Patent ID: 7912900
Filing Date: 2011-03-22
Classification: G06Q,G09B

Abstract:
1. A system for providing education-related alerts in an online learning environment, comprising: a watcher module to monitor an online learning environment comprising a plurality of users participating in online educational activities; an online database comprising a performance threshold and a time threshold for the online educational activities; an event module to receive a score for an assignment completed by one or more students in the online learning environment during a first time, to receive a further score for the same assignment completed by the student during a second time, to determine a score difference between the score and the further score, to determine a time difference between the first score and the second score, to apply the performance threshold to the score difference, to apply the time threshold to the time difference, and to determine an occurrence of suspected cheating when the score difference fails to satisfy the performance threshold and the time difference fails to satisfy the time threshold; an alert module to generate an alert for the suspected cheating occurrence, comprising: a delivery module to provide the alert to one or more of the users as the recipients; and a processor to execute each of the modules, which are stored on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium.