JP2024094642A - Information processing device and program - Google Patents

Abstract

[Problem] By changing the display of learners' answers depending on the marking status, the effort required to move the mouse during marking work is reduced.
[Solution] An information processing device first acquires multiple answers to the same question from multiple learners.The information processing device then outputs a screen displaying a list of the acquired multiple answers.The information processing device also accepts an input from a user regarding grading, and when one of the multiple answers is graded, displays the next answer to be graded in the area on the screen where the answer was displayed.
[Selection diagram] Figure 9

Description

The present invention relates to a technique for scoring on the screen of a terminal device.

Conventionally, systems have been known in which tests administered on paper are graded on the screen of a terminal device. Patent Document 1 discloses a system in which a large number of answer sheet images are created from a large number of test answer sheets, and graders use a terminal device to download and grade certain answer sheet images.

JP 2010-152480 A

Normally, when marking each question in a test on a terminal device screen, it is necessary to move the mouse over the question in question and perform an operation such as clicking. This requires time-consuming movement of the mouse for each question, and places a heavy burden on the marker when marking many questions.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, for example, and aims to provide an information processing device that changes the display of learners' answers depending on the marking status, thereby reducing the effort required to move the mouse during marking work.

In one aspect of the present invention, the present invention includes an answer acquisition unit that acquires multiple answers given by multiple learners to the same question, an answer screen output unit that outputs a screen displaying a list of the multiple answers, a marking unit that accepts user input for marking, and an answer movement unit that displays the next answer to be marked in the area on the screen where the first answer was displayed when one of the multiple answers has been marked. According to this aspect, the information processing device displays the next answer to be marked in the area where the first answer was displayed when one of the multiple answers displayed on the screen has been marked. Therefore, a user who uses the screen to mark answers does not have to move the mouse as much as possible to mark the next answer, and the information processing device can improve the efficiency of marking and reduce the load on the user.

In one aspect of the information processing device, a display order setting unit is provided that sets a display order for the plurality of answers based on information about the learner, and the answer screen output unit outputs a screen that lists the plurality of answers according to the display order. According to this aspect, since the display order for each answer is set based on information about the learner, the information processing device can display the answers, for example, in alphabetical order of the learner's name.

One aspect of the information processing device described above includes a scoring-related information acquisition unit that acquires scoring-related information including the scoring result of the one answer and the area in which the one answer was displayed on the screen at the time of scoring, and a display order update unit that sets the display order of the one answer to be last and advances the numbers indicating the display orders of all answers other than the one answer by one, and the answer movement unit displays each answer according to the display order updated by the display order update unit. According to this aspect, the information processing device can update the display order to move an answer that has been scored to the end and advance the display of unscored answers.

In one aspect of the information processing device, the screen has an unscored area that displays answers whose scoring status, indicating whether the answer has been scored, is unscored, and a scored area that displays answers whose scoring status has been scored, and the display order setting unit sets an unscored display order for the answers whose scoring status is unscored and a scored display order for the answers whose scoring status has been scored, and the answer screen output unit displays each answer in the unscored area according to the unscored display order and outputs a screen in which each answer is displayed in the scored area according to the scored display order. According to this aspect, the information processing device divides the area in which the answers are displayed into an unscored area and a scored area, so that a user who is using the screen to score can see at a glance which answers are unscored or graded.

In one aspect of the information processing device, the device includes a scoring-related information acquisition unit that acquires scoring-related information including the scoring result of the one answer and the area in which the one answer was displayed on the screen at the time of scoring, and a display order update unit that deletes the unscored display order set for the one answer, sets the newly scored display order, and advances the numerical value indicating the unscored display order set for answers other than the one answer by one. The answer movement unit displays each answer in the unscored area according to the unscored display order updated by the display order update unit, and displays each answer in the graded area according to the graded display order. According to this aspect, the information processing device moves the answers that have been graded to the graded area, thereby moving up and displaying the unscored answers in the unscored area. This allows a user who uses the screen to grade the next answer without moving the mouse.

In one aspect of the information processing device, the device includes a marking-related information acquisition unit that acquires marking-related information including the marking result of the one answer, and a storage unit that stores the answers, the display order of the answers, and a marking status indicating whether the answers have been marked, in association with each other. The screen has a marking-only area in which the answers to be marked are displayed and marked, the storage unit updates the marking status based on the marking-related information, and the answer screen output unit references the storage unit and outputs a screen in which an answer whose marking status is unmarked and whose display order is the smallest is displayed in the marking-only area. According to this aspect, the information processing device erases the answers that have been marked in the marking-only area and moves up and displays the unmarked answers. This allows a user who is marking using the screen to mark the next answer without moving the mouse.

In another aspect of the present invention, a program executed by an information processing device having a computer causes the computer to function as an answer acquisition unit that acquires multiple answers given by multiple learners to the same question, an answer screen output unit that outputs a screen displaying a list of the multiple answers, a marking unit that accepts user input for marking, and an answer moving unit that, when one of the multiple answers has been marked, displays the next answer to be marked in the area on the screen where the one answer was displayed. By installing and executing this program on a computer, the information processing device according to the present invention can be configured.

