JP2007226457A - Class management apparatus and method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently evaluate the content of class in order to enhance the quality of class and teachers. <P>SOLUTION: A class management apparatus for supporting class by managing the leaning status of students is disclosed. When a report file is attached to email sent from a student, the apparatus sets the name of the report file according to predetermined naming rules and automatically stores the report file with the set name of the file. When the report file is acquired, data showing the acquisition of the report file is updated. <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

In ordinary university education, teachers not only transfer knowledge from teachers to students in one way, but teachers often give students problems. Students submit their answers to the teacher as a report. The teacher grasps each student's level of understanding according to the performance of this report, and in some cases requests re-submission of the report. Report submission is an effective method for actively enrolling students in classes.
However, the management of reports submitted by many students is also a burden for teachers, and on the contrary, teachers may not be able to concentrate on their main business education.

  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.
When a report file is attached to an e-mail sent from a student, this device sets the name of the report file according to a predetermined naming rule, and automatically saves the report file with the set file name. To do. When the report file is acquired, the report management data indicating the acquisition status of the report file is updated.

Students may send various types of e-mails, such as e-mails indicating attendance at classes and e-mails describing impressions about classes. Various data obtained from these e-mails may be integrated as medical chart data for managing the student's learning status. Similarly, the student may attach a file describing the report (hereinafter referred to as “report file”) to the e-mail and send it to the lesson management apparatus.
Since the student simply sends an e-mail from a communication terminal such as a notebook personal computer that he / she is familiar with, there is an advantage that it is easy for the student to obtain cooperation for the operation of the class management apparatus.

  When the apparatus acquires a report file from a student, the apparatus may change the name of the report file based on a predetermined naming rule. As a result, a large number of report files transmitted from a large number of students can be easily managed by a unified naming convention.

  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 the present embodiment, first, an outline of the lesson evaluation system will be described, and “report management” which is the main feature of the present invention will be mainly described.

FIG. 1 is a hardware configuration diagram of the lesson evaluation system 10.
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.

  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.

Alternatively, the student may send a “report mail”, which is an e-mail attached with a report file, to the course address. Whether an electronic mail transmitted from a student corresponds to an attendance mail, a comment mail, a report mail, or the like is determined by mail classification processing described later.
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 100.
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 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 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 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 automatic 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, impression emails, and report emails from the client terminal 204. The automatic mail transmission unit 126 automatically transmits a predetermined electronic mail when a predetermined condition set in the lesson management apparatus 100 is satisfied. For example, when the number of typographical errors or omissions included in the report file is greater than or equal to a predetermined number, an e-mail describing a message requesting the student to resubmit the report is transmitted. Hereinafter, an e-mail in which such a predetermined message is described and automatically transmitted by the lesson management apparatus 100 is referred to as “automatic mail”, and other normal e-mail is referred to as “normal mail”. ".

The data holding unit 150 includes a mail data holding unit 152, a report holding unit 160, 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. The report holding unit 160 holds a report file attached to the report mail. The report holding unit 160 classifies and holds report files into a plurality of directories (folders). The directory structure will be described in detail later with reference to FIG.

  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 chart display processing unit 114 displays the 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 a mail processing unit 132, a report processing unit 148, a preprocessing unit 162, 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 mail classification unit 134 and a matching determination unit 136. The mail classification unit 134 performs classification according to the contents of the email. As already mentioned, there are various types of e-mails received from students, such as attendance mails, impression mails, and report mails. The mail classification unit 134 classifies the electronic mail according to a predetermined classification condition. For example, an email in which the command “Attendance” is described in the body of the email is classified as an attendance email, and an email in which the command “Report” is described is classified as a report email. The student will send an e-mail describing such various commands.

  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. The matching determination unit 136 determines the validity of the received electronic mail according to a predetermined matching condition. Invalid email is excluded from analysis.

The report processing unit 148 acquires a report file from the report mail and stores it in the report holding unit 160. The report processing unit 148 includes a calibration determination unit 164, a report classification unit 154, a naming unit 156, and a storage processing unit 158.
The report classification unit 154 selects a directory in which the report file is stored in the report holding unit 160. A method of determining the storage location of the report file will be described later with reference to FIG.

