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(12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2007/0099167 A1
Eason (43) Pub. Date: May 3, 2007

(54) METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR (52) US. Cl. ............................................................ .. 434/350
MONITORING, TRACKING AND
ENHANCING A STUDENT PERFORMANCE
(57) ABSTRACT
(76) Inventor: Terry James Eason, Terrell, TX (US)
A method and computer program are provided for monitor
Correspondence Address: ing, tracking and enhancing an educational performance of
Terry James Eason a student in one or more enrolled courses. The method and
8612 Karen Lane computer program including receiving student information
Terrell, TX 75160 (US) including course information for one or more enrolled
courses for a student in an educational institution, receiving
(21) Appl. No.: 11/592,647 course requirement information for each of the enrolled
Filed: Nov. 3, 2006
courses, receiving student monitoring criteria of the educa
(22) tional institution including one or more grading thresholds
Related US. Application Data associated With the enrolled courses, periodically receiving
student performance information for the student including
(60) Provisional application No. 60/ 732,960, ?led on Nov. testing results for the enrolled courses, periodically moni
3, 2005. toring the student performance information including auto
matically determining Whether the testing results are beloW
Publication Classi?cation the grading threshold associated With the enrolled course,
and notifying the educational institution if the testing results
(51) Int. Cl. are beloW the grading threshold associated With the enrolled
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METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR
MONITORING, TRACKING AND ENHANCING A
STUDENT PERFORMANCE
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED
APPLICATIONS
[0001] Pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 119(e), the present docu
ment claims the bene?t of the earlier ?ling date of co
pending US. provisional patent application Ser. No. 60/ 732,
960, entitled Method and Computer Program for
Monitoring, Tracking and Enhancing a Student Perfor
mance, ?led in the US. Patent and Trademark Of?ce on
Nov. 3, 2005, hereby incorporated by reference, having a
common inventor as the present document.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] 1. Field of the Invention
[0003] The present invention relates to enhancing student
performance and more particularly, relates to a method and
computer program for monitoring, tracking and enhancing a
students performance in an educational setting.
[0004] 2. Discussion of the Background
[0005] A typical school (e.g., elementary school, middle
school, high school, college or university) is responsible for
overseeing many students and a typical school district is
responsible for an even greater number of students. For
instance, an individual school may have hundreds if not
thousands of students attending that school during a given
school year. Individual student performances are often dif
?cult to monitor and track in such an educational setting due
to the sheer number of students. An individual students
performance is sometimes overlooked until it is often too
late to take corrective measures to improve that students
performance.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0006] Accordingly, one aspect of the present invention is
to provide a method for monitoring, tracking and enhancing
an educational performance of a student in one or more
enrolled courses. The method including receiving student
information including course information for one or more
enrolled courses for a student in an educational institution,
receiving course requirement information for each of the
enrolled courses, receiving student monitoring criteria of the
educational institution including one or more grading thresh
olds associated With the enrolled courses, periodically
receiving student performance information for the student
including testing results for the enrolled courses, periodi
cally monitoring the student performance information
including automatically determining Whether the testing
results are beloW the grading threshold associated With the
enrolled course, and notifying the educational institution if
the testing results are beloW the grading threshold associated
With the enrolled course.
[0007] Another aspect of the present invention is to pro
vide a computer program embodied in a computer readable
medium for monitoring, tracking and enhancing an educa
tional performance of a student in one or more enrolled
courses. The computer program including a ?rst computer
code for receiving student information including course
information for one or more enrolled courses for a student in
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an educational institution, a second computer code for
receiving course requirement information for each of the
enrolled courses, a third computer code for receiving student
monitoring criteria of the educational institution including
one or more grading thresholds associated With the enrolled
courses, a fourth computer code for periodically receiving
student performance information for the student including
testing results for the enrolled courses, a ?fth computer code
for periodically monitoring the student performance infor
mation including automatically determining Whether the
testing results are beloW the grading threshold associated
With the enrolled course, and a sixth computer code for
notifying the educational institution if the testing results are
beloW the grading threshold associated With the enrolled
course.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0008] A more complete appreciation of the present inven
tion and many of the attendant advantages thereof Will be
readily obtained as the same becomes better understood by
reference to the folloWing detailed description When con
sidered in conjunction With the accompanying draWings,
Wherein:
[0009] FIG. 1 is a How chart illustrating the process of
monitoring, tracking and enhancing a students performance
in an educational setting according to the present invention;
[0010] FIGS. 2A and 2B are How charts further illustrating
the process of monitoring, tracking and enhancing a stu
dents performance in an educational setting according to
the present invention;
[0011] FIG. 3 is a How chart illustrating monitoring a
student s performance in an educational setting according to
the present invention;
[0012] FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a student
performance monitoring, tracking and enhancing system in
an educational setting according to the present invention;
and
[0013] FIGS. 5A-5C are block diagrams illustrating a
Web-based student performance monitoring, tracking and
enhancing system in an educational setting according to one
possible embodiment of the present invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE
PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
[0014] Referring noW to the draWings, Wherein like ref
erence numerals designate identical or corresponding parts
throughout the several vieWs, preferred embodiments of the
present invention are described.