The information processing device according to the present invention can change the display of the learner's answers depending on the marking status, thereby reducing the effort required to move the mouse during marking work.

1 shows the configuration of a learning support system to which a server of the present invention is applied. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of a server. 13 is an example of a data configuration of a scoring DB. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of a server. This is an example of an answer image. FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an answer column area detected from an answer sheet image. 13 is an example of a scoring screen and a scoring DB before scoring. 13 is an example of a scoring screen and a scoring DB after scoring. 13 is a flowchart of a screen output process. 13 is an example of a scoring screen and a scoring DB before scoring in the first modified example. 13 is an example of a scoring screen and a scoring DB after scoring in the first modified example. 13 is an example of a scoring screen and a scoring DB before scoring in the second modified example. 13 is an example of a scoring screen and a scoring DB after scoring in the second modified example. 13 shows the configuration of a learning support system in a third modified example.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
<Embodiment>
[overall structure]
FIG. 1 shows the configuration of a learning support system to which the server of the present invention is applied. The learning support system 200 is a system that supports grading by users by changing the display of the learner's answers according to the grading status. Here, the user is a teacher or the like who grades the learner's answers. Also, the learner is a student or the like who answers questions in a test or text. The learning support system 200 is configured so that a server 10 and a plurality of teacher terminals 20 can communicate with each other via a network 5 such as the Internet. In this embodiment, as an example, it is assumed that a teacher grades the student's answers to questions that constitute a test using a grading screen.

The server 10 is an information processing device that processes, stores, and transmits/receives various types of information, and is, for example, a server device, a personal computer (PC), or a general-purpose tablet. The server 10 is also connected to an answer sheet image database (hereinafter, "database" will be referred to as "DB") 31, an answer DB 32, and a marking DB 33, which will be described later. The server 10 is an example of an information processing device of the present invention.

The teacher terminal 20 is used by teachers who grade students' answers, and is, for example, an information processing device such as a tablet or PC. Specifically, the teacher terminal 20 is a terminal device that acquires screen information from the server 10 to display a grading screen, and transmits screen requests and grading-related information to the server 10, as described below. In addition, the teacher terminal 20, which will be described in detail later, is connected to a scanner, and uses the scanner to scan and image answer sheets on which students have written their test answers, creating answer images and transmitting them to the server 10.

[Server configuration]
2 is a block diagram showing the hardware configuration of the server 10. The server 10 includes a communication unit 11, a control unit 12, a storage unit 13, a recording medium 14, a display unit 15, and an input unit 16. These components, an answer sheet image DB 31, an answer DB 32, and a marking DB 33 are connected to each other via a bus 19.

Note that the server 10 may be executed by a single computer, or may be distributed and executed on multiple computers, or may be distributed and executed on virtual machines.

The communication unit 11 is a communication unit for communicating with the teacher terminal 20 via the network 5. Specifically, the communication unit 11 receives from the teacher terminal 20 a screen request for the grading screen and grading-related information regarding the grading of answers by the teacher, and transmits screen information regarding the grading screen to the teacher terminal 20.

The control unit 12 includes a processor such as a CPU (Central Processing Unit), MPU (Micro-Processing Unit), and GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), and performs various information processing, control processing, and the like related to the server 10 by reading and executing programs stored in the memory unit 13. The programs can be deployed so that they are executed on a single computer or at one site, or distributed across multiple sites and on multiple computers interconnected by a communication network. Although the control unit 12 is described in FIG. 2 as being a single processor, it may also be a multi-processor.

The storage unit 13 includes memory elements such as a RAM (Random Access Memory) and a ROM (Read Only Memory), and stores programs or data required for the control unit 12 to execute processing. The storage unit 13 also temporarily stores data required for the control unit 12 to execute arithmetic processing.

The recording medium 14 is a non-volatile, non-temporary recording medium such as a disk-shaped recording medium or a semiconductor memory, and is configured to be detachable from the server 10. The recording medium 14 records various programs executed by the control unit 12. When the server 10 executes a screen output process, the programs recorded on the recording medium 14 are loaded into the memory unit 13 and executed by the control unit 12.

The display unit 15 is a liquid crystal display or an organic EL (electroluminescence) display, etc., and displays various information according to instructions from the control unit 12. The input unit 16 is an input device such as a mouse, keyboard, touch panel, button, etc., and outputs received operation information to the control unit 12.

The answer sheet image DB31 stores a test ID that identifies the test, a student name that identifies the student, and an answer sheet image on which the student has written the test answer, in association with each other. Specifically, the answer sheet image is an image created by scanning the answer sheet on which the student has written the test answer. In this embodiment, the teacher uses the teacher terminal 20 to scan the answer sheets of all students after the test to create answer sheets images, which are then transmitted to the server 10 in advance.

In this embodiment, the teacher terminal 20 transmits an answer sheet image created using a scanner to the server 10, but the present invention is not limited to this, and answer sheets images acquired from a specified DB or other terminal devices may be transmitted to the server 10. In other words, the method by which the server 10 acquires answer sheets images can be set arbitrarily.

