Patent ID: 6498920
Filing Date: 2002-12-24
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
A personalized and customizable on-line training system comprising:a web-site on the Internet which a user may connect to on-line using a personal computer and log into using identifying user information; a system program associated with said web-site, said system program controlling and implementing functions of said on-line training system; at least one training module provided by the system program, each said at least one training module having an associated training subject and a lesson template which presents the training subject in a series of on-line screens enabling the user to read and click through at a selected pace, wherein said lesson template is implemented by the system program, wherein said system program uses said user information to automatically personalize said at least one training module to have content relevant to said user, wherein said system program enables a specially authorized user having specific identifying user information to customize said at least one training module via an editing mode, said editing mode allowing said authorized user to access and edit content, including at least one of text and graphics, within a training module, to customize the training content in a desired manner, and further comprising a review mode which the system program presents to the authorized user, wherein said review mode allows the authorized user to review and verify changes that the authorized user made to a training module while in the editing mode, and wherein said at least one training module further comprises a game engine which the system program initiates following the user's completion of the lesson template, wherein said game engine presents the user with an interactive game having a series of questions and answers related to the training subject and automatically personalized to be relevant to said user.