navigate to Admin>Manage Curriculum.
Click 'Curriculum Map Versions' from the left sidebar.
Click 'Add Version' and fill in the required fields noting the following: Version Status: Draft or published curriculum maps will be available when creating links between curriculum tags and will also be available to be copied to new map versions as needed.
Click on the appropriate curriculum layouts and a list of curriculum periods will be displayed. Click on the appropriate curriculum periods for this map version and save your work.
Repeat the steps above and in the Import Options section, tick off the checkbox.
Select the curriculum map version you wish to copy from the dropdown menu.
Click 'Save'.
This will create an identical curriculum map for the new map version which you can then edit as needed.
The tools within Manage Curriculum are used to build the structure on which many of Elentra's curriculum mapping features rely.
The structure of curriculum management within Elentra includes:
Organisations (e.g. undergraduate medicine, nursing, pharmacy)
Curriculum Layouts (i.e., divisions of time used to organise units of instruction, e.g., terms, semesters, years, etc.)
Courses
Optional Units (units exist within a course and group learning events together for a learner-friendly overview of the unit)
Events (any scheduled time in your organisation, e.g., lecture, lab, exam)
Manage Curriculum allows users to:
Manage curriculum layouts and curriculum periods (a curriculum period is an instance of a layout and has specific start and end dates)
Manage curriculum tracks (a way to identify groups of related courses)
Manage curriculum map versions (a way to capture linkages between curriculum tags relevant to specific periods of time)
Manage curriculum tags (the taxonomies that can be applied to courses, units, learning events, gradebook assessments, exam items, and assessment items included on forms)
Map one curriculum taxonomy to another curriculum taxonomy (e.g. map national standards to program objectives)
Elentra allows you to map relationships between curriculum tags so you can show connections across your curriculum framework. You might map different levels of your own curriculum to each other (e.g. map program objectives to course objectives) or you might map your school curriculum and national standards (e.g., map your program outcomes to the AAMC Physician Competency Reference Set). This mapping is completed through Admin > Manage Curriculum and creates organization wide mappings.
Please note that the intended functionality of Elentra is to take a top-down approach in mapping curriculum tags. For example, you might have exit competencies, program objectives, course objectives and sessional/event objectives. You'd start with your exit competencies and map the relevant program objectives to them, then map the course objective to the program objective, etc.
After these mapped relationships are recorded they can be reported on via the Curriculum Tag Mapping Report.
Once curriculum tags are built in your organization, you can assign them in modules across Elentra. You can assign curriculum tags to:
Courses
Units
Events
Gradebook assessments (in a course)
Exam items
Assessment items included on forms
Learning Objects (i.e., online modules created in another tool)
The steps to apply curriculum tags in each of these areas is described in the relevant help section for each feature. Various reporting options to view this information also exist across the various features. Some reporting options are briefly described below.
Commonly used tools accessible to all users include Curriculum Search, Curriculum Explorer, and Curriculum Matrix.
Curriculum Search: Allows you to search for a key term and apply curriculum tags as filters.
Curriculum Explorer: Shows which objectives have been assigned to courses, tagged in events, and tagged on gradebook assessments (view of assessments is not available to learners).
Curriculum Matrix: Shows which objectives have been assigned to specific courses.
Additional tools are available only to specific users. Staff:Admin users will be able to access all of these, but faculty access will depend on the faculty role and course affiliation.
Curriculum Tag Minutes and Mapping Report: Shows which tags have been applied to events in a course.
Curriculum Review Report: Shows events, curriculum objectives, and clinical presentations within a course. (May require modification to use at your institution.)
Assessment Objective Summary Report: Lists assessments within a gradebook and provides their descriptions, and the curriculum objectives applied to them. (May require modification to use at your institution.)
Exam Data (Information and Settings): Provides an overview of the curriculum tags used on an exam and the number of questions tagged with said objectives.
Exam Results Curriculum Tag Report: Provides an overview of learner performance with regard to the curriculum tags applied to the questions.
Another curriculum mapping option exists in Elentra and that is the ability to contextually map one tag to another. This allows you to assign a tag to something like a course or event, and then link that tag to another tag in that specific context.
For example, for a learning event about fever in a child, you might assign a tag about taking a patient history. Then you could contextually link it to other tags (e.g. pediatrics, fever, etc.). This design can allow schools to keep a relatively concise list of overall learning objectives, then contextually link them to show how they will by applied in a specific context.
Reporting options for contextually linked tags are currently limited, however we intend to gradually expand the reporting options over time.
Curriculum Tag Sets are the different taxonomies an organization uses to tag and track content across the system. The sets are customizable and within each set you can have a hierarchy of tags. Examples of curriculum tag sets include school objectives, clinical presentations, diagnoses, etc. These tags can be applied to courses, learning events, assessment items, exam questions, portfolio artifacts, learning objects, etc. Tag sets can be used as filters when searching the curriculum and are used in multiple reports.
While curriculum tag sets and curriculum tags are connected, there are differences in their creation and management. You must create a tag set first and then populate it with curriculum tags.
Navigate to Admin>Manage Curriculum.
Click 'Curriculum Tags' from the left sidebar.
Click 'Add Tag Set'.
Complete the required information noting the following:
Tag Set Details:
Title and shortname are required for the tag set. The title is displayed to users when using curriculum tags to label things and when using curriculum search tools.
Standardization: This field was developed for the Competency-Based Medical Education tools in Elentra and identifies a tag set that is standard across multiple courses/programs. It is applicable to the "Stages" tag set that is required in CBME, but can be ignored when creating other tag sets.
Applicable to: Usually curriculum tag sets are applicable to all courses, however you can adjust the setting, if needed. This will control which courses are able to use this tag set to tag learning events and gradebook assessments. (If you are using context-based linkages to tag curriculum that feature will allow access to all curriculum tag sets including those set to be applicable to only some courses.)
Tag Options:
This defines the information and requirements for any tags added to this set. You can control whether there will be a space to record code, title, and description for each tag and whether any of those fields is required. You must have a minimum of one required tag option. If you later download a sample csv in order to import tags to this set the csv will include columns for the required fields configured here.
Hierarchical levels: Here you can set how many hierarchies will be allowed within the tag set (for example you might have a set of objectives that has 3 levels in its structure like Competency, Program Objectives, and Curricular Objectives). If you use multiple levels, provide labels for each.
Be aware that in many Elentra features when users apply curriculum tags to events or items, they will have to click through the hierarchy to find the appropriate tag. Some features also allow users to select the top or second tier of the hierarchy and automatically apply all tags below to the course.
Tag Display Options:
Here you can specify how tags within this set should be displayed in short or long display mode. Some reports will rely on the different display methods and apply your specifications. To change the display order of the components, type in the %d, %t or %c codes as you wish them to appear. A sample of what the short and long display methods will look like will show on the right.
Mappable Curriculum Tag Sets:
One feature of curriculum tags is the ability to map tags from one set to another to create a map of how your curriculum tags overlap. In this section you can define how the tags in the set you are creating can be mapped to other tag sets. Click the down arrow beside 'Browse All Tag Sets' and check off the sets you want to be able to map to, noting there is a select all feature available. To delete any unwanted tag sets from this list click on the small grey ‘x’ beside the tag set name in the 'Selected Tag Set' panel.
Click ‘Save’ to complete the creation of the new tag set. After saving, you will be redirected to the screen where you can add tags to your newly created tag set.
Navigate to Admin>Manage Curriculum>Curriculum Tags.
Click the checkbox beside the curriculum tag set you want to delete and then click ‘Delete Items’.
Navigate to Admin>Manage Curriculum>Curriculum Tags.
Click the name of the tag set and then click ‘Edit Tag Set’ from the buttons on the right. This will open a page where you can edit the tag set information.
Navigate to Admin>Manage Curriculum.
Select 'Curriculum Tags'.
Click on the name of the curriculum tag set you want to add tags to.
Either import curriculum tags or add individual tags.
From a Curriculum Tag Set page, click 'Import from CSV' and a popup window will offer you a sample CSV template file to download. The template file will include some column headings required for this tag set, but a full list of possible CSV headings include:
objective_code
objective_name
objective_description
objective_order
objective_loggable
non_examinable
objective_status_id
admin_notes
Complete the file with the appropriate curriculum tags (remember to remove the sample line of text).
Import the file via the already open popup window to quickly create your tag set. To import the tags you can drag and drop the file or browse for it on your computer.
If you are uploading to a tag set with hierarchies, select the parent tag you wish to import additional tags to.
Click 'Import'.
You'll see a green success message with the number of tags created and then you'll be redirected to the tag set page where you can view the newly added tags.
If you want to add curriculum tags to an existing list of tags, you can import a new file with the additional tags. The new tags will get added to the list. Any change to an existing tag (code, name, description) will result in a new tag being created. As such, if you need to fix a typo in a tag, do so through the user interface, not a new csv upload.
From a Tag Set page, click 'Add Tag'.
Tag Details:
Status: Set this as Active to allow its immediate use; if you use Draft status this tag will not be available to users and you'll have to manually update its status when you want it to be available.
Complete the code, title, and description as needed remembering that the availability of each field and whether it is required is managed at the tag set level.
Set the Display Order if needed. By default the new tag will be added to the end of the list of existing tags.
Non-Examinable: At present this can be recorded for reporting purposes and does not interact or impact the functionality of other features.
Loggable in Experience Logbook: Tick this box if this curriculum tag should be available to learners in the Experience Logbook (usually this is relevant to tags that will be used in clinical learning environments).
Map Curriculum Tags: When creating a new tag you can link it to other curriculum tags if the tag set has been built to allow for such linkages (remember that is controlled at the tag set level).
Click on 'Map Curriculum Tags'.
Use the Tag Set dropdown menu to find the tag you want to map to the tag you are editing.
Click off the popup window in order to see the mapping relationship you've added. It intentionally stays open for you to pick more tags as needed.
To delete a link click the small x beside the mapped tag.
Click 'Save'.
Admin Notes: Use this space to record notes about a curriculum tag (e.g. the committee that requested the tag, reason for changes, etc.)
Click 'Save & Close'.
To add a tag in a hierarchy, navigate to a Tag Set page and click the plus sign beside the tag to which you want to add another level of tag. (Depending on whether you use list or table view you will see the plus sign or may need to hover over a tag until menu icons appear on the right.)
Complete the tag details as you would for other tags and click 'Save'.
When building a tag set you can define whether tag title, code, or description are required for each tag added to the set. If you're curious about where this information will display to users, here are some general guidelines for various reports and tools in Elentra:
Curriculum Search: code and title
Learning Events Tab: shows title (currently the filter list is restricted to the 2 objective sets you’ve designated as Curriculum Objectives and Presentations)
Curriculum Matrix: title and description
Curriculum Explorer: title (and description once you click on an objective)
Curriculum Tag Mapping Report: title and description
Curriculum Tag Minutes and Mapping Report: title
Course Website (learner view): title and description
Course Page (no course website built) (learner view): title
Event Page (learner view): code, title, and description
The Curriculum Review Report is being revised for ME 1.15 on to allow for user control over how the curriculum tags display (the report will reflect the Short Display Method you can configure when you edit a tag set).
Toggle between a list view and table view of curriculum tags using the small icons beside the Add Tag button.
In table view, add additional visible columns to the table by clicking on the grid with a down arrow beside it. Adding additional columns can allow you to see id, code, title, description, and an overview of existing links between tag sets.
Click on the pencil icon available to the right of the tag (you may need to use your mouse to hover over a tag for the menu icons to appear).
If settings in a curriculum tag set are configured to allow the tags in the set to be mapped to other tags, you can do the mapping from the Tag Set page.
From the Tag Set page click the chain or link icon beside a tag. This will take you to the Map Curriculum Tags tab for this tag.
Use the Tag Set dropdown menu to find the tag you want to map to the tag you are editing.
Click off the popup window in order to see the mapping relationship you've added.
To delete a link click the small x beside the mapped tag.
Click 'Save'.
Note that you can link tags via courses, units, and learning events if you are using an Elentra setting that allows context-based linkages. See more information about this in the Curriculum>Context Based Linkages help section.
Click on any tag to access its details, mapping, admin notes and history.
This history tab records all changes made to the tag and the user who created the change.
After you've opened any curriculum tag using the pencil icon to view its details, you can quickly navigate forward and back to view additional tags in the set using the arrows in the bottom left of the screen. Easily jump to the first or last tag using the double arrow.
To delete an existing curriculum tag navigate to the Tag Set page.
Depending on your view you'll either see small icons in the right or you'll need to hover over a curriculum tag until you see small icons appear.
Click the garbage pail to delete the tag.
Navigate to Admin>Manage Curriculum.
Click 'Curriculum Tags' from the sidebar
Click on the name of the curriculum tag set you wish to export.
Click export.
A csv file will download to your computer; it will include objective id, code, name, description, parent, etc.
This stores a list of Medbiquitous resources.
When creating learning events and you can optionally map a Medbiquitous resource to an event.
New in ME 1.19
Ability to enter latitude and longitude coordinates for buildings (allows learners to mark themselves present at events scheduled in rooms in those buildings)
Location Management allows organisations to maintain a list of the sites, buildings and rooms relevant to their institution. In this context, site could refer to an institution, organization, or governing body. Site is the top tier of the location management system; within a site you can add buildings, and within a building you can add rooms. You can also add a phone number for the contact person at the site. Some examples are provided below.
Site: University/College Name, Hospital Name
Building(s): New Medical Building, Abramsky Hall, Student Athletic Centre
Room(s): 201A, 201B, 430, 431, The Caldwell Room
Phone Number: (123) 456 - 7890
Using the locations feature is useful if you plan to schedule clinical rotations or learning events in Elentra. Rotations and their corresponding blocks/slots can be assigned to sites, and learning events can be assigned a site, building and room. The building and room code will be displayed to event attendees so make sure the short codes you use are logical.
Location Management can be turned on or off using a database setting (sites_enabled).
Only medtech:admin users have access to Locations in System Settings.
Navigate to Admin > System Settings.
If you have access to multiple organisations, click on the name of the organisation you want to manage locations for.
Click 'Location Management' from the left sidebar.
From the Location Management screen click 'Add New Site'.
Provide the required information noting the following: Site Code: The site code will display with the name on dropdown menus when you are assigning a site (e.g., in a learning event or rotation). Province/State: This option will only be available after you have selected a country.
Click 'Save' and you will see your new site displayed on the existing list of sites.
Please note that the sites will be listed in the order they were added to the system. There is currently no user interface to reorder the list of sites.
To edit an existing site, click on the gear icon to the right of the site name.
To delete an existing site, click the checkbox beside the site from the Location Management screen. This will cause a delete button to appear in the top right. Click 'Delete Selected' and confirm your choice.
From the Location Management screen click on an existing site.
Click 'Add New Building'.
Complete the required information noting the following:
Building Name: Required. This will display on learning events scheduled in courses.
Building Code: Required. This will display on bookings made in Clinical Experiences > Rotation Schedule.
Address Line 1: Required
Address Line 2
Building Radius (meters): This is used in the attendance geo-location feature. It helps dictate how close to a building's latitude and longitude coordinates a learner's device must be when they confirm their attendance at an event.
Building Latitude: This is used in the attendance geo-location feature.
Building Longitude: This is used in the attendance geo-location feature.
City, Country, and Province/Staes: These will default to the same information as the site but you can change it as needed.
Postcode: Required
Phone Number
Click 'Save' and you will see the new building added to the list of existing buildings.
Please note, the buildings will be listed in the order they were added to the system. There is currently no user interface to reorder the list of buildings.
To edit existing buildings, click on the gear icon to the right of the building name.
To delete existing buildings, click the checkbox beside the building name from the list of buildings. This will cause a delete button to appear. Click 'Delete Selected' and confirm your choice.
From the Location Management screen, click on an existing site.
Click on an existing building.
Click 'Add Room'.
Provide the required information noting the following: Floor: This is an optional field to record the floor a room is on. Room Number (Required): Store the room number here. It will show on learning events assuming no room name exists. Room Name: This field is optional. If it is filled in it will show, instead of the room number, on learning events. Room Description: This is an optional field to collect information. Users will not see this information. Room Phone Number: This is an optional field to collect information. Users will not see this information. Room Resources: This allows you to provide information about the resources in a room. The default list includes projector, television, computer, and capture. Capture is used when you are using Elentra's lecture capture tool.
If you select 'Capture', you'll be prompted to enter the following information. The examples included assume you are using NCast.
Device Name: This corresponds to the code in your NCast recorder manual that is specified for that model. For example, on an M4 recorder this value should be “M4”, whereas on a Hydra model, this code should be “PR720”.
Device Address: This is the IP or hostname of the NCast device on your network.
Channel: This is the number of the Channel to be used from NCast device’s configuration. Most devices have a limited range available, usually 1 - 100.
Stream Prefix: This is the named string of characters that all videos from this Room will be tagged with. For example, “surgery” or “pediatrics”.
Room Max Occupancy: This is an optional field to collect information. Users will not see this information.
Click 'Save' and your new room will appear on the Rooms list.
Please note that rooms will be listed in the order they were added to the system. There is currently no user interface to reorder the list of rooms.
To edit existing rooms, click on the gear icon to the right of the room name.
To delete existing rooms, click the checkbox beside the room name. This will cause a delete button to appear in the top right. Click 'Delete Selected' and confirm your choice.
To the right of any room you will see a calendar icon. This gives you access to a Room Schedule Feed you can copy and add to another calendar. If you also use Capture as a room resource, you will additionally see a Recording Schedule Feed. This provides a link to an .ICS calendar schedule file to be copied. You will need the URL to this .ICS file when configuring your NCast server, which will point to the schedule so that it knows when to start and stop recording.
New in ME 1.19
The ability to disable Curriculum Tracks using a database setting
Note that if you have existing curriculum tracks configured and then disable Curriculum Tracks in the database, the existing tracks will still display in the user interface.
Curriculum Tracks can be used to create specializations or concentrations within programs or to show a course’s language of instruction. If curriculum tracks are created you can:
assign a track to a course
assign a track to a student user
assign a track to an Assessment and Evaluation items, forms and distributions
Curriculum Tracks can be disabled for an organization through a database system setting (disable_curriculum_tracks) This will hide Curriculum Tracks from the System Settings so no administrative users can create tracks.
Navigate to Admin > Manage Curriculum.
Select 'Curriculum Tracks' from the left sidebar.
Click 'Add Curriculum Track'.
Fill in the required information noting the following: Track Public URL: If the track has a public URL you'd like to make available, provide it here.
Set a display order. Curriculum Tracks will not automatically display alphabetically.
Click 'Save'.
After a track is created you can add an image for the track. Click on the track name to access the Edit Curriculum Track page and then upload an image via the small gray square on the right side. As of ME 1.12, these images will not be displayed anywhere in Elentra.
To quickly change the display order of tracks on the main Curriculum Tracks page drag and drop them into new positions and click 'Save Ordering'.
To delete unneeded tracks click the checkbox beside the track name and click 'Delete Selected'.
Adding courses to a curriculum track is done via individual course setup pages. Please see the the Courses help section for more information.
Note that you'll only be able to assign students users to a curriculum track if you have tracks built for the relevant organization.
Navigate to Admin>Manage Users.
Search for the appropriate user and click on his or her name to access their user profile page.
Scroll down to the permissions section. If an existing permission exists in an organization that has curriculum tracks, you'll be able to select the appropriate track from a dropdown menu.
If you are creating a new permission you'll have to add it first and then select the relevant curriculum track from the dropdown menu.
Click 'Save' at the bottom of the page when you are done.
Whether you are working with items, forms or distributions, you will see an option to assign a curriculum track if needed.
Please see additional details .
Blocks should be created for curriculum periods in which associated courses will have clinical learning experiences (e.g., clerkship, residency rotations). Later, you'll use blocks to build slots in the rotation scheduler.
You must be logged in with an administrator role to create blocks.
Navigate to Admin>Manage Curriculum.
Click 'Curriculum Layout' from the left sidebar.
Click on the appropriate curriculum layout.
Beside the appropriate curriculum period, click 'Block Schedule'.
Click 'New' in the bottom right.
Provide a Schedule Title (e.g. 1 Week Blocks or Psychiatry Rotations) and description as desired. The title is the title of the set of blocks, not the individual blocks. The start and end dates for the schedule are set by the curriculum period within which you are creating the blocks (you will be able to alter the individual block dates after they have been created).
Click 'Save'.
