DASHBOARD FOR MONITORING A CHILD'S INTERACTION WITH A NETWORK-BASED EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

• US 20080166686A1
• Filed: 01/04/2008
• Published: 07/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dreambox Learning, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Dreambox Learning, Inc.
• Inventors: Dodge, Cheryl A., Green, Nigel J., Weary, Mickelle, Leban, Roy, Cook, Cristopher, Slivka, Benjamin W., Gray, Lou
• Application Number:
  US11/969,874
• Publication Number:
  US 20080166686A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/118
• 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 5/14 with provision for individual teacher-student communication

Abstract

Embodiments of the invention provide a network-based educational system comprising educational content that is presented to a child in an interactive session; and a reporting function to report via an interactive dashboard on various aspects of the child'"'"'s interaction with the educational content.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

performing a recording operation wherein a recording is made of representative aspects of a learner'"'"'s interaction with a learning system; and

performing a reviewing operation to present the recording to a reviewer.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the recording comprises a textual account of the learner'"'"'s interaction with the learning system.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating a reviewer dashboard comprising at least one web page that includes information about the learner'"'"'s interaction with the learning system, the dashboard including a button which when selected causes the learning system to perform the reviewing operation.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the dashboard provides an option to the reviewer to have a particular lesson from the learning system to be played to the reviewer.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the dashboard provides at least one option to the reviewer to customize content in the system for the learner.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the at least one option allows the reviewer to customize the content by selecting a theme associated with lessons in the learning system.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the at least one option allows the reviewer to customize the content by indicating culturally relevant material to the learner.

9. The method of claim 4, wherein the dashboard comprises an indication of the days when the learner had an increased capacity for leaning.

10. The method of claim 4, wherein the dashboard comprises an indication of the days when the learner had a decreased capacity for leaning.

11. The method of claim 4, wherein the dashboard provides the reviewer an option to set an inactivity period being a duration for which the learner does not use the leaning system before the leaning system will notify the reviewer of the learner'"'"'s failure to use the leaning system.

12. The method of claim 4, wherein the dashboard comprises a mapping of the learner'"'"'s performance to an academic standard.

2. The method of claim 2, wherein the recording comprises a screen replay of the learner'"'"'s interaction with the learning system.

13. A learning system, comprising:

a recording module make a recording of representative aspects of a learner'"'"'s interaction with the learning system; and

a playback function to present the recording to a reviewer.

14. The learning system of claim 13, wherein the recording comprises a screen replay of the learners interaction with the learning system.

15. The learning system of claim 13, wherein the recording comprises a textual account of the learner'"'"'s interaction with the learning system.

16. The learning system of claim 13, further comprising a function to generate a reviewer dashboard comprising at least one web page that includes information about the learner'"'"'s interaction with the learning system, the dashboard including a button which when selected causes the learning system to perform the reviewing operation.

17. The learning system of claim 16, wherein the dashboard provides an option to the reviewer to have a particular lesson from the learning system to be played to the reviewer.

18. The learning system of claim 16, wherein the dashboard provides at least one option to the reviewer to customize content in the system for the learner.

19. The learning system of claim 18, wherein the at least one option allows the reviewer to customize the content by selecting a theme associated with lessons in the learning system.

20. The learning system of claim 16, wherein the dashboard comprises a mapping of the learners performance to an academic standard.