You have arrived at the user documentation for Elentra ME. These pages are intended for the administrative staff and faculty who are using installations of Elentra ME. 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.

Technical staff can find our technical documentation at https://docs.elentra.org/technical/

If you don't see what you're 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 our Training Coordinator, Alice Rush-Rhodes at arush@queensu.ca.

For more general information about the Elentra Consortium please visit our website: https://elentra.org

Please note that at present our monthly webinars are not posted on this site. If you are employed at a consortium member school and wish to access a past webinar, please contact Alice Rush-Rhodes on Slack or via email (arush@queensu.ca).

Past webinar topics include:

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

The Elentra Consortium relies on participant contributions in order to continue expanding the features we offer. Organisations frequently develop features that they require but that might be useful to other schools 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 send an email to Alice Rush-Rhodes at arush@queensu.ca

Security Reporting

We take the security of the Elentra Platform very seriously. If you believe that you have discovered a security vulnerability please contact us immediately:

By reporting issues to our team you are helping to create a secure and reliable product.

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 .

Communication Channels

• 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

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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'.

Use of assessment response categories in scales

Use of scales when building assessment and evaluation items

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 it's 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.

In Elentra, organisation refers to an entity using and managing its own curriculum 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.

How to 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).

How to edit an existing organisation's metadata

• 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.