KR20220101827A - System and method for managing online class using waiting room - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed are a system and a method, capable of efficiently managing an online class using a waiting room when performing an online class interactively. According to the present invention, the method comprises the steps of: presetting seat positions of student users participating in an online class; checking a seat position corresponding to a student user requesting participation in the online class through a student terminal; allowing the student user to enter a waiting room of the online class, and displaying data indicating the entry of the corresponding student user on the seat position of the student user; providing a class preparation material uploaded through a teacher terminal to the student terminal of the student user entering the waiting room; determining whether the online class can start by referring to a student attendance rate in the waiting room and a scheduled start time of the online class; displaying whether the online class can start, on the teacher terminal; and generating a virtual classroom in which all student users entering the waiting room are attendant when a start of the online class is requested through the teacher terminal.

Description

{System and method for managing online class using waiting room}

The present invention relates to an online video class service, and more particularly, to a system and method for efficiently managing an online class using a waiting room in interactively conducting an online class.

Although online classes are increasingly used instead of offline classes in actual classrooms, conventional video conferencing solutions such as zoom and skype are mainly used for interactive classes that are real-time video classes. In such a video conferencing program, users are classified into a host and a participant, and if the participants request participation after the host starts the meeting, the host must approve it to participate in the meeting.

Video conferencing solutions are literally products for online conferencing and are not optimized for interactive lessons between teachers and students. Therefore, there are many inconveniences in terms of class management, such as checking attendance before and after the start of the main class, when conducting online classes using the known video conferencing solution.

The present invention is to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, and provides an online class management method and system that can easily handle class management such as attendance check, self-study, and review like offline classes in interactive online classes. aim to

In order to achieve the above object, an online class management method using a waiting room according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an online class server connected to a student terminal and a teacher terminal through a network and providing an online class, the online class pre-setting seat positions for student users to participate in; checking a seat position corresponding to a student user who has requested participation in the online class through the student terminal; allowing the student user to enter the waiting room of the online class, and displaying data indicating that the student user has entered at the seat position of the student user; providing class preparation materials uploaded through the teacher terminal to a student terminal of a student user entering the waiting room; determining whether the online class can be started by referring to the student attendance rate in the waiting room and the scheduled start time of the online class; displaying whether the online class can be started on the teacher terminal; and when the start of the online class is requested through the teacher terminal, creating a virtual classroom in which all of the student users who entered the waiting room attend; may include.

The online class management method includes: generating a grid-type seating arrangement table in consideration of the number of student users to participate in the online class and displaying the table in the waiting room; displaying identification information of the student user in the corresponding column before the student user corresponding to each column of the grid-shaped seating arrangement table enters the waiting room; and displaying the image data received from the corresponding student terminal in the corresponding cell after the student user corresponding to each cell of the grid-shaped seating arrangement table enters the waiting room.

The online class management method may include: providing a user interface to the virtual classroom that analyzes images of student users attending the online class or displays the class concentration of each student user according to a teacher user input of the online class; may further include.

In the online class management method, when the display mode of the online class is the virtual class mode, the virtual classroom by synthesizing image data showing the student user attending the online class with the real classroom image related to the student user to participate in the online class It may further include; generating an image and displaying the image in the virtual classroom.

In an online class management system using a waiting room according to an embodiment of the present invention, the online class server includes: a class management module for creating and managing online classes; a user management module for presetting seat positions of student users to participate in the online class, and confirming a seat position corresponding to a student user requesting participation in the online class through the student terminal; Entering the student user into the waiting room of the online class, displaying data indicating that the student user has entered the student user's seat position, and uploading it to the student terminal of the student user entering the waiting room through the teacher terminal A waiting room for providing class preparation materials, determining whether the online class can be started by referring to the student attendance rate in the waiting room and the scheduled start time of the online class, and displaying whether the online class can be started on the teacher terminal management module; and a classroom management module for generating a virtual classroom in which all of the student users who entered the waiting room attend when the start of the online class is requested through the teacher terminal.

According to the present invention, class management such as attendance check, self-study, and review can be easily processed by separately processing before and after the start of an interactive online class.

In addition, according to the present invention, since the student users enter the waiting room before the start of the online class to check attendance and move the waiting room personnel to the classroom at once, the teacher user does not need to process approval for individual students who want to participate in the class. Attendance management can be performed.

1 is a diagram for explaining a network configuration of an online class management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a functional block diagram illustrating an online class server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flowchart illustrating an online class management method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 to 10 exemplify a screen for implementing an online class management method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Terms used in this specification will be briefly described, and the present invention will be described in detail.

The terms used in the present invention have been selected as currently widely used general terms as possible while considering the functions in the present invention, but these may vary depending on the intention or precedent of a person skilled in the art, the emergence of new technology, and the like. In addition, in a specific case, there is a term arbitrarily selected by the applicant, and in this case, the meaning will be described in detail in the description of the corresponding invention. Therefore, the term used in the present invention should be defined based on the meaning of the term and the overall content of the present invention, rather than the name of a simple term.

In the entire specification, when a part "includes" a certain component, it means that other components may be further included, rather than excluding other components, unless otherwise stated. In addition, terms such as "... means", "... unit", and "module" described in the specification mean a unit that processes at least one function or operation, which is implemented in hardware or software, or is implemented in hardware and software. It can be implemented by combining

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, the embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail so that those skilled in the art can easily carry out the embodiments of the present invention. However, the present invention may be embodied in several different forms and is not limited to the embodiments described herein. And in order to clearly explain the present invention in the drawings, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted, and similar reference numerals are attached to similar parts throughout the specification.

1 is a diagram for explaining a network configuration of an online class management system according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram for explaining an online class server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The online class management system according to an embodiment of the present invention is used by a student user participating in an online class by accessing the online class server 100 and the online class server 100 that provide an online class service through a network such as the Internet. It may be composed of a student terminal 110 and a teacher terminal 120 used by a teacher user who designs and conducts an online class through the online class server 100 .

The student user may use the online class service provided by the online class server 100 through a web browser or an online class dedicated application installed in the student terminal 110 .

A teacher user is a student user who designs and manages an online class and participates in an online class using an online class service provided by the online class server 100 through a web browser or an online class dedicated application installed in the teacher terminal 120 . conduct online classes with

The student terminal 110 and the teacher terminal 120 are computing devices such as personal computers, smart phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), portable computers, etc. capable of communicating with the online class server 100 through a predetermined network.

The online class server 100 is a computing system having software and/or hardware components for providing an online class service based on a web server or a dedicated application method, and is connected to the user terminals 110 and 120 through a communication network, , is also connected to the database 130 .

The database 130 is a user information DB 131 that stores information about users, such as personal information, authentication information, authorization information, class attendance history, and assignment submission history of teacher members who have signed up for online class service and student members of each class. , a class information DB 132 that writes various information about online classes, such as online classes designed and written by teacher users, information about seat assignments of student users and teacher users who will participate in each online class, and class preparation materials, classes It may include a content DB 133 for storing various files provided to student users and/or teacher users during online classes, such as materials and class organizing materials, and individual online learning content, which is a learning tool inserted into the online class. have.

The online class server 100 may include a class management module 210 , a user management module 220 , a waiting room management module 230 , a classroom management module 240 , and a content management module 250 .

The online class server 100 according to the present invention manages the online class conducted in the form of an interactive class by dividing it into stages before and after the start of the class, and manages users by entering the waiting room before the online class starts, and manages the online class. After starting, users are transferred to the virtual classroom and managed.

The class management module 210 designs and creates an online class for students of a specific class or group according to a teacher user's input through the teacher terminal 120 .

When editing an online class, the class management module 210 is related to the class subject from the teacher terminal 120, information about teachers and assistant teachers who will conduct the online class, information about students who will participate in the online class, and the online class. An online class is created by inputting information about various contents to be provided to student users.

Also, the class management module 210 controls to insert the type of learning content requested by the user into the online class through the content insertion tool provided by the content management module 240 .

The user management module 220 performs various management functions for users of the online class service, such as membership registration of students and teachers, member information management, access to the online class server 100, and authentication processing.

The waiting room management module 230 presets a list of student users who must attend each online class and their seat positions. The seat positions of the student users may be determined according to information input through the teacher terminal 120 by a teacher user who will conduct an online class or according to a predetermined rule.

The student user can directly enter the waiting room of the online class by accessing the online class server 100 through his/her terminal 110 and requesting participation in the online class that he/she has the right to take. The waiting room management module 230 checks the seat position corresponding to the student user who wants to enter the waiting room.

The waiting room management module 230 creates a waiting room corresponding to a teacher user or a student user of an online class who wants to participate in the corresponding online class. The waiting room shows in a grid form whether student users and teacher user(s), who are the subjects of online class attendance, enter or not. In addition, in the waiting room, information on users related to online classes, a user interface that allows a teacher user to collectively set ON/OFF states of the camera and microphone of the student terminals 110, a chat window between users, In the case of group classes, more information about each group may be provided.

The waiting room management module 230 allows a student user who wants to attend the online class to enter the waiting room for waiting before the online class starts. At this time, data indicating that the student user has entered is displayed on the seat position of the student user confirmed in advance. For example, the student user's video data captured and received by the student terminal 110 may be reproduced at the corresponding seat position of the grid to indicate that the student has entered.

The waiting room management module 230 generates a grid-type seating arrangement table in consideration of the number of student users to participate in the online class and displays it in the waiting room, and student users corresponding to each cell of the grid-type seating arrangement table enter the waiting room Before doing so, the identification information of the student user will be displayed in the corresponding column. After the student user corresponding to each cell of the grid-type seating arrangement table enters the waiting room, the image data received from the corresponding student terminal will be displayed in the corresponding cell.

The waiting room management module 230 may provide class preparation materials uploaded by the teacher terminal 120 through the content management module 250 to the student terminal 110 of the student user entering the waiting room.

In this way, teacher users and student users who have entered the online class are in the waiting room before class starts, and when predetermined requirements are met, they can move to the virtual classroom and start class. The waiting room management module 230 determines whether the online class can be started by referring to the student attendance rate in the waiting room and the scheduled start time of the online class, and displays a user interface indicating whether the online class can be started on the teacher terminal 120 This allows the teacher-user to start the lesson.

When the start of the online class is requested through the teacher terminal 120 , the classroom management module 240 creates a virtual classroom in which all the student users who entered the waiting room attend and shows it on the teacher terminal 120 and the student terminal 110 . .

The content management module 250 defines the types of various online learning content that can be inserted into the online class, and inserts the online learning content for each type into the online class, or class preparation materials, class materials, and class organizing materials to be provided during the online class. It is possible to provide a content insertion tool for providing such online classes.

An online class may include one or more different types of online learning content, such as text, live video, video, file, Uniform Resource Locator (URL) link, quizzes, assignments, and the like. The content insertion tool provided by the content management module 250 may include an icon for inserting each type of content, and when a user selects a desired icon, an editor capable of authoring the corresponding online learning content is provided or the corresponding online Tools are provided for positioning and embedding learning content into online classes.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an online class management method according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIGS. 4 to 10 illustrate a user interface screen implementing the online class management method according to an embodiment of the present invention .

As shown in FIG. 4 , the teacher user inputs a class time 41 , a target student 42 , an assistant teacher 43 , class materials 44 , and the like in order to design a real-time video class.

In order to register the class time 41 , a class start time and end time may be input, or a class start time and total class time may be input.

For the student registration 42 , individual student users may be registered or a group of students identified by grade, class, class name, etc. may be collectively registered. If the class is conducted in the form of a group class, students can be divided into several groups by entering group information at the time of student registration.

A teacher who designs a class is a representative teacher or a full-time teacher, and one or several assistant teachers 43 may be registered.

The class material 44 may be registered by dividing it into class preparation data, class data, and organizing data. The class preparation material is provided to the student user before the start of the class, and can be viewed directly in the waiting room displayed on the student terminal 110 when the student user enters the class. The class material is data to be used by the teacher during the class after the start of the class, and the teacher user can check and use it through the user interface of the teacher terminal 120 . Organized materials are auxiliary materials provided to check student achievement after class ends.

In step S31, the online class server 100 sets in advance the seat positions of the student users who will participate in the online class to be performed as a real-time video class.

In an embodiment, the seating arrangement of student users may be configured in a grid form. In this case, the online class server 100 determines the horizontal and vertical sizes of the grid in consideration of the number of students scheduled to participate in the online class and displays them on the teacher terminal 120, and the seat position of each student user according to the input of the teacher user can be set.

5 is an illustration of the waiting room screen when the teacher user enters the waiting room.

The seat 52 of the teacher user is preset. The seat of the assistant teacher user may also be preset, and the arrangement of the teacher seat will be dynamically adjusted according to the number of assistant teachers.

The seat arrangement 50 of the student users may be determined according to a predetermined criterion or input from the teacher user, and the teacher user may change the seat position of the student users by input such as drag & drop on the waiting room screen.

In another embodiment, the seating arrangement of student users may be configured in the form of a group class. In this case, the online class server 100 shows the seating arrangement of the group class in consideration of the number of students scheduled to participate in the online class and the number of groups input by the teacher user, and according to the input of the teacher user, the group and the group of each student user You can set the seating position within the group.