Now you can create the actual blocks of time within this schedule. Block Type: By default you'll see one, two and four week blocks. (If you'd like to build blocks of different lengths you can get a developer to make a database change to facilitate this.) Block End Day: This is the day you want blocks to end. Start and End Date: Set by the curriculum period in which you are creating these blocks. First Block End Date: Optional. You can use this to force the first block to end on a specific date (useful if the curriculum period starts on an irregular day).
Click the down arrow beside Save and select Autogenerate Blocks; a list of blocks will appear.
Click on any row to edit the block name, or the start and end dates.
You can also add a custom block by clicking 'Add' in the bottom right and providing the required information.
When you have made the required adjustments to the block schedule, click 'Save' on the right above the list of blocks.
You can add multiple sets of blocks to one curriculum period. For example, you might add a set of one, two and four week blocks to one curriculum period. This allows you to schedule learners across blocks of varying lengths during their clinical learning experience.
Toggle between a list and calendar view of blocks using the list and calendar icons above the block end dates. (Note that as of ME 1.12 the calendar icon does not properly display blocks.)
Database Setting
Use
curriculum_tagsets_allow_attributes
curriculum_tagsets_max_allow_levels
curriculum_tags_default_status
Hot Topics can be configured to include a list of items your organisation would like to track across learning events. Hot topics function somewhat like curriculum tag sets but they are not available to assign to courses or assessment items. For this reason, your organisation may prefer to build a hot topic taxonomy in the curriculum tag sets via Manage Curriculum. One feature of hot topics is that you can indicate whether teaching about a hot topic was major or minor in a learning event, however there is currently no way to report on this information.
Navigate to Admin>System Settings.
Select the organisation for which you want to manage hot topics.
Click Hot Topics from the left sidebar.
Click 'Add Hot Topic'.
Provide a name and description and click 'Save'.
To delete hot topics, click the checkbox beside the category you wish to delete and then scroll down and click 'Delete Selected'.
Navigate to a learning event you want to tag with a hot topic.
From Administrator View, click on the Content tab.
In the Event Objectives section scroll down to the Event Topics section. Click 'Event Topics' to make the list of topics visible.
Tick off the Major or Minor field as needed.
To deselect a topic, click the remove x.
Click 'Save'.
When a hot topic is tagged to a learning event, this information (including major or minor designation) is visible to learners on the learning event page.
Navigate to Admin>System Reports.
The Course Summary Report includes a column to show Hot Topics tagged to specific learning events.
From the Learning Event tab you can apply multiple filters to tailor the list of learning events you are viewing. One of the filters you can apply is Hot Topics. This allows you to generate a list of all events tagged with a specific hot topic.
The Curriculum Matrix is available to all users by default and provides a quick visual and numerical inventory of where curriculum tags are assigned to courses. The Matrix reflects only those curriculum tags that have been assigned to a course through the Course Setup page, not all tags applied to events, gradebook assessments, etc.
Curriculum Matrix does not currently reflect relationships between mapped tags. It just shows those tags directly assigned to a course. (If context-based linkages are enabled the Matrix shows curriculum tags assigned to the course on initial setup and any added afterwards in the "Course Tags" section.)
The Curriculum Matrix can be a useful tool to help identify where curriculum objectives might be under or over-represented.
The information stored in the Curriculum Matrix can be downloaded as a csv file.
Navigate to Curriculum>Curriculum Matrix.
Use the Curriculum Tag Set selector to pick a tag set. If the tag set you select includes multiple hierarchies, adjust which hierarchy you are viewing using the small grey numbers to the right of the tag set selector.
Results will display on the screen. A star indicates that a tag is assigned to a course. The number is the column header indicates how many courses the tag is assigned to.
If viewing a tag set with hierarchies, some column headers may appear blue. Click on the tag to open the next hierarchy of tags.
Collapse the view of specific curriculum layouts (e.g., term or year) by clicking on the +/- button beside the layout name.
Click on the name of a tag to see its description (if applicable).
Click 'Download' to download the results of the Matrix in a CSV file.
The User Incident tools allows an organisation to keep a record of an incident involving a user.
Navigate to Admin>Manage Users.
Search for the relevant user and click on his/her name.
In the User Management box on the left sidebar, click 'Incidents'.
Click 'Add New Incident'. Note that the system will automatically record and display the name of the user who creates an incident.
Provide the required information noting the following: Severity: Incident Severity cannot currently be configured through the user interface. If you wish to change the available incident severity levels you will need help from a developer. Status: An open incident can be edited for more information to be added including any follow-up. If an incident is closed its appearance will be greyed out when viewing a list of incidents. Dates: Both the incident date and the date of any follow-up can be recorded. Details: Information provided here is not currently visible to the user although it will be accessible to users with permission to view learner incident reports. The system will not automatically record and display the names of users who add to the initial report.
Click 'Save Incident'.
Incidents will display on the user profile page but are only accessible by users with admin roles. By default users do not currently have the ability to access their own recorded incidents.
Navigate to Admin>System Reports.
Scroll down to Learner Incident Reports.
Click on the appropriate report, fill in the necessary information, and click 'Create Report'.
Click on the name of a user or title on an incident to see the details.
A user disclaimer can be set up to appear on the start page or your Elentra installation or when users try to access specific courses or communities. This tool is only available to users with admin roles.
Navigate to Admin>System Settings.
Click on the organisation you want to set a user disclaimer for.
Click 'User Disclaimers' from the left sidebar.
Click 'Add User Disclaimer'.
Complete the required information noting the following: Effective Date: Set when the disclaimer will show up to users. Trigger: Decide when this disclaimer should be applied. If you select course or courses, you'll have to select the specific course(s). If you select community, you'll have to select a specific community. Additionally, you must be an administrator of a specific community to add a disclaimer to it. When someone declines: Decide what should happen if someone declines the disclaimer. Click the checkbox to receive email notification of any declines. There is currently no user interface add additional emails in the case of a declined disclaimer. Audience: Click the down arrow beside Browse All Users and continue to click through to add your audience. Note that it is intentional that you can only drill down to the role level or user and not individuals. To delete any group from the list, click the small x beside the group.
Click 'Save'.
Edit an existing disclaimer by clicking on the disclaimer title which will open an edit page.
Delete an existing disclaimer by clicking the trashcan icon in the last column.
After a user disclaimer has been accepted by at least one user you can no longer edit the content. If you need to replace the disclaimer, you must delete the existing disclaimer and create a new one.
After a user disclaimer is active you can view who has accepted or declined the disclaimer.
Navigate to Admin>System Settings.
Click on the organisation you want to view a user disclaimer for.
Click 'User Disclaimers' from the left sidebar.
Find the name of the user disclaimer you wish to view and click the eye icon in the last column.
A list of users who have approved the disclaimer will be displayed. Click on 'Declined' to view users who have declined the disclaimer.
When users with an active disclaimer try to access the system or a course/community (depending on how you configure the disclaimer) they will be asked to accept or decline the disclaimer. They also have an option to print a copy of the disclaimer for their own records.
Elentra provides administrators with the option to keep track of any information about users, for example immunization records, police checks, mask and gown size, etc. At present, there is no interface for users to adjust these records about themselves.
Navigate to Admin>System Settings.
Click the name of the organisation you want to create meta data for.
Click 'User Meta Data' from the left sidebar.
Click 'Add Meta Data'.
Complete the required fields, noting the following: Parent: You can created a nested hierarchy of meta data fields (e.g. immunizations: tetanus, measles, influenza, etc.). To do this, you must first create the parent meta data category, then when you create the nested fields, select the parent from the dropdown menu. Restricted to Public: Select Public Viewable if you want users to be able to see their own meta data. Select Restricted to hide the meta data fields from users and allow only administrators to see the information (these items will appear with [Admin view only] on the list of meta data fields). Group: Select the group(s) to apply this meta data to. To delete a group from an existing list, click the minus button beside the group name.
Click Save
Navigate to Admin>Manage Users.
Click 'Manage User Meta Data' from the left sidebar.
Set the required fields to reflect the information you want to input.
Click 'Show Table'.
Click 'Export/Load'.
Click 'Export CSV' to download a file with the list of users and other relevant column headings.
Complete the file, noting the following:
Type: Type reflects the meta data you are entering. You do not need to fill this in on the file unless you are uploading multiple meta data categories using one file.
Value: Make this the main data (e.g. shoe size: value=10).
Notes: This can be used to record any additional information (e.g. Received record from health unit on Jan. 16, 2015).
Effective date and Expiry date: These should be listed in yyyy-mm-dd format.
The fields for this import are optional so unused columns should be deleted before importing the file.
Click 'Import CSV' to upload the file.
You will be prompted to map the CSV columns you've included with the meta data fields available in the system. Click and drag any unmapped fields to the appropriate place as needed.
Choose whether to replace existing data with information in the spreadsheet, and whether or not to delete existing records if information is empty in the spreadsheet (click each check box as needed).
Click 'Import'.
Alternatively, you can add individual records one by one by clicking on 'Add record' for an individual from the meta data category main screen.
To view user meta data for a group:
Navigate to Admin>Manage Users.
Click 'Manage User Meta Data' from the left sidebar.
Set the required fields to reflect the information you want to view.
Click 'Show Table'.
You'll see a list of all users and their existing records.
This information can be exported as a csv.
To view all meta data for an individual:
Navigate to Admin>Manage Users.
Search for the required user and click on his/her name.
Select 'Edit Meta Data' from the sidebar User Management section.
You'll see a list of meta data records for the user.
Users can view their user profiles by clicking on their names at the top of the Elentra screen.
If meta data is required/logged for the user s/he will see an Extended Profile tab.
By clicking on this tab users will see any meta data collected for them AND which is set to Public Viewable.
At present, there is no interface for users to adjust these records about themselves.
There are a variety of tools available to help manage student records while they are active in your organisation.
User Profile: Store basic information like name and contact information
User Meta Data: Store additional information like vaccination records, background checks, etc.
Incident reports, disciplinary action and formal remediation can also be recorded through Elentra
Medical Student Performance Records: Pull in existing data from Elentra and allow learners to submit additional documentation to forward to residency matching bodies
Observerships: Allow learners to request observerships and have them be approved (or not) by curriculum coordinators
Leaves of Absence: Track leaves of absence
Attendance Tracking: Track learner attendance at the event level
Some of these topics have their own help sections while others are addressed below.
Most users require an account to access Elentra. There are some exceptions to this: you can create a public community and share it with others, add a guest member to a specific community, or add an external assessor to a distribution of an assessment and evaluation form.
To create user accounts you must associate a group and role with every user. Different combinations of group and role have different permissions in Elentra.
Although there is a user interface to manually add individual users, it is strongly recommended that your developers or technical team set up a relay of information from a central, authoritative database (e.g., an existing student information system) to feed users into Elentra. If you are not doing this and wish to bulk import users via a csv file, please see below.
Manually importing or creating users is restricted to those with administrator roles in Elentra (i.e. staff:admin, medtech:admin users).
If you'd like learners to automatically populate a cohort, make sure that the appropriate cohort exists (e.g. Class of 2023) before importing the learners. Currently, only cohorts using the naming convention "Class of XXXX" can have learners automatically added when importing via CSV.
Navigate to Admin>Manage Users.
Click 'Import From CSV'.
From the popup window you can download a sample CSV file.
Open the file in your preferred spreadsheet manager and complete the columns. Required fields are listed first followed by optional fields. First Name: Provide the user's given name. If you have multiple users with the same first and last name we recommend including their middle initial with their first name. Last Name: Provides the user's last name. Username: This will be the username for your Elentra installation. email: This should be the user's email and must be distinct for each user.
Organisation: This should be a numeric id and reflect which organisation a user should be added to if there are multiple organisations on an installation (e.g., undergraduate medicine and postgraduate medicine). When logged in as a Medtech>Admin you can find the organisation id by navigating to Admin>System Settings and clicking on the organisation. When the page for that organisation opens the url will include the org id at the end. You can also ask a developer what the organisation ids for your installation are. Gender: Gender is a required field in your upload. By default Elentra includes Female (F), Male (M), Non-Binary (NB) and Undefined (U).
Note that the genders stored in your installation can easily be modified by a developer in the database in the elentra_auth.users_lu_genders table.
Group: Group defines the user type in the system. Pick from Alumni, Faculty, Medtech, Resident, Staff, and Student. You can only use additional groups if you have added them to the database. Role: Different group types have different role availability as shown in the table below. Many group and role configurations carry different permissions. For more detail about user permissions please see the Permissions help section. Similar to groups, you can only use additional roles if you have added them to the database.
Group
Role
Alumni
Year of Graduation
Faculty
Admin
Faculty
Director
Faculty
Faculty
Faculty
Lecturer
Medtech
Admin
Medtech
Staff
Resident
Lecturer
Resident
Resident
Staff
Admin
Staff
Pcoordinator
Staff
Staff
Staff
Translator
Student
Student (As of ME 1.17, students will now be in role:student, but you can still indicate the learner's graduating year using the Entry Year and Grad Year fields.)
Optional fields: Institution Number: The user's university id (e.g., staff or student number). As of ME 1.20 this can include letters and numbers. Entry Year: The year the learner entered/will enter a program. Grad Year: The anticipated graduation year. (Make sure your database includes the years you intend to enter.) Note that this field is strongly recommended for undergraduate organisations since users will automatically be added to an existing cohort if one exists for the graduation year. Notes: Information provided here will display in the General Comments section of the Personal Information section. Account Status: You can enter active or disabled in this column, you'll be able to change this setting in UI after the user is created. Access Start: Unix timestamp (e.g. 1512086400) or date-time format (2017-12-01 12:35) are accepted. Access Finish: Unix timestamp (e.g. 1512086400) or date-time format (2017-12-01 12:35) are accepted. Department: To enter a department affiliation for a user you must have department's Elentra id code. This is information you can request from a developer or you can find it by looking at a url. To discover the department id for yourself, you must be able to access Admin>System Settings. When you do, click on the name of the organisation you are working with and then click Departments in the left sidebar. Click on a department name and when the page for that department displays the url will include the department id at the end.
If you associate a faculty user with multiple departments please note that reports that rely on departments will attribute that faculty user effort to each department they are associated with.
Password: Passwords can be set using an import but we recommend only importing existing passwords if you exported them from elsewhere. Salt: This is a way to make a password more secure. It is recommended that you use this field only if you've exported a list of users and already have the salt information (and the password). Prefix: Accepted prefixes are Dr., Mr., Mrs., Ms., Prof., Assoc. Prof., and Asst. Prof. Alt Email: This is a second or alternative email the user can provide. Telephone, Fax, City, Address, Postal Code, Country, Province: Provide contact information as desired.
Every column header included in your file must be completed. If there is a column header with no information present delete that column before you upload the file.
If you are importing a significant number of users we recommend limiting your file size to 1000 users or less.
It is recommended that you use different files for different groups (e.g. faculty and learners) as they may not required the same fields and partially complete columns may result in errors. If you have blank cells please fill them with NULL.
After completing the spreadsheet, you can browse to find the file or drag and drop it in place. You will be prompted to match the information included in your CSV against the mapped fields available. Fields that display highlighted with green are required.
At this stage, you can scroll through the imported users to check their data. In the top right, click on the small arrows beside the Row counter. You'll see a summary of the information being uploaded for each user.
Decide whether to send user notification emails to new users (uncheck if you don't want emails sent), and click on Import Users.
You will see a green success message or be prompted to correct something in the CSV file.
Creating user accounts using a csv import will also generate an email confirmation to the user who completed the import. The email will include a list of all users successfully created.
You are able to upload revised user records to the system. When you do the system will compare the records and in some circumstances ask you to confirm which record you want to use.
The system will respond the following way when you update records: If the user has the same group but a new role compared to their previous record - system will update the role and everything else (start and end date, and account status). You will be asked to confirm whether you want to update the user record. If the user has a different group from their previous record that group will be added to the user's account and all other information will be updated. If the user has the same group and same role as their previous record the system will automatically update everything included in the csv.
When the system finds two records for the same user it will display the two records. Currently, these lines look identical but we are working on adding a popover card to display the conflicting information so users can more easily decide which record to import.
Note that you can choose to update no records, update all records, or individually select which records you'd like to update.
When you look at a list of users note that records displaying in red indicate users with disabled accounts.
Navigate to Admin>Manage Users.
Click 'Add New User'.
Provide the required information and set Permissions for the user. Note that you must click Add Permission after you've selected the appropriate group and role for the user.
After you've added a permission you may see the option to define a curriculum track if curriculum tracks exist for the relevant organization. Use the dropdown selector to set a user's curriculum track if necessary.
Linking a user to a department may mean that certain reports include the user (e.g., faculty reports, work force reporting). A user can be linked to multiple departments/divisions.
Leave email notification active or turn it off and click Add User. You will see a green success message or be prompted to correct something on the page.
To give someone access to a specific community and its documents, navigate to the desired community. You must be a community administrator to add a guest member.
From the Admin Center of the specific community, click 'Manage Members'.
Click the Add Guest Members tab.
Complete the required information and click 'Add Guest'.
You'll receive a green success message and the guest user will receive an email with further instructions. The user will only have access to the specific community.
Under the Account Options section of a user profile you will see the ability to edit Account Status, Access Start and Access Finish.
Updating a user's account status to Disabled will prevent the user from logging in.
If you want to temporarily remove access to Elentra, you can edit a user's Access Finish date and time.
Navigate to Admin>Manage Users.
Search for the appropriate user and click on his/her name.
From the User Management box on the left, click 'Edit Profile'.
Under Account Options set an Access Finish date and time (you could use this to set a finish access time in the future).
Click 'Save'.
A user whose access is finished will display with a red highlight on the list of users.
Navigate to Admin > Manage Users.
Search for the appropriate user.
Click the checkbox beside the user's name.
Scroll down and click 'Delete Selected'
Confirm your choice by clicking 'Delete Selected'
You will get a success message.
Users who have been deleted will display on the list of users with a green plus icon beside their name. This allows you to reactivate their account if needed (please note you will need to reassign them to a group and role, department, etc.)
Curriculum layouts define the general blocks of time used within an organization to manage teaching and learning. Examples include year, term, semester, phase, blocks, etc. Courses, modules, or whatever more granular units of instruction are called at your institution live within a curriculum layout.
Within each curriculum layout, curriculum periods are added. A curriculum period has a defined start and end date and is often associated with a specific cohort of learners. An example of three curriculum periods within one layout would be:
Term 1 Class of 2021, Sept. 2017-Dec. 2017
Term 1 Class of 2020, Sept. 2016-Dec. 2016
Term 1 Class of 2019, Sept. 2015-Dec. 2015
One curriculum layout can have multiple curriculum periods. Curriculum periods are required when creating the audience and enrolment for courses/programs and multiple features and reports in Elentra rely on curriculum periods to filter information.
Navigate to Admin>Manage Curriculum.
Click 'Curriculum Layout' from the left sidebar.
Click 'Add Layout'.
Complete the required information, noting the following: Curriculum Level: This field collects data but is not used elsewhere in the system. There is currently no user interface to change these levels. You may see preclinical/clinical or Undergraduate/Postgraduate depending on which version of Elentra you are using.
Click 'Save' or immediately add curriculum periods and then save your work.
From the Curriculum Layout page, click on an existing curriculum layout.
Click 'Add Curriculum Period'.
In the line added below, adjust the start and end date for the curriculum period, add a title (e.g. the relevant cohort), and leave the final column as active.
Scroll up if necessary and click 'Save'.
Click on and drag a curriculum layout row to the appropriate place in the list and then click 'Save Ordering'.
Click the checkbox beside the layout you wish to delete.
Click 'Delete Selected'.
From the Curriculum Layout page, click on an existing curriculum layout.
Click the checkbox beside the curriculum period you want to delete.
Click 'Deactivate'.
If a specific curriculum period is a time when learners will participate in clinical learning experiences, you can automatically create a block schedule to apply to that curriculum period. This allows for easy scheduling of clinical learning experiences. Detailed instructions for this process are included in the Curriculum>Rotation Blocks help section.
Visible only on a learner's Profile under the Account Options section, the Student Admin tool is to allow you to give a learner access to Exam question folders (as indicated in the Developer Notes).
The idea behind the Student Admin option is to allow experienced learners to create practice items for other learners. Then, this subset of the exam question bank would be used for formative exams where the learners can generate an exam comprised of random items from the bank, possibly based on curriculum tags applied to the items. (Please note that the ability for a learner to generate an exam is not yet included in Elentra.)
