Match game applet
AssigneeSun Microsystems, Inc.
InventorThomas M. Sirhall
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Abstract
An interactive applet for testing a user in a web-based learning environment. The interactive applet is embedded in a course page of a web-based curriculum. The applet provides a set of images to a user regarding the information presented in the course and instructs the user to match each image with a corresponding description in a set of descriptions. The applet provides feedback to the user, and allows the user to revise an incorrect answer.
Claims20
In an electronic device that provides an on-line educational course, a method comprising:
- providing an interactive match game applet, wherein said applet generates a graphical user interface displaying a set of images and a set of descriptions and allows a user to connect a first image and a first description that the user believes to correspond to the first image;
- and
- forwarding the applet from the electronic device to a remote client.
In an electronic device that provides an on-line educational course, a method comprising:
- receiving a request for a Web page at the electronic device from a remote client;
- and
- in response to said receiving step, sending a Web page containing a match game applet embedded therein to the remote client, wherein said applet generates a WEB PAGE including a set of images and a set of descriptions, wherein said Web page further includes instructions to a user to match an image in the set of images with a corresponding description.
A computer-readable medium for use in an electronic device that provides an on-line educational course, comprising
- instructions for running a match game applet for displaying a set of images and a set of descriptions corresponding to the set of images, wherein a user can match an image from the set of images with a corresponding description in the set of descriptions.
An electronic device for providing an on-line educational course comprising
- a processor;
- a display screen;
- and
- a memory including a Web page having an interactive match game applet embedded therein, wherein said processor executes said match game applet to generate a graphical user interface on said display screen, said graphical user interface displaying a set of images, a set of descriptions and instructions to a user to match an image from the set of images with a corresponding description from the set of descriptions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.