In step S32, it is checked whether there is a student user or a teacher user who enters the waiting room of the online class, and if there is a student user who has requested to participate in the online class through the student terminal 110, the process proceeds to step S33 and provides information to the student user. Check the corresponding seat position and enter the confirmed seat position.

When a student user enters the waiting room, data indicating that the student user has entered is displayed on the seat position of the student user so that other users can know who the student is. For students who have applied for experiential learning or sick leave in advance, the information will be displayed in the corresponding seat position.

6 illustrates an example of a waiting room in which student users enter an online class. When the student user applies for class participation, he immediately enters the waiting room as shown in FIG. 6 , and an image is exposed on his seat 61 .

As shown in FIG. 6 , the standard for sorting student user screens in the waiting room is basically in the order of seating arrangement, and the screen arrangement may be changed to the order of student name, number, or hand and the like according to the user's selection.

In the example of the waiting room of FIG. 6 , the seat of the student users is arranged on the left side of the screen, and the seats 52 and 62 of the teacher users are arranged on the upper right side of the screen. In addition, the image of each user is displayed in the corresponding seat. In the lower right corner of the waiting room, a list of participants, a chat window, and group information may be displayed.

On the other hand, if all students of an online class cannot attend online, some student users may attend offline in a real classroom. In this case, it is possible to recognize and photograph the student(s) attending offline with a camera mounted on the computer of the offline classroom, and display the images of the students on the corresponding seat on the waiting room screen to indicate that they are attending the class.

In step S34 , if there is class preparation material registered by the teacher user through the teacher terminal 120 , the class preparation material is provided to the student terminal 110 of the users entering the waiting room. That is, the student user can check the class preparation materials for the class in the waiting room before the actual class.

In this way, before starting the online video class, users enter the waiting room, and attendance is displayed at each designated seat in the waiting room, and class preparation materials can be viewed in advance.

A teacher user may register a plurality of class preparation materials and set a time for providing each class preparation material. For example, class preparation material #1 is set to be shown to all student users who enter the waiting room, and class preparation material #2 is set to be shown only to student users in the group where all members have entered, so that the timing and target of providing class preparation materials is determined. can be controlled

In step S35, it is checked whether the class start requirement is satisfied with reference to the student attendance rate in the waiting room and the scheduled start time of the online class, and it is determined whether the online class can be started according to whether the class start requirement is met.

Whether the online class can be started is displayed on the teacher terminal. If it is determined that the online class can be started because the class start requirement is satisfied, a user interface for selecting class start is provided to the teacher terminal 120 in step S36.

For example, the class start requirement may be set when the attendance rate is 80% or higher and the class start time comes. When this requirement is satisfied, the class start button 51 is activated on the waiting room screen of the teacher terminal 120 , and when the teacher user presses this button, the class starts.

When the attendance rate of student users is lower than a predetermined threshold before a predetermined time before the online class starts, a message may be transmitted to the terminal 120 of the teacher user or a preset mobile phone to notify. In addition, by sending an alarm message to the terminal 110 or a preset mobile phone of the student users who have not yet entered the waiting room, attendance can be urged.

When the start of the online class is requested through the teacher terminal 120 in step S37, a virtual classroom in which all student users who entered the waiting room attend is created and displayed on the terminals 110 and 120 of the users in step S38.

According to an embodiment, when the class starts, the teacher user's face is displayed on the central area of the screen, and the camera of the student users is turned on and the microphone is automatically turned off. When the teacher user manipulates the student user to speak during class, the online class server 100 controls the microphone function of the student terminal 110 to turn on the microphone, enabling the student users to speak.

The virtual classroom may be created in a grid mode similar to the waiting room of FIG. 6 or may be created in a virtual class mode for a real classroom-like experience.

7 exemplifies the virtual classroom screen, and the display mode of the online class is the virtual class mode. When set to the virtual class mode, the online class server 100 acquires an actual classroom image related to a group of student users who will participate in an online class, and synthesizes image data showing the appearance of the student users on the classroom image to obtain a virtual classroom image ( 71) and display it in the virtual classroom.

Accordingly, users can experience vivid images of fellow students moving in real classrooms during online classes, increasing learning efficiency.

In one embodiment, the online class server 100 may provide a virtual classroom with a user interface that analyzes images of student users attending the online class or determines and displays the class concentration of each student user according to the input of the teacher user. have.

8 and 9 exemplify a screen for managing class concentration of student users during an online class.

