Patent ID: 6470171
Filing Date: 2002-10-22
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
A method for providing a course-level message center and an electronic journal for use with an on-line educational system to provide on-line messages to users for particular educational courses, comprising:providing on-line content concerning educational materials for a particular educational course; providing on-line an electronic syllabus for the educational course; receiving a message concerning the educational course; posting an indication of the message for on-line accessibility of the message by the users; providing an electronic journal for a particular one of the users permitting the particular user to enter information into the electronic journal for participation in the educational course, wherein the electronic journal provides for association of the entered information with the particular user; permitting the instructor to enter information into the electronic journal for viewing by the particular user, wherein the electronic journal provides for secure access to the instructor's entered information by the particular user; permitting the user to selectively identify permitted access to the electronic journal by the instructor; and selectively providing access to the electronic journal by the instructor based upon the particular user's identification of permitted access.