JP2007226455A - Lesson management device and lesson management method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently evaluate the contents of a lesson for qualitative improvement of the lesson and a teacher. <P>SOLUTION: An e-mail transmitting/receiving section receives an e-mail from a student. Based on this e-mail, chart data for determining the learning situation of the student is created, and is held in the chart data holding section. When the e-mail is not an e-mail transmitted within a receiving period set in a receiving period setting region 266, the e-mail is not handled as an effective e-mail. When the e-mail is not an e-mail transmitted from an effective area set in an effective area setting region 268, this e-mail is not handled as an effective e-mail. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an education support technique for managing a student's learning status.

Japan has finally entered a society with a declining population. Each university is exposed to harsh competition to survive, with the advent of the university era. In order to overcome such competition by building a position as an attractive university, there is a growing need for so-called FD (Faculty Development), a systematic effort to improve class content and methods and improve quality. ing.
JP 2004-252632 A JP 2003-18324 A

General FD begins with student opinion collection. For example, students' opinions are collected through a questionnaire, and the content of the lesson is reviewed based on the results. However, this method has been pointed out that it has a heavy human burden and teachers cannot concentrate on education as their main business.
Collecting various information from students is considered useful for managing the learning status of students, but in addition, it is also important to determine whether the collected information correctly reflects the current situation.

  A main object of the present invention is to provide an educational support technique for efficiently managing a student's learning situation for class evaluation.

An aspect of the present invention relates to a lesson management apparatus for supporting lessons by managing the learning status of students.
This apparatus first receives an e-mail from a student, and determines that the e-mail is a valid e-mail when the e-mail transmission date and time and the reception date and time are within the acceptance period. If the e-mail is a valid e-mail, predetermined data is extracted from the e-mail and managed as chart data indicating the student's learning status.

The predetermined data here may be data that is set explicitly by the sender, such as the body of an email or an attached file, or data that is set implicitly, such as a transmission address or transmission time. There may be. Various information obtained from the e-mail can be useful information for determining the student's learning status. For example, information such as the frequency of e-mail transmission may be useful information for measuring students' motivation for classes. Predetermined data itself obtained from the e-mail may be managed as medical chart data, or data generated based on the predetermined data may be managed as medical chart data.
Since the student only transmits an e-mail from a communication terminal such as a mobile phone that is usually used, there is an advantage that the student can easily obtain cooperation with the operation of the class management apparatus.

Students may send various types of e-mails, such as e-mails indicating attendance at classes and e-mails describing impressions about classes. However, even if an e-mail indicating attendance is sent after the class ends, such an e-mail is not considered to indicate that the student actually attended the class. Similarly, even if an impression about the lesson is described in an e-mail sent after a considerable period of time has passed since the lesson ended, the impression may not properly reflect the lesson content.
This lesson management apparatus can determine the validity of an e-mail based on settings such as an e-mail reception period, and can specify data useful for managing the learning status of students.

  It should be noted that any combination of the above-described constituent elements and a conversion of the expression of the present invention between a method, an apparatus, a system, a recording medium, a computer program, etc. are also effective as an aspect of the present invention.

  According to the present invention, a student's learning situation can be managed efficiently for class evaluation.

  In this embodiment, first, the outline of the lesson evaluation system will be described, and the “feature condition determination” that is the main feature of the present invention will be mainly described.

FIG. 1 is a hardware configuration diagram of a lesson evaluation system.
The lesson evaluation system 10 is a system for evaluating and verifying lesson contents assuming introduction into an educational institution such as a university. The class evaluation system 10 is a system used by teachers and students, and provides a mechanism for feeding back student responses to classes to class contents.

  The class evaluation system 10 includes a class management apparatus 100, a mail server 202, and a plurality of client terminals 204. These are connected to each other via the Internet 200. The lesson management apparatus 100 is used by a teacher (hereinafter, “teacher” is also referred to as “user” in the sense of clearly indicating that the user is the user of the lesson management apparatus 100). Each client terminal 204 is a general communication terminal equipped with a mail transmission / reception function, such as a mobile phone or a notebook computer used by students. In the present embodiment, each client terminal 204 has a GPS (Global Positioning System) function, and the client terminal 204 transmits an e-mail including its position information to the lesson management apparatus 100.