The online class server 100 evaluates the class concentration of the student users participating in the class according to the input of the teacher user or through machine learning, and displays them according to the concentration level, so that the class participation degree can be efficiently managed. Class concentration can be assessed by analyzing whether students are participating well in class, how much time they are away from work, and whether they are dozing off or doing other things.

Referring to FIG. 8 , a teacher-user may preset a color for displaying class concentration. For example, students with low concentration may be displayed in red, and students with high concentration may be displayed in blue.

9 is an example of classifying students by the color set as shown in FIG. 8 . It can be seen that the teacher user moves the student determined to be distracted to the red area 91 . The class concentration of the student moving to the red area 91 is changed from 'normal' to 'distracted' level.

In an embodiment, a notification message may be sent to a student whose concentration level is changed. For example, the online class server 100 may transmit a message indicating that attention is required to the terminal 110 or a separate mobile phone of the student user whose concentration level has reached the 'distraction' level.

10 exemplifies a user interface that organizes the class results at the end of the online class and provides them to the teacher terminal 120. The teacher user includes the class participation time of students participating in the online class, class preparation, speaking time, feedback status, etc. can be seen at a glance.

The method according to an embodiment of the present invention may be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed through various computer means and recorded in a computer-readable medium. The computer-readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. The program instructions recorded on the medium may be specially designed and configured for the present invention, or may be known and available to those skilled in the art of computer software. Examples of the computer-readable recording medium include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tapes, optical media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs, and magnetic such as floppy disks. - includes magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specially configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include not only machine language codes such as those generated by a compiler, but also high-level language codes that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto. belong to the scope of the right.

100: online class server
110: student terminal
120: teacher terminal
130: database
131: user information DB
132: class information DB
133: content DB
210: Class Management Module
220: user management module
230: waiting room management module
240: classroom management module
250: content management module

Claims (6)

An online class server that is connected to a student terminal and a teacher terminal through a network and provides online classes,
setting the seat positions of student users to participate in the online class in advance;
checking a seat position corresponding to a student user who has requested participation in the online class through the student terminal;
allowing the student user to enter the waiting room of the online class, and displaying data indicating that the student user has entered at the seat position of the student user;
providing class preparation materials uploaded through the teacher terminal to a student terminal of a student user entering the waiting room;
determining whether the online class can be started by referring to the student attendance rate in the waiting room and the scheduled start time of the online class;
displaying whether the online class can be started on the teacher terminal; and
When the start of the online class is requested through the teacher terminal, creating a virtual classroom in which all the student users who entered the waiting room attend; According to claim 1,
generating a grid-shaped seating arrangement table in consideration of the number of student users who will participate in the online class and displaying it in the waiting room;
displaying identification information of the student user in the corresponding column before the student user corresponding to each column of the grid-shaped seating arrangement table enters the waiting room; and
After the student user corresponding to each cell of the grid-shaped seating arrangement table enters the waiting room, displaying the image data received from the corresponding student terminal in the corresponding cell; Waiting room, characterized in that it further comprises How to manage online classes using According to claim 1,
Providing the virtual classroom with a user interface that analyzes images of student users attending the online class or displays the class concentration of each student user according to a teacher user's input of the online class; How to manage online classes using waiting rooms. According to claim 1,
When the display mode of the online class is the virtual class mode, a virtual classroom image is generated by synthesizing the image data showing the student user attending the online class with the real classroom image related to the student user to participate in the online class, and the virtual classroom Displaying on; Online class management method using the waiting room, characterized in that it further comprises. A computer program recorded on a recording medium to perform the online class management method using the waiting room of any one of claims 1 to 4. An online class management system comprising an online class server that is connected to a student terminal and a teacher terminal through a network and provides an online class, wherein the online class server comprises:
Class management module for creating and managing online classes;
a user management module for presetting seat positions of student users to participate in the online class, and confirming a seat position corresponding to a student user requesting participation in the online class through the student terminal;
Entering the student user into the waiting room of the online class, displaying data indicating that the student user has entered the student user's seat position, and uploading it to the student terminal of the student user entering the waiting room through the teacher terminal A waiting room for providing class preparation materials, determining whether the online class can be started by referring to the student attendance rate in the waiting room and the scheduled start time of the online class, and displaying whether the online class can be started on the teacher terminal management module; and
When the start of the online class is requested through the teacher terminal, a classroom management module that creates a virtual classroom attended by all the student users who entered the waiting room; Online class management system using the waiting room, comprising: a.

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