Patent ID: 8064817
Filing Date: 2011-11-22
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
1. An electronic educational system serving a teacher and at least one student comprising: a student terminal for each student, each student terminal including graphic notation forming means comprising an electronic pen and a set of alpha-numeric keys, each student terminal also including a display usable to provide concurrent representations of response inputs from that student, each such student terminal being usable to display handwritten graphic components of the student response inputs and entered on the display by use of the electronic pen, together with alpha-numeric components of the student response inputs and entered on the display by use of the set of alpha-numeric keys; a teacher's station including a computer and screen and network communication connections to receive and to concurrently display the graphic component and the alpha-numeric component inputs of the response from each of the students received in real time, and to provide lesson and question data input to each student terminal; a communication network coupling each student terminal to the teacher station for bi-directional exchange of data; and audio communications means at each of the student terminals and the teacher's station, the audio communications means being operable contemporaneously with the graphic notation means and wherein a time duration of an audio input of each student terminal is displayed on the teacher's screen on an ongoing basis.