  First, the teacher sets an e-mail address dedicated to the course when the course is opened (hereinafter referred to as “course address”). For example, a course address such as “fraA@xxx.co.jp” is set for a course consisting of 15 classes “French A”. A student who takes a class in French A sends and receives an e-mail to and from the class management apparatus 100 via the course address. For example, when a student attends a class, an “attendance mail” for notifying attendance is transmitted to the course address. The mail server 202 transfers the attendance mail received from the client terminal 204 to the lesson management apparatus 100. The mail server 202 may be a general known device. The lesson management apparatus 100 automatically counts which students attended which course by attendance mail.

In addition to this, the student transmits an impression email describing the impression of the class to the course address. The class management device 100 performs natural language analysis of the impression mail and quantitatively evaluates the degree of understanding and motivation of the students. For example, if the impression mail contains many pre-defined “motivated words” such as “done”, “done”, and “want to do”, it can be determined that the student has a high level of understanding and willingness to learn. Thus, the lesson management apparatus 100 shown in the present embodiment can also quantify the student's response to the lesson by analyzing the terms included in the impression mail.
Various information obtained from student e-mails is used as useful information for improving class content.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of the lesson management apparatus.
Each block shown here can be realized in hardware by an element such as a CPU of a computer or a mechanical device, and in software it is realized by a computer program or the like. Draw functional blocks. Therefore, those skilled in the art will understand that these functional blocks can be realized in various forms by a combination of hardware and software.

The lesson management apparatus 100 includes a user interface processing unit 110, a communication unit 120, a data processing unit 130, and a data holding unit 150.
The user interface processing unit 110 is in charge of processing related to the entire user interface, such as input processing from a teacher user and information display for the user. The communication unit 120 is in charge of communication processing with the client terminal 204 via the mail server 202. The data processing unit 130 executes various types of data processing based on data acquired from the user interface processing unit 110 and the communication unit 120. The data processing unit 130 also serves as an interface among the user interface processing unit 110, the communication unit 120, and the data holding unit 150.
The data holding unit 150 stores various data such as setting data prepared in advance and an e-mail received from the data processing unit 130.

  The user interface processing unit 110 includes a display unit 112 and an input unit 118. The input unit 118 receives an input operation from the user. The display unit 112 displays various information to the user.

  The communication unit 120 includes a mail transmission / reception unit 122 for processing transmission / reception of mail. The mail transmission / reception unit 122 further includes a normal mail transmission / reception unit 124 and an error mail transmission unit 126. The normal mail transmission / reception unit 124 transmits emails for various notifications to the client terminal 204 and receives various emails such as attendance emails and impression emails from the client terminal 204. The error mail transmission unit 126 transmits an e-mail in which an error message is described when an e-mail received from the client terminal 204 does not meet various valid conditions described later. Hereinafter, an e-mail in which such an error message is described is referred to as “error mail”, and other normal e-mails are distinguished as “normal mail”.

The data holding unit 150 includes a mail data holding unit 152, a chart data holding unit 172, and a form holding unit 170.
The mail data holding unit 152 holds an e-mail received from a student. Students may send a report file instructed to be submitted as homework attached to an email. The mail data holding unit 152 also holds such a report file.
The chart data holding unit 172 holds chart data that is a basis for the user to determine the student's learning status. The chart data includes, for example, data corresponding to various predetermined items such as a student's name and email address, attendance status, contents described in the impression email, and report file submission status. A specific data structure of the chart data holding unit 172 will be described later with reference to FIG.
The form holding unit 170 holds form data in which a display layout is defined when the display unit 112 displays medical chart data on the screen. The form data defines the data to be displayed and the display method of the chart data. The form data can also include logic for displaying a result of a predetermined calculation based on the chart data. Specifically, this will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

The data processing unit 130 includes an email processing unit 132 and a lesson data management unit 138.
The mail processing unit 132 analyzes the contents of the electronic mail. The mail processing unit 132 includes a classification unit 134, a matching determination unit 136, and a position detection unit 137. The classification unit 134 performs classification according to the contents of the email. As already mentioned, e-mails received from students are various such as attendance e-mails and impression e-mails. The classification unit 134 classifies the electronic mail according to the content. For example, an e-mail in which the word “attendance” is included in “subject” is classified according to a predetermined classification condition such as a condition that it is an attendance mail.

  The matching determination unit 136 determines whether the received electronic mail is valid mail as a processing target. For example, it can be said that an attendance email received before the start of a lesson is not valid. Also, impression emails sent from students who are not attending classes are not valid. The matching determination unit 136 determines the validity of the received email according to a predetermined validity condition. The valid condition determination will be described later in detail with reference to FIG.

  The position detection unit 137 detects the location of the client terminal 204 based on position information included in the e-mail. In this embodiment, the client terminal 204 transmits the position information obtained from the GPS as a part of the e-mail data. As a modification, the base station ID indicating the base station to which the client terminal 204 is connected is transmitted as the position information. May be. In this case, the position detection unit 137 may detect the position of the client terminal 204 based on the base station ID.

  The lesson data management unit 138 manages data related to courses as lesson data for each lesson. The course consists of one or more classes. Various data such as the average score of the exam, the degree of understanding of the students analyzed from the impression mail, and the lesson plan are managed as lesson data.

The lesson data management unit 138 includes a student management unit 140, a setting unit 142, and an analysis unit 164.
The student management unit 140 manages data related to the student's learning status, such as attendance rate and test results. The student management unit 140 further includes a medical record management unit 168. The medical chart management unit 168 manages medical chart data among the data related to the students. The medical chart management unit 168 extracts predetermined data from the data acquired from the input unit 118 or the electronic mail, and updates the medical chart data in the medical chart data holding unit 172 as appropriate.

  The setting unit 142 sets various conditions related to the analysis of e-mail, such as the conditions of the matching determination unit 136 and the classification unit 134. The setting unit 142 further includes a reception period setting unit 144, an effective area setting unit 146, an attribute condition setting unit 148, and a character number condition setting unit 154. Each of these units sets a validity condition for determining the validity of the electronic mail.

First, the reception period setting unit 144 sets an e-mail reception period via a setting screen such as an attendance management setting screen 260 described later. For example, an attendance email may be received with the reception period being “within 10 minutes from the start of class”. In this case, even if an attendance email is received after 10 minutes or more have elapsed from the class start time, the alignment determination unit 136 does not treat such an attendance email as a valid attendance email. In this way, attendance emails from students who are not in time for classes can be automatically treated as invalid.
The determination may be made based on either the transmission date / time or the reception date / time, or may be made based on both of them. In the present embodiment, the determination will be made based on the transmission date / time. This is because the date and time of reception is considered to be information that is easily influenced by various external factors such as Internet 200 traffic and mail server 202 malfunctions. Note that the matching determination unit 136 performs determination by detecting the transmission date and time from the header information of the email.

  The effective area setting unit 146 sets an area where the client terminal 204 should be located as an effective area. For example, an attendance email may be received with the effective area as “A302 classroom”. When an attendance mail is transmitted from outside the A302 classroom, the alignment determination unit 136 assumes that the position of the client terminal 204 detected by the position detection unit 137 does not belong to the effective area. The matching determination unit 136 does not treat such attendance emails as valid attendance emails. Thereby, attendance mails from students who have not actually arrived in the classroom can be automatically treated as invalid.

The attribute condition setting unit 148 sets an attribute that should be satisfied by the student who is the transmission source of the e-mail as an attribute condition. For example, when requesting the submission of a report file for a student with a low attendance rate, after setting the attribute condition to “attendance rate 60% or less”, the consistency determination unit 136 validates the e-mail with the report file attached. You may judge sex. Since information such as the attendance rate is held as medical chart data, the matching judgment unit 136 refers to the medical chart data related to the student of the e-mail transmission source, and is a report file transmitted from a student that does not meet this attribute condition. This can be automatically disabled.
The character number condition setting unit 154 determines the validity of the e-mail based on the number of characters counted by the character counting unit 166. This will be described after the character counting unit 166 is described.

The analysis unit 164 includes a character counting unit 166.
The character counting unit 166 counts the number of characters in the body of the email. In this embodiment, the number of characters in the impression mail is counted as the number of impression characters. The content of the impression email is likely to be important data for class evaluation. For example, the user can set a character number condition for the number of impression characters using the character number condition setting unit 154 as “the number of impression characters is 50 or more”. Impression mail that does not clear the character count condition is automatically disabled.
In the present embodiment, the conditions related to the reception period, the conditions related to the effective area, the attribute conditions, and the character number conditions are collectively referred to as “effective conditions”. The medical chart management unit 168 generates medical chart data based on the data obtained from the e-mail satisfying the validity condition, and records it in the medical chart data holding unit 172.

FIG. 3 is a screen view of the menu screen of the lesson management apparatus.
When a user who is a teacher logs in to the lesson management apparatus 100, first, the menu screen 210 is displayed. The course selection area 212 displays a list of currently opened courses. Here, three courses of “French A2005”, “French B2005” and “French C2005” are opened. In the figure, “French A2005” is selected.

  When one of the buttons included in the menu button group 214 is selected, a screen for accessing various lesson data about the course selected in the course selection area 212 is displayed. The attendance book button 216 is a button for displaying the attendance status of students. The impression acceptance button 218 is a button for displaying a list of the contents of the impression mail received from the student. The submission management button 220 is a button for displaying the submission status such as homework. The test result button 222 is a button for displaying a list of test results. The consistency check button 224 is a button for displaying a screen for setting consistency conditions. The medical record button 226 is a button for displaying information on the student's lesson attitudes and grades as “karte”. The notification button 228 is a button for displaying a screen for notifying notification items related to lessons such as absence notice. The voting button 230 is a button for displaying a screen for collecting students' opinions.

  Here, the validity condition determination will be described in relation to the attendance book screen 240 and the impression reception screen 250 that are displayed when the attendance book button 216 and the impression reception button 218 in the menu button group 214 are selected. Finally, a chart display process will be described in relation to the chart screen 300 displayed when the chart button 226 is selected.

FIG. 4 is a screen view of the attendance book screen.
The attendance book screen 240 is displayed when the attendance book button 216 is clicked on the menu screen 210 of FIG. The teacher shows the secret words of the class to the students at the start of the class. The secret word may be shown verbally in the classroom. The student who attended the class inputs this password and sends an attendance email to the course address. The classification unit 134 classifies the attendance mail, and the matching determination unit 136 determines whether the correct password is described in the attendance mail. In addition to this, the matching determination unit 136 determines the validity of the attendance mail based on various valid conditions set via the attendance management setting screen 260 shown in FIG. If it is a valid attendance email, the lesson data management unit 138 recognizes the student who is the sender of the attendance email as a regular attendee. The display unit 112 displays the names of students attending the class on the attendance list screen 240.

The class selection area 242 displays the attendance status regarding each class of the “French A2005” class. According to the figure, the lesson of this course is the fourth, and the attendance rate for the four lessons is listed. In the lesson selection area 242, the fourth lesson of the theme “pronunciation of R” is selected. The attendance status display area 244 displays a list of names of students attending the fourth class selected in the class selection area 242. Here, of the 6 students registered in the course, 5 students except for “Takeharu Yoshiharu” attend the class. When the lesson management apparatus 100 accepts the attendance email, the display unit 112 automatically updates the contents of the attendance book screen 240, so that the teacher can accurately grasp the attendance status of each student in real time by the attendance book screen 240.
The medical chart management unit 168 updates the medical chart data held by the medical chart data holding unit 172 when the attendance mail is effectively accepted. For example, when a new attendance email is received from “Yoshikatsu Takeharu”, the chart management unit 168 updates the data regarding the attendance status in the chart data of “Yoshikatsu Takeharu” of “French A2005”.

FIG. 5 is a screen view of an attendance management setting screen.
The display unit 112 displays an attendance management setting screen 260 as a user interface screen for setting effective conditions related to attendance mail. The class day setting area 262 sets a class day. In the figure, “September 24, 2005” is set as the class day. The start time setting area 264 shows the start time of the lesson. In the figure, it is set as “10:00”. The theme setting area 270 shows the theme of the lesson. This corresponds to the theme displayed in the class selection area 242 of the attendance book screen 240. The keyword setting area 272 shows a secret word of the class. If the password specified here is not described in the attendance mail, the matching judgment unit 136 treats the attendance mail as invalid.

  The reception period setting area 266 and the effective area setting area 268 are areas for setting effective conditions for attendance mail. Among these, the reception period setting area 266 is an area for designating the reception period of attendance mail. In the figure, it is set within 10 minutes. That is, “10:00 to 10:10” of “September 24, 2005” when the class starts is the reception period. The effective area setting area 268 is an area for designating an effective area. In the figure, “A302 classroom” where the class is held is designated as an effective area, and attendance emails transmitted from other places are treated as invalid.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the process of accepting attendance emails.
After the classification unit 134 classifies the received e-mail as an attendance mail (S10), the position detection unit 137 detects the position of the client terminal 204 as a transmission source from the position information recorded in the attendance mail (S12). . Here, in the case of a communication-type lesson such as a satellite lesson, there may be a time difference between the place where the lesson is held and the place where the student is taking the lesson. Considering such a case, the matching determination unit 136 converts the transmission date and time at the position of the client terminal 204 into the date and time at the position of the lesson management device 100 (S14). By such processing, the user of the lesson management apparatus 100 can set the reception period without worrying about the time difference. In the case of such a communication-type lesson, a plurality of effective areas are set as effective areas corresponding to a plurality of classrooms. For example, when a class is held in “A302 classroom” in Tokushima and the class is also relayed to the “B102 classroom” in Rio de Janeiro, “A302 classroom” and “B102 classroom” are effective areas.

