Systems and methods for improving media file access over an educational testing network

A method to serve flesh media content for a plurality of student computers coupled to a local area network (LAN) with a router coupled to the Internet to access multimedia educational content originally stored on a remote server, the method comprising:

• attaching a local server to the LAN to locally store educational multimedia content and periodically synchronizing contents of the local server with contents on the remote server;
• determining requests for Internet contents and directing the requests in real-time to directories on the local server by creating proxies and reverse proxies to force web pages to route to the local server;
• presenting the multimedia educational content to the students and testing for student comprehension of the multimedia content and presenting additional multimedia educational content based on student performance on earlier questions, wherein the presenting further comprises:
• modifying a student's web response to redirect rich media requests to the local server while allowing requests not directed at the rich media to another server or to the Internet;
• periodically checking content freshness between the local server and a remote server;
• if a stale content exists on the local server, replacing the stale content with a fresh content from the remote server;
• and serving the fresh content from the local server.