[0015] The present invention provides a user With the
ability to monitor, track and enhance a students perfor
mance in an educational setting using an individualized plan
to assist a student as the student progresses. The individu
aliZed plan is accessible to students, teachers, parents and
school administers such that a students performance may be
monitored, tracked and enhanced. Functionally, the present
invention may be separated into several modules. For
example, the present invention may be functionally sepa
rated into progress, intervention, Weakness, responsibilities,
action plan, graduation plan, testing data, and print report
modules.
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[0016] Referring to FIG. 4, a block diagram illustrating a
student performance monitoring, tracking and enhancing
system in an educational setting is shoWn. The present
invention alloWs a counselor or administrator using a com
puter 412 or a teacher using a computer 414 to vieW, edit and
print student monitoring, tracking and enhancement infor
mation stored on a student monitoring tracking and enhance
ment system 402 over a netWork 406. A student or parent
using a computer 416 may optionally vieW and print the
student monitoring, tracking and enhancement information.
The netWork includes, but is not limited to, a local area
netWork, a remote area netWork such as a dial-up netWork,
a proprietary netWork, a Wireless netWork, Internet or Intra
net. In one embodiment, the student monitoring tracking and
enhancement system 402 is a Web based system in Which a
counselor or administrator using a computer 412, a teacher
using a computer 414, or a student or parent using a
computer 416 may access the Web based system using a Web
broWser over the Internet 406.
[0017] Referring to FIG. 1, a How chart illustrating the
process of monitoring, tracking and enhancing a students
performance in an educational setting is shoWn. The process
begins preferably prior to the beginning of the school year
and/or grading period, as shoWn at blocks 102 and 104.
However, the present invention is not limited to any par
ticular date and may reasonably begin on any date during the
school year. At block 106, general student information for
one or more students in a school system is input into the
system. General student information includes, but is not
limited to, information regarding the students name,
address, parents, ethnicity, age, or other pertinent student
information. Block 106 may be accomplished either through
manual entry or by extraction of data from a database. For
instance, in one embodiment, one or more student records
containing general student information are extracted, either
manually or automatically, from a database 410 of a school
information system 408 and then transferred into a database
404 of a student monitoring, tracking and enhancement
system 402 via netWork 406, as shoWn in FIG. 4. The
extraction process may optionally include a translation and/
or reformatting of the one or more student records. The
general student information may be transferred in any form
including, but not limited to, ASCII ?le, proprietary data
base formats, xml, or the like. Optionally, the student
monitoring, tracking and enhancement system 402 may be
integrated into the school information system 408.
[0018] Optionally, at block 108, university and/or trade
requirements are input into the system. University and/or
trade requirements includes, but is not limited to, informa
tion regarding the courses that the university or trade require
and/or recommend to be taken prior to entry into that
university or trade. Block 108 may be accomplished either
through manual entry or by extraction of data from a
database or remote system. For instance, in one embodi
ment, one or more course requirements and/or recommen
dations are extracted, either manually or automatically, from
a database 420 of a university school information system
418 and then transferred into database 404 of the student
monitoring, tracking and enhancement system 402 via net
Work 406, as shoWn in FIG. 4. The course requirements
and/or recommendations may be transferred in any form
including, but not limited to, ASCII ?le, proprietary data
base formats, xml, or the like. LikeWise, the course require
ments and/or recommendations may also be extracted from
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a database 424 of trade or other occupation information
system 422, or from a database 428 of a third-party infor
mation system and/or provider 426. Optionally, the course
requirements and/or recommendations may be periodically
transferred over netWork 406 via an ftp server, http server,
or other automated Internet transmission.
