LOCK-IN TRAINING SYSTEM PROGRESS DISPLAY

• US 20090023125A1
• Filed: 09/18/2008
• Published: 01/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dennis R. Berman
• Original Assignee: Dennis R. Berman
• Inventors: Berman, Dennis R.
• Application Number:
  US12/212,937
• Publication Number:
  US 20090023125A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/323
• 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 Lock-In Training system. The Lock-In Training system can include an appropriately programmed Web site and a user computer. The Lock-In Training system can also include an appropriately programmed stand-alone computer. Some embodiments of the invention allow student users to efficiently learn materials by taking Lock-In Training courses. A Lock-In Training course may include one or more Lock-In Training sessions. These sessions may include one or more Lock-In Training parts. These parts can include a group of questions and answers. The answers can include one or more keywords. A student user can lock-in material by entering keywords in response to questions. The questions may be presented in Introductory rounds and/or Retention rounds on one or more training days.

Claims

1-76. -76. (canceled)

77. A method comprising:

displaying, on a computer display, a question; and

displaying, on the computer display simultaneously with the question, a dynamic process bar that includes;

a first graphical object representing the question, the first graphical object including an indication that the question has not been answered without a hint,

a second graphical object representing a second question, the second graphical object including an indication that the second question has been answered once without a hint, and

a third graphical object representing a third question, the third graphical object including an indication that the third question has been answered twice without a hint;

displaying the second question;

displaying the third question;

wherein the locations of the first graphical object, the second graphical object, and the third graphical object, indicate the order that the question, the second question, and the third question are displayed on the computer display.

78. The method of claim 77, wherein the question has a question number and the method further comprises:

displaying, on the computer display simultaneously with the question, the question number centered horizontally with the first graphical object.

79. The method of claim 77, further comprising:

displaying, on the computer display simultaneously with the question, a line between the first graphical object and the second graphical object.

80. The method of claim 77, further comprising:

displaying, on the computer display simultaneously with the question, a line between the second graphical object and the third graphical object.

81. The method of claim 77, further comprising:

displaying, on the computer display simultaneously with the question, a fourth graphical object that is centered horizontally and is centered vertically with the first graphical object, and displaying, on the computer display, the fourth graphical object centered horizontally and centered vertically with the second object.

82. The method of claim 77, wherein an answer to the question includes a first word having m characters, followed by a second word, followed by a third word having n characters, where m and n are both greater than 1, the method further comprising:

displaying, simultaneously on the computer display with the question, a partial answer to the question, the partial answer including the second word, the partial answer not including the first word or the third word, the partial answer including m locations for each of the m characters in the first word, the m locations positioned in the partial answer before the second word in the partial answer, the partial answer including n locations for each of the n characters in the third word, the n locations positioned in the partial answer after the second word in the partial answer.

83. the method of claim 82, further comprising:

displaying in a first font the m characters of the first word at the m locations in the partial answer;

then

receiving a first character from a user, the first character not being equal to the first character of the third word, the first character being equal to another character of the third word;

then

not displaying in the first font any of the n characters of the third word in any of the n locations of the partial answer;

then

receiving a second character from the user, the second character received from the user being equal to the first character of the third word;

then

displaying in the first font the first character of the third word at the first of the n locations in the partial answer.

84. The method of claim 77, wherein the question is displayed after the second question is displayed.

85. The method of claim 77, wherein the first graphical object is a circle.

86. The method of claim 77, wherein the first graphical object is a filled circle.

87. The method of claim 81, wherein the fourth graphical object is a circle.

88. A method comprising:

displaying, on a computer display, a question; and

displaying, on the computer display simultaneously with the question, a dynamic process bar that includes;

a first graphical object representing the question, the first graphical object including an indication that the question has not been answered without a hint,

a second graphical object representing a second question, the second graphical object including an indication that the second question has been answered once without a hint, and

a third graphical object representing a third question, the third graphical object including an indication that the third question has been answered twice without a hint;

displaying, on the computer display simultaneously with the question, a line between the first graphical object and the second graphical object.

displaying, on the computer display simultaneously with the question, a fourth graphical object that is centered horizontally and is centered vertically with the first graphical object, and displaying, on the computer display, the fourth graphical object centered horizontally and centered vertically with the second graphical object;

displaying the second question;

displaying the third question;

wherein the locations of the first graphical object, the second graphical object, and the third graphical object, indicate the order that the question, the second question, and the third question are displayed on the computer display.

89. The method of claim 88, wherein an answer to the question includes a first word having m characters, followed by a second word, followed by a third word having n characters, where m and n are both greater than 1, the method further comprising:

displaying, simultaneously on the computer display with the question, a partial answer to the question, the partial answer including the second word, the partial answer not including the first word or the third word, the partial answer including m locations for each of the m characters in the first word, the m locations positioned in the partial answer before the second word in the partial answer, the partial answer including n locations for each of the n characters in the third word, the n locations positioned in the partial answer after the second word in the partial answer.