  The naming unit 156 sets the name of the report file. For example, when a report file named “French A Report” is received from a student named “Mayumi Arai”, the naming unit 156 changes the name of the report file to “May Arai-French A-Report”. May be. In this case, a naming rule “[student name]-[course name] -report” is set in advance, and the naming unit 156 sets the name of the report file according to this naming rule. The naming convention will be described later in detail with reference to FIG.

  The save processing unit 158 saves the report file in the directory selected by the report classification unit 154 among the directories of the report holding unit 160. The processing of the calibration determination unit 164 will be described in relation to the preprocessing unit 162.

  The pre-processing unit 162 performs a predetermined pre-processing on the acquired report file. The preprocessing unit 162 detects typographical errors and omissions included in the report file. In addition, as a prefix process, when an English word or an English sentence is included in the report file, the word may be translated and the Japanese translation may be added to the report file. Alternatively, the preprocessing can be performed by counting the number of characters in the report file, determining whether a report such as “spoken words” contains an inappropriate type of term, calculating the average sentence length, etc. May vary.

  The front processing unit 162 may be implemented as a part of the function of the lesson management device 100, but may be realized as a function of an external device of the lesson management device 100. Further, the function may be provided as a plug-in to the lesson management apparatus 100. The prefix processing unit 162 in the present embodiment executes a process for detecting a typographical error or omission in a report file as a prefix process. The report processing unit 148 first transfers the report file received from the mail processing unit 132 to the front processing unit 162. The preprocessing unit 162 detects typographical errors and omissions in the report file. As the typographical error detection algorithm, a known algorithm that is installed in general document creation support software may be applied.

The preprocessing unit 162 notifies the calibration determination unit 164 of the processing result. When the number of typographical errors or omissions exceeds a predetermined number, the proofreading determination unit 164 instructs the automatic mail transmission unit 126 to transmit an e-mail containing a message requesting resubmission of the report file. On the other hand, if it is within the predetermined number, such automatic mail is not transmitted. As described above, the proofreading determination unit 164 determines whether or not a resubmission request is possible based on the number of typographical errors and omissions in the report file. The determination condition for this is called “permission condition” in the present embodiment.
The judgment of permission conditions and automatic report resubmission request processing can suppress the user's labor required for checking the non-essential parts that are not related to the contents of the report, such as erroneous writing of sentences. The user only needs to check the report file that cleared the permission conditions. The automatic mail requesting resubmission may be accompanied by a message pointing out a typographical error or omission.
Of course, the teacher may request the student to re-submit the report file even if the report file has a good quality as a sentence if the contents are not satisfactory. In this case, the teacher may request re-submission of the report by normal mail.

  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. For example, various data such as the average score of the exam, the degree of understanding of the student 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 and a setting unit 142.
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 record management unit 168 appropriately updates the medical record data of the medical record data holding unit 172 among the data related to the students.

The setting unit 142 sets conditions for various processes in the lesson management apparatus 100 such as various conditions in the matching determination unit 136, the mail classification unit 134, and the proofreading determination unit 164. The setting unit 142 includes a naming rule setting unit 146 and a reception period setting unit 144.
The naming rule setting unit 146 sets a report file naming rule via a naming rule setting screen 276 described later. The reception period setting unit 144 sets the reception period of the report file via the deadline setting screen 274 described later. For example, when the reception period is set to “until August 31”, the alignment determination unit 136 automatically treats report files acquired after September 1 as invalid.

  The reception period may be determined based on either the transmission date / time or the reception date / time of the report mail, or may be determined based on both, but in this embodiment, the determination is based on the transmission date / time. It will be described as being. 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. The matching determination unit 136 detects the transmission date / time from the header information of the report mail and makes a determination.

