Methods and systems for sharing content items relating to multimedia captured and/or direct observations of persons performing a task for evaluation

• US 20120240061A1
• Filed: 10/11/2011
• Published: 09/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Teachscape Incorporated (Roper Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Teachscape Incorporated (Roper Technologies, Inc.)
• Inventors: Fedoseyeva, Inna, Burton, Benjamin J., Fraenkel, Bernard G., Hillenius, Eelco F., Gravener, Ryan D.
• Application Number:
  US13/317,232
• Publication Number:
  US 20120240061A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/753
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06398 Performance of employee with respect to a job function

Abstract

In one embodiment, a computer implemented method for use in evaluating performance of one or more observed persons, the method comprises: providing a comment field on a display device for a first user to enter free-form comments related to an observation of one or more observed persons performing a task to be evaluated; receiving a free-form comment entered by the first user in the comment field and relating to the observation; storing the free-form comment entered by the first user on a computer readable medium accessible by multiple users; providing a share field to the user for the user to set a sharing setting; and determining whether to display the free-form comment to a second user when the second user accesses stored data relating to the observation based on the sharing setting.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for use in evaluating performance of one or more observed persons, the method comprising:

providing a comment field on a display device for a first user to enter free-form comments related to an observation of one or more observed persons performing a task to be evaluated;

receiving a free-form comment entered by the first user in the comment field and relating to the observation;

storing the free-form comment entered by the first user on a computer readable medium accessible by multiple users;

providing a share field to the user for the user to set a sharing setting; and

determining whether to display the free-form comment to a second user when the second user accesses stored data relating to the observation based on the sharing setting.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

outputting a video recording of the one or more observed persons performing the task for display on the display device to the first user, wherein the observation comprises a captured video observation of the one or more observed persons performing the task,

wherein the receiving the free-form comment step comprises receiving the free-form comment in response to playback of the video recording.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the observation comprises a direct observation of the one or more observed persons performing the task,

wherein the receiving the free-form comment step comprises receiving the free-form comment in response to the direct observation.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the direct observation comprises a direct local observation at a location of the one or more observed persons performing the task.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the first user is associated with a workgroup;

the sharing setting can be set to be either on or off;

the free-form comment is displayed to the second user if the sharing setting is set to on, and the second user is associated with the workgroup; and

the free-form comment is not displayed to the second user if either the sharing setting is set to off or the second user is not associated with the workgroup.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the user sets the sharing setting by entering a user ID or a name; and

the free-form comment is displayed to the second user only if the second user accesses the computer readable medium using the user ID or a profile with the name.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the user sets the sharing setting by entering a group name; and

the free-form comment is displayed to the second user only if the second user accesses the computer readable medium using a profile associated with the group name.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the sharing setting can be set to be enabled or disabled;

in the event the sharing setting is set to enabled, the comment is displayed with the video recording to the second user; and

in the event the sharing setting is set to disabled, the comment is displayed only when the second user has administrative rights to the stored data relating to the observation or is a person who observed the observation.

9. A computer implemented method for use in facilitating performance evaluation of one or more observed persons, the method comprising:

providing a list of content items for display to a first user on a user interface of a computer device, the content items relating to an observation of the one or more observed persons performing a task to be evaluated, the content items stored on a memory device accessible by multiple users to a first user, wherein the content items comprise at least two of a video recording segment, an audio segment, a still image, observer comments and a text document, wherein the video recording segment, the audio segment and the still image are captured from the one or more observed persons performing the task, wherein the observer comments are from one or more observers of the one or more observed persons, and wherein a content of the text document corresponds to the performance of the task;

receiving a selection of two or more content items from the list from the first user to create a collection comprising the two or more content items;

providing a share field for display on the user interface to the first user to enter a sharing setting;

receiving the sharing setting from the first user; and

determining whether to display the collection including the two or more content items to a second user when the second user accesses the memory device based on the sharing setting.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the one of the content items comprises a file uploaded to the memory device by the first user or a file uploaded by a third user who shared the file with the first user.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the one of the content items comprises a file uploaded to the memory device by a third user, wherein the first user and the third user belong to a predefined workgroup.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the list of content items is organized and displayed in one or more file containers.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the list of content items is organized in the one or more file containers according to a source of the file.

14. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

providing an interface for modifying a content item from the list of content items;

storing a modified content item; and

adding the modified content item to the collection.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein,

the first user is associated with a workgroup;

the sharing setting can be set to on or off; and

the collection is displayed to the second user only if the sharing setting is set to on and the second user is associated with the workgroup.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein,

the first user sets the sharing setting by entering a user ID or a name;

and

the collection is displayed to the second user only if the second user accesses the memory device using the user ID or a profile with the name.

17. The method of claim 9, wherein,

the first user sets the sharing setting by entering a group name;

and

the collection is displayed to the second user only if the second user accesses the memory device using a profile associated with the group name.

18. The method of claim 9, wherein the sharing setting comprises a permission setting, the permission setting determines whether the second user can edit a content of the one or more content items in the collection.

19. A computer implemented method for use in remotely evaluating performance of a task by one or more observed persons, the method comprising:

receiving a video recording of the one or more persons performing the task to be evaluated by one or more remote persons;

storing the video recording on a memory device accessible by multiple users;

appending at least one artifact to the video recording, the at least one artifact comprising one or more of a time-stamped comment, a text document, and a photograph;

providing a share field for display to a first user for entering a sharing setting;

receiving an entered sharing setting from the first user;

storing the entered sharing setting; and

determining whether to make available the video recording and the at least one artifact to a second user when the second user accesses the memory device based on the entered sharing setting.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein:

the first user is associated with a workgroup;

the sharing setting can be set to on or off; and

the video recording is made available to the second user only if the sharing setting is set to on, and the second user is associated with the workgroup.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein:

the first user sets the sharing setting by entering a group name; and

the video recording is made available to the second user only if the second user accesses the memory device using a profile associated with the group name.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein the sharing setting comprises a permission setting, the permission setting determines whether the second user can add a comment to the video recording.

23. The method of claim 19, wherein:

the first user sets the sharing setting by entering a user ID or a name; and

the video recording is made available to the second user only if the second user accesses the memory device using the user ID or a profile with the name.

24. The method of claim 23, further comprising:

storing an entered user ID or an entered name entered in the share field; and

sending a notification to the user ID or a user with a profile with the name.