Educational system

Abstract

Educational software using a computer and having a data storage system including a software module database management system and a user database management system. There is a quiz module database, maintained by the software module database management system, containing at least one quiz module, and a structured learning material editor module database, maintained by the software module database management system and containing at least one structured learning material editor modules. The software also has a structured learning material database, maintained by the user database management system, for storing at least one structured learning material data set created by a user. A user interface is provided for selecting system control functions, editing structured learning materials, presenting quizzes, receiving user answers to quizzes, and displaying quiz analysis results. A control system retrieves software modules from the software module database management system and activates them. There are at least one structured learning material editor, one editor being selected for use in editing structured learning material data in response to a request through the user interface. There is also a plurality of quiz modules, each including a generator, a presenter, and an analyzer, the generator transforming input data into screen presentation data and quiz answer analysis rules, the presenter, through the user interface, displaying the quiz to the user, accepting a user's answers to the quiz and displaying analysis results to the user on those answers, and the analyzer evaluating the user's answers to a presented quiz using the answer analysis rules provided by the generator. There may also be a data structure mapping module database, maintained by the software module database management system and containing at least one data structure mapping modules, and a plurality of data structure mapping modules, at least one of which is used to transform structured learning material data sets into input data for a quiz module.

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