Students can also grade exam questions if they have been made a student admin, and assigned as a grader on an exam.
New in ME 1.19!
Enhancement to add option to view direct and/or indirect mappings to courses, events, and gradebook assessments
The Curriculum Explorer is available to all users by default and allows you to filter by curriculum tag set, course, cohort, mapping relationship and academic year, in order to see where a specific curriculum tag has been applied to a course, learning event, or assessment.
The results returned in the Gradebook Assessments section does not return results for individual exam items, nor for Assessment and Evaluation forms. Learners accessing Curriculum Explorer will not have the option to explore Gradebook Assessments.
Curriculum Explorer does not currently reflect the parent-child relationship if you create recurring events using the parent-child relationship. It will display results for all events that have been tagged with the relevant curriculum tag.
Select a curriculum tag set from the dropdown menu.
Select a course, cohort, mapping and or academic year to limit your results. Each field is optional.
In the Mapping Section you can specify the kind of linked curriculum tags you are looking for.
Direct Mappings includes tags that have been assigned to specific resources (e.g. course, event, gradebook assessment)
Indirect Mappings includes tags have been mapped to other tags either at the organizational level in Admin > Manage Curriculum OR contextually, and that other tag is assigned to a specific resource
By default, the system will return results for courses, learning events and Gradebook assessments (when the user has permission to view).
If you want to omit a category, deselect it.
Results on the Events tab will be grouped under the relevant course.
Click 'Explore'.
In the left pane, you'll see a list of curriculum tags and the number of times they are tagged based on the filters set.
The badge shows the number of resources (e.g., events, courses and assessments) assigned to that tag and any of its descendants if it's part of a hierarchical tag set.
Each level also includes the resources from the previous, higher level. So if Tag A is assigned to Course 1, when you navigate to A’s child (A.1) Course 1 will still be displayed there.
Click on a specific curriculum tag to view its results or to drill down to additional tags if the set has a hierarchy.
In the right pane, switch between views of courses, events, and assessments tagged with the objective.
Each tab will only show up if there are results returned for it.
There is not currently an export tool associated with the Curriculum Explorer.
The Curriculum Search tool is available to all users by default and uses boolean search terms to look for content within learning events. It searches event titles, event descriptions, and curriculum tag names. Users can also use advanced options to search files attached to learning events.
Type your search term(s) into the search space.
By default Elentra requires a minimum four character word to search. This is to prevent returning thousands of results for searches of three or fewer letters.
If you want your search results to include files attached to Learning Events, click 'Advanced Options' and click the checkbox just below the search bar.
Click 'Search' and your results will display on the screen.
Elentra searches event titles, event descriptions, and curriculum tag names for the word you entered.
Your search term will be highlighted if it is in the description of a relevant learning event.
You can toggle between three different views of your search results:
List view: This view shows you a list of all returned events. Export your results as desired.
Timeline view: This view displays the returned events by cohort on a timeline. Scroll through the results or quickly jump from year to year using the links on the right above the timeline. Mouseover an event for its course affiliation and length. View a total count of results returned per cohort in the left sidebar.
Table view: This view shows you course name, learning event, date, duration, description, unit (if enabled), event types, and teachers. Export your results as desired.
Advanced options let you further refine your curriculum search results.
Click 'Advanced Options'.
Select parameters to apply to your search including cohort, academic year, curriculum tag sets, filter fields, course and weeks (weeks will only appear if units/weeks in enabled in your installation).
To add a Tag Set click on the name of the desired tag set and click 'Add' just below the list of tag sets. You can hide this list as desired by clicking 'Hide List'. Adding a Tag Set to your search means only events with something from that tag set will be included in the results.
To use the Search Filter Fields and Search Filter Operator options, imagine creating a sentence to limit your results. For example, "If Event Description is ----" return results. You can create multiple filters to apply to a search and the returned results will only include events that meet the filter parameters.
The Search Filter Operator options include: is, is not, contains, does not contain, starts with, does not start with, ends with, and does not end with.
After you've set your filters, click 'Search'.
To clear just some existing filters click the small x on each filter card. To remove all filters, click 'Reset'.
Make sure to click 'Reset' to clear all filters before beginning a new search.
An example of using advanced search might be that I want to find all events on a certain topic NOT taught by one faculty member. I may already know that Dr. Greene teaches about heart disease but I want to find other instances in the curriculum where another faculty member is addressing heart disease. If I search for "heart disease" and add a "Teachers is not Dr. Greene" filter, the results will give me what I want.
Elentra includes the ability to link multiple repeating events in a parent-child relationship. This is most often used when small groups of learners will complete the same activities in repeating learning events. For example, there may be 10 events scheduled for 10 small groups but each event is essentially identical in terms of content, curriculum tags applied, etc. If you use the parent-child feature some reports will look only to the parent event to collect data and therefore help to report accurately from the perspective of a single learner.
When you export events from Curriculum Search you can choose whether to include or exclude child events.
Searching for key content in your curriculum, and exporting the results can be really useful for external reporting (e.g. research projects, interest group surveys, coroner's office, etc.). Similarly, these exports can help in gap analysis and planning an intentional curriculum.
When you add group:role permissions to faculty users you will notice a Clinical Faculty checkbox in each organization they are a part of. When you add a user through the user interface this will automatically be checked off. Note that as of Elentra ME1.12 you cannot set a user as a clinical faculty member in one organisation but not another.
This is mostly a tool to store information and is rarely used elsewhere in Elentra. One place it is used is when reporting on annual reporting. When generating reports on annual reports you can filter by clinical and non-clinical faculty (see below).
New in ME 1.20!
The ability to use characters and numbers in institutional ids.
A user interface to view details about external assessors. Please see for more details.
Elentra allows you to collect and store information on users in a variety of ways. Each user can have a basic profile but you can configure the system to collect additional information as desired.
Many institutions sync their user records with a centralized authoritative record of users which reduces the work of maintaining a user database.
Information you can collect and store on users through the basic profile includes:
Institutional number
Username and password
Name prefix
First and last name
Gender
E-mail (up to 2 by default)
Phone and fax numbers
Address
Office Hours
Notes/comments
You can allow users to add post-nominal letters to their names, however this setting is disabled by default. If you'd like to use this feature a developer will need to enable it for your institution.
If you have users with identical first and last names we recommend that their middle initial be entered as part of the first name field.
When an organisation wishes to record disciplinary action taken in response to a student's behavior, they can do so using the Discipline feature of the student's user profile.
Note that the Manage Incident feature might also be useful in this context and more information about Manage Incidents can be found in the User Management help section. Note that whereas Incidents is available to use with any user, Discipline is available only on student user profiles.
Navigate to Admin>Manage Users.
Search for the appropriate user and click on his/her name.
From the Student Management box on the left sidebar, click 'Disciplinary Actions'.
Click 'Add Disciplinary Actions' to create a new disciplinary action.
Provide the relevant details and click 'Add Action'. Unlike Incidents, the creator of a disciplinary action will not automatically be recorded and displayed.
Currently, learners can't view their own disciplinary actions.
To delete an existing action click the red minus icon beside the relevant action.
By default learners can not see their own discipline records through Elentra and such records are only accessible by users with admin roles.
The Manage Cohort tool allows you to store groups of users in cohorts and course lists. You can add specific learners to cohorts/course lists and set them as the audience for courses and events. Only users with admin. roles in Elentra can manage cohorts.
In some cases cohorts can be automatically populated based on information provided about a user when using a csv import to create users. The graduation year provided in the csv will be used to slot the learner into the appropriate cohort. Note that the appropriate cohort must exist before you import users for this feature to work.
When creating a cohort you can import a csv of users and their affiliated cohorts, or select users to add to the cohort through the user interface.
To import cohorts:
Navigate to Admin>Manage Cohort.
Click 'Import/Export' and 'Import Cohorts from CSV file'.
Download the sample template as needed.
Complete the template and click 'Chose File' to add the template.
Using this tool will create any new cohorts included in the csv and add users appropriately.
Note that this tool cannot be used to create users; any user included in the cohort import must already exist in Elentra.
To manually create and add users to a cohort:
Navigate to Admin>Manage Cohort.
Click 'Add New Cohort'.
Complete the required information, noting the following: Cohort Name: Make this clear as it will show up in various contexts throughout Elentra. Examples include Class of 2021, Class of 2022. etc. Cohorts will sometimes be available as filter options in Elentra. Cohort Type: Define the type of cohort you are creating.
Cohort: This is generally a full list of learners moving through a program together for a duration of time. They may take multiple courses together.
Course list: A course list is a type of cohort. It is generally a list of learners in one specific course for a set duration of time.
If you select Course List, note that you'll be prompted to select a specific course.
In the Add Learners section, click on the arrow to access a list menu of user groups. Click through the options to access the users you want to add to the cohort. Note the Select All option at the top of the list in case it is useful.
To remove a name from the list, click the small x beside the name to be removed.
Click 'Proceed'.
Once a cohort exists it can be added as the audience of an enrolment in a course or event, or used as a filter setting on the Events tab.
Once users are added to a cohort you can deactivate or delete them.
Deactivating a user in a cohort will mean that the user still appears on the cohort list, but will have a red highlight. You can reactivate a deactivated member of a cohort.
Deactivating or deleting a user from a cohort does not remove them from any course groups they were already made a part of. If you wish to remove them from the course groups you must do so through Admin > Manage Courses > Course Groups.
Deactivated members of a cohort will:
be removed from course enrolments (assuming the enrolment was set by cohort)
be removed from the audience of events in the course (assuming the audience was set by course enrolment)
Note that if event audiences were set to course groups, you will need to remove the user from their group to remove them from the event audience.
remain visible in the course gradebook
be removed from the course logbook reports
be removed from the My Learners list accessible to faculty or admins through the Assessment & Evaluation badge (as such those users will not be able to view an individual leaner's Assessments, Learner Explorer, etc.)
display as "off-service" in Clinical Experiences > Rotation Schedule (assuming the learner was booked into at least one slot for the course)
Deleting a user from a cohort will remove them entirely and you will no longer see their name on the cohort list.
Deleted members of a cohort will behave like deactivated members of a cohort with the exception that they will be removed from a course gradebook.
To delete/deactivate a user:
Click the red minus sign to the right of the user's name.
Click 'Deactivate' or 'Delete'.
Cohorts/Course lists that include deactivated members will be highlighted yellow on the Manage Cohorts list.
Navigate to Admin>Manage Cohort.
Search for and click on the name of the cohort you want to edit.
To edit the cohort name, click the pencil icon to the right of the name. Change the text and click 'Rename'.
To delete users from the cohort click the red minus button to the right of the user name. You will be prompted to deactivate or delete the user.
You can switch the group type from the dropdown menu. If you are turning something into a course list you'll be required to add the relevant course. If you switch group type you must save your change using the small Save button to the right of Group Type.
You can add additional learners using the same process explained above.
When you have completed your edits to the cohort, click 'Proceed'.
Navigate to Admin>Manage Cohort.
Click the checkbox beside the cohort you wish to delete.
Click the red Delete Selected button.
You will be prompted to deactivate or delete the cohort.
Confirm your choice.
A course list is a type of cohort but there are a few places in Elentra where options exist only for cohorts:
Community Registration: If you create a community and you want set registration options by Group, the available options will include cohorts but not course lists.
Clinical Experiences: In Admin > Clinical Experiences the top level filter options are Cohort or Course. Course List is not included, however you can filter by course and cperiod which will likely match a course list fairly closely. (The learners listed will be based on the actual enrolment in the course and cperiod.)
Events Tab: You can filter by cohort or by course, by not by course list.
Elentra allows there to be two profile photos stored for each user: an official photo and a user uploaded photo. The official photo must be uploaded by an administrative user. If a user's account has both an official photo and a user uploaded photo, the official photo will be used first.
User photos appear through out Elentra. Some examples include in People Search and when triggering or completing Assessment and Evaluation forms.
Photos can be imported through the user interface in a user's profile but there is also a photo import tool that a developer can use to bulk import multiple official photos.
Please note that if a user does not want his/her photo displayed in Elentra s/he can change his/her privacy settings in the user profile. If users select Minimum Profile their photos will be hidden from other users.
If you want to bulk import user photos you will need help from a developer. The work a non-technical staff member can do is to prepare a folder of the required photos. Each photo should be named using Lastname_Firstname.jpg or studentnumber.jpg. You don't have to worry too much about the size of the photos since Elentra will automatically resize them as needed.
If users want to upload their own profile photos they can do so through their profile. On the main Personal Information page, users can hover over the empty photo spot and click Upload Photo to add a photo.
Note that they can toggle between the official and uploaded photos to view the two photos they might have on file.
A user can't delete his or her photo. They can upload a new photo to overwrite their existing uploaded photo.
The MSPR is a collection of information about a student including activities completed during medical education, comments about student performance in clinical settings, amount of time spent in different departments or specialities, etc. In Canada, this information is provided by undergraduate medical education offices to the Canadian Resident Matching Service (CaRMS).
Additional information about how to manage and use the MSPR in general can be found in the MSPR help section.
When a learner submits an observership, administrative staff can approve their observership request.
From any page in Elentra, click on your name badge in the top right corner to open your user profile.
Click 'My Observerships'.
Complete the required information.
Users need to have staff:admin user permissions to access observerships.
To review multiple observership requests go to Admin > Manage Observerships.
To review an individual's observership request:
Navigate to Admin > Manage Users.
Search for the appropriate user and click on his/her name.
From the Student Management box on the left sidebar, click 'Observerships'.
Pending observerships will be displayed for you to approve.
Navigate to Admin > System Reports.
Scroll to MSPR Reporting and click on 'Observership Report'.
Set the date range and additional filter fields if desired, and then click 'Create Report'.
New in ME 1.20!
The option to define the default event color for an organization in the database settings table (events_default_color)
The option to have events change color when a file or link has been modified. Configured via a database setting (events_limit_color_update_trigger)
Note that if an organization has color settings applied for events, updated events will show via an icon instead.
Also, icon only shows if a learner had already viewed the event, then a file or link was modified. (If the learner has never viewed the event, they won't see a change.)
The option to include rotation schedules and clinical events in a single calendar view for learners (calendar_display_rotations)
A database setting option to exclude specific courses and their rotations in the learner dashboard calendar view (calendar_display_rotations_excluded_courses)
A database setting option to set a threshold for clinical events to display on the learner dashboard calendar along with rotations (e.g., so you could have 3 clinical events showing and a rotation schedule showing but once you hit 4 clinical events, the calendar will stop showing the rotation) (calendar_display_rotations_clinical_event_threshold)
When users log in to Elentra they will land on their personalized dashboard. From here they can view their schedule, quickly check their Assessment and Evaluation tasks, access any of the main menu tabs, click on their user icon for personal options, or even initiate an on-demand assessment.
The personalized calendar that displays on the dashboard will show users their upcoming events and can optionally show them additional events scheduled through Communities. Faculty and administrative users also have the option to view all events for specific courses. Academic events can be represented on the calendar in different colours which can be controlled a variety of ways (e.g., colour per event type, per course, etc.).
Database Setting
Use
podcast_display_sidebar
Show or hide the podcast card in the sidebar.
bookmarks_display_sidebar
Show or hide the bookmarks option in the sidebar.
calendar_display_start_hour
calendar_display_last_hour
calendar_display_scroll_hour
calendar_display_hour_date
calendar_display_month_day
calendar_display_default_date
calendar_start_on_monday_dashboard
calendar_excluded_days_dashboard
calendar_start_on_monday_events
calendar_excluded_days_events
events_default_color
events_limit_color_update_trigger
calendar_display_rotations
used to control whether or not to show learners their rotation schedule in the event calendar view on the dashboard
calendar_display_rotations_clinical_event_threshold
if empty, system will show learners rotations and clinical events on their calendar, if you enter a value, e.g. 3, calendar will show both clinical events and rotations until that value is exceeded, at which point it will no longer show the rotation on the learner's calendar
calendar_display_rotations_excluded_courses
can enter course ids, excludes those courses from learner calendar api, use to hide specific courses from learner calendar
There are three types of communities: generic communities, learning module communities and course website communities.
A community (most generic) would be most appropriate for a school committee, student work group, or social group. By default it just has a home page but users can add announcements, discussions, document sharing, etc. Through these functions you can post announcements (and send email notification of announcements to registered community members), host discussions, use poll and quiz functions, etc. Examples: Curriculum Committee, Surgery PBL Group 2, Undergraduate Cooking Club.
Learning module communities are most appropriate to use if you want to create an educational module for users (e.g. a module on infection control in the hospital). The pages you can select from include introduction, objectives, foundational knowledge, testing understanding, etc. Users will be able to navigate through the pages as you've set them up. You can embed video, images, etc.
You can use a course website community to turn the basic information about a course completed through the course set up page, into a course website. A course website uses a template to create pages like background, course calendar, units, prerequisites, course aims, etc. The Learning Objectives and MCC Presentation pages are configured to auto-populate with the curriculum tags assigned to the course through the course setup.
New as of Elentra ME 1.16, you can copy an existing course website for a new academic year and make it available to the new learners in a course.
Any user can create a community and communities are not organisation specific. For that reason, a community built in one organisation will be visible to users in other organisation.
Click 'Communities' in the main tab menu.
Click 'Create a Community'.
Step 1: Choose a category for your community by clicking on the appropriate title (e.g., Administration, Courses, Careers in Health Care).
The list of community categories cannot be changed through the user interface but can be adjusted by a developer if desired by your organisation.
Categories may be useful to see how users are using communities but there are no filter settings or reports that rely on these categories.
Step 2: Provide the required details, noting the following:
Community Details
Name: Pick a descriptive but concise name.
Keywords: These will not be visible to users but will be applied when someone searches for an existing community.
Description: This will be displayed to any user who searches for or tries to access the community.
Shortname: This will be part of the community url. It must be lower-case, less than 20 characters, and include only letters, numbers, underscore or period. After this is set there is no user interface to change the url so pick carefully!
Type: Select the appropriate type from the dropdown menu. More detail about community types is available in the Communities>Types help section.
If you are creating a course website, indicate which course should be connected to the community. Note that you can connect multiple courses to one course website and they will share their student-facing website. More information about this is in the Courses>Websites help section.
Template: A selection of templates are available but only those applicable to the community type you select will display. Click on the magnifying glass icon in the corner of each template to see a sample of its appearance. The templates are titled with their suggested uses.
Community Pages
Different types of communities have different pages available. In generic communities the only page included by default is Home. Tick off the additional pages required. In course websites, a series of default pages are required. You will be able to add additional pages but there is not ability to delete or hide the included pages (unless you get a developer to change this in your installations database). In learning modules, you must check off any pages you wish to include.
Community Permissions
Here you can control how users access and use the community. Details about each option are included inline on the screen.
Many organisations set the permissions for their courses as Protected Community and Open Community but of course it is up to each organisation to decide this.
Click 'Create'.
You will be redirected to the community and as the creator of the community can manage all pages. You'll notice an Edit button on each page. Click on it to add or edit content on any page. Additional information about managing a community is in the Communities>Manage help section.
Additional information about creating a course website can be accessed in the Course Website help section.
Anyone who is the administrator of a community can use various tools to manage community content and pages. If you create a community you will automatically be a community administrator. Different pages are templated to serve different functions and different community types come with specific page types. In most communities you can delete pages or hide them from view if they are unneeded (one exception is course websites which require you to use the templated pages). You can add pages of most types to any community and control which users have access to the page and how they interact with it (e.g. can upload or download files, can comment on files, etc.)
Within each community, a variety of pages are available. Below are listed the pages and their basic functions.
Default Content: Allows you to add any information to the page using the rich text editor (includes ability to embed media and post images).
Announcements: Allows you to post announcements to the community. You can also choose to send notifications to community members when announcements are made. Announcements can also be set to be made visible on the home page (set this from the home or background page itself).
Discussions: Allows community members to initiate and participate in discussions. Once a discussion space has been created by a community administrator (this includes a category and a forum), users will be able to create topics within the forum. The system is set up to allow threaded discussions and users can also subscribe to an RSS feed of a discussion using Live Bookmarks, My Yahoo! or another RSS application.
Note that a discussion page added to a course website will have slightly more options than a discussion page in a generic community; for example, in the course website when you add a forum to a discussion page you can restrict access to the forum to specific course groups.
Document Sharing: Allows community members to upload, share, and download files. Folders and subfolders can be created to help organise files. Permissions can be set at the file and document level to control who can upload new versions of a document, who can access it, etc.
