Learning Support Information Processing for Assignment Tracking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing learning support systems lack efficient mechanisms to track and manage the distribution and acquisition status of educational materials, such as assignments, among students, particularly in a school setting, which can lead to inefficiencies and incomplete submissions.

Innovation Solution

An information processing system that includes a server device and terminal devices for teachers and students, enabling the creation, distribution, and tracking of assignments through a learning support application, with features to display acquisition status information and notify users about the status of assignment distribution.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a learning support system distributes assignment data to students, then the sharing of educational materials is enabled, but the tracking of acquisition status becomes difficult and incomplete

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveassignment distribution capabilityVSAvoidacquisition status tracking
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements automatic feedback by having the second terminal device (student device) notify the first terminal device (teacher device) when assignment data is acquired. This notification mechanism ensures that the teacher receives real-time information about which students have received assignments, eliminating the information loss about acquisition status while maintaining the distribution capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If the system tracks each student's acquisition status individually, then complete monitoring is achieved, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveacquisition status monitoring accuracyVSAvoidsystem structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system employs self-service mechanisms where the student's terminal device automatically generates and sends notification information to the teacher's device when an assignment is acquired. This eliminates the need for complex centralized tracking systems, as each device autonomously reports its own acquisition status, achieving precise monitoring with minimal added complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The notification mechanism is pre-configured in the system, so that as soon as a student acquires assignment data, the notification is automatically sent without requiring manual intervention or complex processing. This preliminary setup ensures accurate tracking while keeping the system structure simple and straightforward.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12424118B2Information processing device, storage medium, and information processing system
Publication Date: 2025.09.23 CASIO COMPUTER CO LTD
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AI summary

An information processing device is communicably connected to a first terminal device used by a provider and a second terminal device used by a recipient and includes a processor. The processor acquires acquired information indicating that an acquirer of information data has already acquired the information data via the second terminal device. The acquirer is out of the recipient and is designated by the first terminal device. The processor provides acquisition status information by associating a number of the acquirer, a number of the recipient having acquired the information data or not having acquired the information data, and a thumbnail image of the information data based on the acquired information. The processor causes a display of the first terminal device to display the acquisition status information.