System and method for communicating with students in an education environment
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1. A method for communicating in an education environment, comprising:
- determining a current question from a plurality of questions, the current question having a plurality of possible answers;
receiving from one of a plurality of remote units a message comprising a remote unit identifier and a current response;
determining that the current response is valid if the current response corresponds to any of the possible answers for the current question;
if the current response is valid, visually indicating to a user of the remote unit that the current response is valid; and
if the current response is not valid, visually indicating to the user of the remote unit that the current response is not valid;
wherein the user of the remote unit is allowed to progress through the questions independently with respect to users of other remote units by viewing a section of a common display, the section associated with the remote unit used by the user and the common display simultaneously viewable by all users of the remote units.
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Abstract
A communication system for communicating with students in an education environment includes a plurality of remote units, a base station that receives messages from the remote units, a processor, a memory, and a display simultaneously visible to all users of the remote units. The base station receives a response to a current question from a remote unit. The processor determines whether the current response is a valid response, and uses the display to visually indicate to a user of the remote unit whether the response is valid.
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1. A method for communicating in an education environment, comprising:
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determining a current question from a plurality of questions, the current question having a plurality of possible answers;
receiving from one of a plurality of remote units a message comprising a remote unit identifier and a current response;
determining that the current response is valid if the current response corresponds to any of the possible answers for the current question;
if the current response is valid, visually indicating to a user of the remote unit that the current response is valid; and
if the current response is not valid, visually indicating to the user of the remote unit that the current response is not valid;
wherein the user of the remote unit is allowed to progress through the questions independently with respect to users of other remote units by viewing a section of a common display, the section associated with the remote unit used by the user and the common display simultaneously viewable by all users of the remote units. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A graphical user interface, comprising:
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a plurality of sections associated with a plurality of users, each section displaying a remote unit identifier identifying a remote unit operated by one of the users, each section comprising;
a first visible indication operable to be displayed in the section when a current response received from the remote unit corresponding to the section is not a valid response for a current question;
a second visible indication operable to be displayed in the section when the current response received from the remote unit is a valid response and the remote unit has not submitted a previous valid response to the current question;
a third visible indication operable to be displayed in the section when the current response from the remote unit is a valid response that matches a previous valid response; and
a fourth visible indication operable to be displayed when the current response from the remote unit is a valid response different from a previous valid response. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A communication system, comprising:
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a plurality of remote units;
a memory operable to store a plurality of possible answers to a plurality of questions;
a base station operable to receive messages from the remote units, each message comprising a remote unit identifier and a current response;
a processor operable to determine for each message a current question using the remote unit identifier, the processor further operable to determine that the current response is valid if the current response corresponds to any of the possible answers for the current question; and
a common display simultaneously viewable by all users of the remote units and operable to visually indicate to the users whether their respective current responses are valid;
wherein a user of a selected remote unit is allowed to progress through the questions independently with respect to users of other remote units by viewing a section of the common display, the section associated with the selected remote unit used by the user. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A method for communicating in an education environment, comprising:
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displaying a plurality of sections on a common display simultaneously viewable by all of the users of the remote units, each one of the sections associated with one of a plurality of remote units;
receiving from a selected remote unit a message comprising a remote unit identifier for the selected remote unit and a current response to a question, the question having a plurality of possible responses; and
in response to receiving the current response from the selected remote unit, displaying a visual indication in the section corresponding to the selected remote unit, the visual indication indicating whether the current response corresponds to a previous response to the question received from the selected remote unit;
wherein a user of the selected remote unit is allowed to progress through a plurality of questions independently with respect to users of other remote units by viewing the section of the common display associated with the selected remote unit used by the user. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A communications system, comprising:
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a memory operable to store a question and a plurality of possible answers to the question;
a common display comprising a plurality of sections, each one of the sections associated with one of a plurality of remote units, wherein the common display is simultaneously viewable by users of the remote units;
a base station operable to receive, from a selected remote unit, a message comprising a remote unit identifier and a current response to the question and further operable to store the current response in the memory; and
a processor operable to determine, based on information stored in the memory, whether the current response received from the selected remote unit corresponds to a previous response received from the selected remote unit and further operable to display a visual indication on the common display in the section corresponding to the remote unit indicating whether the current response corresponds to the previous response;
wherein a user of the selected remote unit is allowed to progress through a plurality of questions independently with respect to users of other remote units by viewing the section of the common display associated with the selected remote unit used by the user. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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38. A graphical user interface, comprising:
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a plurality of sections on a common display simultaneously viewable by users of a plurality of remote units, each section corresponding to one of the remote units, each section displaying;
a first portion displaying a remote unit identifier identifying the remote unit corresponding to the section; and
a second portion displaying a question identifier identifying a particular one of a plurality of questions; and
a visual indication operable to be displayed in a selected section of the common display when a message is received by a base station from a selected remote unit corresponding to the selected section, wherein the message comprises a response to the question identified by the question identifier and a user of the selected remote unit is allowed to progress through a plurality of questions independently with respect to users of other remote units by viewing the section of the common display associated with the selected remote unit used by the user. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41)
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