Events: Post events for the community and choose whether or not to notify members of said event. Allows user to provide a title, date and time, and description for an event.
Galleries: Galleries allows you to create folders in which to store images. Permissions can be set to allow users to upload, view, and comment on images. Images will display using thumbnails.
Polling: This page allows you to create polls and make them available to members of the community.
Quizzes: This page allows you to post quizzes created through Manage Quizzes.
BasicLTI Consumer: LTI stands for Learning Tools Interoperability and is a way for one system to send a user to another system fairly seamlessly. This page type allows you to connect to an LTI provider your school has an existing arrangement with (e.g. Khan Academy, turnitin, Quizlet, etc.). You'll need to provide specific information from the LTI provider in the applicable fields. In some cases LTIs are free so you might not need a key and secret.
Please note that for all of the listed page types and their functions, the audience will be members of the specific community. If you want to create a notice to display on the main Elentra dashboard in the Message Center you should use Admin>Manage Notices. If you want to create a poll targeting all students, faculty or staff you should use Admin>Manage Polls. If you want to create scheduled learning events to be associated with a course, specific audience, faculty, etc. and to display in faculty and learner calendars you must use Admin>Manage Events. When you use page types and their features in a community space they are for members of that community only.
Most of the pages included in a course website template are default content type and allow you to add information. The exceptions to this are the Background, Course Calendar, Learning Objectives and MCC Presentations pages; these have some information that will auto-populate based on information provided during the course setup.
Background: This page will display the name and contact of a course director and curriculum coordinator (if applicable). It will also display any content added to the Course Description of Director's Message fields on the Manage Courses>Course Setup page. If you enable display community history for this community, that history will display on the background page. As of Feb. 2018, additional text added via the background page text box will not show up. If you enable announcements or events for this community, they will also not display on the background page (even if you check that they should).
Course Calendar: This page will display a list of all events within a course.
Prerequisites: This page is blank unless content is added.
Course Aims: This page is blank unless content is added.
Learning Objectives: This page will be populated with the curriculum tags assigned to the course through the Course Setup tab.
MCC Presentations: This page will be populated with the clinical learning objectives assigned to the course through the Course Setup tab.
Teaching Strategies: This page is blank unless content is added.
Assessment Strategies: This page is blank unless content is added.
Resources: This page can have text added to it. It will not automatically display the resources added to the course via Manage Courses (we are exploring changing this).
Expectations of Students: This page is blank unless content is added.
Expectations of Faculty: This page is blank unless content is added.
Community Title: This is the title page of the learning module. It could include information like the affiliated course, intended audience, or instructions for using the module.
Introduction: This page introduces the learning module.
Objectives: This page is blank unless content is added.
Foundational Knowledge: This page is blank unless content is added.
Formative Assessment: This page is blank unless content is added.
Test your understanding: This page is blank unless content is added.
Summary: This page is blank unless content is added.
Credits: This page is blank unless content is added.
Print Version: This page provides users with the ability to export the learning module in a print-friendly version.
When logged in and on a community page, you have two options to manage the content on community pages.
In many community templates as a community administrator you'll see an Edit button on most pages. By clicking on the button you'll be taken to a screen where you can edit the content and save your work. As a community administrator you'll also see an Admin Center card in the left or right sidebar. Click on 'Manage Pages' to access a list of all pages in the community.
Click on the name of the page you wish to edit.
Adjust the page attributes (e.g. parent page, menu and page title, etc.) and add any content you wish to.
Click 'Save'.
Log into Elentra and navigate to the community you want to edit.
If you are an administrator of a community, you'll see an Admin Center card in the left or right sidebar. Click on 'Manage Pages' to access a list of all pages in the community.
Click 'Add New Page'.
Set the page details and add content if needed. Remember that different pages serve different functions. For an overview of page types see above.
Click 'Save'.
Add the required content to the page.
Access a page either by clicking on the Edit button or by navigating to Manage Pages and clicking on the page name.
In the Page Permissions section, check off the tick boxes to decide who can view the page. Scroll down and click 'Save'.
Note that in some community types (e.g., course website), the required pages can not be hidden from the menu.
Access a page either by clicking on the Edit button or by navigating to Manage Pages and clicking on the page name.
In the Page Option section, set the page visibility to 'Hide this page from menu'. This will prevent users from seeing the page, however the page still exists. If a user knows or guesses the url s/he will be able to access the page. Scroll down and click 'Save'.
Access a page either by clicking on the Edit button or by clicking Manage Pages in the Admin Center and clicking on the page name.
In the top section of the page settings, find the 'Page Parent' section. Select a parent page from the dropdown options. Scroll down and click 'Save'.
This will create pages that are children, or nested, below other pages.
The first and second levels of menu titles will show up on the menu. Additional levels will show up on tabbed or list menus once the parent page is clicked on. This will appear differently depending on the template you've selected. See samples of different nesting page displays below. The Committee, Learning Module and Virtual Patient templates will allow for a mouseover display of second level menu titles and then will display third level titles in a list on the left side. The default and course website templates will display the first and second levels down the left side and third level titles as tabs across the top of the page.
From the main Dashboard Elentra users can quickly access a main tab menu and personalized options.
The main navigation menu along the top of the webpage remains constant almost everywhere you navigate in the system. The tabs and any drop-down menus associated with them are specific to the group and role you have (e.g.learner, staff, faculty, etc.).
In the top right users have icons to access their personal options, the ability to switch organizations (visible only if relevant), and quick access to Assessment and Evaluation tasks.
Beside the user icon a user will see the group and organization they are currently active in, if they have multiple permissions in multiple organizations.
If a user is active in multiple organizations they will see a building icon and can use this to switch between organizations and groups.
The Assessment and Evaluation badge is a quick link to a user's tasks (as well as access to My Learners for faculty and admin users).
The Elentra Message Center displays any Dashboard Notice for which a user is the audience. This might include notices sent to users by an administrator, or notices about an upcoming assignment (specific to learners).
The collapsible left-hand side bar of Elentra includes menu cards which change depending on the page you are viewing and your role.
By default, all users will see My Bookmarks, My Communities, Helpful Links, and Give Feedback! from the Dashboard.
Bookmarks display by default in Elentra but there is a database setting to control this (setting: bookmarks_display_sidebar). If you want to hide Bookmarks from the user sidebar speak to a developer about changing the setting.
Users can subscribe to their Elentra calendars to receive ongoing updates to event dates and times. There are two places users can subscribe to calendars: their dashboard or within a community events page (access to events created within that community only).
Please note that while change to Learning Events in Elentra appear immediately on the Elentra dashboard, it can take varying amounts of time for any changes made in Elentra to appear on a user's third party calendar tool (e.g., Google Calendar, Outlook, iCalendar). While some of these tools allow users to set how often the calendar should refresh, others (notably Google Calendar) does not. Nor does Google guarantee how often they refresh calendars.
Calendar subscriptions that include learning events will provide the following information:
event title,
location, if provided (including urls if the location is a url),
attendance requirement (optional/required),
recording (available/unavailable),
duration (X minutes, and breakdown e.g. X minutes lecture, X minutes lab), and
description.
Note that custom event colours stored in Elentra (whether managed through a database setting, course, event type, or specific event) do not come through to 3rd party calendars.
Learners generally land on their dashboard and see the calendar upon logging in to Elentra.
If CBME is enabled in your organisation, learners will see their CBME dashboard when they log in. They can scroll down the page or click 'My Event Calendar' from the dashboard tab menu to quickly see their calendar.
Below the calendar, click 'Subscribe to Calendar or Download Calendar'.
Click to select All Calendars or Individual Course Calendar. For the second option, indicate the appropriate course using the dropdown menu.
Click 'Subscribe' to get a version of the calendar that automatically update to reflect changes made to the schedule in Elentra. After clicking Subscribe you can click to copy the subscription URL and add it to your calendar tool or click 'Subscribe to Calendar'. Your computer will likely prompt you to choose an application to open the link.
If learners have added a community events calendar to their dashboard calendar, community events will be included in the calendar subscription.
Click 'Download' to get a version of the calendar that you can edit but that will not automatically update based on changes made within Elentra. (You will be able to re-download the schedule at any time.)
Click 'Download Calendar'. Your computer will prompt you to choose an application to open the download or you can save the file. If you save the file you can later add it to your preferred calendar tool.
Events in the calendar will display any required preparation supplied in the event and will include a link to the learning event.
Faculty can subscribe to a calendar that includes their teaching and learning events (i.e., where they are the event teacher or are in the event audience).
From the dashboard, look for the "Subscribe to Calendar" button.
Stay on the All Calendars tab.
Click 'Copy Subscription Link' or Subscribe to Calendar.
If you click Subscribe to Calendar you may be prompted to open the file with an application (i.e., your calendar tool).
Note that when subscribing to a calendar from the dashboard, the subscription will only include the events the faculty member is a teacher or leaner in. The subscription will not include events from a course calendar that the faculty may have optionally added to their calendar view.
Faculty can subscribe to individual course calendars using the "Subscribe to Calendar" button below the calendar.
Click "Subscribe to Calendar"
Click "Individual Course Calendar" from the tab menu
Select a course from the dropdown selector
Choose to subscribe (will automatically update events) or Download (will provide a file for the events as currently scheduled)
At the bottom of the window, copy the subscription URL, click Subscribe to Calendar or Download as appropriate.
On a community events page, you can get a static version of the calendar or subscribe to an automatically updating version.
To subscribe to an automatically updating version of the calendar of events, right click on the calendar icon. Click 'Copy Link Location/Address' and paste the link into a subscription feed for your preferred calendar tool.
If you click on the calendar icon your computer may automatically download an ics file or may prompt you to choose an application to open the download or you can save the file. If you save the file you can later add it to your preferred calendar tool. This will provide a static version of the calendar including already created events. You can re-download it later to update your calendar.
There are multiple calendar settings in the database to allow you to display hours and days of the week according to your organization's preference. You can configure how dates and hours display, whether to include weekend days, whether to exclude other days of the week, and whether to start the calendar on a Monday.
To experiment with different views, speak to a developer.
Users can toggle between day, week, and month view.
Users can click the calendar icon to access a date selector and quickly navigate to another date.
Users can download or subscribe to a calendar.
Users can click the 'Today' button to quickly return to today's date.
Users can click the forward and back arrows to switch to the previous or next calendar view.
From the calendar, users can click on an event title to see more event details, download resources for that event or navigate to the event page.
Users will automatically see learning events they are directly associated with (e.g. as a learner or teacher).
Users can optionally add additional calendars to their dashboard in order to display Events created in specific communities they belong to.
A community calendar will only display if that community has an Events page accessible to the individual user.
The number badge on the My Calendars button displays how many calendar feeds are currently selected.
Click the 'My Calendars' button.
Tick off the additional calendars you want to include on your dashboard.
Note: Students and faculty cannot deselect My Learning Events.
Click 'Apply'.
Additional events from the selected communities will display on the dashboard calendar.
For staff and faculty users, a second option--My Courses--will display. By clicking this button, users can add all the learning events from a specific course to their dashboard calendar.
User calendar preferences will be remembered and automatically applied the next time a user logs in.
To remove a calendar feed from the dashboard calendar, click My Calendar, deselect a calendar, and click 'Apply'.
Elentra allows you to configure event colors multiple ways. You can define an event type color in System Setting, set a default event color in the database settings table (events_default_color), define event colors per course, and define colors on specific events.
Elentra will use the following order to check for and display an event color:
Individual event color,
Course event color,
Default color,
Event type color
If an event includes two different event types, the event type that is longer will take precedence as the event color. If the event types are equal in length, the color will be that of the first event type listed.
We plan to revise the color preference order in a future release so that event type colors (if set) will take precedence over a default color (if set).
These is an additional database setting to allow events to change color if a file or link has been updated (events_limit_color_update_trigger). If this is enabled and you already use event colors, an information icon will show on the events instead.
The My Event Calendar tab shows all course events that include the learner in the event audience.
The My Rotations Schedule tab shows any scheduled rotations, clinical events, and planned absences stored in the Clinical Experience Leave Tracking tool.
There is a database setting option to allow learners to see one calendar that includes their learning events and rotation schedule details (calendar_display_rotations).
Learners can optionally add Community Events calendar feeds to their dashboard calendar (see above).
Learners may see due dates for assignments in their course gradebook.
There is a database setting to control whether or not you show learners their assignment due dates on the dashboard calendar (calendar_assignments_enabled). To change this setting, speak to a developer.
On the dashboard, faculty have a calendar view of all upcoming course events that include them as either the teacher or as an audience member. Faculty can optionally add additional community event calendars OR course event calendars (see above).
New in ME 1.19 Staff users will have a dashboard calendar that is blank by default.
Staff and Medtech users will see a blank dashboard calendar to which they can optionally add Community Events calendars for communities they belong to, or add learning event calendars from courses.
A community can be set up by any user to provide a space to share documents, have online discussion, etc. It can be set up as protected and only accessed by authenticated users and further can be configured to require registration or not, etc. There are three types of communities which can be used for different purposes. The three types are: community, course website, and learning module. More detail is in the Community>Types help section. All communities can be configured to include features like announcements, discussion boards, document sharing, quizzes, events, polling, etc.
Notably, communities is one of the few modules of Elentra that is not organisation specific. That means you can see communities created within one organisation across all organisations and you can add users from any organisation to any community. When users are logged in they can access any of their communities without toggling between their organisations.
Often an organisation's staff maintains course website communities, committee communities, and learning modules. Individual users can create communities for their study groups, professional learning communities, sports teams, etc.
Clicking on the user icon will open users' personal options, configured to their group and role in Elentra. Access to , Privacy Preferences, Notification Preferences, and logging out will appear here for all users.
Database Setting
Use
community_display_guest_enrollment
community_allow_leave_community
used to control whether users can leave communities they were added to by an admin
These polls function differently than polls set up via Manage Polls. These polls will only show up to users when they are in a community and navigate to the polling page (community administrators can send a notification to let community members know a poll is available).
As a community administrator, navigate to a community and click 'Polling'.
Click 'Add Poll'.
Provide polling details including title and description.
Decide whether or not to allow multiple votes by clicking the appropriate radio button. If you allow users to have multiple votes you should type in how many each gets (leave at zero for unlimited votes).
Set up the polling question in the Question Details section. Question: This is what you are asking. If you'd like to create a poll with multiple questions you'll need to create your first question, save the poll, and then you can add additional questions. Multiple Responses: Check this off to allow respondents to choose more than one response. If you pick this, type in the range of response numbers each participant can give (e.g., between 2 and 4 responses allowed). Responses: Add answer options here. Click on the blue plus button to add your response option. After your first response is added to the list, type in another and click the blue plus button again. Edit a response by clicking on it. Delete a response by clicking the red trash can icon. Reorder responses by clicking on a response and dragging it to the place you want it to be.
Set permissions for the poll to customize which community member types can view the poll, vote, view results (on an ongoing basis-usually most appropriate for the person controlling the poll), and post-vote results (meaning who can view the results only once they have already voted-usually most appropriate for the audience of a poll).
You can restrict voting to specific community members by clicking on 'Select specific members to vote'. If you choose this option, click on 'Select Group & Role' to refine the list of options. Begin to type in a name and click on it when you see the appropriate user.
If you wish to send out notifications to the community members that the poll has been posted check off the appropriate box.
Set the Time Release Options for the event. This controls when the poll will be accessible to users.
Click 'Proceed'.
You can now add additional questions if desired. To do so, click 'Add New Question'. Questions can be edited or deleted by clicking on the blue pencil icon or red trash can icon.
When you have added additional questions or made other changes, click 'Save'.
To edit or delete an existing poll, navigate to the polling page, and then click 'edit' or 'delete' beside the event you want to modify. You may also see a 'vote' option if the poll is set up to allow administrators to vote.
After at least one vote has been cast, administrators will also see a 'history' option beside a poll name. Click 'history' to see the current poll results.
Navigate to a community and click 'Polling'.
Locate the appropriate poll and click 'vote'.
Whether the community member can view the poll results depends on how the poll is set up.
As a community administrator, navigate to a community and click 'Galleries'.
Click 'Add Photo Gallery'.
Provide gallery details including title and description. The gallery description will be visible to community members.
Set permissions for the gallery. You can customize which community member types can view the gallery, upload photos, and comment.
Set the Time Release Options for the gallery. This controls when the gallery will be accessible to users.
Click 'Save.'
To edit or delete an existing gallery, navigate to the gallery page, and then click 'edit' or 'delete' underneath the gallery you want to modify.
Navigate to a community and click 'Galleries'.
Click on a gallery name (remember a gallery must be built by a community administrator).
Click 'Upload Photo'.
Select a photo and provide a title and optional description. If a title is not provided, the filename (e.g., IMG_342.JPG) will appear in the title space when the image is displayed.
To be notified when users comment on the photo, click the checkbox beside 'Receive notifications...'.
Set the Time Release Options to control when this document will be accessible to other community members.
To accept the Acceptable Use Agreement click the appropriate checkbox (required).
Click 'Upload'.
To more easily upload multiple images at once, click 'Add Another Photo' which will increase the spots where you can upload images.
Navigate to a community and click 'Galleries'.
Click on a gallery name (remember a gallery must be built by a community administrator).
Click on an image.
Click 'Add Photo Comment'.
Type a comment (a title is not required, although will display in bold if provided).
Click 'Save'.
Comments appear in the order they were made with the oldest comment at the top of the list.
Users can edit or delete their own comments.
To quickly view more images in the gallery, use the Previous Photo and Next Photo buttons.
An External URL page type allows you to add a url to a community. The menu title will be a live link that redirects a user to a new site when they click on it.
As of ME 1.16, LTI Providers are added and configured in System Settings to use LTI Consumers in Course Pages, Course Websites and Learning Events.
Elentra offers the ability to integrate with LTI tools such as Quizlet, Turnitin, Google Classroom, etc. There are three areas where a LTI Consumer can be used: Course Pages created when a Course is added, Course Websites in Communities and Learning Events.
As a community administrator, navigate to a community and click 'Document Sharing'.
Click 'Add Shared Folder'.
Provide folder details noting that you can create sub-folders as needed. The folder description will be visible to community members.
Set permissions for the folder. You can customize which community member types can browse the folder, upload files, and comment.
By default folders are visible to students. If you'd like to hide the folder from students, click the appropriate radio button.
Set the Time Release Options for the folder. This controls when the folder will be accessible to users.
Click 'Save.'
To edit or delete an existing folder, navigate to the document sharing page, click on cog to the right of the folder title and then make a selection from the dropdown menu.
Note that within document sharing you can reorder folders, move files within folders, and expand all folders to view all files. Click on the appropriate button for each task from the document sharing page.
Remember, a community member's ability to upload files in a folder is controlled by permission settings when the folder is set up.
Navigate to a community and click 'Document Sharing'.
Click 'Expand All Folders' to quickly view all existing files if desired.
Click the cog beside a folder name and select 'Add File' from the dropdown menu.
Browse your computer or drag and drop a file into place.
Provide file details and set the access method and file visibility.
Batch File Permissions allows you to customize who can view and upload new versions of files.
Batch Time Release Options controls when this file will be accessible to other community members.
Complete the Acceptable Use Agreement by checking the box and click 'Upload File(s)'.
To delete or modify an existing file, click on the cog to the left of the file title and select the appropriate action.
Community members can share urls and HTML through a document sharing space; their ability to do so is controlled by permission setting when a folder in document sharing is set up.
Navigate to a community and click 'Document Sharing'.
Click 'Expand All Folders' to quickly view all existing files if desired.
Click the cog beside a folder name and select 'Add Link' from the dropdown menu.
Provide link details and if applicable open the Advanced Settings menu. Access Method: Define where the URL should open. Iframe Javascript Resizing: Select whether the resize the iframe. Session Variables: More information coming soon. Hide link from students: Define whether or not to allow students to see the link.
Batch Link Permissions allows you to customize who can view and upload new versions of links. If you select Course Groups you'll be able to further set how browsing non-members can interact with the link (assuming your course community is open beyond enrolled learners).
Batch Time Release Options controls when this link will be accessible to other community members.
Click 'Save'.
To delete or modify an existing link, click on the cog to the left of the link title and select the appropriate action.
Click the cog beside a folder name and select 'Add HTML' from the dropdown menu.
Provide document title, description, and content.
Set the access method.
Decide whether or not to hide the document from view.