The answer DB32 stores a test ID that identifies the test, a question number that identifies the questions that make up the test, a student name that identifies the student, and the student's answer to the question, in association with each other. Here, the student's answer, which will be described in detail later, may be an answer image obtained from an answer sheet image, or may be numbers or letters optically read from the answer image using an OCR (Optical Character Reader).

3 is an example of the data configuration of the grading DB 33. As shown in FIG. 3, the grading DB 33 stores, as grading information, a test ID for identifying a test, a question number for identifying a question constituting the test, a display order indicating the order in which each student's answer is displayed on the grading screen, a student name for identifying a student, and a grading result of the student's answer. Here, the grading result includes not only correct answers and incorrect answers, but also ungraded answers that have not yet been graded. In this way, by referring to the grading result, it is possible to check the grading status indicating whether the grading of the student's answer has been completed. In this embodiment, the grading status is either "ungraded" where grading has not been completed, or "graded" where the grading result is correct or incorrect. In this embodiment, for convenience of explanation, the student names are "student A", "student B", etc.

The above-mentioned storage format of each DB is an example, and other storage formats may be used as long as the relationships between the data are maintained. Each DB is realized by a recording medium such as a hard disk drive (HDD) or a solid state drive (SSD). In this embodiment, the storage unit 13 and each DB may be configured as an integrated storage device, or may be separate storage devices. Each DB may be an external storage device connected to the server 10, and the configuration may be set arbitrarily.

Figure 4 is a block diagram showing the functional configuration of the server 10. The server 10 is connected to the answer sheet image DB 31, the answer DB 32, and the marking DB 33, and functionally includes an answer sheet image acquisition unit 41, an answer acquisition unit 42, a target question number acquisition unit 43, a display order setting unit 44, a screen output unit 45, a marking-related information acquisition unit 46, and a display order update unit 47.

The answer sheet image acquisition unit 41, the answer acquisition unit 42, the target question number acquisition unit 43, the display order setting unit 44, the screen output unit 45, the grading related information acquisition unit 46, and the display order update unit 47 are realized by the control unit 12 executing a program.

The answer image acquisition unit 41 acquires from the teacher terminal 20 the answer images of all students on which answers have been written after the test. The answer image acquisition unit 41 then identifies the test ID corresponding to the answer image and the student name of the student who wrote the answer in each answer image, and stores the test ID, student name, and answer image in association with each other in the answer image DB 31. Any method based on the answer image or information acquired from the teacher terminal 20 can be applied as a method for identifying the test ID and student name. For example, the server 10 can identify the test ID and student name by applying OCR to the answer image. The server 10 stores the identified test ID and student name in the answer image DB 31 in association with the answer image.

Figure 5 is an example of an answer image. Answer image 30 has a test information display area 35 that displays information about the test, a student information entry area 36 where students enter their grade, class, number, and name, an answer entry area 37 where question numbers are displayed and students enter their answers, and a marking entry area 38 where teachers enter marks. Answer entry area 37 is made up of multiple answer columns where answers to each question are entered. For example, the answer column surrounded by dotted line 39 is the answer column where the answer to question number "1" is entered. Note that dotted line 39 is provided for ease of explanation and is not displayed on answer image 30.

The answer acquisition unit 42 detects answer column areas, which are answer columns for each question, from the answer sheet image 30 and acquires the answers provided by the students. The area detection method can be, for example, a method that uses deep learning to detect objects in an image as rectangular areas, such as R-CNN (Rich feature hierarchies for accurate object detection and semantic segmentation). Figure 6 is a diagram showing answer column areas detected from the answer sheet image 30. As shown in Figure 6, the answer acquisition unit 42 detects multiple answer column areas surrounded by thick lines from the answer sheet image 30.

The answer acquisition unit 42 acquires an answer image, which is an image of the answer column area from the answer sheet image, as the student's answer, and identifies the question number by optically reading numbers and letters from the answer image using OCR. For example, the answer acquisition unit 42 reads "(1)" from the answer image in the answer column area 40 using OCR to identify question number "1." The answer acquisition unit 42 then associates the test ID and student name based on the answer sheet image with the identified question number and the acquired answer, and stores them in the answer DB 32.

Although the answer acquisition unit 42 acquires the answer image as the answer, the present invention is not limited to this, and numbers or letters optically read from the answer image using OCR may be acquired as the answer. For example, the answer acquisition unit 42 may acquire the answer "13.6" read from the answer image in the answer box area 40 using OCR. Furthermore, the answer acquisition unit 42 automatically detects the answer box area and acquires the answer, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the position of each question may be manually set in advance for each answer sheet image, and the answer box may be recognized based on that information to acquire the answer.

The target question number acquisition unit 43 acquires the question number of the question to be graded (hereinafter also referred to as the "target question number") from the teacher terminal 20. Specifically, when a teacher grades using the grading screen, the teacher first logs into a specified site and transmits the test ID of the test to be graded and the target question number as a screen request to the server 10. When the target question number acquisition unit 43 acquires the test ID and the target question number from the teacher terminal 20, it acquires the corresponding answers of all students from the answer DB 32.

In this embodiment, answers of all students corresponding to the test ID and target question number are obtained from the answer DB 32, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, if a screen request includes a group to be graded, only the answers of students belonging to that group may be obtained. In other words, the targets for answer acquisition can be set arbitrarily.