FIG. 3 is a data structure diagram of medical chart data in the medical chart data holding unit 172.
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 the attendance mail is received, the medical chart management unit 168 specifies 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 report 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. When the impression mail is accepted, the medical chart management unit 168 updates the corresponding data in the untransmitted impression column 290.
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. 4 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 report file submission status. 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, as basic functions of the lesson management apparatus 100, an attendance list screen 240 and an impression reception that are displayed when the attendance book button 216 and the impression reception button 218 in the button group of the menu button group 214 are selected, respectively. The screen 250 will be described. Subsequently, the report management screen 260 displayed when the submission management button 220 is selected will be described focusing on report management.

FIG. 5 is a screen view of the attendance book screen 240.
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 mail classification unit 134 classifies the attendance mail, and the matching determination unit 136 determines whether the correct password is described in the attendance mail. 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 mail, 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. 6 is a screen view of the impression acceptance screen 250.
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 chart management unit 168 updates the medical record data in the medical record data holding unit 172 when the impression mail is received.

FIG. 7 is a screen diagram of the submission management screen 260.
The submission management screen 260 is displayed when the submission management button 220 is clicked on the menu screen 210 of FIG. Students answer the tasks presented by the teacher during the lesson and compile them as a report file. Then, an electronic mail with a report file attached to the course address, that is, a report mail is transmitted. Upon receiving the report mail, the lesson management apparatus 100 updates the data related to the report submission status shown in the unsubmitted column 288 of the medical record data. However, report submission is not treated as valid unless a report file is attached.

  The class selection area 262 shows the report submission status for each class of the “French A2005” class. The class selection area 262 indicates the report deadline date, the remaining days until the deadline, the report file submission rate, and the like. In the class selection area 262, the fourth class is selected. The submission status list area 264 displays a report submission status of each student for the fourth class selected in the class selection area 262.

  The report file submitted by the student is checked for typographical errors and omissions by the preprocessing unit 162. The submission status list area 264 also displays the number of typographical errors and omissions in each student's report file. In addition, when a student submits a report file a plurality of times, the number of typographical and omissions compared to the previous report file is shown to increase or decrease. For example, according to the submission status list area 264, the student “Hideyuki Ishida” has submitted the report file twice in the fourth class “pronunciation of R”. This means that “Hideyuki Ishida” has resubmitted the report file. As a result of the pre-processing for the second report file, the number of detected typographical characters and omissions is two, and an upward arrow indicates that the number is increased compared to the first report.

FIG. 8 is a screen diagram of the deadline setting screen 274.
The user sets the report file reception period via the deadline setting screen 274. The display unit 112 displays a deadline setting screen 274 in response to a user instruction.

The report name setting area 270 specifies a report name. In the figure, the report name “pronunciation of R” is set as in the class theme. This report name may be verbally notified from the teacher to the student during the class, or may be notified to the student by an automatic mail triggered by the setting of the deadline setting screen 274.
When a student submits a report file, the student writes text in the format of “student ID report report name” in the body of the report mail. Here, the “report” described next to the student ID is a command indicating that the electronic mail is a report mail. For example, in the case of Mayumi Arai with student ID “2005001”, a report mail is transmitted with “2005001 Report R pronunciation” written in the mail body.

The mail classification unit 134 determines that the electronic mail is a report mail by a command “report”. The report classification unit 154 determines to which problem the report mail is the report mail based on the report name specified after the “report” command.
When the user sets the report name “R pronunciation” in the report name setting area 270, the setting unit 142 automatically generates a directory with the same name “R pronunciation” in the report holding unit 160. Will be described with reference to FIG.

  The deadline setting area 272 is an area for setting a report file submission deadline. In this figure, August 31, 2005 is set as the submission deadline. The matching determination unit 136 determines whether the report file has been transmitted within the reception period based on the deadline set here. It can be said that the setting for the deadline date is to determine the matching condition for the report mail.

FIG. 9 is a screen diagram of the naming rule setting screen 276.
The user sets the report file naming rule via the naming rule setting screen 276. In response to a user instruction, the display unit 112 displays a naming rule setting screen 276.