Set viewing permissions to customize who can view the document.
Set the Time Release Options to control when this document will be accessible to other community members.
Click 'Save'.
To delete or modify an existing HTML document, click on the cog to the left of the document title and select the appropriate action.
Navigate to a community and click 'Document Sharing'.
In Document Sharing, click 'Expand All Folders' to quickly view all existing files if desired. Click on a file name.
If you don't expand all files, click on the appropriate folder and then file name.
Click 'View Latest' to view the document (it will open or download depending on how its creator set it up).
Click 'Add File Comment'.
Provide a comment title and enter text into the comment body.
Click 'Save.'
The author of a comment and community administrators can edit or delete existing comments by clicking 'edit' or 'delete' beside a comment.
The Quizzes page of a community allows you to post links to quizzes created through the Elentra quiz module.
When an administrator adds a quiz s/he will be walked through several questions to configure the quiz as desired. Choices you can make include:
title and description (both will display to users)
optional or required
shuffle question order or not
time limit (in minutes)
number of attempts
immediate or delayed quiz results, or hiding the quiz results
time release options
Administrators can click the pencil icon beside a posted quiz to edit its settings.
Administrators can click the bar graph icon to view quiz results.
When community members view a quiz page they'll see all available quizzes. Completed quizzes will have a green check mark beside them and score and feedback accessible (if the quiz was set to release feedback).
As a community administrator, navigate to a community and click 'Discussions'.
Click 'Add Discussion Forum'.
Provide a title, description and category. The forum category will be the most easily viewable label for users, think of it as a folder or label for the discussion forum. You can eventually create multiple discussion forums within one category. The description will be visible to users once they have clicked the category name.
Set permissions for the discussion forum. You can customize which community member types can view the forum, write new posts, and reply to posts.
Set the Time Release Options for the discussion forum. This controls when the discussion forum will be accessible to users.
Click 'Save.'
To edit or delete an existing discussion forum, navigate to the discussions page, click on the category name, and then click 'edit' or 'delete' beside the discussion forum you want to modify. If you delete a discussion and it was the only discussion forum in a category, the category will also be removed.
Note that community members who participate in discussion forums have the option to post anonymously, however, community administrators will be able to see the identity of all users who post to a discussion, whether anonymous or not. If you have faculty in community administrator roles responding to discussion posts it may be worth letting them know that students may be posting anonymously.
Using Discussions in a Course Website/Community: Note that if you use Course Groups you will have the option to customize a discussion board to have a specific course group as its audience. Leave both the Member Permissions checked off and specify the small group audience(s) for the discussion.
Navigate to a community and click 'Discussions'.
Click on a discussion category name.
Click on a discussion forum title.
Click 'New Post'.
Add a post title and body.
Users can choose to make their comment anonymous by checking the box beside 'Hide my name'. Note that the user's identity will still be visible to community administrators.
File Attachments: Users can select a file from their computer to upload with their comment.
Set the Time Release Options to set when the comment will be visible to community members.
Click 'Save.'
The author of a comment and community administrators can edit or delete existing comments by clicking 'edit' or 'delete' beside a comment.
Navigate to a community and click 'Discussions'.
Click on a discussion category name.
Click on a discussion forum title.
Click on a topic title.
Click 'Reply to Post'.
Add text, decide whether to make the post anonymous, attach a file if required, set time release, and click 'Reply'.
The author of a comment and community administrators can edit or delete existing comments by clicking 'edit' or 'delete' beside a comment.
Users can use subscribe to discussion forums using an RSS feed or email notifications.
Please note that these events do not get added to a learner's calendar the way events scheduled via Manage Events do. To schedule events that apply to all learners in a cohort and should appear in an organisation's schedule please use Admin>Manage Events.
As a community administrator, navigate to a community and click 'Events'.
Click 'Add Event'.
Provide event title, location and start and finish times.
Provide details or a description of the event.
If you wish to send out notifications to the community members that the event has been posted check off the appropriate box.
Set the Time Release Options for the event. This controls when the event will be accessible to users.
Click 'Save'.
To edit or delete an existing event, navigate to the event page, and then click 'edit' or 'delete' beside the event you want to modify.
Depending on how a community is set up, events might be displayed on the community home page. However, if they are not, community members can still access these items from the applicable page.
Navigate to a community and click 'Events'.
The events will be displayed.
Note that on the events page users can switch between viewing the day, week, month, or year's worth of events.
Users can manage the communication they receive from communities they are members of. There are two ways users can do this. They can subscribe to individual pages through the community itself, or they can use their user profile Notification Settings tool to manage multiple community notifications at once.
From within a community users can navigate to most page types and subscribe to an RSS feed or opt in to email notifications for that page.
Galleries - opt in at the gallery folder level Documents - opt in at the folder and subfolder level Discussions - opt in to a discussion forum Polling - opt in for all polls Announcements - opt in for all announcements Events - In the case of an Events page, the user can also subscribe to calendar updates or download a static calendar of all currently posted events.
For tips on using the RSS feed, please see the RSS Feed help section.
Click the username badge beside the logout button to open the user profile.
Click 'Notification Preferences' in the Profile card in the left sidebar.
Active Notifications tab: Users can search for and delete any active notifications from here. Users most often see listings for discussion and comments they have subscribed to for individual events.
Community Notifications tab: Users can enable or disable community notifications here. This will overrule the community setting (e.g., if the community admin. creates an announcement and sets it to notify community members).
Anyone who is the administrator of a community can use various tools to manage the community and its membership as well as view community statistics. If you create a community you will automatically be a community administrator. Note that being a community administrator is completely separate from the user permissions set via the user profile. Any user type can be made a community administrator.
Medtech:Admin. and Staff:Admin. users in the system can access all communities via Admin>Manage Communities and change community settings and membership from there. Simply click on the cog beside the appropriate community title and select 'Manage Community Members' or 'Manage Community.' If an admin user is also the administrator of a community, they'll be able to access a Manage Pages option from this cog as well.
General users will have to access a community from the Communities tab in order to edit its settings or members (assuming they are a community administrator).
If you are an administrator of a community, you'll see an Admin Center card in the left or right sidebar. Click on 'Manage Members' to access a list of all members in the community.
Click 'Add Members' from the subtab menu.
Click 'Browse All Members' to access a user group and then select the group you'd like to look in.
Type in a name to search for a user or scroll through the list. Click the checkbox beside the name(s) of users you'd like to add.
After you have checked off all applicable names, click 'Add Members'.
To view the members you've added, click the Members tab.
If you are an administrator of a community, you'll see an Admin Center card in the left or right sidebar. Click on 'Manage Members' to access a list of all members in the community.
Click 'Members' from the subtab menu.
Click the checkbox beside the names of users you'd like to make administrators.
In the Select Member Action dropdown menu, select '3. Promote to administrator'.
Click 'Proceed'.
To view the members you've promoted to administrators, click the 'Administrators' tab.
If you are an administrator of a community, you'll see an Admin Center card in the left or right sidebar.
Click on either the Members tab or the Administrators tab to see a list of different users.
Click the checkbox beside the names of users whose status you'd like to change.
In the Select Member Action dropdown menu, select the appropriate action.
Click 'Proceed'.
Removing a member will allow that person to rejoin the community at a later date. Deactivating or banning a user means the user will receive a message alerting them to this fact if they try to access the community and they will not have the option to rejoin.
If you are an administrator of a community, you'll see an Admin Center card in the left or right sidebar. Click on 'Details' or 'Permissions' as needed.
Edit the details or permissions of the community as needed and click 'Save Changes'.
Confirm your changes.
If you are an administrator of a community, you'll see an Admin Center card in the left or right sidebar. Click on 'Details'.
Switch the template you'd like to apply to the community and click 'Save Changes'.
Confirm your changes by clicking 'Save Changes' again.
If you are an administrator of a community, you'll see an Admin Center card in the left or right sidebar. Click on 'Manage Community'.
Click on the Statistics tab where you can view data usage, activity points and a tally of members by member type.
The quota usage listed under statistics is a soft limit and once exceeded will not prevent you from posting content. If you'd like to enforce a quota at your institution you'll need a developer's help.
If you are an administrator of a community, you'll see an Admin Center card in the left or right sidebar. Click on 'Manage Community'.
Click the Deactivate tab.
Click the checkbox to indicate you understand what deactivation means.
Click 'Deactivate Now'.
Locking a community is currently only available for course websites.
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).
After a course has initially been created, you'll see a space to optionally add a course image on the Setup tab. Please note that this image does not currently display anywhere in Elentra. If you want to include an image on the course page or website it is recommended to add it via the Course Description (on the Content tab) or on a community page.
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 Director
User must be a faculty:director to be added here (this can be changed via a database setting to allow any faculty to be added, you will need developer help to make this change)
Assigning someone as a course/program director will allow them to:
edit the course content, view course enrolment, view and edit course gradebook
edit content tab of all learning events in the course
User contact information will be displayed on the course page
Curriculum Coordinator
By default a user must be have staff:admin group:role permissions to be added here
This can be changed via a database setting to allow any faculty or staff user to be added as a Curriculum Coordinator. If you want to make this change you will need help from a developer. (setting: personnel_api_curriculum_coor_show_all_faculty and personnel_api_curriculum_coor_show_all_staff)
staff:admin users already have access to all courses, events, etc. so adding someone here is more for the purpose of displaying information
User contact info. will be displayed on course page
Associated Faculty
Any faculty user can be added here
Users will be added to a list visible on a course page without a course community created; if you have a course website using the default template, Associated Faculty will not display on the Background page.
Users must be added to this list if you want to add them as a grader on an exam posted to this course
Users added here will be easily accessible in the Assessment and Evaluation module so you can quickly include them in a distribution
Program Coordinator
User must be a staff:pcoordinator to be added here
Associating a pcoordinator with a course gives that user admin access to that specific course and will allow them to:
add, edit, and delete learning events for that course
view and edit the course gradebook (and other course tabs)
access and edit information for this course in the Clinical Experiences module (e.g., rotations, logbook reporting, leaves of absence, etc.)
access a list of My Learners in Assessment and Evaluation and Clinical Experience
view the Admin > Assessment and Evaluation content for this course (e.g. items, forms, distributions, prompted responses)
view the CBME program dashboard (if CBME enabled)
Program Coordinator information can optionally display on a course page or course website Background page. This is controlled through a database setting and must adjusted by a developer (community_course_outline_hide_pcoordinators).
Teaching Assistant
User contact information will be displayed on the relevant course page
Does not give user any additional permissions
Evaluation Rep
Adding a user here is for admin. display purposes only, evaluation reps will not display on the course page or website
Student Rep
Adding a user here is for admin. display purposes only, student reps will not display on the course page or website
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.
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 an internal 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 you will need help from a developer.
In order to use MeSH Keywords within Entrada:
1. Connect to your entrada
database using a tool like Sequel Pro or Workbench.
2. Import the entrada-1x-me/www-root/setup/install/sql/entrada.tables.mesh.sql
file.
In this section, you can assign curriculum tags to a course. This information will be reflected in the Curriculum Matrix and Curriculum Explorer. Assigning curriculum tags to a course will also make them quickly available when mapping tags to a learning event or gradebook assessment. Additionally, curriculum tags assigned to a course will dynamically display on a course website using the stock website template.
If you don't see any option to add Curriculum Objectives it may be because there are no curriculum tag sets built for your organisation. Go to Admin>Manage Curriculum to build curriculum tag sets.
Click the green arrow to expand the curriculum tag drawer.
Search for a tag or click through a hierarchical tag set to find the tag you need.
Hover over the blue info. icon to view a tag description if one exists.
Click the green plus icon to assign a tag to a course. (Note that hovering over the plus sign at the bottom of the list provides an Add All option.)
Assigned tags will display on the right grouped under their tag set name.
Note that if you want learners to be able to log specific objectives those objectives should be assigned to a course.
If you choose to, you can contextually link an assigned curriculum tag it to another curriculum tag. We call this context-based linking. You are essentially saying that in the context of this course, this tag maps to this tag. For example, for a specific course, "Take a history" may map to "pediatric patient" or "geriatric patient." Other examples of curriculum tags people contextually link to are integrated threads, CanMEDS roles (if not included in their objectives already), etc. Context-based linkages are not used by all organizations and are not required.
Context-based linkages DO NOT depend on the allowable mapping configurations set by for each tag set. You will be able to access any curriculum tag set when contextually linking.
Context-based linkages are not stored in Admin > Manage Curriculum and will not display there.
How to contextually link assigned curriculum tags to other tags
Click the link icon on an assigned curriculum tag.
The curriculum tag selector will open a drawer on the left specific to this contextually linked tag.
Search for the tag to select and click the green add button.
The contextually linked tag will display under the assigned curriculum tag.
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.
Attendance Report
Clicking on the Attendance will allow you to select the filters you want to apply before generating the report. Filters include event type, cohort/class list OR specific students.
The report is generated as a csv file.
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.
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.
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'.
New in ME 1.20
The community reports previously only available for course websites are now available for all community types.
Administrators of a community can access Community Reports from the community Admin Center.
Once on the Community Reports page you can apply a filter option to view activity within the community.
New in ME 1.20
The ability to restrict creation of guest accounts to medtech:admin users only.
You can invite members of the public to be community members. To do so you must be a community administrator.
Navigate to the Admin Centre of a community and click on Manage Members.
Click on the Add Guest Members tab and provide the required information.
Click 'Save'.
This will create a guest account for the user.
If you take this approach and invite members of the public to join a community please note that some of the public community members have limited access to certain functions.
Public users can't make their own discussion posts.
Public users can't vote in polls.
Public can't upload files or comment on files.
If you don't want community administrators to be able to add guest accounts, there is a database setting option you can use to restrict this ability to medtech:admin users only (community_display_guest_enrollment).
Creating a course is the first step to populating it with objectives, creating groups, setting up a gradebook, etc. If your organisation has units enabled, your setup process will be slightly different.
Navigate to Admin>Manage Courses.
Click 'Add New Course'.
Complete each of the required steps noting the following:
Course Setup:
Course Name: This will display to users on Courses tab and in all associated learning event pages.
Course Code: This will display as part of the course identification visible to users on individual learning event pages and will also be used in the list of events from the Learning Events tab. The course code is also used in the breadcrumbs when you are managing courses and their different pages so codes should be logical.
Course Colour: If you select a colour, it will be used to identify learning events that are a part of this course on the learner calendar. (You can further customize the colour of specific events when you create them.)
Course Credit: If you track credits per course you can enter that information here. This information is displayed on the Student Report Card (one of the System Reports available to administrators).
Clinical Experience: Use this section to indicate if a course includes clinical experiences.
If you plan to use the logbook for a course you must say that it includes clinical experiences.
The clinical experience flag will also determine if a course displays when working in the Admin > Clinical Experience
Course Type: Indicate if the course is optional or core curriculum.
This option doesn’t impact the course template, however if you plan to use user-initiated, on-demand forms, you should set the course to the core curriculum option. As of ME 1.17, users will not be able to initiate on-demand forms associated with optional courses.
Curriculum Tracks: Curriculum Track options will only display if you have curriculum tracks built within an organisation. These can be configured through Manage Curriculum. Assigning a course to a curriculum track allows you to identify those courses that share characteristics (e.g. help prepare learner for a specific program, provide a minor, etc.)
Reminder Notifications: These optional e-mail notifications are specific to faculty teaching events in the course. The default settings for email notifications are 30, 7 and 3 days in advance of an event. Through the database/settings table a developer can customize when and how often email reminders about teaching responsibilities are sent out. Note that timing of emails will apply to all courses in your organisation (you currently can't have one course where faculty get emails 10 and 5 days from the event, and another course where faculty get emails 15 and 7 days from the event). For the complete text included in the email by default please see the bottom of the page.
Course Permissions: An open course will allow all logged in users to access it. If you attach the course to a community or course website you'll be able to set permissions for the course website as well.
Audience Sync: Choose whether or not to automatically sync your audience with the LDAP server.
Lecture Capture:
You will only see lecture capture options on a course setup page if lecture capture is enabled for your organization.
You can enable lecture capture support at a course by course level.
Lecture Capture Support: Turn on or off as needed. On will allow consenting faculty to be recorded in eligible rooms.
Default Recording State: This dictates whether or not all events will automatically be recorded (on) or not (off).
Allow Faculty Override: This dictates whether or not faculty can change the default setting on their events (on) or not (off) via the event content page.
Event Types Capture Permitted: This allows you to specify which event types you want to automatically record (e.g. lectures). You can select more than one event type per course. To delete a selected event, click on the small x to the right of the event type.
Tip: If you don't have learners set up in your organisation, scroll to the bottom of the page and click 'Proceed'.
Course Enrolment:
Complete this section when you have the appropriate learners active in your organisation and added as cohorts or class lists as appropriate.
When selecting an enrolment period, the available options will depend on the Curriculum Period defined in the Course Setup section. You can add multiple curriculum periods, cohorts or individuals to a course enrolment.
After selecting an enrolment period from the dropdown options, click 'Add Audience'.
Click 'Proceed'.
You will see a green success message indicating that the course has been created. You'll be redirected to the full course setup tab to provide additional details about the course.
Navigate to Admin>Manage Courses.
Search for the course you want to delete as needed.
Click the checkbox beside the course information for the course you want to delete.
Click 'Delete Courses'.
Confirm your choice.
You will get a green success message on the screen.
Dear %TO_FIRSTNAME% %TO_LASTNAME%,
%CC_FACULTY_TEXT%This is an automated notice to remind you that you are scheduled to teach in the following learning event.
Event Title: %EVENT_TITLE% Phase: %EVENT_PHASE% Event Date / Time: %EVENT_DATE% Event Duration: %EVENT_DURATION% Event Location: %EVENT_LOCATION% Associated Faculty: %ASSOCIATED_FACULTY_TEXT% To update your event click this link: %EVENT_LINK% Important things to do before your learning event: 1) Review Learning Objectives Please review your objectives to ensure that they accurately describe the learning objectives of your event. 2) Update Learning Event Resources The following resources are attached to this event for the learners to download. Please upload your new lecture notes or other resources and remove any outdated content. %RESOURCES_TEXT%
IMPORTANT: If you are going to have your assistant add your electronic resources to the site on your behalf and they have not been CC'd on this e-mail already, please forward this e-mail to them so they are able to easily find your learning event by clicking the following link: %EVENT_LINK% 3) Update the Event Type Each learning event has an event type associated with it to help identify the type of teaching that is taking place during this time (lecture, small group, case study, etc). Please ensure that the event type listed accurately represents the type of learning of this session. Need help editing your learning event? Contact your Curricular Coordinator for help with uploading files and editing event details.
Save a tree: Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.
This page displays the list of learners enrolled in the course and is based on the information provided in the course setup page.
You can search for users, download the course enrolment, and toggle between a list and a grid view of learners. Additionally, you can switch periods to view different enrolments for the course.
From the enrolment page, you can click on learner names to see their profiles, but you can’t manage enrolment on this page. That information is controlled by adding the appropriate audience in the course enrolment section of the course setup page.
If you are working in a CBME-enabled organization and would like to manage learner levels through the enrolment page, please see detail .
Navigate to Admin > Manage Courses, Curriculum Tags tab for the appropriate course.
Use the Curriculum Period selector to go to the curriculum period to which you want to copy assigned tags.
On the Associated Curriculum Tags list click on the copy icon on the left below any existing tags.
In the Copy From selector, pick the curriculum period you want to copy curriculum tags from.
Once a curriculum period is selected, the relevant curriculum tags will display.
Click the green Confirm button.
Note that any contextually-linked tags will also be copied.
Note that if a curriculum period already has curriculum tags assigned and then you also copy tags from another curriculum period, any new tags will be added to the list, and any contextual linkages will overwrite the existing tag mappings.
Courses/programs are used to house and organise course objectives, associated faculty and administrative staff, student enrolment, assessments, course groups, etc. Scheduled learning events are associated with courses. After a course has been set up it can be linked to a course community which creates a course website.
Unlike many content management systems, Elentra does not require you to create a separate instance of a course each academic year. When a course is built you define an enrolment period for it and set an audience for that enrolment period. By adding multiple enrolments and audiences to a course you make it accessible to various learners. Most other parts of the course (e.g., the curriculum tags, gradebook, and logbook) can all be configured per curriculum period as well. One exception to this is the Course Setup tab which currently shares information across all the curriculum periods the course has assigned to it. The information on the Setup tab includes curriculum layout, course name, course code, and course contacts.