The display order setting unit 44 sets a display order, which is the order in which the answers of each student obtained from the answer DB 32 are displayed on the grading screen, based on the information about the students. The set display order is stored in the grading DB 33 as grading information. Specifically, the information about the students is the attendance number and the student name, and the display order setting unit 44 sets the display order for each student's answer in the order of the attendance number or in alphabetical order of the student name. For example, in this embodiment, the answers of 12 students, named "Student A" to "Student L", are displayed on the grading screen, as will be described in detail later. In this case, the display order setting unit 44 sets the display order in alphabetical order of the student name, such as display order "1" for student name "Student A" and display order "2" for student name "Student B". Then, the display order setting unit 44 associates the test ID and question number of the question to be graded acquired by the target question number acquisition unit 43 with the set display order, the student name, and the grading result, and stores them in the grading DB 33. At this time, the teacher has not yet graded the questions, so all the grading results are "ungraded."

The screen output unit 45 references the grading DB 33, creates a grading screen that displays the students' answers according to the set display order, and outputs it. Specifically, the screen output unit 45 creates a grading screen and transmits screen information related to the grading screen to the teacher terminal 20. The teacher terminal 20 can display the grading screen based on the screen information acquired from the server 10. The teacher can grade the answers using the grading screen displayed on the teacher terminal 20.

Figure 7 shows an example of the marking screen and marking DB before marking. Specifically, as shown in Figure 7, the screen output unit 45 references the marking DB 33a and creates and outputs a marking screen that displays the answers in the display order from the top left.

The grading screen will now be described. As shown in FIG. 7, the grading screen 50a has a test date display area 51, a grade display area 52, a group display area 53, a subject display area 54, a question type display area 55, a switching area 56, a grading button area 57, a display order selection area 58, and an answer list area 60.

The test date display area 51 is an area that displays the date on which the test was conducted. The grade display area 52 and group display area 53 are areas that display the grade and group to which the student who took the test belongs, respectively. The subject display area 54 is an area that displays the subject of the test, and the question type display area 55 is an area that displays the type of question to be graded.

The switching area 56 has a question number area 56a, a total question count display area 56b, and question switch buttons 56c and 56d. The question number area 56a is an area that displays the question to be graded, i.e., the question number of the question for which each student's answer is displayed in the answer list area 60. The question to be graded can be switched by entering another question number in the question number area 56a. The total question count display area 56b is an area that displays the total number of questions that make up the test. The question to be graded can be switched to the previous question by pressing the question switch button 56c, or to the next question by pressing the question switch button 56d.

The scoring button area 57 has a Correct button 57a, an Incorrect button 57b, and a Go Back button 57c. The Correct button 57a is a button that marks all answers displayed in the answer list area 60 as correct. The Incorrect button 57b is a button that marks all answers displayed in the answer list area 60 as incorrect. The Go Back button 57c is a button that returns to the previous operation.

The display order selection area 58 has a selection box 58a and ascending and descending radio buttons. The selection box 58a is a box where the display order can be selected, and specifically, "by learner", "by attendance number", etc. can be selected using a pull-down menu. Here, learner order refers to alphabetical order of student names. In addition, ascending or descending order can also be selected using the radio buttons. The display order setting unit 44 re-sets the display order of each answer based on the selection in the display order selection area 58, and the screen output unit 45 creates and outputs a grading screen that displays each answer in the answer list area 60 according to the re-set display order. Note that changing the display order using the display order selection area 58 is only effective for "ungraded" answers that have not been graded by the teacher.

The answer list area 60 has a question display area 61 and multiple student answer areas. The question display area 61 is an area that displays the questions to be graded. The student answer areas are areas that display the answers of each student. For example, the student answer area 62 shown in FIG. 7 is an area that displays the answer of student name "Student A" who is "1" in the display order, and is located in the upper left. In this way, in the answer list area 60, the answers of each student are displayed in order from the top left according to the display order.

The grading-related information acquisition unit 46 accepts input from the teacher's terminal 20 regarding grading by the teacher, acquires grading-related information including the grading results of the answers, and updates the grading information in the grading DB 33. The teacher grades a given answer by operating the mouse using the grading screen displayed on the teacher's terminal 20. For example, when grading the answer of learner A, the teacher moves the mouse pointer into the student answer area 62 on the grading screen 50a shown in FIG. 7 and grades by clicking. In this embodiment, one left click corresponds to a correct answer and one right click corresponds to an incorrect answer, but this is not limited to this, and the correspondence between the click operation and the correct or incorrect answer can be set arbitrarily.

Figure 8 shows an example of the grading screen and the grading DB after grading. For convenience of explanation, in Figure 8, the mouse pointer is represented by a mouse. When the teacher operates the mouse, moves the mouse pointer 65 into the student answer area 62 and left-clicks once, as shown in Figure 8, the grading screen 50b displays a circle indicating the correct answer in the student answer area 62. At this time, the teacher terminal 20 transmits the student answer area 62 in which the graded answer of the learner A was displayed and the grading result indicating the correct answer as grading-related information to the server 10. Specifically, the grading-related information includes the position coordinates indicating the student answer area 62 on the grading screen and the grading result indicating the correct answer. Based on the grading-related information acquired from the teacher terminal 20, the grading-related information acquisition unit 46 updates the grading result of the learner A indicated by the dotted line from "ungraded" to "correct" as shown in Figure 8, and stores it in the grading DB 33b.

