Single-Action Tag and Highlight System for Digital Assignments
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current tools for viewing and sharing electronic content are limited in allowing users to efficiently attach tags and highlights in a single action, particularly in educational settings, where teachers need to create assignments that include highlighted and tagged text for students to complete.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that enables users to attach a tag and highlight to electronic content in a single action, allowing teachers to create assignments with highlighted and tagged text that automatically displays when students open the assigned page range, facilitating easy editing, sharing, and reviewing of student submissions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If users attach tags and highlights separately in current tools, then tagging and highlighting functions are available, but the process requires multiple actions and reduces efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the tagging function and highlighting function into a single integrated operation. When a user selects text and activates the tag-highlight feature, the system simultaneously attaches a tag to the selected text and applies highlight formatting, completing both functions in one action rather than requiring separate operations for each function.
2Adaptability or versatility
If teachers create assignments with highlighted and tagged text, then students can easily identify important content, but the assignment creation process becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges assignment creation with tag and highlight functionality into a unified workflow. Teachers can create assignments and simultaneously apply tags and highlights to relevant text passages through a single integrated interface, eliminating the need to separately configure assignment parameters and then separately add tags and highlights.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary tagging and highlighting during the assignment creation process itself, rather than requiring separate post-creation steps. When teachers define assignment parameters, they can pre-select text passages and apply appropriate tags and highlights automatically, preparing the complete assignment in one workflow.
3Reliability
If students complete assignments by adding tags and highlights, then they can demonstrate understanding, but the process requires multiple separate steps
Solution Approach 1:
The system combines multiple assignment completion actions into a single user interaction. When students select text and apply a tag, the system simultaneously completes the tagging action and the highlighting action, allowing students to mark important passages and categorize them in one efficient operation rather than performing separate steps for each function.
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AI summary
A system and methods are disclosed for enabling users to attach a tag and highlight in a single action or activity to a select piece or portion of text in digital content (e.g., in a digital book or other content provided for viewing on an electronic device). In some implementations, the teacher may associate a tag with a particular text in the assignment, push the assignment embedding the tag to one or more students, and the tag becomes automatically visible to the one or more students through their highlight menu when they open up the assignment for completion. In some implementations, with this single activity, users may easily share tasks, comments etc., with ease. One or more other activities are also used among teachers and students to create and execute assignments with efficiency.