Administrator guide to student activity for use in a computerized learning environment

• US 20080254438A1
• Filed: 04/12/2007
• Published: 10/16/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Woolf, Susan D., O'Kelley, Patrick, Ganapathy, Mythreyee
• Application Number:
  US11/786,584
• Publication Number:
  US 20080254438A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/365
• 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 computerized learning method is provided. The method may include, at a learning service program, receiving learning data from each of a plurality of learning application programs for each of a plurality of students. The method may further include receiving a request from an administrator client device for learning data to display in an administrator graphical user interface. The request may be received via an application programming interface or online service. The method may further include communicating to the requesting administrator client device selected learning data for display in the administrator graphical user interface.

Claims

1. A computerized learning method, comprising:

at a learning service program, receiving learning data from each of a plurality of learning application programs for each of a plurality of students; and

receiving a request from an administrator client device for learning data to display in an administrator graphical user interface, the request being received via an application programming interface or online service; and

communicating to the requesting administrator client device selected learning data for display in the administrator graphical user interface.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying a report selector on the administrator graphical user interface, the report selector being configured to receive selected parameters governing learning data displayed on the administrator graphical user interface; and

arranging learning data into a report displayed on the administrator graphical user interface based on the selected learning data parameters.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

displaying a statistical comparison of the learning data in the report on the administrator graphical user interface.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

displaying a recommendation for one or more of the plurality of users, the recommendation being selected based on the learning data.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the report selector includes a demographics selector configured to receive user selection of a demographic parameter upon which the report is based.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the administrator graphical user interface is a teacher administrator graphical user interface, and wherein the demographics selector is configured to enable selection of a class, year, semester, and/or month from which data is to be drawn for the report.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the report selector includes a student selector configured to enable an administrator to select a student for inclusion in the report.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the report selector includes a subject selector configured to enable an administrator to select a subject for inclusion in the report.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the report selector includes a report template selector configured to enable an administrator to select a report template on which the report is to be based.

10. The method of claim 5, wherein the administrator graphical user interface is a managing administrator graphical user interface, and wherein the demographics selector is configured to enable selection of a state, class, school district, and block within a school district from which data is to be drawn for the report.

11. The method of claim 2, wherein the report includes learning levels for a selected student and/or group of students.

12. The method of claim 2, wherein the report includes change in learning levels and other learning data for skills for selected student and/or group of students over time.

13. The method of claim 2, wherein the report includes a comparison of the learning levels and other learning data of the selected and/or group of students with standardized proficiency measures.

14. The method of claim 2, wherein the report includes a percentile ranking of learning levels of a selected group of users based on a profile characteristic.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the profile characteristic is selected from the group consisting of age, year of study, native language, class.

16. A computerized learning system, comprising:

a learning service program configured to receive learning data for a plurality of users from a plurality of learning application programs; and

a reporting engine responsive to administrator selected parameters so as to retrieve and process learning data corresponding to an administrator selected user or group of users, to thereby produce reports configured to be displayed on an administrator graphical user interface.

17. The system of claim 16, further comprising:

an assessment engine configured to determine an assessed user learning level and other learning data for the selected user or group of users based on the learning data, wherein the assessed user learning level and other learning data is displayed on the administrator graphical user interface.

18. The system of claim 16 further comprising:

a statistics engine configured to aggregate the learning data for the selected users or group of users with other of the plurality of users of the learning application programs, to produce a statistical comparison for display on the administrator graphical user interface.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the administrator graphical user interface is a teacher administrator graphic user interface with a selector configured to enable an authorized teacher to view learning data about one or more users in a class.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein the administrator graphical user interface is a managing administrator graphic user interface with a selector configured to enable an authorized managing administrator to view learning data about users in the aggregate over a geographic region.