In this embodiment, it is possible to display O and X marks during scoring without going through the server 10.

The display order update unit 47 refers to the grading DB 33, and when the grading status is updated from ungraded to graded, updates the display order when displaying each student's answer on the grading screen. For example, as shown in FIG. 8, when the grading status of learner A is updated from ungraded to graded correct answer, the display order update unit 47 sets the display order of learner A's answer to the last, and moves up the display order of all answers other than the answer of learner A by one. Specifically, the display order update unit 47 sets the display order of learner A's answer to "12", which is the last, and moves up the display order of learner B's answer to "1", and the display order of learner C's answer to "2", and so on, each by one. Then, the display order update unit 47 updates the display order indicated by the dotted line to the grading DB 33c, as shown in FIG. 8.

When the display order is updated by the display order update unit 47, the screen output unit 45 refers to the marking DB 33, creates a marking screen that displays the students' answers according to the updated display order, and outputs it. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 8, the screen output unit 45 refers to the marking DB 33c, creates a marking screen 50c that displays the students' answers according to the updated display order in the answer list area 60, and transmits screen information regarding the marking screen 50c to the teacher terminal 20. The teacher terminal 20 displays the marking screen 50c based on the screen information acquired from the server 10. In the marking screen 50c, as shown in FIG. 8, the student answer area 62 of the learner A that has been marked is moved to the end, and the student answer area of the learner B is displayed at the top left. In other words, by moving the marks of the students who have been marked to the end on the marking screen, the display of the unmarked students' answers is brought forward. This causes the ungraded student answer area to be displayed at the position of the mouse pointer 65 on the grading screen, allowing the teacher to grade the next answer without having to move the mouse.

In FIG. 8, a given answer is graded by placing the mouse pointer 65 in the top left of the answer list area 60 and clicking on the top student answer area, but the present invention is not limited to this. Even if the mouse pointer 65 is placed in a given position other than the top left, the answers of students that have already been graded will move to the end, and the answers of students that have not yet been graded will move up. Thus, the teacher can grade the next answer without moving the mouse.

In the above configuration, the answer sheet image acquisition unit 41, answer acquisition unit 42, display order setting unit 44, and display order update unit 47 of the server 10 are examples of the answer sheet image acquisition unit, answer acquisition unit, display order setting unit, and display order update unit of the present invention, respectively. The screen output unit 45 is an example of the answer screen output unit and answer movement unit of the present invention, and the marking-related information acquisition unit 46 is an example of the marking unit and marking-related information acquisition unit of the present invention. The marking DB 33 is an example of the memory unit of the present invention.

[Screen Output Processing]
Next, a screen output process for outputting a grading screen in response to a screen request from a teacher will be described. Fig. 9 is a flowchart of the screen output process. This process is realized by the server 10 executing a program prepared in advance.

The server 10 acquires from the teacher terminal 20 the answer sheet images of all students who have taken the test (step S11). At this time, the server 10 identifies the test ID and student name from the answer sheet image, and stores the test ID, student name, and answer sheet image in association with each other in the answer sheet image DB 31. The server 10 then detects the answer column area from the answer sheet image, and acquires the answers to each question of all students (step S12). At this time, the server 10 identifies the question number from the answer image in the answer column area, and stores the test ID, question number, student name, and answer in association with each other in the answer DB 32.

When a teacher grades using the grading screen, the teacher logs into a specified site using the teacher terminal 20 and sends the test ID of the test to be graded and the target question number as a screen request to the server 10. The server 10 then acquires the test ID and target question number from the teacher terminal 20 (step S13). Based on the acquired test ID and target question number, the server 10 acquires the corresponding answers of all students from the answer DB 32 and sets a display order for each answer. At this time, the server 10 stores the test ID, question number, display order, student name, and grading result in the grading DB 33. The grading results are all "ungraded" because the teacher has not yet graded the answers.

The server 10 references the grading DB 33 and outputs a grading screen that displays the students' answers according to the display order (step S14). Specifically, the server 10 transmits screen information about the created grading screen to the teacher terminal 20. The teacher terminal 20 can display the grading screen based on the screen information acquired from the server 10.

The teacher uses the grading screen displayed on the teacher terminal 20 to grade the specified answers by operating the mouse. The teacher terminal 20 then transmits grading-related information, including the grading results, to the server 10. The server 10 then obtains the grading-related information from the teacher terminal 20 and updates the grading results corresponding to the graded answers in the grading DB 33. The server 10 then determines whether or not the ungraded answers have been graded (step S15). Specifically, the server 10 references the grading results in the grading DB 33 and determines whether or not the grading status has been updated from ungraded to graded.

