Patent Application
20100062410
The present invention relates to a computerized testing device with a network editing interface to support remote testing that provides teachers a ability to generate customized quizzes or teaching materials for students logging onto the computerized testing device to take tests through a network.
In recent years, educational instruction has changed greatly from conventional classroom teaching techniques. The conventional classroom teaching techniques comprise a teacher presenting information to students in an essentially non-interactive way such as a lecture. Often, a textbook or other written material is provided to students in anticipation that the students will study the written material before the teacher presents and explains the material in class. Conventional classroom education techniques still primarily use words in textbooks and lectures to communicate.
To accommodate student and teacher time and location constraints, remote study has become a desirable option for education. Networks such as the internet and local area networks (LANs) have made this possible.
However, putting written materials for remote study on a network may require extensive reproduction work such as cutting, copying, typing and scanning. Therefore, databases that store education materials for remote education and an efficient method of reproducing and digitalizing printed material are required.
Advancement of animation technology, particularly Macromedia's Flash, has created interactive animation of images. However, Flash was designed as a professional tool for artists and animators to create professional internet animations. Professional Flash animators are expensive and difficult to find. Most teachers are not sufficiently trained to create dynamic images using Macromedia's Flash. Therefore, a need for an interactive network device that uses an efficient method to build an effective remote module without having to employ highly skilled and trained specialists is also needed.
The present invention has multiple objectives. The primary objective of the present invention is to provide a computerized testing device with a network editing interface that allows a teacher to generate customized quizzes respectively for students logging onto the computerized testing device to take tests via a network including the internet.
The second objective of the present invention is provide a computerized testing device with a network editing interface that provides teachers extensive teaching resources and a graphical user interface (GUI) that allows customized quizzes or teaching material to be created without expensive creation work.
The computerized testing device with a network editing interface in accordance with the present invention allows a teacher to generate customized quizzes or teaching materials for students logging onto the computerized testing device to take tests via a network including the internet. The computerized testing device comprises an examination managing module, a content database, a testing module and a recording module. The network editing interface allows a teacher to generate multiple unique quizzes or teaching materials and comprises a quiz database, a template database, a teacher database and an network editing interface.
With reference to
The computerized testing device (1) comprises an examination managing module (10), a content database (13), a testing module (11) and a recording module (12).
The examination managing module (10) allows a teacher to login, to select a testing subject, a testing date and corresponding quizzes respectively for specific students and comprises a quiz database (102), a template database (103), a teacher database (104) and a network editing interface (101).
The quiz database (102) comprises multiple records, multiple exercises and exercise's information data. The exercises are stored respectively in the records. The exercise's information data are stored respectively in the records and comprise at least an exercise's title, subject, corresponding answer and difficulty.
The template database (103) stores multiple Flash components.
The teacher database (104) stores personal information data about specific teachers. The personal information data for each teacher comprises at least a teacher's name, account name, password and multiple template setup files. The template setup files record a teacher's editing history based on previous quiz templates generated by the teacher.
With further reference to
The editing area (30) is a “What You See Is What You Get” (WYSIWYG) typesetting area that allows the teacher to drag a selected exercise and Flash component to a desired location.
The page switch (31) allows the teacher to switch pages when customized quizzes have multiple pages, and components in the editing area change based on current page.
The editing menu (32) has multiple options such as font type, font size, save and print. The save option allows the teacher to save a finished customized quiz or print the finished customized quiz to an external printer.
The finished customized quiz has two types. One type of the finished customized quiz is a student version. Another type of the finished customized quiz is a teacher version that has exercises and corresponding detail answer explanations.
The content database (13) is connected to the examination managing module (10) and comprises multiple records, multiple quizzes and personal information data about specific students. The quizzes are stored respectively in records in at least one file format. The at least one file format may be selected from Word, text, numerical, date or data files. The data files of the quizzes may be Flash data format. The personal information data for each student comprises at least the student's name, account name, password, grade and academic history.
Furthermore, the examination managing module (10) further comprises a quiz filtering module. The quiz filtering module uses multiple predefined selection methods to help a teacher to select quizzes and comprises a subject selection method, a criteria selection method, a uni-format selection method and a history selection method.
The subject selection method allows a teacher filtering out desired exercises randomly based on a particular subject from the quiz database.
The criteria selection method allows a teacher filtering out desired exercises randomly based on the teacher's criteria from the quiz database such as difficulties of exercises.
The uni-format selection method allows a teacher filtering out non-customized quiz directly from the content database for a particular purpose such as a final examination for whole students.
The history selection method allows a teacher filtering out a previous quiz from the content database, and the previous quiz may created by another teacher.
The testing module (11) is connected to the examination managing module (10) and the content database (13), is a network GUI and allows the student to login to the computerized testing device (1) and take tests based on arrangements of the examination managing module (10).
The recording module (12) is connected to the examination managing module (10), content database (13) and the testing module (11), retrieves a specific student's academic history into the examination managing module (10) that gives a teacher information about the student's academic performance, records responses of the student in the content database (13) when the student is taking a test in the testing module (11) and allows a teacher to record a test result in the content database (13) when the student takes a hard copy test.
However, the foregoing description about the network editing interface in the detail description is only an example of generating quizzes. The networking editing interface can be also used to generate customized teaching materials with required teaching contents stored in the quiz database. People skilled in the art will understand that various changes, modifications and alterations in form and details may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 097134798 | Sep 2008 | TW | national |
| 097143978 | Nov 2008 | TW | national |