  If the converted transmission date / time is not within the acceptance period (N in S16), the error mail transmission unit 126 selects an error message from a plurality of types of error messages (S20), and transmits the error mail (S22). For attendance emails that have a period up to 15 minutes after the end of the acceptance period, send it as "Sorry but it's late." If it's more than 15 minutes late, "It's completely late." The content of the error message changes in accordance with the length of time from the end of the reception period until the transmission date and time. With the error mail, the student can immediately recognize whether or not the transmitted e-mail is effectively accepted.

  As a modification, for example, when an attendance email sent from a student whose late rate is 50% or more is not within the reception period, an error message “You are too late” may be sent. As described above, the content of the error message may be changed according to the attribute condition or the like as well as the delay of the attendance mail. Further, an error message may be prepared in advance for a specific student, for example, “Yoshikatsu Takeharu” in FIG. 4, who is late for the next class. According to such a method, it is possible to set an error message according to the student, so that advice according to each student who is not uniform can be made via the error message.

  In addition, not only error messages but also, for example, when an attendance email sent from a student whose late rate is 50% or more is within the reception period, you may send a message “I did my best today.” A message “No. 1” may be sent to the student who attended No. 1. As described above, even when the effective condition is satisfied, various messages may be transmitted depending on the situation so as to motivate the student.

  Return to S16. If the converted transmission date / time is within the acceptance period (Y in S16) and the client terminal 204 of the transmission source is in the valid area (Y in S18), the medical record management unit 168 makes the attendance mail valid and converts it to the medical record data. Information on attendance included is updated (S24). That is, the information “attendance” in the attendance email is reflected as medical chart data. If the acceptance period expires, the absence of students who did not send an attendance email within that period will be confirmed.

  If the transmission source client terminal 204 is not within the effective area (N in S18), an error message is selected (S20), and an error mail is transmitted (S22). The medical chart management unit 168 stores the attendance email in the email data holding unit 152 regardless of whether the attendance email is valid or invalid (S26). Even if an attendance email is treated as invalid, it is meaningful to save it in the email data holding unit 152. For example, even if 5 minutes from the start of the lesson is set as the reception period for attendance emails, there may be cases where it is desired to extend the reception period afterwards because of a problem with transportation. In addition, the setting of 5 minutes is strict from the beginning, and it may be allowed up to 10 minutes later. In such a case, the chart data may be updated by resetting the reception period and reprocessing each attendance mail held in the mail data holding unit 152 by the process shown in FIG. This makes it easier for students who have been treated as being late to be later treated as attending. That is, by storing the e-mail from the student in the mail data holding unit 152 as it is, it becomes easy to change the effective condition afterwards according to the actual situation.

FIG. 7 is a screen view of an impression acceptance screen.
The impression acceptance screen 250 is displayed when the impression acceptance button 218 is clicked on the menu screen 210 of FIG. When the class is over, the student sends an impression email to the course address. This feedback email allows the teacher to immediately know the student's reaction to the lesson. The lesson selection area 252 displays the reception status of the impression mail regarding each lesson of the “French A2005” course. In the class selection area 252, the fourth class is selected. The impression list area 256 displays a list of student's impressions regarding the fourth class selected in the class selection area 252. Furthermore, the impression display area 254 displays the impression of the student “Mayumi Arai” selected in the impression list area 256.

Here, when the teacher sets the keyword “question”, the student whose word “question” is included in the impression mail is marked with an asterisk. This feature allows teachers to easily find feedback emails that contain questions.
The medical record management unit 168 updates the medical record data in the medical record data holding unit 172 when the impression mail is effectively received.

FIG. 8 is a screen view of the impression acceptance setting screen.
The display unit 112 displays an impression acceptance setting screen 330 as a user interface screen for setting an effective condition related to the impression mail. The class day setting area 338 sets a class day. In the figure, an effective condition is set for an impression mail related to a class of “September 24, 2005”.