If it is determined that the unscored answers have not been scored (step S15; No), the server 10 returns to the process of step S14. On the other hand, if it is determined that the unscored answers have been scored (step S15; Yes), the server 10 updates the display order of the answers of each student when they are displayed on the scoring screen, and stores the updated display order in the scoring DB 33 (step S16). The server 10 then references the scoring DB 33, and outputs a scoring screen that displays the students' answers according to the updated display order (step S17).

The server 10 determines whether grading has finished (step S18). To finish grading, the teacher performs a specified operation on the grading screen, and end information is sent from the teacher terminal 20 to the server 10. When the server 10 receives the end information from the teacher terminal 20, it determines that grading has finished (step S18; Yes), and the screen output process ends. On the other hand, if it does not receive the end information and determines that grading has not finished (step S18; No), the teacher is continuing grading work using the grading screen, so the server 10 returns to the process of step S15.

In this embodiment, the answer image DB 31 and the answer DB 32 are connected to the server 10, but the present invention is not limited to this. Even if the answer image DB 31 and the answer DB 32 are not connected, it is sufficient if the server 10 can obtain the answer images and the students' answers.

In this embodiment, the learning support system 200 moves the answers of students that have already been graded to the end of the grading screen, and moves up the display of the answers of students that have not yet been graded. In other words, when one of the multiple answers displayed on the grading screen is graded, the next answer to be graded is displayed in the area where that answer was displayed. By repeating this, ungraded student answer areas are displayed one after another at the position of the mouse pointer on the grading screen, and the user, who is the grader, can grade the next answer without moving the mouse. In this way, by changing the display of answers on the grading screen depending on the grading status, the user can reduce the effort of moving the mouse, making grading more efficient and reducing the burden on the user.

<Modification>
Next, modified examples of the above embodiment will be described. The following modified examples can be applied to the above embodiment in appropriate combination.

(First Modification)
In the above embodiment, the grading screen has a layout like grading screen 50a shown in Fig. 7, but the present invention is not limited to this, and may have a layout like grading screen 70a shown in Fig. 10. Fig. 10 is an example of a grading screen and a grading DB in the first modified example. Specifically, as shown in Fig. 10, the screen output unit 45 refers to the grading DB 33d, creates and outputs grading screen 70a on which answers are displayed according to the display order.

As shown in FIG. 10, the grading screen 70a has a test date display area 71, a grade display area 72, a group display area 73, a subject display area 74, a question type display area 75, a switching area 76, a grading button area 77, a display order selection area 78, and an answer list area 80. Note that the areas other than the answer list area 80 are the same as those in the grading screen 50a shown in FIG. 7, and therefore will not be described for the sake of simplicity.

The answer list area 80 has a question display area 81, an unscored area 82, and a scored area 83. The question display area 81 is an area that displays questions to be scored. The unscored area 82 is an area that displays answers whose scoring status is unscored in the unscored display order, and the scored area 83 is an area that displays answers whose scoring status is graded in the graded display order.

As shown in the grading DB 33d in FIG. 10, the display order setting unit 44 in this modified example sets the ungraded display order of "1" to "12" in alphabetical order of the student's name for each student's answer, since the teacher has not graded the answers and all the grading results are "ungraded". Therefore, the ungraded area 82 is composed of 12 student answer areas. Although only six student answer areas are displayed in the ungraded area 82 in FIG. 10, all the student answer areas can be displayed by operating the scroll bar. The student answer areas are areas that display the answers of each student. For example, the student answer area 84 shown in FIG. 10 is an area that displays the answer of the student named "Student A" with the ungraded display order "1", and is located in the upper left of the ungraded area 82. In this way, in the ungraded area 82, the answers of each student are displayed in order from the upper left according to the ungraded display order.

The grading-related information acquisition unit 46 acquires grading-related information, including the results of the teacher's grading of the answers, from the teacher terminal 20, and updates the grading information in the grading DB 33d. The teacher grades the given answers by operating the mouse using the grading screen displayed on the teacher terminal 20. For example, when grading the answers of learner A, the teacher moves the mouse pointer into the student answer area 84 on the grading screen 70a shown in FIG. 10, and grades the answers by clicking.

11 is an example of the marking screen and the marking DB after marking in the first modified example. In FIG. 11, for convenience of explanation, the mouse pointer is represented by a mouse. When the teacher operates the mouse, moves the mouse pointer 85 into the student answer area 84 and left-clicks once, as shown in FIG. 11, the marking screen 70b displays a circle indicating the correct answer in the student answer area 84. At this time, the teacher terminal 20 transmits the student answer area 84 in which the marked answer of the learner A was displayed and the marking result indicating the correct answer as marking-related information to the server 10. Specifically, the marking-related information includes the position coordinates indicating the student answer area 84 on the marking screen and the marking result indicating the correct answer. Based on the marking-related information acquired from the teacher terminal 20, the marking-related information acquisition unit 46 updates the marking result of the learner A indicated by the dotted line from "unmarked" to "correct" as shown in FIG. 11, and stores it in the marking DB 33e.

In addition, in this modified example, it is possible to display O and X marks during scoring without going through the server 10.

