Virtual Classroom System Breakout Group Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current remote group meeting platforms lack the ability to combine synchronous capabilities with network-based educational tools, failing to provide effective learning and audience monitoring in educational environments.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that provides a virtual classroom experience by offering video feeds, breakout groups, teaching materials, and real-time feedback mechanisms, enabling instructors to manage student engagement and participation through client devices connected over a network.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If remote group meeting platforms are used for virtual classrooms, then synchronous communication capabilities are provided, but learning and audience monitoring tools are lacking
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines synchronous meeting platform capabilities with network-based educational tools into a unified virtual classroom system. The system integrates video conferencing, breakout groups, teaching material distribution, and student monitoring features that previously existed as separate systems, creating a versatile educational platform without proportionally increasing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual classroom system performs multiple functions including synchronous teaching, asynchronous learning material distribution, real-time student monitoring, breakout group management, and feedback collection. This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for separate specialized tools while maintaining adaptability across different teaching scenarios.
2Productivity
If breakout groups are implemented for individualized learning, then student engagement is improved, but real-time monitoring of all students becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the classroom into multiple breakout groups, allowing students to engage in smaller, more focused discussions. Simultaneously, the instructor maintains an overview dashboard that segments and displays information from each breakout group, making monitoring manageable despite the division into multiple groups.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements automated feedback mechanisms that track student activities in breakout groups, such as chat messages, file shares, and participation metrics. This feedback is continuously transmitted to the instructor dashboard, enabling real-time monitoring without requiring direct observation of each group, thus maintaining engagement while simplifying monitoring.
3Adaptability or versatility
If teaching materials are distributed to all students, then learning resources are improved, but network bandwidth consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system allows teaching materials to be pre-uploaded and stored on the server before class sessions. Students can access these materials asynchronously outside of synchronous meetings, eliminating the need to distribute large amounts of data during live sessions and reducing network bandwidth consumption during teaching events.
Data Source
AI summary
A method to provide a remote classroom experience is provided. The method includes providing, to a first client device, a video feed of a virtual classroom, the video feed including a first breakout group with at least one student, receiving, from the first client device, a selection of a first breakout group and a teaching material, providing, to a second client device with the at least one student, a partial video feed of the virtual classroom including other student members of the first breakout group, providing the teaching material to the second client device based on the selection, receiving a feedback from the second client device, responsive to the teaching material, and providing the feedback from the second client device to the first client device. A system and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions to perform the above method are also provided.