Internet-based education support system and methods
DCFirst Claim
1. A method for providing access to courses having course files in an on-line course-based instruction system, comprising the steps of:
- storing a plurality of roles, with different roles providing a user with associated respective levels of access to courses in the system;
for each course for which the user is to have a level of access, associating the user with one of the plurality of roles, with concurrent different roles for different courses in the system being able to be associated with the user; and
in response to a single login by the user, providing access to the user to at least two courses for which the user is to have a level of access in accordance with the respective roles associated with the user for the two courses;
wherein the step of providing access in response to the single login by the user includes presenting, with a login manager, the user with a list of courses, wherein the list includes a set of respective hyperlinks for each of the courses for which the user is to have a level of access and further wherein at least one of the sets of respective hyperlinks varies according to the associated respective role, wherein each of the respective hyperlinks points to an associated course web page.
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Abstract
A system and methods for implementing education online by providing institutions with the means for allowing the creation of courses to be taken by students online, the courses including assignments, announcements, course materials, chat and whiteboard facilities, and the like, all of which are available to the students over a network such as the Internet. Various levels of functionality are provided through a three-tiered licensing program that suits the needs of the institution offering the program. In addition, an open platform system is provided such that anyone with access to the Internet can create, manage, and offer a course to anyone else with access to the Internet without the need for an affiliation with an institution, thus enabling the virtual classroom to extend worldwide.
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1. A method for providing access to courses having course files in an on-line course-based instruction system, comprising the steps of:
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storing a plurality of roles, with different roles providing a user with associated respective levels of access to courses in the system; for each course for which the user is to have a level of access, associating the user with one of the plurality of roles, with concurrent different roles for different courses in the system being able to be associated with the user; and in response to a single login by the user, providing access to the user to at least two courses for which the user is to have a level of access in accordance with the respective roles associated with the user for the two courses; wherein the step of providing access in response to the single login by the user includes presenting, with a login manager, the user with a list of courses, wherein the list includes a set of respective hyperlinks for each of the courses for which the user is to have a level of access and further wherein at least one of the sets of respective hyperlinks varies according to the associated respective role, wherein each of the respective hyperlinks points to an associated course web page. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A computer-readable medium bearing instructions for providing access to courses having course files in an on-line course-based instruction system, the instructions being executable to cause one or more processors to perform the steps of:
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storing a plurality of roles, with different roles providing a user with associated respective levels of access to courses in the system; for each course for which the user is to have a level of access, associating the user with one of the plurality of roles, with concurrent different roles for different courses in the system being able to be associated with the user; and in response to a single login by the user, providing access to the user to at least two courses for which the user is to have a level of access, in accordance with the respective roles associated with the user for the at least two courses; wherein the providing access in response to the single login by the user includes presenting, with a login manager, the user with a list of courses, wherein the list includes a set of respective hyperlinks for each of the courses for which the user is to have a level of access and further wherein at least one of the sets of respective hyperlinks varies according to the associated respective role, wherein each of the respective hyperlinks points to an associated course web page. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A system providing access to a plurality of courses having course files, comprising:
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a server computer in communication with a user over a network, the server computer comprising; a memory store configured to store respective course files associated with each of the plurality of courses; and an access controller configured to allow the user a level of access to the respective course files for each of the plurality of courses in which the user is to be associated with a respective role from among a plurality of roles in response to a single login by the user; wherein for at least each of a subset of the plurality of the courses the user is associated with one of the plurality of roles, with concurrent different roles for different courses in the system being able to be associated with the user with different roles providing the user with associated levels of access; a login manager configured to present the user with a list of the subset of courses in response to the single login, wherein the list includes a set of respective hyperlinks for each of the courses for which the user is to have a level of access and further wherein at least one of the sets of respective hyperlinks varies according to the associated respective role, wherein each of the respective hyperlinks points to an associated course web page; a login manager configured to present the user with a list of the subset of courses in response to the single login, wherein the list includes a set of respective hyperlinks for each of the subset of courses and further wherein at least one of the sets of respective hyperlinks varies according to the associated respective role, wherein each of the respective hyperlinks points to an associated course web page. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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