When the marking status of learner A is updated from unmarked to marked, the display order update unit 47 refers to the marking DB 33e, deletes the unmarked display order "1" set for learner A's answer, and sets a new marked display order "S1". Here, "S1" represents the order in which the answers are displayed in the marked area 83. For example, in the marked area 83 of this embodiment, the answers are displayed in order from the top left according to the marked display order, such that the answer with the marked display order "S1" is at the top of the top left of the marked area 83, the answer with the marked display order "S2" is to the right of the answer with the marked display order "S1", and the answer with the marked display order "S3" is below the answer with the marked display order "S1".

The display order update unit 47 also moves up the unscored display orders set for answers other than the answer of learner A by one. Specifically, the display order update unit 47 moves up the display order of the answer of learner B by "1", the display order of the answer of learner C by "2", and so on. Then, as shown in FIG. 11, the display order update unit 47 updates the display order indicated by the dotted line to the scoring DB 33f.

When the display order is updated by the display order update unit 47, the screen output unit 45 refers to the marking DB 33f, creates a marking screen that displays the students' answers according to the updated display order, and outputs it. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 11, the screen output unit 45 refers to the marking DB 33f, creates a marking screen 70c that displays the answers of learners B to L in the unmarked area 82 according to the unmarked display order and displays the answer of learner A in the marked area 83 according to the marked display order, and transmits the screen information of the marking screen 90c to the teacher terminal 20.

As shown in FIG. 11, on the grading screen 70c, the student answer area 84 of learner A, which has been graded, is moved to the graded area 83, and the student answer area of learner B is displayed at the top left of the ungraded area 82. In other words, by moving the graded answers of students to the graded area 83, the display of ungraded answers of students in the ungraded area 82 is moved up. This causes the ungraded student answer area to be displayed at the position of the mouse pointer 85 on the grading screen, allowing the teacher to grade the next answer without moving the mouse. Also, by dividing the area into the ungraded area 82 and the graded area 83, the teacher can see at a glance which answers have not been graded and which have been graded.

In FIG. 11, the teacher places the mouse pointer 85 in the top left of the ungraded area 82 and clicks on the top student answer area to grade a given answer, but the present invention is not limited to this. Even if the mouse pointer 85 is placed in a specific location other than the top left of the ungraded area 82, the student's answer that has been graded will move to the graded area 83 and the display of the ungraded student's answer will move up, allowing the teacher to grade the next answer without moving the mouse.

(Second Modification)
In the above embodiment, the grading screen has a layout like grading screen 50a shown in Fig. 7, but the present invention is not limited to this, and may have a layout like grading screen 90a shown in Fig. 12. Fig. 12 is an example of a grading screen and a grading DB in the second modified example. Specifically, as shown in Fig. 12, the screen output unit 45 refers to the grading DB 33g, creates and outputs grading screen 90a in which answers are displayed in the grading dedicated area according to the display order.

As shown in FIG. 12, the grading screen 90a has a test date display area 91, a grade display area 92, a group display area 93, a subject display area 94, a question type display area 95, a switching area 96, a grading button area 97, a display order selection area 98, and an answer list area 100. Note that the areas other than the answer list area 100 are the same as those in the grading screen 50a shown in FIG. 7, and therefore will not be described for the sake of simplicity.

The answer list area 100 has a question display area 101, a grading area 102, and an answer display area 103. The question display area 101 is an area that displays questions to be graded. The grading area 102 is an area for grading by mouse operation, and is an area that displays ungraded student answers according to the display order. The answer display area 103 is composed of multiple student answer areas and is an area that displays the answers of all students. Although only eight student answer areas are displayed in the answer display area 103 in FIG. 12, all student answer areas can be displayed by operating the scroll bar. The student answer area is an area that displays the answers of each student. For example, the student answer area 104 shown in FIG. 12 is an area that displays the answer of the student name "Student A" with the display order "1", and is located in the upper left of the answer display area 103. In this way, in the answer display area 103, each student's answer is displayed in order from the top left.

The grading-related information acquisition unit 46 acquires grading-related information, including the results of the teacher's grading of the answers, from the teacher terminal 20, and updates the grading information in the grading DB 33g. The teacher grades the given answers by operating the mouse using the grading screen displayed on the teacher terminal 20. For example, when grading the answers of learner A, the teacher moves the mouse pointer into the grading-only area 102 on the grading screen 90a shown in FIG. 12, and grades the answers by clicking.

Figure 13 shows an example of the marking screen and marking DB after marking in the second modified example. For ease of explanation, in Figure 13, the mouse pointer is represented diagrammatically by a mouse. When the teacher operates the mouse to move the mouse pointer 105 into the marking area 102 and left-click once, as shown in Figure 13, the marking screen 90b displays a circle indicating the correct answer in the marking area 102. At this time, the teacher terminal 20 transmits the marking result indicating the correct answer as marking-related information to the server 10. Based on the marking-related information acquired from the teacher terminal 20, the marking-related information acquisition unit 46 updates the marking result of learner A, indicated by the dotted line in Figure 13, from "unmarked" to "correct" and stores it in the marking DB 33h, as shown in Figure 13.

