Patent ID: 6898411

Claim:
A networked teaching and learning system having a plurality of student computers, each having an input device and a screen, and having at least one teacher's computer including an input device and a screen, the networked system further comprising: at least one data storage server for storage of lessons, said lessons including exercises having Uniform Resource Locators (URL's), questions and multi-character answers, a response server in communication with the student computers for processing student responses; and Web browsers on the teacher's computer and the student computers for communicating through a Web server in response to URL's received from the teacher and student computers; wherein a teacher's computer and the students' computers include program instructions responsive to inputs to cause an exercise, including a Web page relating to a URL, to be displayed on the screen of at least one of the student computers; wherein the student computer includes program instructions for displaying the Web page, including selectable links, by referring to the URL received with the exercise, and for immediately transmitting the URL from each link selected and each character resulting from an input on the student computer, to the response server; and further comprising comparison and evaluation logic for comparison and evaluation of the character with a homologous character of at least one answer to the question; and wherein the teacher's computer includes program instructions for the teacher's screen to be contemporaneously responsive to the sequence of Web links selected on the screen of the student's computer and to the character from a student keystroke and to a result of the comparison and evaluation.