  The reception period setting area 332, the attribute condition setting area 334, and the character number setting area 336 are areas for setting the effective condition of the impression mail. Among these, the reception period setting area 332 is an area for designating the reception period of impression mail. In the figure, it is set within 3 days from the class day. That is, “September 24 to September 26” including the class day “September 24, 2005” is the acceptance period. The attribute condition setting area 334 is an area for designating an attribute condition for a student for which a comment email is to be recruited. In the figure, we are looking for feedback emails from students whose previous exam results were 50 points or less. The character number setting area 336 is an area for designating a character number condition. In the figure, the number of impression characters is designated as “50 or more characters”. For this reason, comment emails with 49 or fewer comment characters are treated as invalid.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the process of accepting impression mail.
After the classification unit 134 classifies the received e-mail as an impression mail (S30), the position detection unit 137 detects the position of the transmission source client terminal 204 from the position information recorded in the impression mail (S32). ). The consistency determination unit 136 converts the transmission date and time at the position of the client terminal 204 into the date and time at the position of the lesson management apparatus 100 (S34).

  If the transmission date after conversion is not within the acceptance period (N in S36), the error mail transmission unit 126 selects an error message from a plurality of types of error messages (S44), and transmits the error mail (S46). For example, for comment emails that have a period from the end of the acceptance period to one day later, send it out a little earlier. The content of the error message changes according to the length of time from the end of the reception period to the transmission date and time. As described with reference to FIG. 6, the content of the error message may be changed according to the attribute condition or the like as well as the delay state of the impression mail. If the acceptance period expires, the student who has not sent an impression email within that period is determined to be unsent.

  Return to S36. If the converted transmission date / time is within the reception period (Y in S36), the consistency determination unit 136 refers to the chart data and sets the transmission source to the attribute condition set in the attribute condition setting area 334 of the impression reception setting screen 330. Determine if students are fit. In the case of the setting in FIG. 8, it is determined whether or not the previous test result of the transmission source student is 50 points or less. If not matched (N in S38), the process proceeds to S44, and an error mail is transmitted.

  When the attribute condition is met (Y in S38), the character counting unit 166 counts the number of impression characters, and the matching determination unit 136 determines whether the impression character number meets the character number condition set in the character number setting area 336 (S40). . If not matched (N in S40), the process proceeds to S44, and an error mail is transmitted. When it matches (Y of S40), the medical chart management unit 168 updates the medical chart data by making the impression mail valid (S48). That is, the text data of the comment email is extracted and reflected in the medical record data. At this time, the mail transmitting / receiving unit 122 may transmit an e-mail for notifying that the impression mail has been accepted effectively. The impression mail is stored in the mail data holding unit 152 (S50).

  The medical chart management unit 168 stores the impression mail in the mail data holding unit 152 regardless of whether the comment mail is valid or invalid (S50). Even if the impression mail is treated as invalid, it can be flexibly dealt with the subsequent change of the effective condition in the same manner as the attendance mail by storing it in the mail data holding unit 152.

FIG. 10 is a data structure diagram of the chart data in the chart data holding unit.
The figure shows the chart data of each student for the course “French A2005”. Here, only a part of various data included in the chart data is shown.

  The ID column 282 indicates an ID (hereinafter referred to as “student ID”) assigned in advance to identify the student. The name column 284 shows a student name. An attendance history column 286 indicates the attendance status of students for 15 classes of “French A2005”. Circles in the figure indicate attendance, and crosses indicate absence. When receiving a valid attendance email, the chart management unit 168 identifies the student based on the transmission address and updates the corresponding data in the attendance history column 286.

The unsubmitted column 288 indicates the report file submission status. When the electronic mail with the report file is effectively received, the medical chart management unit 168 updates the corresponding data in the unsubmitted item column 288. The unsent impression column 290 indicates the arrival status of the impression mail. The medical chart management unit 168 updates the corresponding data in the unsent impression column 290 when the impression mail is effectively received.
The special remarks column 292 is data input by the teacher via the input unit 118. You can write comments about the students freely. Thus, the chart data is composed of data that is automatically described by the chart management unit 168 upon receipt of the electronic mail and data that is input by the user.

FIG. 11 is a screen view of a medical chart screen.
Here, only a part of various data to be displayed on the medical chart screen 300 is shown. When the user designates a course on the menu screen 210 of FIG. 3 and clicks the chart button 226, the display unit 112 displays the chart data in the display layout defined in the form data. The ID display area 302 shows the student ID in the ID column 282 of FIG. When the student ID is changed, the chart data for another student is displayed. Thus, the chart screen 300 is displayed on a separate screen for each course and for each student. Here, the medical record data of “Mayumi Arai” who is a student of “French A2005” is displayed.