Users do have the ability to create unique course websites for different iterations of a course. This is achieved by creating course communities (aka websites) for the course and associating the course website with a specific curriculum period. (More information on course websites .)
Individual learning events, which are mapped to a course, are available to the specific audiences for the events.
This help section addresses course creation and the setup, enrolment, groups, and reports tabs. It also includes information on setting up a course website. Please view the pages specific to and for additional detail about those tabs.
Curriculum Layout: This defines the curriculum layout for this course and will dictate the available curriculum periods used later when setting enrolment for the course. (If no curriculum layouts are set up, proceed to Admin>Manage Settings>Select Organisation>Curriculum Layout or see .)
Choose to add a cohort, course list, or individual. Note that a cohort does not need to be assigned to a specific course in order to be added as an audience. However, a course list must be linked to a course via Manage Cohorts before it will be available to be added as an audience. (See more information .)
Database Setting
Use
personnel_api_director_show_all_faculty
Enable to allow all faculty to be available to pick from when defining a Course Director.
personnel_api_curriculum_coord_show_all_faculty
Enable to allow faculty to be available to pick from when defining a Course Curriculum Coordinator.
personnel_api_curriculum_coord_show_all_staff
Enable to allow all staff to be available to pick from when defining a Course Curriculum Coordinator.
course_objective_category_enabled
Enable this to allow administrators to define tags assigned to courses as primary, secondary or tertiary.
Please see detailed information about Course Gradebooks here.
Please note that you will only see the CBME tab for a Course if CBME is enabled for the organization the course is a part of. Please see here for more detail on CBME.
Note that you must create a course via Manage Courses before you can create a course community (please see here for more information).
From the main menu, click on the Communities tab.
Click 'Create a Community' and then click on 'Courses, etc.' in the Official Communities section.
Fill in the required information, noting the following:
Community Name: Pick a descriptive but concise name. This will display on the list of communities and will be used if a user searches for a community.
Community Keywords: These will not be visible to users but will be applied when someone searches for an existing community.
Community Description: This will be displayed to any user who searches for or tries to access the community.
Community Shortname: This will be part of the community url. It must be lower-case, less than 20 characters, and include only letters, numbers, underscore or period. After this is set there is no user interface to change the url so pick carefully! For the purposes of uniformity you may wish to discuss naming conventions with anyone else who may be creating course websites within your organisation.
Community Type: select ‘Course Website’ from the dropdown menu.
Community Pages: When you select Course Website a list of default pages will appear (see detail regarding each page below) and when the course website is created these pages will be visible to users. (If you'd like to have a course website template that allows admin. users to deselect or later hide templated pages you'll need help from a developer to make a change in the database settings table.)
Community Courses: select the appropriate course to link this community to. You can connect multiple courses to one website and they will share a student-facing web presence. If you do this, some pages will display information from both courses (e.g. Learning Objectives, MCCs) whereas some pages will only show information from one course (e.g. the course description and course director's message populate from the first course).
Course Curriculum Periods: Select the appropriate curriculum period for this course website. If only one curriculum period exists for a course, it will automatically be selected.
Community Permissions: Use these options to control access to the course website.
Click 'Create'.
If you get an error saying you must specify a Community Type but don't have the option to do so on the screen, you are likely working in a second organisation (e.g., you're working in postgraduate medicine and the first organisation in your installation was undergraduate medicine). When a second organisation is created through the user interface, community types are not automatically copied into the new organisation. A developer can copy the community types for you and you'll be able to use communities properly.
Faculty directors, and curriculum and program coordinators listed in the course contacts section of a course will automatically be made administrators of the course website community.
The following pages are included in the default course website community template:
Add any background information as needed. Turn on additional information to populate the page with announcements, upcoming events, and community history (e.g., new members joining). Click Save when done. (Feb. 12, 2018: Note that the display of announcements and events is currently not working and only community history will show up.)
You can add customized text to the top of this page; by default it displays learning events scheduled in the course via Manage Events (change the date range from day, month, week, year etc. to change your view). If you add free text, click 'Save' when done. Note that this is different from the learner's customized calendar accessible from the dashboard. From the course website, you'll see all events scheduled for this course.
Note that users in the community who also have edit abilities in the associated learning events can click on an event, scroll down the page and click Director View/Staff View/Teacher View in the left sidebar and be taken to the event page to edit it if necessary.
You can add customized text to this page. Click 'Save' when done.
You can add customized text to this page. Click 'Save' when done.
You can add customized text to the top of this page; by default it displays the curriculum tag sets assigned to the course through the Curriculum Tags tab under Admin > Manage Courses. If you add text, click 'Save' when done.
Viewing Contextually Linked Tags on A Course Website
If you have assigned curriculum tags to a course and contextually linked them to other curriculum tag sets, users will optionally be able to expand each contextually linked objective to see its connections. (Note, this page does not display linkages made in Admin > Manage Curriculum.)
You can add customized text to the top of this page; by default it displays the Clinical Learning Objectives assigned to the course through the Content tab under Manage Courses. If you add text, click 'Save' when done.
You can add customized text to this page. Click 'Save' when done.
You can add customized text to this page. Click 'Save' when done.
You can add customized text to the top of this page. If you add text, click 'Save' when done.
If you added resources to a course when you created it via Manage Courses, those resources will not automatically populate this page.
You can add customized text to this page. Click 'Save' when done.
You can add customized text to this page. Click 'Save' when done.
This optional page can be used to provide users with a read-only overview of the gradebook assessments for the course. (When gradebook assessments are created administrators can optionally flag them to be displayed on this page.)
The information displayed includes the following:
assessment title and description (optional input),
weight towards the course total,
due date (if provided),
grade release date (e.g. when learners can see grades in My Gradebook) (if provided), and
drop box (this provide learners with a link to go to the dropbox assignment).
This optional page will provide course contacts like course directors (who are faculty:director users), curriculum coordinators (who are staff:admin users) and program coordinators (who are staff:pcoordinator users) an easy way to send notices to the course audience directly from the course website.
When adding notices from a course website, the audience filter will be preset to the course.
Notices created will still display to learners in the Elentra ME Message Centre on their dashboard. (They will not display to learners on the course website.)
More information coming soon. You will need developer help to add this page to your course website template.
Pulls in any curriculum tags assigned to the course and that belong to a tag set named "EPAs".
More information coming soon. You will need developer help to add this page to your course website template.
Pulls in all sites assigned to the course and used in either the course logbook or a rotation schedule.
When reviewing a course website, an administrator may notice that some pre-populated information is incorrect. Pre-populated information (e.g., curriculum tags, director's message, etc.) is coming from the course setup information accessed via Admin > Manage Courses.
To quickly access the Admin Courses menu from a course website, look in the left sidebar and click the "Edit Course" link in the "This Community" box.
Once a course community or website is created, users who are designated as Community Administrators can manage the pages just like any other community. When viewing a course website, switch to Administrator view if necessary, and then look for the Admin Center box on the sidebar. Click Manage Pages to adjust content, reorder pages, or add a new page. For quick editing access, click the Edit Page button from any community page at any point.
When you build a course website and associate it with a course, some individuals listed on the course contacts page (e.g., course director, curriculum coordinator) will automatically be made administrators of the course website. As admins. they will be able to edit page content, add additional pages, etc.
There is a database setting to control whether you'd like to grant course website administrator access to Associated Faculty (listed on the Course Setup tab) (setting = course_website_associated_faculty_admins). Remember that those with Administrator permissions on a community, regardless of their group:role permissions in an organization, can edit pages in the community and control community settings and permissions.
The audience of a course (set from the Course Enrolment section on a Course Setup page) can automatically be made members of the affiliated course website. Course audience members will display under a separate tab when viewing community members so you can easily distinguish who has joined a course website another way. Even if you have auto-enrolment enabled, remember to make sure that the community permissions you configure for course websites will allow learners to join (i.e., use group registration and set the groups to faculty, staff, and the appropriate cohort of learners). Although learners are listed under the Course Audience tab, they usually still have to 'click to join' a course website and view all content.
There is a database setting to control whether you'd like a course enrolment to automatically be made members of the course website/community (setting = course_website_autoenroll_audience)
Additionally, you can turn this feature on or off on a per course basis through the database. Speak to a developer if this is something you require.
Managing additional members as well as permission settings, statistics and details is like other communities so please see the Communities help section for more detail.
By default learners have the ability to leave a course website community they have been added to or have joined. If you'd like to prevent learners from leaving course website communities, there is a database setting option you can use (community_allow_leave_community). If you switch this setting the 'leave community' link will be hidden from course websites so members cannot leave.
Community Reports is a tool that allows you to review which community members have viewed pages, taken specific actions, etc.
From the Admin Centre, click 'Community Reports'.
Click on 'Select Filter' and select the appropriate filter (member, module type, page, action).
Click the checkbox beside the appropriate member/module/page/action and click 'Apply'. You can select filters from different filter types to further refine your results.
To delete a filter, click the small x beside it.
Once there are learners enrolled in a course/program, you can create groups of learners within a course. Course groups are useful for assigning small groups of learners to specific learning events (e.g., repeating clinical skills sessions where small groups of learners all do the same thing), and can help you tailor gradebook assessments to a specific audience (e.g., Groups 3 and 6 did this assessment, Groups 1 and 5 did this assessment). Course Groups can also be used to link tutors to assigned learners. Linking tutors and groups of learners allows faculty to review specific students’ logged encounters, or act as academic advisors (especially relevant if you are using the competency-based medical education module of Elentra). Tutors linked to groups will also be able to access any community shared resources restricted to that group.
Please note that to build an event schedule using a CSV you currently require unique group names across curriculum different periods (e.g., 2023s ENT Group 1 in one curriculum period and 2024s ENT Group 1 in a different curriculum period). We are working on a fix for this so you can optionally use identical group names across curriculum periods if so desired.
Navigate to Admin>Manage Courses.
Search for the course you want to work with and either click on the course name and then the Groups tab, or click the cog to the right of the course name and select Groups from the dropdown menu.
Check that you are working in the correct Curriculum Period, adjusting it as needed with the dropdown menu.
Click 'Add New Groups'.
Create a group name prefix (e.g. Family Medicine Group) noting that this will be applied to all groups created with an automated suffix added (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4).
Group Type: Choose to create a specific number of empty groups (input the desired number) or have the system automatically populate groups.
If you choose to have the system auto-populate groups, define the group parameters, noting the following: Learners: Include all learners or select specific learners from the enrolment list for the relevant Curriculum Period. Groups: Either set a number of groups or set a group size requirement. Populate Groups: Select to base groups on gender (balanced or homogenous) or not.
Click 'Add'.
You will see a green success message on the screen and will then be shown the newly created groups.
You can choose to either create your groups, then import a CSV to populate them, or create your groups and populate them simultaneously through the upload.
If you do not create the groups before importing, the system will create them for you. If you already have groups created, enter the title of the group into the Group Name column and the system will associate the learners with the group automatically.
Navigate to Admin>Manage Courses.
Search for the course you want to work with and either click on the course name and then the Groups tab, or click the cog to the right of the course name and select Groups from the dropdown menu.
Check that you are working in the correct Curriculum Period, and adjust it as needed with the dropdown menu.
Click the Import/Export button and select 'Import'. You’ll be prompted to download a sample CSV file to use to import groups and group members.
Follow the column headings to create your CSV file. Group Name: Provide the appropriate group name (either based on groups that already exist or the groups you want Elentra to create). Tutors: List the tutor(s) for the group. Use the format 'Last name, First name; Last name, First name'. For example: Smith, John; Doe, Jane Tutors Numbers: List tutor number(s). Separate entries with a semi-colon if necessary. Learner Name: Use this format: 'Last name, First name'. For example: Smith, John. Only enter information for one learner per line. Learner Number: Enter the learner's institutional number (e.g., student number).
Save your file as a csv when completed.
Search for or drag and drop your completed file into the import window.
Click 'Import CSV'.
You will get a green success message. Close the import window and you should see your newly created groups on the screen.
Note that groups you create in a course apply only to that course by default. If you want to use the same groups (populated with the same learners) across multiple courses, you can copy groups from one course to another, download groups from one course and import them to another course, OR you can create additional cohorts at the organisation level and apply those cohorts to multiple courses through a course enrolment and audience.
Navigate to Admin>Manage Courses.
Search for the course that has the groups you want to copy and either click on the course name and then the Groups tab, or click the cog to the right of the course name and select Groups from the dropdown menu.
Check off the groups you want to copy.
Click 'Copy Groups'.
In the pop up window, select a Course and curriculum period.
Click 'Copy'.
You will get a green success message saying you have successfully copied 2 groups.
To view your newly created groups, navigate to the course you copied the groups to and click on the Groups tab. You should see the copied groups (they will have the same learners in them as the original groups).
Navigate to Admin>Manage Courses.
Search for the course that has the groups you want to recreate and either click on the course name and then the Groups tab, or click the cog to the right of the course name and select Groups from the dropdown menu.
Check that you are working in the correct Curriculum Period, adjusting it as needed with the dropdown menu.
Click the Import/Export button and select 'Export to CSV file'. A file will download to your computer.
Depending on how you are setting up your groups, you may want to change the group names in the CSV file (e.g., Anatomy Group 1 becomes Microsystems Group 1). You can also change tutor information if necessary. Complete any required changes and save your file with a recognizable name.
Navigate to the course where you want to create new groups and follow the instructions above in "How to upload a CSV file to create and populate groups".
Navigate to Admin>Manage Courses.
Search for the course you want to work with and either click on the course name and then the Groups tab, or click the cog to the right of the course name and select Groups from the dropdown menu.
Check that you are working in the correct Curriculum Period, adjusting it as needed with the dropdown menu.
Tick off the box beside the group name you want to delete (note that you can select all), and click Delete Groups.
Confirm your choice by clicking Delete again.
Navigate to Admin>Manage Courses.
Search for the course you want to work with and either click on the course name and then the Groups tab, or click the cog to the right of the course name and select Groups from the dropdown menu.
Check that you are working in the correct Curriculum Period, adjusting it as needed with the dropdown menu.
Click on a group name.
Under the Group Details, Tutors field, begin to type the name of the desired tutor. Click on the name to add it and it will be displayed in a list below the tutor search box.
To delete an existing tutor, click on the X to the right of the tutor name.
Navigate to Admin>Manage Courses.
Search for the course you want to work with and either click on the course name and then the Groups tab, or click the cog to the right of the course name and select Groups from the dropdown menu.
Check that you are working in the correct Curriculum Period, adjusting it as needed with the dropdown menu.
Click on a group name.
To delete existing members, click the tick box beside the user name and click Delete Members.
To add new members to the group, scroll to the bottom of the page, and follow the onscreen instructions. Note that a learner must be enrolled in the course in order to be added to a group (you can adjust course enrolment via the Setup tab of a course management page).
If you have copied course groups across multiple courses, please note that you will need to edit the group membership in each course.
You can export a CSV of groups within a course. When you do this you'll have the option to export a CSV or a printable CSV. The printable CSV provides group names, tutor names and learner names but leaves out users' institutional numbers.
There is currently no tool to view all the groups one learner is assigned to across an organisation.
Please note that there is currently no user interface to see a list of all groups a user is part of. (Users can see all the communities they are a part of from the Communities tab and My Communities card.)
As of ME 1.18 assigning curriculum tags to a course has moved from the Setup tab to its own tab.
We've also added the ability to assign curriculum tags to a course for a specific curriculum period (this also means you can have different logbook requirements for different curriculum periods).
Here you can assign curriculum tags to a course. Tags assigned to a course can be displayed on course pages and websites as well as in the Curriculum Matrix and Curriculum Explorer. Assigning curriculum tags to a course will also make them quickly available when mapping tags to a learning event or gradebook assessment.
Once you have assigned curriculum tags to a course you can optionally contextually link them to other curriculum tags. For example, you might assign "Take a history" to a course. You could contextually link "Take a history" to "Pediatrics" for a pediatrics course, and "Geriatrics" for a geriatrics course. Please note that while you can view these contextual linkages on a course page, there is no current reporting to give you an overall view of these contextual linkages and contextual linkages do not display in the Curriculum Matrix or Curriculum Explorer.
If you don't see any option to add Curriculum Objectives it may be because there are no curriculum tag sets built for your organisation. Go to Admin > Manage Curriculum to build curriculum tag sets.
Use the Curriculum Period selector to select the appropriate curriculum period.
Note that if you leave the selector on "Mapped to all Curriculum Periods" it means you won't have the ability to easily change the assigned tags for different cohorts of learners.
Click the green arrow to expand the curriculum tag drawer.
Search for a tag or click through a hierarchical tag set to find the tag you need.
Hover over the blue info. icon to view a tag description if one exists.
Click the green plus icon to assign a tag to a course. (Note that hovering over the plus sign at the bottom of the list provides an Add All option.)
Assigned tags will display on the right grouped under their tag set name.
Note that if you want learners to be able to log specific objectives in the Clinical Experience Logbook those objectives should be assigned to a course.
If you choose to, you can contextually link an assigned curriculum tag it to another curriculum tag. We call this context-based linking. You are essentially saying that in the context of this course, this tag maps to this tag. For example, for a specific course, "Take a history" may map to "pediatric patient" or "geriatric patient." Other examples of curriculum tags people contextually link to are integrated threads, CanMEDS roles (if not included in their objectives already), etc. Context-based linkages are not used by all organizations and are not required.
Context-based linkages DO NOT depend on the allowable mapping configurations set by for each tag set. You will be able to access any curriculum tag set when contextually linking.
Context-based linkages are not stored in Admin > Manage Curriculum and will not display there.
How to contextually link assigned curriculum tags to other tags
Click the link icon on an assigned curriculum tag.
The curriculum tag selector will open a drawer on the left specific to this contextually linked tag.
Search for the tag to select and click the green add button.
The contextually linked tag will display under the assigned curriculum tag.
To remove a contextually linked tag, click the 'x' beside the tag name.
To remove all contextually linked tags click the eraser icon and confirm your choice.
Close the contextual link mapping drawer to return to assigning tags to the course.
In the example below Course Objectives 1, 2, and 3 were assigned to a Course. CO 1 and 2 were contextually linked to Program Objectives. When users view a course page or course website, they'll optionally be able to expand each contextually linked objective to see its connections. (Note, this page does not display linkages made in Admin > Manage Curriculum.)
Before you can access any reports for a course on the Reports tab, you must have enabled the reports on the course's Setup tab.
Navigate to Admin > Manage Courses and select the Reports tab for the appropriate course.
Click on Attendance.
Set a date range for the report.
Set optional filters for:
learning event types
cohort/class list
specific students (the students available will depend on which cohort/class list was selected)
Click Download.
The report is generated as a csv file and will include a list of learners, the included events (with dates), attendance status per learner per event, a student total and course total, and a student total attendance percentage.
This report 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).
Clicking on 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.
You can create multiple course websites for a single course in order to provide appropriate content to different cohorts of learners (e.g. Class of 2022, Class of 2023).
After a course website has been built for a course and you want to create a new version of the course website you can simply roll forward the existing website and make it available to the enrolled audience in a new curriculum period. Please note that different pages types will copy forward differently. For default page types, content will copy (for both the templated pages and additional pages added). For most other page types, the page titles will copy (e.g., Class Discussion Board), however the structure within each page will not be copied forward (e.g., Forums, Threads, Folders, etc.). This is expected behaviour as we anticipate that audiences based on new curriculum periods will have new announcements, discussion boards, etc.
If you do want to have the structure and content of other page types copy forward you can speak to a developer who can make database changes to support this (note, this is not a setting option, rather developers will need to change column values in several tables). Note that if you opt for copying page structure and content it is currently an all or nothing option. You can't copy just Discussion page forums and not the actual posts. Similarly you can't copy Shared Document page folder structure, but not the files.
To minimize the risk of error in copying a course website, this tool is only available via Admin > Manage Communities (i.e. a user can't copy forward a course website from the community's management interface). As such, this feature is available to staff:admin users.
Navigate to Admin > Manage Communities. (Available to admin users only.)
From the cog icon beside the community you wish to roll forward, select 'Rollover versions.'
Alternatively, you can navigate to the community you wish to roll forward and click Manage Community, then Details, then Rollover versions. (Option for faculty users who are administrators of a course website community.)
You will arrive at a Rollover screen.
The course website version you are rolling over will display under 'From Curriculum Period.'
