Patent ID: 8775515

Claim:
A system for providing student performance alerts in an online learning environment, comprising: a watcher module to monitor an online learning environment; an event module to receive a performance score for a test taken by a student at a first time and to further obtain one or more previous performance scores for previous tests taken by the student at previous times; a comparison module to compare the performance score with one or more of the previous performance scores and to determine a performance difference between the performance score and the one or more previous performance scores; a significance determination module to determine whether the performance difference between the performance score and the one or more previous performance scores is significant, comprising: a threshold module to apply a change threshold to the performance difference; and a difference determination module to determine that the performance difference is significant when the performance difference falls outside the threshold; a delivery module to transmit an alert for the significant performance difference to the student; and a processor to execute the modules.