Marking training content for limited access

• US 20070111183A1
• Filed: 10/24/2005
• Published: 05/17/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP SE
• Inventors: Philipp, Marcus, Hochwarth, Christian, Erhard, Martin, Krebs, Andreas, Bohle, Holger
• Application Number:
  US11/258,457
• Publication Number:
  US 20070111183A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/350
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/00 Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices working with questions and answers mechanically operated G09B3/00; computing arrangements G06F

Abstract

A method includes marking training content for limited access, and preventing enrollment in that uses the marked training content while allowing previously enrolled training to use the marked training content.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

marking training content for limited access; and

preventing enrollment in training that uses the marked training content while allowing previously enrolled training to use the marked training content.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein preventing enrollment in training that uses the marked training content comprises hiding training that uses the marked training content from users seeking to enroll in training and who are not enrolled in training that uses the marked training content.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising withdrawing marked training content from available training when no training that uses the marked content is enrolled.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising preventing content developers from using the marked training content.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising substituting alternate training content for the marked training content in the previously enrolled training.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the substituting is performed automatically.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising reporting training that uses the marked training content.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising preventing that uses the marked training content after a specified date and/or time.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein allowing previously enrolled training to use the marked training content comprises allowing previously enrolled training to use the marked training content only if the specified date and/or time has not passed.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the training content comprises at least one of a knowledge item, a learning unit, a sub course, and a course.

11. Software embodied on computer readable medium and executable to perform operations comprising:

mark training content for limited access; and

prevent enrollment in that uses the marked training content while allowing previously enrolled training to use the marked training content.

12. The software of claim 11 wherein preventing enrollment in that uses the marked training content comprises hiding training that uses the marked training content from users seeking to enroll in training and who are not enrolled in training that uses the marked training content.

13. The software of claim 11 wherein the operations further comprise withdrawing marked training content from available training when no training that uses the marked content is enrolled.

14. The software of claim 11 wherein the operations further comprise substituting alternate training content for the marked training content in the previously enrolled training.

15. The software of claim 11 wherein the operations further comprise preventing that uses the marked training content after a specified date and/or time.

16. A system, comprising:

a memory operable to store training content;

one or more processors operable to;

mark training content for limited access; and

prevent enrollment in that uses the marked training content while allowing previously enrolled training to use the marked training content.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein preventing enrollment in that uses the marked training content comprises hiding training that uses the marked training content from users seeking to enroll in training and who are not enrolled in training that uses the marked training content.

18. The system of claim 16 wherein the one or more processors are further operable to withdraw marked training content from available training when no training that uses the marked content is enrolled.

19. The system of claim 16 wherein the one or more processors are further operable to substitute alternate training content for the marked training content in the previously enrolled training.

20. The system of claim 16 wherein the training content comprises at least one of a knowledge item, a learning unit, a sub course, and a course.