Idea Jam | Elentra Engage

The Elentra Engage Planning Committee is excited to announce that we’re expanding on the idea of a Hackathon and opening it up to all community members!

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Learning Event Resource Integration with MedSkl.com

MedSkl.com is a free resource for medical school students and practicing physicians to learn and review the fundamentals of clinical medicine: https://medskl.com/about The goal for this task is to easily allow faculty members to browse the available MedSkl.com courses and learning modules, and link a MedSkl.com online module as a resource on a learning event scheduled in Elentra. Faculty members or administrators must be able to add, edit, and delete “MedSkl Learning Modules” from the Admin > Manage Events > Event > Event Resources section. From a learner perspective, MedSkl Learning Modules should display in the appropriate Resources section of an event page and learners should be able to click on a title and be redirected to the module. Administrators accessing the event page should be able to view how many times the resource has been accessed and by whom. A REST API is available, and returns JSON: https://medskl.com/api/v1/courses https://medskl.com/api/v1/courses/cardiology

SMS Event Attendance Integration with Twilio

Attendance tracking in Elentra ME already exists, and will continue to be improved. One of the ways that we can improve it is by simplifying the task for both staff, faculty, and learners. The goal of this task is to allow learners to send a text message to Elentra ME, which would mark them as present in Admin > Manage Events > Event > Attendance. Learner user profiles should be able to store mobile numbers (entered by learners or administrators), and mobile numbers should be verified by Elentra sending users a text message with a random code in it, and users entering that random code in “My Profile”. Administrators or faculty teaching an event should be able to enable “SMS Mode” on the attendance page of a learning event and be able to specify how long the attendance window should remain open (e.g. 1 minute, 3 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, entire class). After “SMS Mode” is enabled, a unique random 5 or 6 digit hash should appear on the screen as well as the system-configured Twilio phone number to text the hash to. Administrators or faculty teaching the event should also be able to “refresh” the unique random hash as well. The learners will see a unique random 5 or 6 digit hash on the screen after the faculty member enables SMS Mode. They can text that hash to the configured number. When the new Elentra API end-point receives a hash, the API should:

Look up the mobile number the hash has been sent from in the elentra_auth.user_data table to make sure the user exists. If it does not, do nothing.
Look up the Learning Event corresponding to the hash received. If an event doesn’t exist, reply with a friendly message stating the event could not be found.
Look up to see if the user belonging to this mobile number is in the audience of the Learning Event. If not, then reply with a short friendly message.
Check to see if the time that the message was received was within the 1, 3, 5, 10 minute, or entire class time window that the faculty member configured. If it was not, then reply with a short friendly message.
If all of those things pass, reply and let them know that they have successfully been marked present.

The list of audience attendees should update regularly while the attendance window is open so that administrators or faculty teaching the event see how many people are present and how many people are absent.

Quantify Density of Information in Learning Events

Elentra allows administrators and faculty teaching events to upload event resources to support their teaching and or provide learning experiences for learners. Resources posted to the Content page of an Event can be optional or required, time-released or not, and assigned for completion before, during, or after class. The goal of this task is to provide learners with an overview of which days and weeks in their schedule have a high density of information in the learning events. You can decide whether or not to include all event types and/or all resource types (e.g. lecture slides, learning objects, linked articles, posted videos, etc.). To estimate density of information you might consider several factors. For example, when considering PowerPoint presentations, you could analyze slide-count, average number of characters per slide, etc. If you included linked articles you could analyze page or word count, the Flesch–Kincaid readability level, etc. Students should be able to quickly visualize days and weeks with a high density of information in the curriculum so that they know how much work is potentially required.

Idea Jam at Elentra Engage 2022

This year we will be hosting an Idea Jam. This is an opportunity for community members from different schools to get together to hash out an idea.

What’s an Idea Jam?
An Idea Jam gives space for community members to get together and work on a problem in Elentra ME. Once your team identifies a problem, you’ll work together on creating a solution which you will present at the Elentra Engage Conference.

Who can join?
Anyone! If you’re involved with Elentra and have ideas you’d like to share, we want you to join the Idea Jam!

Where’s this happening?
You will be assigned to a group before the conference. Ideally you’ll meet before the conference, but if you’d like to meet up at the conference, it’s up to you!

When’s this happening?
Participants who sign-up will be assigned to a group based on different roles e.g. Product Managers, UI Experts, Business Analysts, Developers etc. Everyone is welcome to join in. Teams will be made up of people from different schools to help change up your perspective on Elentra ME.

Details


Phase 1	Get matched with your Idea Jam teammates.
Phase 2	Work with your team to develop a prototype. We hope team members will be able to contribute 1-2 hours a week. Prepare a presentation for the Elentra Engage conference.
Phase 3	Following the presentations, community members will vote on the presentation and prototype they liked based. The winner will walk away with a coveted Idea Jam prize!

Need help getting started?

The Core Team is here to help! Reach out and we’ll answer any questions you may have.