  Each element name set in the first element setting area 340, the second element setting area 342, and the third element setting area 344 is connected by a symbol shown in the connection element setting area 346, so that the report file at the time of saving is saved. The name is determined. In the figure, the element “student ID” is designated in the first element setting area 340, the element “student name” is designated in the second element setting area 342, and the word “report” is designated in the third element setting area 344. Has been. In the connection element setting area 346, “-(hyphen)” is designated. Therefore, the report file from the student “Mayumi Arai” with the student ID “2005001” is set to the name “20051001-Mayumi Arai-Report.txt” by the naming unit 156. The storage processing unit 158 stores the report file of Mayumi Arai in the report holding unit 160 with this file name.

As described above, the designation value in each of the first element setting area 340, the second element setting area 342, the third element setting area 344, and the connection element setting area 346 is set by the naming unit 156 to set the name of the report file. This is the naming convention. Hereinafter, the name set by the naming unit 156 according to the naming rule is referred to as “save report name”, and the name of the report file originally transmitted by the student is referred to as “send report name”. In addition, the transmission date and time of the report file, the report name at the time of transmission, and the like may be components of the storage report name.
The example area 348 exemplifies the storage report name based on the data specified in the first element setting area 340, the second element setting area 342, the third element setting area 344, and the connection element setting area 346.

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram showing a directory structure in the report holding unit 160.
When a new course is opened and a course address is set, the setting unit 142 generates a directory having the same name as the course name. In the figure, a plurality of directories are generated corresponding to a plurality of courses such as “French A2005”, “German A2005”, and “Linear Algebra I2006”. Hereinafter, a directory corresponding to such a course is referred to as a “course directory”.

  When the user sets the report submission deadline via the deadline setting screen 274, a directory having the same name as the report name specified in the report name setting area 270 is generated. In the figure, a course directory “French A2005” includes directories corresponding to report names such as “French Defense Considerations” and “French Historical Changes”. Hereinafter, a directory corresponding to such a report name is referred to as a “report directory”.

  When the report directory is generated, a directory corresponding to the student registered in the course is automatically generated under the report directory. For example, since the report directory “French Defense Considerations” belongs to the course directory “French A2005”, “Mayumi Arai”, “Hideyuki Ishida”, etc. registered in the course “French A2005” etc. A directory corresponding to the student name is generated. Hereinafter, a directory corresponding to such a student name is referred to as a “student directory”.

With such a directory set up, a report in which a command “20051032 Report Consideration on French Defense” is described from “Hideyuki Ishida” of student ID “20051022” to the course address of “French A2005”. Suppose an email is sent. At this time, the email classification unit 134 determines that the email is a report email from the command name “report” described next to the student ID in the email body. The report classification unit 154 determines that the storage location of the report file is the directory “French A2005> French Defense Considerations> Ishida Hideyuki” from the term “French Defense Considerations” and the student ID. The naming unit 156 determines a storage report name according to a naming rule. According to the naming convention shown in FIG. 9, the storage report name is “20051032-Hideyuki Ishida-Report”.
The saving processing unit 158 saves the report file in the corresponding directory of the report holding unit 160 with the saving report name. In this way, various report files received from students are automatically sorted and stored in each directory.

  Further, it is assumed that a student submits a report file for an assignment given by the teacher, and then the student resubmits the report file for the same assignment. For example, “Ishida Hideyuki” sends a report mail in which a command “20051022 Report French Defense Consideration” is described in response to the problem “French Defense Consideration”, and again “200551032 Report French Defense” Assume that a report mail in which a command “consideration” is described is transmitted. In such a case, the naming unit 156 sets the first report file and the second report file as aliases.

  When the second report file is received, the naming unit 156 changes the saved report name of the first saved report file to “20051032-Hideyuki Ishida-Report 1”, and the second report file. Is set to “20051032-Hideyuki Ishida-Report 2”. By such processing, when a report file is re-submitted from a student, it is appropriately set to a storage report name that can be identified. As a result, the report file acquired previously is not overwritten by the new report file, so that the report holding unit 160 can store all the report files submitted by the students.