If you check "Do not rollover from curriculum period above" you will simply create a versioned course website using the original community template used for the course.
Edit the name for the community as desired (e.g. MEDS 100 for Class of 2023). This will display to users. Including a cohort in the name is optional and may not be necessary for your users. Learners will automatically see the course website for the curriculum period they are enrolled in and not the websites for other curriculum periods. Faculty or staff who have access to multiple course website versions will have a curriculum period switcher in their sidebar.
Select the new Curriculum Period for which you want to create a course website. (Note, you must have the curriculum period you want to use assigned to a course enrolment to access it to roll forward to.)
Click Rollover.
You will see a green success message and be directed to the newly created course website. You should see the appropriate pages--either those from the original template or those from the course website you selected to roll forward.
Note that course website community members and administrators will be copied when you rollover a course website. However, the Course Audience will be dictated by course enrolment. Also, once you have multiple course websites, you must manage membership for each website individually (i.e., if you have websites A and A1 and add someone as a community administrator to website A, they won't automatically inherit community administrator rights to website A1).
Not every page in a course website template currently supports curriculum period versioning. If you use the Course Description and Director's Message on a course Content tab, that information is not currently tied to a specific curriculum period and whatever is supplied via Manage Courses will display for all users in all versions of the course website. To provide custom text for different cohorts on the templated "Background" page, edit the text through the Manage Pages tool in the course website.
New in ME 1.20!
Ability to link a discussion forum from a course website to a gradebook assessment to allow for inline grading
Added setting option to allow organizations to permit bonus grades
Added ability to enter a numeric grade that does not require a denominator
Added a pencil icon to grading cell so graders more easily know where to enter grades
Improvements:
Reversed colors used to show late submissions in a course gradebook (red now means late, and black means on-time).
Fixed bug that was preventing the dropbox setting "Allow graders to see name of the learner they are grading" from correctly being applied
Fixed bug where dropbox assignment without a due date was displaying to learners as due Dec. 1969
Cleaned up gradebook export so that assessments with a custom audience only exported results for that audience
Cleaned up learner view of weighted collections so that collections with no assessment that carries a weight towards the collection visible to learners will not show them 0%
Gradebook is an Elentra module that allows the electronic management of all assessments and learner grades within a course/program. It has multiple capabilities including:
Recording grades and making them visible to learners and some faculty (e.g., course directors)
Supporting multiple marking schemes including percentages, numerical grades (e.g., 7/10), complete/incomplete, and pass/fail
Allowing an organization to have multiple grading scales as needed
Importing and exporting student grades
Linking assessments built through Elentra's quiz and exam module to a gradebook for easy transfer of grades
Allowing electronic submission of assignments through a drop box
Attaching grading forms (built in Assessment and Evaluation) to gradebook assessments
Allowing faculty to grade assessments electronically and provide individual feedback to learners
Notifying a designated person if a learner grade is below a specific threshold
Creating dashboard notices for learners re: upcoming assignments (this applies specifically to assessments with drop box assignments added)
Allowing administrators to record comments about grades (e.g. late, excused absence, etc.)
Using weighted collections in a gradebook to easily distribute weights of assessments within a collection (e.g. quizzes)
Providing documents to learners through the gradebook (Document Delivery) without the learner having submitted anything
Multiple database setting options can be configured for a Course Gradebook.
Please note you will only see the Logbook tab for a Course if the course is defined as including clinical experiences on the Course Setup tab. Please see for more information about configuring a logbook for a course.
Database Setting
Use
eportfolio_can_attach_to_gradebook_assessment
Allow a portfolio to be linked to a gradebook assessment.
eportfolio_show_comments_in_gradebook_assessment
Allow comments made on a portfolio artifact to be accessed when grading a portfolio attached to a gradebook assessment.
eportfolio_entry_is_assessable_by_default
Allows for all portfolio artifacts to be accessed when grading a portfolio attached to a gradebook assessment.
eportfolio_entry_is_assessable_set_by_learner
This changes the possible actions in the portfolio but the impact is in the gradebook. Allows learners to define which artifacts will be available when a portfolio is attached to a gradebook assessment.
eportfolio_entry_is_assessable_set_by_advisor
This changes the possible actions in the portfolio but the impact is in the gradebook. Allows portfolio advisors to define which artifacts will be available when a portfolio is attached to a gradebook assessment.
export_weighted_grade
export_calculated_grade
gradebook_assessment_document_delivery_enabled
Enable this setting to allow gradebook administrators to create a folder in a gradebook to provide files to learners (e.g. results from an external exam).
gradebook_passing_grade
Add a value here to be applied in the Student Report Card report (System Report > Learner Reports > Student Report Card)
calendar_assignments_enabled
Used to allow learners to see due dates on their dashboard calendar for any gradebook assessments that include a drop box assignment.
gradebook_adjusted_grades_enabled
Allows you to manually enter an adjusted overall grade for a course gradebook. Useful when assessment policies require that a learner pass an ungraded course component to pass a course, regardless of their calculated grade. (New in ME 1.21)
gradebook_assignment_show_form_options
Allows increased control of how assessment forms used in conjunction with course gradebook assessments can be displayed to learners. Choose to have the option to show only the ungraded form, the graded form, both, or none. (New in ME 1.21)
gradebook_assessment_bonus_marks
Enable this option if you want to be able to enter grades over 100% for course gradebook assessments.
The collections tool allows you to group multiple assessments together in a course gradebook assessment list allowing for quick review of learner performance (e.g., all quizzes will show up beside each other).
Create the required assessments.
Tick the small boxes beside the assessments you want to add to a collection.
Click on “Add to Collection” at the bottom of the gradebook screen.
Provide a title and optional description for the collection.
Set the grading scale as necessary.
Set how to display grades for the collection to the learner.
Click '+Add to Collection'.
The collection will now display on the Assessments list.
To add additional assessments to an existing collection, tick the small box to the left of the assessments you want to add. Click on Add to Collection. Under Assessment Collection use the dropdown menu to select the appropriate collection title and click Add to Collection.
To deleted a collection, tick the small box beside the collection name and then click the red “Empty Collection” button at the bottom of the page.
Weighted Collections gives users the opportunity to create provide a total course weight for a selection of assessments (e.g. all quizzes will be worth a total of 20%) and then have Elentra automatically calculate the weight of individual assessments based on the total weight of the collection.
This development was initially designed to support schools using point totals (numeric grades) as the basis for multiple assessments.
Create the required assessments.
Tick the small boxes beside the assessments you want to add to a collection.
Click 'Add to Collection' at the bottom of the gradebook screen.
Provide a title and optional description for the collection.
Set the grading scale as necessary.
Set how to display grades for the collection to the learner.
Check the "This Collection is Weighted" option which will open additional options. Complete the information, noting the following:
Total Weight of the Collection in Course Gradebook: This should reflect how much you want this collection to be worth in the total gradebook (e.g. all quizzes will be worth a total 20% of the course gradebook)
Distribute Weight of Assessments Using: This allows you to specify how you'd like to calculate the weights on individual assessments added to the collection. The options are Numeric Points or Percentage.
If you select numeric points, you'll initially see the existing points total and weight for each assessment. When you enter a total weight for the collection, the weight of each individual assessment will automatically adjust.
If you select percentage, you'll initially see the original percentages assigned to each assessment. If you enter a total weight for the collection, you will need to change the weight of each assessment to total 100%. The Assessment Weight in the Course Gradebook will automatically be calculated.
Gradebook Assessments in Collection:
Numeric Points: You can adjust the points assigned to any assessment in the collection. This will override the previously entered points total.
Percentage: You can adjust the percentages which will override the percentage weights entered when creating the original assessment.
Click '+Add to Collection'.
The collection will now display on the Assessments list. The weight column will show the total collection weight beside the collection name and the weight within a collection for each individual assessment.
Note that Elentra allows a gradebook to have a total weight of more than 100%. Especially when using weighted collections, ensure your gradebook total weight is what you want it to be.
To edit an existing collection, click the pencil icon in the edit column to the right of the collection name.
It is only by editing assessments through the collection that you can change the numeric points or percentage and have it reflected in the collection. If you edit an individual assessment that is part of a collection, you can modify the points, but the weight will not automatically adjust.
New in ME 1.20! Attach a discussion forum from a course website to a gradebook assessment to allow faculty to grade discussion posts.
To attach a Course Discussion Forum to a Gradebook assessment, you must have the following in place:
Your Course Website must be associated with a Curriculum Period.
Your Course Website must have a Discussions page type containing at least one Forum.
Create a Gradebook assessment.
Click the checkbox beside Attach a course discussion to this assessment for grading.
The checkbox is below the area where you define the assessment characteristic, marking scheme and grading scale.
From the Select a Discussion to Grade dropdown menu, select one or more forums that you want to associate with the assessment.
If you select more than one forum, your grader(s) will be able to switch between forums to access the learners posts and replies for each.
Assign your learners to Assessment Graders as required.
Optionally, attach an Assessment Form to assist your graders in grading the discussion forum.
Optionally, create an Assignment Dropbox for the assessment, if the learner is also required to make a submission.
Click Save.
Please note that while the user interface has been added for this feature, as of ME 1.17 it is not currently active.
If you wish to prevent further changes to a course website community, you can optionally lock the community from Admin > Manage Communities.
This tool is only available from Admin > Manage Communities, not from the Manage Community sidebar. As such, only users with administrative access can lock a community. This prevents users who are administrators of a community (like faculty), but NOT administrative staff, from locking/unlocking course websites.
Navigate to Admin > Manage Communities.
Search for the course website you want to lock.
From the menu cog on the right hand side, click Lock.
After a course website is locked it will display with a lock beside the title.
You can unlock a course website at any time by following the same steps as above, but clicking unlock.
When creating as assessment in the gradebook you can create a group assessment. This will allow learners to upload one assignment (if you use a drop box) on behalf of their whole group and when a grader grades the assignment, the grade will be applied to all group members.
If you use this tool, graders can still tweak individual grades after the group grade has been entered.
To use this feature, you must have course groups built. Please see the Course>Groups page for more detail.
In the 'Audience Options' section, assign the assessment to specific course groups (include all groups if an entire course is responsible for completing the assessment).
If you want learners in the same group to get the same grade, check the box.
Click the 'X' beside the search or somewhere outside the selection window to close it.
The selected groups will display on a list below the "Select Audience" dropdown.
To remove a group from the list, click the 'x' beside the group name.
Begin to type a grader name into the search field and when matches appear, click on the appropriate name and select Add.
You may add multiple graders to one assessment.
To assign groups to graders, click the checkbox beside multiple group names and click 'Assign Selected to Grader'.
In the popup window, click the checkbox beside the appropriate grader name click 'Assign Learner'.
The names of individual learners in each group should appear beside the grader name in the Grader/Assigned Learners table on the left.
To delete a learner from a grader's list, click the red minus icon. Note that the learner will not be added back to learner's list since it only shows groups. If you remove an individual learner from a grader's list you need to ensure the student gets graded some other way.
You can attach an exam to a gradebook assessment from the gradebook or from an exam post. Doing this creates a link between the two so that exam grades will automatically populate the gradebook.
Please note that if you include questions in an exam that need to be manually graded (e.g., short answer), student grades will initially be calculated and displayed in the gradebook without including their possible points from those questions. As such, it is recommended that if you include manually graded questions, you delay the gradebook assessment visibility to learners until you know the exams will be graded.
To attach an exam to a gradebook assessment the exam must first be posted to an event in the appropriate curriculum period. The curriculum period for the gradebook and the event to which the exam is posted must match.
Create a gradebook assessment using the instructions in the Gradebook help section.
Click the checkbox beside Link existing online exam to this assessment.
Click 'Add Exam Post'.
Begin to type the name of the exam and select it from the displayed list.
Click 'Attach Exam Post'.
Note that you have a new item to configure which is exam scoring method. Your options are to: show average of all scores, show first score, show highest score, or show latest score in the gradebook. These options only apply if you set the exam to be taken multiple times by learners.
Set the other parameters for the assessment and click 'Save.' Note that you do not need to set graders for an exam in the gradebook assessment since you add graders to specific exam posts in the Exams module.
When the exam is completed and grading is complete (if required) the grades will automatically display in the gradebook.
It is possible to attach more than one exam post to a single gradebook assessment. This might be useful if you have two sections of learners writing the exam at different times but the grades will populate the same gradebook assessment.
Note that when you attach an exam to the gradebook from the edit assessment page, the system automatically determines the point total based on the number of questions on the exam (e.g. 5 questions = 5 points) if you are using a numeric marking scheme.
If you wish to attach an exam to a gradebook assessment from an exam post you will do so on Step 4:Feedback. *Attach GradeBook: Select an existing gradebook entry to attach the exam to (the list will prepopulate based on the course and event selected in earlier steps and the contents of the gradebook for the relevant curriculum period). Note that you can't set the exam scoring method from here; you must navigate to the gradebook assessment to do so.
New in ME 1.20!
The ability to define a default color per event type.
Event Types describe all the different things you might include in scheduled events managed through Elentra. Examples include lectures, labs, directed independent learning, exams, lunch, etc. and the list of event types is customizable per organization. Event types are used several ways:
any event added to a schedule must have an event type defined; you can add multiple event types to one scheduled event
the audience of an event will see the event type
the Learning Event Types by Course Report uses event type to summarize the use of different events types within a course
You must be logged in as an Admin user to manage event types.
Navigate to Admin > System Settings.
If you have multiple organizations, click the name of the organization for which you want to manage event types.
Click 'Learning Event Types' from the left sidebar. A list of existing event types will be displayed.
Click 'Add Event Type' to add a new event type.
Complete the required fields, noting the following:
Event Type Name: This is what will display to administrative users setting up events and to the audience of an event.
Event Type Colour: Check this box is you want to set a default color for events of this type. This color will be used on the dashboard calendar.
Since there are multiple places where you can set color for events (e.g., on individual events, at the course level, and via the database), Elentra will apply event color using the following: use individual event color, course color, default color (if set via database setting), event type color.
Event Type Description: This field is optional, however it is visible to administrative users when they create events so you may wish to provide it. When users add events to the system through Admin > Manage Events, they can mouseover event types and view the provided description (see above).
Workload Multipliers: This required field will default to one. The options allow you to define a workload for the event type (e.g. lecture = 1.5, TBL = 2) per user group (faculty and learner). There are no existing reports in Elentra that include this information, but it can be collected to allow organizations to calculate faculty workforce hours, estimate learner workload, etc. outside of Elentra.
MedBiquitous Mappings: Allows you to map event types to specific MedBiquitous instrcutional methods, assessment methods, and resources. This information is used in the AAMC Curriculum Inventory Report.
MedBiquitous Instructional Method: You can map a single MedBiquitous instructional method to an event type. Any event type that is not mapped to a MedBiquitous instructional method will be omitted from the AACM CIR. Mappings do not show on learning events.
Note that currently once you select a MedBiquitous instructional method for an event type you can't deselect it. If you selected an instructional method by accident you can scroll down and click Cancel.
You can edit the list of MedBiquitous instructional methods in Admin > System Settings.
MedBiquitous Assessment Methods: You can map multiple assessment methods to a learning event type. When you do this, those assessment methods will automatically be added to any events created using that event type and you can optionally delete assessment methods that are not needed for a specific event from the Event's Content tab.
You can edit the list of MedBiquitous assessment methods in Admin > System Settings.
MedBiquitous Resources: You can map multiple resources to a learning event type. When you do this, those resources will automatically be added to any events created using that event type and you can optionally delete resources that are not needed for a specific event from the Event's Content tab.
You can edit the list of MedBiquitous resources in Admin > System Settings
Click 'Save'.
The newly added assessment characteristic will now appear on the event types list.
To modify an existing event type, click on it.
Edit it as needed and click 'Save'.
To delete an existing event type, click the checkbox beside the event type you wish to delete.
Click 'Delete Selected'.
Confirm your choice.
You will be returned to the list of event types.
To learn more about the MedBiquitous Consortium please see here.
The restricted days tool allows you to indicate days that are restricted within an organization. Once set up, users who try to schedule an event on one of these days when using the recurring event feature will receive a warning notifying them that something is a restricted day (users can ignore the warning and schedule an event anyway if desired).
Currently you must be a medtech:admin to manage restricted days. We are working to expand this to staff:admin users as well.
Navigate to Admin > System Settings.
Pick the organization you want to work in if necessary.
Click 'Restricted Days' in the left sidebar.
Click 'Add Restricted Days'.
Add the appropriate days noting that you can add a specific date (e.g. Dec. 25), a weekly day (e.g. every Friday), a monthly day (e.g. the first Wednesday of the month), or a yearly date (e.g. the last Monday of May).
Provide a reason for the restriction. Users will see the provided reason if they try to create an event on the restricted day.
Click Submit.
The newly created restricted day should display on the list of restricted days.
If you are creating an event schedule and one of the dates conflicts with a restricted day, you'll see a warning. Users can ignore the warning and still schedule an event on that day if they so desire.
When an organisation wishes to record formal remediation taken in response to a student's performance or behavior, they can do so using the Formal Remediation feature of the user profile.
Navigate to Admin>Manage Users.
Search for the appropriate user and click on his/her name.
From the Student Management box on the left sidebar, click 'Formal Remediation'.
Click 'Add Formal Remediation' to create a new remediation action.
Provide the relevant details and click 'Add Remediation'. Unlike Incidents, the creator of a formal remediation entry will not automatically be recorded and displayed.
Currently, learners can't view their own formal remediation records in Elentra.
Delete an existing remediation by clicking the red minus icon beside the relevant remediation action.
By default learners can not see their own remediation records through Elentra and such records are only accessible by users with admin roles.
In the event that a learner must take a leave of absence or is required to repeat a course or year, you may have to adjust the cohort to which they belong by either temporarily deactivating them or deleting them from one cohort and adding them to another.
If a learner takes a leave of absence after which they will return to the same cohort, opt to deactivate them in their current cohort. This will:
leave them listed as a member of the cohort, but highlighted in pink, so that you know that they have been deactivated
highlight the associated cohort in your list of cohorts (Admin > Manage Cohorts) in yellow, so that you know that the cohort contains at least one deactivated user
allow the learner to access the courses and learning events in the system through the Courses and Learning Events tab; however, they will no longer be a member of the cohort, so will no longer be an audience member on events. In order to view learning events in the system, the learner must ensure that the events are no longer filtered by themselves as a member of the audience.
continue to display the learner in a Course Gradebook
remove the learner from the My Learners list (and therefore reporting on logbook completion)
Remember to remove the learner from any course groups they have been added to; otherwise, they will continue to be associated with the group.
To remove them from their cohort (as they will not be returning), so that they do not appear in your Gradebook listing, event audience, or course groups:
To revoke a learner's access to Elentra, deactivate the learner's profile:
Navigate to Admin > Manage Users.
Search for the appropriate user and click on his/her name.
In the User Management menu in the left-hand sidebar, click Edit Profile.
Under Account Options set an Access Finish date and time.
To immediately end a user's access, change the account status to Disabled and put in the current date and time.
Click Save.
Elentra can be used to track learner leaves of absence. These need to be logged by a curriculum coordinator and can be done through a user's profile page.
Navigate to Admin > Manage Users.
Search for the appropriate user (the person taking leave) and click on his/her name.
From the Student Management box on the left sidebar, click 'Leaves of Absence'.
Click 'Add Leave of Absence' to create a new absence.
Provide the relevant details and click 'Add Absence'.
Delete an existing absence by clicking the red minus icon beside the relevant absence.
When a learner repeats a year or needs to attend an event alongside another cohort, you can do one of two things:
Enroll the learner as an individual in all courses that the learner is required to participate in, and leave them as a member of their previous cohort.
This will allow you the flexibility to apply specific assessments in the Gradebook to this learner only, and not the rest of their new cohort, if needed.
Add the learner to the other cohort, in addition to their previous cohort.
Most use of features in Elentra is based on a users group and role permission. A user can be assigned multiple group and role permissions within an organization and can hold the same permission across multiple organizations.
Below are group and role settings and their general system permissions. Please remember that your installation of Elentra may have customized aspects of the software and changed the access of specific group and roles.
Group
Role
System Permissions
Alumni
Year of Graduation
Have basic read-only access.
Faculty
Admin
Faculty:Admin can pretty much do anything in the system within their designated organisation. They will be able to access all courses including gradebooks and events. Use this permission sparingly.
Faculty
Director
Faculty:Director can be designated as "Course Directors" for specific courses. They will be able to edit the content of any course pages/websites or learning events in the course they are affiliated with.
