Methods and systems for creating educational resources and aligning educational resources with benchmarks

A method for aligning an educational resource comprising one or more disparate educational devices, with at least one educational benchmark, the method comprising:

• selecting, by an educational alignment engine executing on a computing machine, at least one educational benchmark corresponding to one of either a student, a student cohort and a class;
• selecting, by the educational alignment engine, an educational resource comprising one or more disparate educational devices,
• wherein the at least two disparate educational devices comprise a first educational device having a first media format and a second educational device having a second media format different from the first media format;
• assigning, by the educational alignment engine, the selected educational resource to the selected educational benchmark;
• and
• configuring, by the educational alignment engine, a date range of the selected educational benchmark according to a curriculum map.

A system for creating and managing an educational resource comprising one or more disparate educational devices, the system comprising:

• a computing machine;
• a resource builder executing on the computing machine to:
• include in an educational resource at least two disparate educational devices,
• wherein the at least two disparate educational devices comprise a first educational device having a first media format and a second educational device having a second media format different from the first media format,
• update metadata of the educational resource to include a language preference, and
• include a version of an educational device corresponding to the language preference;
• and
• an educational alignment engine executing on the computing machine to:
• select at least one educational benchmark corresponding to one of either a student, a student cohort and a class,
• assign the educational resource to the selected educational benchmark, and
• configure a date range of the selected educational benchmark according to a curriculum map.