  For example, the first report file contains many terms “maybe” and “interesting”, and the second report file contains many terms “I understand” and “I thought” . In this case, it can be inferred that the resubmission of the report deepens the consideration of the students' assignments. In this way, by comparing terms included in a plurality of report files, it becomes easier to deeply recognize the student's learning status.

The user may check the report file and enter whether to request resubmission. When not requesting resubmission, the naming unit 156 may further change the name of the report file. For example, if the report file “20051032-Hideyuki Ishida-Report 2” is not required to be resubmitted, the teacher inputs “no resubmission required”. At this time, the naming unit 156 may change the name of the report file to “20051032-Hideyuki Ishida-Report 2 (final version)”. According to such a naming process, the user can grasp the report submission status of each student simply by referring to the file name.
When the report file is received within the reception period, the chart management unit 168 may change the unsubmitted item column 288 of the chart data from “present” to “none”, or the teacher is “not required to resubmit”. It is also possible to change the unsubmitted column 288 of the medical record data from “present” to “none” on the condition that the fact is input.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing a process for receiving a report mail.
First, the normal mail transmitting / receiving unit 124 receives an e-mail from a student (S10). The mail classification unit 134 determines whether this electronic mail is a report mail (S12). If it is not a report mail (N in S12), various processes corresponding to each such as an impression mail and an attendance mail are executed (S32).

  If it is a report mail (Y in S12), the alignment determination unit 136 determines whether the transmission date and time of this report mail is within the reception period set by the reception period setting unit 144 (S14). If it is not within the reception period (N in S14), the matching determination unit 136 instructs the automatic mail transmission unit 126 to transmit an automatic mail noting that the report submission is delayed (S16). In the present embodiment, the report file that is late for the deadline is not subject to evaluation and is not stored in the report holding unit 160. As a modified example, when the report file is delayed by the deadline date, it may be subject to normal processing after S18 after paying attention by automatic mail (S16).

  If the report file is within the reception period (Y in S14), the report processing unit 148 passes the attached report file to the preprocessing unit 162, and the preprocessing unit 162 executes the preprocessing (S18). . The preprocessing unit 162 counts the number of typographical errors and omissions in the report file, appends the typographical and omission points to the received report file, and passes them to the calibration determination unit 164. The proofreading determination unit 164 determines whether or not the permission condition for the preprocessing result, for example, the number of typographical characters and omissions is within 20 (S20). If the permission condition is not satisfied (N in S20), the calibration determination unit 164 instructs the automatic mail transmission unit 126 to transmit an automatic mail describing that resubmission is requested (S22). When the permission condition is satisfied (Y in S20), the process in S22 is skipped.

  The naming unit 156 determines the report name for saving the report file (S24). The report classification unit 154 selects a directory as a storage destination of the report file from the course address that is the transmission destination of the report file, the student ID in the text, or the like (S26). The save processing unit 158 saves the report file in the selected directory (S28). The medical chart management unit 168 updates data indicating the acquisition status of the report file, such as the unsubmitted field 288 of the medical chart data (S30).

FIG. 12 is a screen view of the medical chart screen 300.
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. 4 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 report file submission status and availability 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 file. 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. The chart display processing unit 114 displays the average value of the number of impression characters of all the students and the number of impression characters of the student “Mayumi Arai” in the sentence length transition display area 310. 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.

  The lesson management apparatus 100 can automatically set the names of report files acquired from various students according to naming rules that can be set by the user. In addition, since the user can freely set naming conventions with a simple user interface, each student's report can be managed based on his own naming policy. Further, the report file storage destination in the report holding unit 160 can be determined by a simple command included in the report mail. Therefore, when a large number of report files are acquired from a large number of students, the burden on the teacher to manage the report files can be reduced.

  Further, the deadline of the report file can be automatically managed by the lesson management apparatus 100 by setting the reception period. Furthermore, before the report file is evaluated by the teacher, the report file can be inspected and processed as a pre-processing. For example, as shown in the present embodiment, if a typographical error / missing check is automatically performed and the student is requested to resubmit as necessary, the burden on the teacher to evaluate the report file can be reduced.