  The name display area 304 displays the student name in the name field 284 of FIG. An attendance status display area 306 shows the attendance status of students in the attendance history column 286 of FIG. In the form data, the column of the attendance status display area 306 is designed on the assumption that there are 15 classes of the “French A2005” course in advance. Users can freely design form data. The attendance rate display area 307 indicates the attendance rate and absence rate (collectively referred to as “attendance rate”) of “French A2005” by “Mayumi Arai”. The form data describes an expression for calculating the attendance rate based on the attendance data shown in the attendance status display area 306. The display unit 112 instructs the medical chart management unit 168 to execute calculation when such calculation formula is described in the form data when displaying the medical chart data. The medical chart management unit 168 calculates the attendance rate and absence rate by referring to the medical record data and form data, and passes the calculation results to the display unit 112. The display unit 112 displays the calculation result in the attendance rate display area 307 as an attendance rate.

  The consistency display area 308 shows the results of various condition determinations such as the report submission status and the validity of attendance emails. In the form data, various condition settings can be described for the situation to be displayed in the consistency display area 308, such as sending an impression mail without submitting a class or not submitting a report. For example, whether or not there is an unsubmitted report can be determined based on the data in the unsubmitted item column 288 of the medical record data. Students with an attendance rate of 50% or less and an average test score of 70 or more may be marked. Various determination conditions described in the form data are determined by the chart management unit 168.

  The sentence length transition display area 310 shows, as a graph, changes in the number of impression characters in the text of the impression mail sent by the student after the class ends. When the comment mail is received, the character counting unit 166 counts the number of comment characters. The number of impression characters is also held in the chart data holding unit 172 as part of the chart data. Students who are actively participating in the class are generally considered to have more impression letters. Therefore, the graph in the sentence length transition display area 310 is a useful judgment material in estimating the change in the student's motivation. In this way, not only the contents of the e-mail but also the data reflecting the unconscious psychology of the student, such as the number of impression letters, can be used as a medical record, so that the student's learning status can be explored in a multifaceted manner.

  The medical record management unit 168 calculates the average value of the number of impression characters for all students. And the display part 112 is displayed on the sentence length transition display area 310 in the form which compared the average value of the number of impression characters of all the students, and the number of impression characters of the student "Mayumi Arai". For this reason, the user who is a teacher can grasp the overall tendency and the individual tendency together.

The present invention has been described above based on the embodiments.
According to the lesson management apparatus 100 shown in the present embodiment, various data obtained when the lesson evaluation system 10 is operated can be collected as medical record data. The chart screen 300 makes it easy for the user to grasp the learning status of each student in a fine-grained manner at a glance. Since the chart data is generated based on the student's email, the burden on the teacher for creating the chart data can be reduced.

  For various types of electronic mails such as impression mails and attendance mails, the user can set effective conditions for judging the effectiveness. Based on the valid conditions, it is possible to filter e-mails that correctly reflect the current state of information collected as e-mails. Furthermore, since the e-mail that does not satisfy the valid condition is held in the mail data holding unit 152 without being discarded, the valid condition can be changed afterwards to update the chart data. As a result, even after the effective condition is set once, a flexible setting change in accordance with the actual situation is possible.

  According to the lesson management apparatus 100 shown in the present embodiment, the student's reaction to the lesson can be grasped immediately, objectively, and visually, so that the lesson content can be flexibly changed according to the student's reaction. Information about the degree of understanding and willingness to class, the personality of students, etc. are useful for various decisions such as classification, class level adjustment, and necessity of supplementary classes.

Note that the function of the validity determination unit described in the claims is mainly realized by the matching determination unit 136 in the present embodiment.
It should be understood by those skilled in the art that the functions to be fulfilled by the constituent elements described in the claims are realized by a single function block or a combination of the functional blocks shown in the present embodiment.

  The present invention has been described based on the embodiments. This embodiment is an exemplification, and it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various modifications can be made to combinations of the respective constituent elements and processing processes, and such modifications are also within the scope of the present invention. is there.

It is a hardware block diagram of a lesson evaluation system. It is a functional block diagram of a lesson management device. It is a screen figure of the menu screen of a lesson management apparatus. It is a screen figure of an attendance book screen. It is a screen figure of an attendance management setting screen. It is a flowchart which shows the reception process of an attendance mail. It is a screen figure of an impression reception screen. It is a screen figure of an impression reception setting screen. It is a flowchart which shows the reception process process of an impression mail. It is a data structure figure of the chart data in a chart data holding part. It is a screen figure of a medical chart screen.