The screen output unit 45 refers to the marking DB 33h, and when the marking status is updated from unmarked to marked, creates and outputs a marking screen in which the answer with the marking result of "unmarked" and the "lowest display order" is displayed in the marking-only area 102. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 13, the screen output unit 45 refers to the marking DB 33h, creates a marking screen 90c in which the answer of learner B with the marking result of "unmarked" and the display order of "2" is displayed in the marking-only area 102, and transmits screen information regarding the marking screen 90c to the teacher terminal 20. The teacher terminal 20 displays the marking screen 90c based on the screen information acquired from the server 10.

Even if the display order is updated, the position of the student answer area in the answer display area 103 does not move, and only the grading result is reflected. For example, as shown in FIG. 13, when comparing grading screen 90b and grading screen 90c, the position of learner A's student answer area 104 has not moved, and a circle is displayed in the student answer area 104 of grading screen 90c as the grading result. In this modified example, it is possible to display circles and crosses during grading and when the grading result is reflected without going through server 10.

In this way, as shown in FIG. 13, the graded answer of Learner A disappears from the dedicated grading area 102 of the grading screen 90c, and the ungraded answer of Learner B is displayed. In other words, the ungraded answers are brought up and displayed in the dedicated grading area 102. As a result, the ungraded answers of students are displayed in the dedicated grading area 102 where the mouse pointer 105 is located, allowing the teacher to grade the next answer without moving the mouse. Also, the dedicated grading area 102 is larger than the student answer area, and grading can be performed by placing and clicking the mouse pointer 105 anywhere within the dedicated grading area 102, reducing the grading workload on the teacher.

(Third Modification)
In the above embodiment, the teacher uses the teacher terminal 20, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the teacher may use a teacher terminal 110 that has the functions of the server 10. The teacher terminal 110, like the server 10, is, for example, a PC or a general-purpose tablet.

Figure 14 shows an example of the configuration of the learning support system 300 in this case. The teacher terminal 110 is connected to an answer sheet image DB 111, an answer DB 112, and a grading DB 113. The teacher terminal 110 executes the screen output process that was previously performed by the server 10, and can support the teacher in grading by changing the display of the answers depending on the grading status.

5 Network 10 Server 20, 110 Teacher's terminal 31, 111 Answer sheet image DB
32, 112 Answer DB
33, 113 Scoring DB
41 Answer sheet image acquisition unit 42 Answer acquisition unit 43 Target question number acquisition unit 44 Display order setting unit 45 Screen output unit 46 Marking related information acquisition unit 47 Display order update unit 200, 300 Learning support system

Claims (7)

an answer acquisition unit that acquires multiple answers by multiple learners to the same question;
an answer screen output unit that outputs a screen displaying a list of the plurality of answers;
A scoring unit that accepts a user's input for scoring;
an answer moving unit that, when one answer of the plurality of answers has been graded, displays the next answer to be graded in an area on the screen where the one answer had been displayed;
An information processing device comprising: a display order setting unit that sets a display order for the plurality of answers based on information about the learner;
The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the answer screen output unit outputs a screen that displays a list of the plurality of answers in the display order. a marking-related information acquisition unit that acquires marking-related information including a marking result of the one answer and an area in which the one answer was displayed on the screen at the time of marking;
a display order update unit that sets the display order of the first answer to be the last and increments the numbers indicating the display orders of all answers other than the first answer by one;
The information processing device according to claim 2 , wherein the answer moving unit displays each answer according to the display order updated by the display order update unit. the screen has an unscored area for displaying answers whose grading status, which indicates whether the answer has been graded or not, is unscored, and a graded area for displaying answers whose grading status has been graded,
the display order setting unit sets an ungraded display order for the answers whose grading status is ungraded and sets a graded display order for the answers whose grading status is graded,
The information processing device according to claim 2 , wherein the answer screen output unit outputs a screen in which each answer is displayed in the unscored area according to the unscored display order and each answer is displayed in the scored area according to the scored display order. a marking-related information acquisition unit that acquires marking-related information including a marking result of the one answer and an area in which the one answer was displayed on the screen at the time of marking;
a display order update unit that deletes the unscored display order set for the one answer and sets a new graded display order, and increments the values of the unscored display orders set for answers other than the one answer by one;
The information processing device according to claim 4 , wherein the answer moving unit displays each answer in the unscored area according to the unscored display order updated by the display order update unit, and displays each answer in the scored area according to the scored display order. A marking-related information acquisition unit that acquires marking-related information including a marking result of the one answer;
a storage unit that stores the plurality of answers, a display order of the plurality of answers, and a marking state indicating whether the plurality of answers have been marked, in association with each other;
the screen has a dedicated grading area for displaying and grading answers to be graded;
The storage unit updates the scoring state based on the scoring-related information,
The information processing device according to claim 2 , wherein the answer screen output unit references the storage unit and outputs a screen in which the answer whose marking status is unmarked and whose display order number is the smallest is displayed in the marking-only area. A program executed by an information processing device having a computer,
an answer acquisition unit that acquires multiple answers by multiple learners to the same question;
an answer screen output unit that outputs a screen displaying a list of the plurality of answers;
a scoring unit that accepts input for scoring by a user;
an answer moving section that, when one answer of the plurality of answers has been graded, displays the next answer to be graded in an area on the screen where the one answer had been displayed;
A program for causing the computer to function as a