Note that the function of the learning management unit described in the claims is realized mainly by the student management unit 140 in the present embodiment. Further, the function of the reception period determination unit described in the claims is mainly realized by the matching determination unit 136 in the present embodiment. The function of the resubmission request unit described in the claims is realized by the calibration determination unit 164 and the automatic mail transmission unit 126 in this embodiment. The report management data described in the claims is realized as a part of the chart data in this 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 data structure figure of the chart data in a chart data holding part. 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 impression reception screen. It is a screen figure of a submission management screen. It is a screen figure of a deadline setting screen. It is a screen figure of a naming rule setting screen. It is a schematic diagram which shows the directory structure in a report holding | maintenance part. It is a flowchart which shows the reception process process of report mail. It is a screen figure of a medical chart screen.

Explanation of symbols

  10 class evaluation system, 100 class 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 automatic mail transmission unit, 130 data processing unit, 132 Mail processing unit, 134 Mail classification unit, 136 Consistency determination unit, 138 Class data management unit, 140 Student management unit, 142 Setting unit, 144 Reception period setting unit, 146 Naming rule setting unit, 148 Report processing unit, 150 Data holding Part, 152 mail data holding part, 154 report classification part, 156 naming part, 158 storage processing part, 160 report holding part, 162 pre-processing part, 164 calibration judgment part, 168 chart management part, 170 form holding part, 172 chart data storage unit, 200 Internet, 202 mail server, 204 client terminal, 210 menu screen, 240 attendance screen, 250 impression reception screen, 260 submission management screen, 274 deadline setting screen, 276 naming rule setting screen, 300 chart screen.

Claims (9)

A device for supporting classes by managing the learning status of students,
An email receiver that receives emails from students;
When a report file is attached to the email, a naming part that sets the name of the report file according to a predetermined naming rule;
A save processing unit that automatically saves the report file with the file name after setting,
When a report file is acquired, a learning management unit that updates report management data indicating the acquisition status of the report file;
A class management device comprising: A naming rule setting unit for setting a naming rule for setting the name of the report file according to the input by the user of the own device,
The class management device according to claim 1, further comprising: A report classification unit that selects a storage destination of the report file from a plurality of preset storage areas according to a predetermined classification condition;
The lesson management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the storage processing unit stores the report file in a selected storage area. When the report file for the predetermined task is further acquired from the student after the report file for the predetermined task is acquired from the student, the naming unit is first acquired the name of the newly acquired report file. Set it to a different name from the report file
The class management according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the storage processing unit further stores the newly acquired report file while storing the previously acquired report file. apparatus. A reception period setting unit that sets a reception period of a report file for a predetermined task according to an input by a user of the own device;
A reception period determination unit that determines whether the transmission date / time or the reception date / time of the email with the report file attached is within the reception period;
The lesson management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the learning management unit reflects the determination result by the reception period determination unit in the report management data. A pre-processing unit that executes a predetermined pre-processing on the text data included as the body of the report file;
The lesson management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the learning management unit reflects the result of the preprocessing in the report management data. It is determined whether the result of the pre-processing for the report file satisfies a predetermined permission condition. If the predetermined permission condition is not satisfied, the student who has transmitted the report file is instructed to resubmit the report file. Resubmission request section that sends resubmission request information,
The class management device according to claim 6, further comprising: A method for supporting a class by managing the learning status of students,
Receiving emails from students,
When a report file is attached to the e-mail, setting a name of the report file according to a predetermined naming rule;
Automatically saving the report file with a file name after setting;
Updating the report management data indicating the acquisition status of the report file when the report file is acquired;
Class management method characterized by comprising. A computer program for supporting lessons by managing the learning status of students,
The ability to receive emails from students,
A function for setting a name of the report file according to a predetermined naming rule when a report file is attached to the email;
A function to automatically save the report file with the file name after setting,
A function to update the report management data indicating the acquisition status of the report file according to the acquisition of the report file,
A class management program characterized by letting a computer demonstrate.

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