Patent ID: 8600289

Claim:
A system for assessing student performance in an online educational course, the system comprising: an online classroom module configured to: provide a course comprising course outcomes and lesson outcomes related to the course outcomes, the course outcomes being related to course accreditation requirements, provide learning assessments to students, the learning assessments being related to the lesson outcomes, and grade the learning assessments to produce graded learning assessments; and a performance capture module comprising computer hardware, the performance capture module configured to: weight the graded assessments to produce weighted graded assessments, determine, based at least in part on the weighted graded assessments, whether one or more of the lesson outcomes were achieved, determine whether the course outcomes were achieved based at least in part on whether one or more of the lesson outcomes were achieved, and in response to a determination that the course outcomes were achieved, submit a report on the achievement of said course outcomes to an accreditation organization to thereby show evidence of compliance by the course with the course accreditation requirements.