Faculty
Lecturer
This is the most common permission for faculty to have. Faculty:Lecturer users can edit the content of any learning event that they are scheduled to teach. They can also be added as graders to assignments and set as assessors for distributions.
Faculty
Faculty
Basic read-only access as faculty members.
Medtech
Admin
Medtech:Admin permissions are generally used for technical staff who support an Elentra installation. Medtech:Admin can view all records in the system and do anything regardless of any organizational restrictions.
Medtech
Staff
Have basic read-only access.
Resident
Lecturer
This can be used in UG installations where residents act as lecturers.
Resident
Resident
This can be used in UG installations where residents play some role. Do not use this group and role for PG installations of Elentra using CBME; in that case the residents should be student:student.
Staff
Admin
Staff:Admin permissions allow a user to access almost all content within an organisation. Staff:Admin users can view and manage all courses (including gradebooks) and events, see user profiles, and edit some system settings. Typically this permission is used for curriculum coordinators (i.e., someone who is responsible for managing all courses in a given year) and sometimes for assessment and evaluation coordinators, accreditation coordinators, etc.
In contrast to medtech:admin users, staff:admin users only have access to organizations in Elentra that they are permissioned to. Also note that a user must have staff:admin permissions to be added as a curriculum coordinator of a course.
Staff
Pcoordinator
Staff:Pcoordinator (as in program coordinator) can add, edit, or delete learning events and manage any content within any of the courses they are designated as a "Program Coordinator" for on the Admin > Manage Courses > Setup tab. This permission is more limited than staff:admin.
Staff
Staff
Staff members have basic read-only access.
Staff
Translator
Can access Curriculum Tags for the purposes of providing translations. Additionally privileges TBD.
Student
Student
Students have basic read permissions to most public modules. They can also edit and in some cases remove information that they add themselves (e.g. discussion forum comments). It is important to note that students cannot be granted access to any administrative module within Elentra. There is a hard-coded exit in case all other security restrictions fail and they access /admin/*
A more detailed matrix of user ability across modules can be found here.
For information on Masked Permissions please see here.
If you have learners who need or want to audit a course your options depend on the privacy settings of the course.
If the course is open (i.e., anyone logged in to Elentra can view it), you can:
Leave the learner's profile as active.
Instruct them to navigate to their Learning Event tab and remove any filters that are set by default.
Instruct them to filter by the course they plan to audit. This will show them all the learning events for the course.
If they have been assigned to a particular group, ask them to attend the sessions designated for that group.
If the course is private and only visible to logged in users enrolled in the course, enrol the learner as an individual in the course. To exclude the learner from the course gradebook, ensure that the assessments in the Gradebook are only associated with the cohort/course list, and not all learners enrolled in the course.
As a community administrator, navigate to a community and click the Announcements page.
Click 'Add Announcement'.
Provide a title and announcement body.
If you wish to send out notifications to the community members that the announcement has been posted check off the appropriate box.
Set the Time Release Options for the announcement. This controls when that announcement will start and stop being visible to users.
Click 'Save.'
To edit or delete existing announcements, navigate to the community announcement page and click 'edit' or 'delete' beside the announcement you want to modify.
Depending on how a community is set up, announcements might be displayed on the community home page. However, if they are not, community members can still access announcements from the Announcements page.
Navigate to a community and click the Announcements page.
The announcements will be displayed.
Community members can subscribe to an RSS feed of the community announcements by clicking on the small RSS icon.
As a community administrator you can set the Announcement page permissions to allow community members or browsing non-members to post announcements.
Click on the Announcements page within a community.
Click 'Edit Page'.
Scroll down to the Page Permissions section and make your choices.
If you allow members to post announcements, you can additionally configure whether or not you'd like community administrators to have to moderate member-created announcements.
Members will have the same options as administrators when creating announcements (e.g. to notify members of the community and to time release the announcement).
If the announcement is to be moderated, members will be notified of that.
If you are a community administrator, you will be alerted to announcements requiring review on the Announcements page.
Click to view the announcements and release, edit, or delete them as appropriate.
If you release an announcement, it will appear on the Announcements page for community members to view.
On the Course Content tab you can provide a course description, director's message, and different types of resources.
You can add an external link if you have an external course page or resource you’d like users to access when trying to view this course. If you will be connecting this course to an Elentra built course website (using the Communities module), leave this blank for now. If you use another LMS provider to house course information and you'd like to link to it, add the appropriate url here.
Note that if you have linked a course to a course community and wish to unlink it you must do so from the Administration page for that community. You cannot unlink a course from a course website from the Course Content tab.
If you wish to redirect all course clicks to the external website click the checkbox underneath 'External Website URL'.
Add a course description and director’s message if desired. Both of these will be visible to users. If you go on to create a course website and link this course to it, the course description and director's message will automatically display on the course website background page.
After you've input content, click 'Save'.
Any objectives assigned to the course will be displayed here in a list. For the curriculum objectives assigned, you can configure your Elentra setup to allow individual courses to edit the wording of specific objectives. To do so, click 'edit' beside the objectives code and a window will open allowing you to edit the objective text.
As of ME 1.16, LTI Providers are added and configured in System Settings to use LTI Consumers in Course Pages, Course Websites and Learning Events.
Files and links attached here will be made available to all users accessing the course. The links and files will be displayed to users when they click on a course title.
LTI Provider: Use this if your organisation is partnering with another educational content provider to deliver content or other tools to learners (e.g. Khan, Quizlet, Turnitin, etc.). If you plan to create a course website via the Communities module to use with this course you'll able to add an LTI provider page to that website.
New in ME 1.20!
You can now link a discussion forum from a course website with a gradebook assessment for ease of grading. See more detail in the gradebook section.
If you don't want learners to have the option to leave a course website you can enable a database setting that prevents them from doing so.
Improvement so that user with event edit permissions for a course can get a link to edit events from the course calendar page.
Improvement so that a user with access to Admin > Manage Courses can get a link directly to edit the course setup page from a course website.
Whenever you add a course to Elentra, you add basic course information to the database and users will be able to see a simple course page for each course. You can optionally create a more robust online course community for learners and faculty by creating a course website using Elentra's Communities Module. The course website will replace the basic course page accessed from the Courses tab and functions like an online syllabus.
Here is how a course without a website will appear to users:
Here is how a course with a website will appear to users:
Note that the course website relies on a templated set of pages (e.g., background, calendar, prerequisites, etc.). The template shown and described below comes with stock Elentra but if your organization requires a different template, or you want different templates for different courses (e.g., clinical and nonclinical), that is customization work that can be done.
There is a database setting to control whether or not you display users added as program coordinators on course pages (setting = community_course_outline_hide_pcoordinators). To change this setting please speak to a developer.
Database Setting
Use
community_course_outline_hide_pcoordinators
Use this option to hide program coordinators from the course website.
community_share_show_file_versions
Use this option to control whether or not users viewing files on a Documents page can see previous file versions.
course_website_autoenroll_audience
Control whether or not learners enrolled in a course will automatically be added to a course website.
community_display_guest_enrollment
Use this option to disable the ability of non-medtech users to invite guests to a community.
course_website_associated_faculty_admins
Use this option to automatically provision all faculty associated with a course as administrators of the corresponding course website.
Gradebooks automatically exist for courses and all their associated curriculum periods, however each gradebook must be populated with assessments. Once you have assessments in one gradebook, you can copy and apply them to new curriculum periods and courses as needed.
You must have staff:admin permissions or be a program coordinator or faculty director associated with a course in order to access assessments in a course gradebook. Only staff:admins and program coordinators can add new assessments (course directors can edit existing assessments).
One reason to set a grading scale for a course gradebook before doing anything else is that if a grading scale is set for a course gradebook, all assessments added to the gradebook will inherit the course grading scale. This can be a time saver if you use the same grading scale for multiple assessments in the a gradebook. Note that users can optionally change the grading scale of an assessment when it is being made.
Navigate to Admin > Manage Courses.
Search for a course as needed.
Click the cog icon to the right of the course name and select Gradebook.
Ensure you are in the correct curriculum period and adjust by using the period selector in the top right if needed.
Below the list of assessments and beside the options to delete and copy assessments, look for the Grading Scale dropdown selector.
Select the appropriate grading scale.
The selected grading scale will display in the grading scale space.
Navigate to Admin > Manage Courses.
Search for a course as needed.
Click the cog icon to the right of the course name and select Gradebook.
Ensure you are in the correct curriculum period and adjust by using the period selector in the top right if needed.
Click 'Add New Assessment' (right side).
Fill in the required fields.
Assessment Name: Required; will display to learners and any graders associated with this assessment.
Assessment Description: Optional; this will be displayed on the Edit Assignment screen, will be seen by learners when reviewing or submitting an assignment tied to this assessment, and will also display if you choose to include this assessment in the gradebook display on a course website.
Assessment Weighting: This can be left as 0% if an assessment carries no weight towards the final course grade. Otherwise, enter the weight this assessment will have towards the final course grade.
Audience Options: Use this optional field to create an assessment for a specific course audience. Your options are for the entire course enrolment, a course group or groups, specific cohorts or individuals in the course, or a custom list of learners.
Click the radio button for the appropriate audience option and then select the audience using selector. Note that you can search the list of cohorts/groups/learners as needed.
If you assign the assessment to specific course groups and you want all learners in one group to have the same grade recorded, check off "Apply the same grade to all learners in the selected groups." If you use this option and an assignment drop box, one member of the group can upload the assignment and once graded, the mark will be applied to all group members.
If an assessment is assigned to a specific audience only those learners will see the assessment in their My Gradebook view (assuming the assessment is released for view) and have its weight (if any) applied to their grade calculation.
Notify if grade is below: Use this feature to automatically send an email to the selected audience if students score below the designated threshold.
Check the box on the left to enable this feature.
Enter a threshold (e.g. 65%) and click 'Select Who Gets Notified' to add the name(s) of people to notify. The options available will be based on the course contacts (e.g. course director, curriculum coordinator, and associated faculty).
If no options appear, make sure the course has course contacts on the Course Setup page. Note that you can add multiple people to the list. To remove someone from the list, click the red minus button beside a name.
Assessment Due Date: This is not a required field but if used will create a due date visible to learners. If the assessment later has a drop box assignment added the drop box assignment will inherit the assessment due date.
Learners are required to complete this assessment: This creates a flag in the database for this assessment but does not impact the learner's experience.
Selecting different assessment characteristics will dynamically open additional fields:
Track Late Submissions: This adds a late submission column that allows you to identify students who have submitted assessments late with a checkmark. This will be visible in the course gradebook.
Track Resubmissions: This adds a resubmission column that allows you to identify the number of times a student had to resubmit an assignment.
Extended Options: This allows you to define the type of questions used in the assessment. This stores information but is not currently used in reporting, nor is it visible to learners.
Marking Scheme: Elentra supports Pass/Fail, Percentage, Numeric, Complete/Incomplete, Grading Scale and Floating Numeric marking schemes.
If you choose Numeric you'll be prompted to ender the maximum points for the assessment (i.e., the denominator in the score). When entering grades you'll enter the numerator in the score.
If you chose Grading Scale as a marking scheme it means users will be able to choose from the grading scale characteristics (e.g., Honors, High Pass, Pass, Fail) to enter grades.
Floating Numeric can be used for numeric grades that do not have a denominator. Note that grades using this marking scheme can only have a weight of 0%.
Each marking scheme is stored in the database as a percentage value (e.g. P = 100, F = 0).
Grading Scale: Optionally set a grading scale for an assessment. (If you chose Grading Scale as your Marking Scheme make sure to select a Grading Scale!)
Note that if a grading scale was set for the entire course gradebook, that grading scale will be selected by default for newly created assessments. Users can edit the grading scale as needed.
If a grading scale is used, you can control how the learner will view their results (e.g. see grading scale, marking scheme, both). The option to set how learners view their results will be visible if you select "Show this Assessment in Learner Gradebook" further down the page.
Assessment Type: Formative and Summative are the options. Typically, formative assessment is to monitor student learning and provide ongoing feedback, and summative assessment captures overall student learning at the end of an instructional unit. You may wish to check with your institution’s student assessment coordinator or education consultant to clarify how your institution uses these terms. The number of formative and summative assessments in a course is reported by course in the Assessment Summary Report.
Narrative assessment: Check this off if students receive written feedback for this assessment. This information is reported by course in the Assessment Summary Report.
Self-assessment: Optionally check this off if students are assessing themselves. This does not give the learner the ability to enter his/her own grade in My Gradebooks, however it will prevent any other grader associated with this task from grading it.
There is no existing report that displays which assessments are flagged as self-assessments, however a developer might be able to retrieve it from the database if required.
Show Assessment details to learners in the Gradebook and Course Website
Check this box if you wish to show the assessment to learners in their My Gradebook view (whether or not a grade is entered), AND you want to show this assessment on the course website if you include a Gradebook page (visible to learners, faculty, and staff).
Note that displaying assessments using the above option won't display individual grades associated with them.
Show Grade in the learner's Gradebook
Check this to control if and when to show a grade for the assessment in the learner's My Gradebook view.
Set the appropriate start and finish times. Students will be able to see this assessment grade during the active date range. If you enter grades after the designated start time, students will see their grades immediately when you save your work.
Choose how to display grades to the learner. Optionally select to show them the marking scheme, grading scale, or both.
Note that the green checkmark that displays in the Gradebook overview page shows whether a gradebook assessment is set to be visible in general (i.e., in the learner's gradebook and on the course website if a Gradebook page is in use). It does not currently reflect whether the assessment is set up to display an individual's grade to them.
Linking an event to an assessment in the gradebook allows you to provide data for the AAMC Curriculum Inventory Portal.
Click 'Attach Learning Event'.
Begin to type the learning event name and click on the appropriate event when you see it. You will only be able to pick from events associated with the specific course/program you’re working on. If an event you expected to see is not visible, check that the event is assigned to the course you are in, and that you are working in the correct curriculum period.
Click 'Attach Learning Event'. The event should now display on the Edit Assessment page. When you visit the event page as an admin., you'll see the event type displayed in the event information overview in the top left. You can also link to the assessment from there.
Note that you can only link an assessment to one event.
This allows you to give specific faculty or learners designated as TAs for a course access to view assignments and enter assessment grades for their assigned learners. First add graders to the list, and then assign learners to the graders. Currently, each student can only be assigned to one grader.
Graders will not save unless they have been assigned learners.
To add graders:
Begin to type a grader name into the search field and when matches appear, click on the appropriate name and select Add.
You may add multiple graders to one assessment.
Note that to add a student grader to an assessment and have them successfully access their grading tasks, the student must be listed as a Teaching Assistant on the Course Contact list managed on the course setup tab via Admin > Manage Courses. (The user interface in the gradebook will appear to let you add a student not assigned as a TA to the assessment, but the user won't be able to access the course via My Grading Tasks.)
If you assign multiple graders to an assessment you can distribute learners to the graders randomly or manually. (Note that if you have set an assessment as a group assessment the interface will look slightly different. Please see more details on the Group Assessments page.)
To randomly assign learners to graders click the blue “Randomly Distribute Learners to Graders” button.
To manually assign learners to graders, click the checkbox beside multiple learner names and click 'Assign Selected to Grader'.
In the popup window, click the checkbox beside the appropriate grader name click 'Assign Learner'.
The selected learners should appear beside the grader name in the Grader/Assigned Learners table on the left.
To delete a learner from a graders list, click the red minus icon.
To delete a grader, check off beside the grader name and click the "Remove Selected Graders" button. If a grader you remove had learners assigned to him/her, those learners will automatically return to the Learners list on the right.
Linking a gradebook assessment to an existing portfolio allows course directors, and curriculum and program coordinators to access portfolio entries while in the gradebook. This can be particularly useful if a form is also attached to the assessment and the user can see a portfolio entry and assessment form simultaneously. Linking a portfolio to a gradebook is a setting option that can be turned off if desired.
Please note that at present portfolio artifacts are not available to be viewed by individual graders (i.e., if you've added graders to a gradebook assessment). Portfolio artifacts can only be viewed by users with access to Admin > Manage Courses > Gradebook (e.g., course director, curriculum coordinator).
To link a portfolio to an assessment:
Click 'Attach Portfolio'.
If no Portfolios appear for you to select, make sure you are working in the correct curriculum period and that the affiliated cohort has an active Portfolio.
Select the appropriate portfolio and click 'Attach Selected Portfolio'. The name of the portfolio should display underneath the Assessment Portfolio heading.
If you've added a portfolio to a gradebook assessment but aren't seeing anything when attempting to grade it, please confirme that a) there are artifacts uploaded to the portfolio, and b) the artifacts are set to be visible/assessable in the gradebook.
There are additional database system settings that allow an organization to define who can control the visibility of portfolio artifacts in a gradebook. The options include making all artifacts assessable by default, allowing the learner to control which are assessable and allowing the advisor to control which are assessble. All three settings are enabled by default. There is an additional database setting to control whether you can view portfolio comments when accessing the portfolio via a gradebook. This setting is off by default and if you'd like it enabled you should speak to a developer.
To remove a portfolio from an assessment click 'Remove Portfolio'.
Assessment Form allows you to link an existing assessment form to the gradebook assessment. This permits online, electronic grading by faculty. (If you need to create a form navigate to Admin > Assessment and Evaluation > Forms. Please see more detail in the Assessment and Evaluation section.)
As of ME 1.18, forms attached to gradebook assessments will be visible to learners once completed, and regardless of whether a drop box is used. Learners do not see a blank copy of the form before their grade is complete. To allow learners to view a form to be used for grading it is recommended that you download a PDF of the blank form and post it to the course website or a learning event.
If you add a rubric item to a form, please ensure you have made a grouped item (even if it is just one line). A form with just a single rubric attribute attached will not display properly when attached to the gradebook.
Do not include other item types like date selector, numeric answer field, or autocomplete (multiple responses) on a form to be attached to a gradebook. They will not work. (Even if it seems like the system lets you add a form with these items, and even though an admin. user can complete the form, faculty graders will not be able to use the form via My Grading Tasks.)
To provide a form for graders to use in the gradebook:
Click 'Attach Assessment Form'.
Begin to type the form title and options should appear. Click on the form you wish to attach and click 'Attach Assessment Form'.
The assessment form will now appear on the assessment screen.
You must indicate a score for each possible response on a rubric and give a weight for items on the assessment form (a free text item will have no weight). The weights should total 100%. This information is what allows the system to automatically create a grade after the form is complete.
Click 'Save'. The form will be attached to the assessment and you'll be directed to the main Grade Assessment page where you can input grades.
To remove an attached assessment form, click the red "Remove Form" button.
You must have permission to access the form you are attempting to attach to a gradebook. To manage form permissions a user with access to the form needs to go to Admin > Assessment and Evaluation > Forms.
Assessment Objectives allows you to map anything in your Curriculum Tags sets to an assessment.
The Curriculum Tag Selector is hidden by default. Click the greyed out Assessment Objectives heading to open it.
The tag selector will be filtered by course by default. Curriculum tags assigned to the course will display for you to select from.
To remove the course filter and access all curriculum tag sets in your organization, click Filter by Course and deselect 'Course'. Click the Filter By button to close the modal.
Click the magnifying glass to search for a specific curriculum tag.
After finding the appropriate curriculum tag, click the green plus sign to assign a curriculum tag to the gradebook assessment.
Selected tags will appear on the right side "Associated Curriculum Tags" list.
To add a context-based link, save the assessment and reopen the edit screen. You'll now be able to assign context-based linkages by clicking the link icon.
Pick Draft or Publish to indicate whether you want to finalize the assessment or leave it in draft mode. Once published, an assessment can still be edited, however if it is already shown in a learner gradebook, learners may see any changes made.
Click Save.
By default, when you save your work the system will redirect you to the Grade Assessments page where you can input student marks depending on your user permissions. To select a different destination after saving use the dropdown menu immediately to the left of the blue "Save" button.
If you have multiple assessments in a gradebook that share multiple details (e.g. graders, groups, weight, etc.) it may be fastest to create one assessment then copy it multiple times and adjust each copy as needed to reflect the unique assessments required.
Link existing online exams: See details For information on creating an exam please see .
Characteristic: Required; this is assessment type (test, paper, oral exam, etc.). The list of assessment characteristics can be modified in Admin > System Settings. Please see details .
The list of grading scales can be configured in Admin > System Settings. Please see more detail .