Patent ID: 7333769

Claim:
A learning support method with an on-line computer that holds learning material contents including a plurality of learning pages, a learning history of said learning material contents and intelligibility information corresponding to said respective learning pages, comprising: transmitting one learning page of said learning material contents to client machines: updating said intelligibility information when said on-line computer receives an intelligibility declaration with respect to the learning page of said learning material contents transmitted from one of said client machines; and transmitting the intelligibility declarations of all learners for first through recent pages transmitted according to said updated intelligibility information and said learning history so that a learner has a knowledge of intelligibility status of other learners who attend the same learning material content; wherein said on-line computer transmits a ratio of the number of learners who cannot understand said learning material content to the number of learners who completed said learning material content in said transmitting the intelligibility declarations by all learners, said ratio being calculated based on said updated intelligibility information and said learning history.