Explanation of symbols

  10 lesson evaluation system, 100 lesson management device, 110 user interface processing unit, 112 display unit, 118 input unit, 120 communication unit, 122 mail transmission / reception unit, 124 normal mail transmission / reception unit, 126 error mail transmission unit, 130 data processing unit, 132 mail processing unit, 134 classification unit, 136 consistency determination unit, 137 position detection unit, 138 class data management unit, 140 student management unit, 142 setting unit, 144 reception period setting unit, 146 effective area setting unit, 148 attribute condition setting , 150 data holding unit, 152 mail data holding unit, 154 character number condition setting unit, 164 analyzing unit, 166 character counting unit, 168 chart management unit, 170 form holding unit, 172 chart data holding unit, 202 mail server 204, 204 client terminal, 210 menu screen, 214 menu button group, 240 attendance screen, 250 impression reception screen, 260 attendance management setting screen, 262 class day setting area, 264 start time setting area, 266 reception period setting area, 268 Effective area setting area, 270 Theme setting area, 272 Keyword setting area, 300 chart screen, 330 Impression reception setting screen, 332 Reception period setting area, 334 Attribute condition setting area, 336 Character number setting area, 338 Class day setting area

Claims (10)

A device for supporting classes by managing the learning status of students,
An email receiver for receiving emails from students;
A reception period setting unit for setting a reception period for an e-mail according to an input by a user of the own device;
When the transmission date / time or the reception date / time of the email is within the acceptance period, an validity determination unit that determines the email as a valid email;
Extracting predetermined data included in the e-mail on the condition that the e-mail is a valid e-mail, and a chart management unit that holds the predetermined data as chart data indicating the learning status of the student;
A class management device comprising: A mail holding unit for holding the received e-mail;
The class management device according to claim 1, wherein the mail holding unit holds the electronic mail without discarding the electronic mail even when the electronic mail is not a valid mail.   An error mail transmission unit that transmits an error mail, which is an e-mail in which an error message is described, to the student who is a sender of the e-mail when the e-mail is not a valid mail. The class management device according to claim 1 or 2.   The error mail transmission unit selects an error message to be transmitted from a plurality of types of error messages according to the transmission date / time or the reception date / time of the e-mail when the e-mail is not a valid mail. The class management device according to claim 3. A position detector that detects the location of the communication terminal that transmits the e-mail;
An effective area setting unit for setting an effective area where the communication terminal should be located according to an input by a user of the own device,
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the validity determination unit further determines the electronic mail as a valid mail on condition that the communication terminal that has transmitted the electronic mail is located in the valid area. The lesson management device described in Crab. A position detection unit that detects the location of the communication terminal that transmits the e-mail;
The validity determination unit converts the transmission date / time based on the standard time at the location of the communication terminal into a transmission date / time based on the standard time at the location of the device, and whether the transmission date / time of the email is within the reception period. The class management device according to claim 1, wherein the class management device is determined. An attribute condition setting unit for setting an attribute condition for specifying a student's learning status according to an input by a user of the device;
The validity determination unit further refers to the medical record data held by the medical chart management unit to determine whether the learning status of the student who has transmitted the e-mail matches the set attribute condition, The lesson management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the e-mail is determined to be a valid mail on condition that the attribute condition is met. A character counting unit for counting the number of characters in the e-mail;
8. The validity determination unit further determines that the electronic mail is a valid mail on condition that the number of characters of the electronic mail is equal to or greater than or equal to a predetermined number. Class management device. A method for supporting a class by managing the learning status of students,
Receiving e-mails from students;
Setting an e-mail acceptance period according to input by the user of the device;
When the transmission date / time or the reception date / time of the email is within the acceptance period, the step of determining the email as a valid email;
Extracting the predetermined data included in the e-mail on the condition that the e-mail is a valid e-mail, and recording the predetermined data on a recording medium as a part of the chart data indicating the learning status of the student;
Class management method characterized by comprising. A computer program for supporting lessons by managing the learning status of students,
The ability to receive email from students,
A function for setting an e-mail acceptance period according to input by the user of the own device,
A function for determining that the e-mail is a valid e-mail when the e-mail transmission date or time is within the acceptance period;
A function of extracting predetermined data included in the e-mail on condition that the e-mail is a valid e-mail, and holding the predetermined data as medical chart data indicating a learning status of the student;
A class management program characterized by letting a computer demonstrate.

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