System for Scheduling Classes and Managing Educational Resources

Abstract

A method is provided for automatically producing a schedule of classes for an educational institution having a plurality of teachers, a plurality of students, and a curriculum. The method preferably includes receiving designations of a plurality of curriculum modules of the curriculum, each curriculum module including educational material, one or more of the curriculum modules being prerequisite modules for one or more subsequent modules. The method also preferably includes receiving, as an input into a computer system, curriculum information comprising an indication of which of the modules are prerequisite modules for subsequent modules. An input into the computer system includes student information comprising, for one or more of the plurality of students, an indication of his level of competence with respect to the educational material of one or more modules. The computer system preferably produces a schedule of classes for teaching the educational material of at least some of the modules responsive to the curriculum information and the student information. Educational material to be taught in each of the scheduled classes includes the educational material of a respective one of the curriculum modules. The students assigned to each of the scheduled classes have preferably attained at least a predetermined level of competence with respect to the educational material of the respective modules that are prerequisite modules for the module to be taught in the class.

1 . A method for automatically producing a schedule of classes for an educational institution having a plurality of teachers, a plurality of students, and a curriculum, the method comprising providing a computer algorithm adapted for:
 receiving, as an input into a computer system, designations of a plurality of curriculum modules of the curriculum, each curriculum module including educational material, one or more of the curriculum modules being prerequisite modules for one or more subsequent modules;   receiving, as an input into the computer system, curriculum information comprising an indication of which of the modules are prerequisite modules for subsequent modules;   receiving, as an input into the computer system, student information comprising, for two or more of the plurality of students, indications of their levels of competence with respect to the educational material of one or more modules; and   producing, by the computer system, a schedule of classes for teaching the educational material of at least some of the modules responsive to the curriculum information and the student information, wherein educational material to be taught in each of the scheduled classes comprises the educational material of a respective one of the curriculum modules, and wherein the students assigned to each of the scheduled classes have attained at least a predetermined level of competence with respect to the educational material of the respective modules that are prerequisite modules for the module to be taught in the class.