Temporary Session Identifier for Collaborative User Group Creation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing collaborative workspace systems face difficulties in quickly and easily creating user groups, particularly when integrating mobile computing devices, as they require costly and time-consuming processes to manage user affiliations with classroom response systems.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that generate a temporary session identifier for a user group, allowing users to join via a displayed identifier, correlating user identifiers, and storing the group in memory, facilitating easy creation and management of user groups within a collaborative workspace.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If costly integration with student information system is performed to determine user affiliations, then user group creation accuracy is improved, but system cost and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
A temporary session identifier acts as an intermediary between the classroom response system and mobile computing devices. This identifier is displayed on the IWB and entered by students on their devices, serving as a mediator that connects users to the appropriate class without requiring direct integration with student information systems, thereby reducing system complexity while maintaining accurate user group creation
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the user affiliation determination process from complex student information system integrations and isolates it into a simple temporary session identifier mechanism. By taking out the essential function of user identification and implementing it through a standalone session code system, the patent eliminates the need for costly and complex system integrations while preserving the ability to accurately create user groups
2Manufacturing precision
If manual entry of student information is required to add users to class, then user group creation accuracy is improved, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
Students self-register by entering the temporary session identifier displayed on the IWB into their mobile devices. This self-service mechanism eliminates the need for teachers to manually enter each student's information, allowing students to automatically add themselves to the class while ensuring accurate user group creation through the session identifier verification process
3Quantity of substance
If export/import process between student information system and classroom response system is used, then user group creation completeness is improved, but error rate increases
Solution Approach 1:
The temporary session identifier serves as an intermediary that replaces the error-prone export/import file transfer process. Instead of exporting data files that require validation and error checking, the session identifier provides a direct, reliable connection mechanism that ensures complete and accurate user group creation without data transfer errors
Data Source
AI summary
A computer implement method for creating a user group is provided. In accordance with the method, a temporary session identifier is generated for a first session associated with the user group. The temporary session identifier is communicated to a display for presentation. Requests to join the first session are received from a plurality of users. The requests include the temporary session identifier. User identifiers of the plurality of users are correlated with the temporary session identifier. The user group is created, comprising the user identifiers of the plurality of users and a name for said user group. The user group is stored in memory. A computing device and a non-transitory computer readable medium configured to implement the method are also described.