[0019] At block 110 student monitoring, tracking and
enhancement information is input into the system. Option
ally, the system, access, vieWs and reports may be custom
iZed by the teacher and/or the counselor or administrator, at
block 112. At block 114, one or more parents or students are
alloWed access to the system. Reports may be created in
English and translated into another language including, but
not limited to, Spanish. The teacher, counselor or adminis
trator, and parent or student may periodically vieW and
monitor the student monitoring, tracking and enhancement
information, at block 116. The teacher and counselor or
administrator may also edit this information. At block 118,
teacher, counselor or administrator, and parent or student
may print out one or more reports. Print reports include, but
are not limited to, progress, intervention, Weakness, respon
sibilities, action plan, and graduation plan reports. Reports
may be presented in several forms including, but not limited
to, text reports and graphical charts. Such charts are useful
in graphically illustrating a students performance over time
individually or grouped With other students. Groupings With
other students includes, but is not limited to, all or a portion
of the students in a class, a school, a district. For instance,
it might be useful to vieW students having similar educa
tional, geographical or social backgrounds. At block 300, a
determination is made as to Whether any student is beloW a
predetermined grading threshold or Whether any notices are
due for a student. In one embodiment, block 300 is per
formed by a computer program as shoWn in more detail in
FIG. 3. Blocks 112-118 and 300 may be repeated periodi
cally during the school year and/or grading period.
[0020] Referring to FIGS. 2A and 2B, ?oW chart further
illustrating the process of monitoring, tracking and enhanc
ing a students performance in an educational setting is
shoWn. At block 210, a user logs onto the system and the
system is presented, as shoWn in more detail in FIG. 2B. At
block 214, the user logs onto the system. At block 216, a
determination is made as to Whether the user is a counselor
or administrator, a teacher, or a student or parent. If the user
is a counselor or administrator, then the system is presented,
With vieW, edit, customiZe and print capabilities, for all
classes and all students of the school, at blocks 210 and 222.
Optionally, all of the students of a school district may be
presented. At blocks 224 and 226, a class and student are
selected by the counselor or administrator. If the user is a
teacher, then the system is presented, With vieW, edit,
customiZe and print capabilities, restricted to those classes
and students that the teacher is associated With, at blocks 230
and 232. At blocks 234 and 236, a class and student are
selected by the teacher. If the user is a student or parent, then
the system is presented, With vieW and print capabilities,
restricted to the individual student, at blocks 240 and 242. At
block 244, a class is selected by the student or parent.
[0021] At block 250, the user selects an action. The actions
include, but are not limited to, progress, intervention, Weak
ness, responsibilities, graduation plan, testing data, reports,
customiZe vieWs, respectively at blocks 252-266. At blocks
268 and 286, the user may also logolf the system. The user
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may vieW, edit and print the progress, intervention, Weak
ness, responsibilities, graduation plan, testing data, reports,
customize data, respectively at blocks 270-282. Optionally,
the system, access, vieWs and reports may be customized by
the teacher and/or the counselor or administrator, at block
284.
[0022] Referring to FIG. 3, a How chart illustrating moni
toring a students performance in an educational setting is
shoWn. Optionally, at block 304, student grading informa
tion is updated from a school information system or other
grading system. For instance, in one embodiment, one or
more student records containing student grades are
extracted, either manually or automatically, from a database
410 of a school information system 408 and then transferred
into a database 404 of a student monitoring, tracking and
enhancement system 402 via netWork 406, as shoWn in FIG.
4. The extraction process may optionally include a transla
tion and/ or reformatting of the one or more student records.
The student grading information may be transferred in any
form including, but not limited to, ASCII ?le, proprietary
database formats, xml, or the like.
[0023] The student grading information may also include
a predetermined grading threshold or other useful threshold
for each student. Alternatively, the predetermined grading
threshold or other useful threshold may initially be set by the
teacher, counselor or other persons related to the school or
district, and may periodically be adjusted manually or auto
matically. The threshold may periodically be adjusted auto
matically by the present invention based on factors includ
ing, but not limited to, testing data from other students in the
classroom, school or district, and the students oWn testing
data. For instance, the threshold may periodically be
adjusted to account for improved testing by the student and
higher expectations related to such improved testing. The
threshold may also periodically be adjusted to account for
different graduation plans such as regular and advanced
tracks.
[0024] At block 306, a determination is made as to
Whether a student is beloW the predetermined grading
threshold or other useful threshold. If the student is beloW
the threshold, then the teacher, parent, student counselor
and/or administrator is noti?ed, at block 308. The noti?ca
tion may be by any means including, but not limited to,
email, instant electronic messaging, Wireless text messaging,
paging, alarming, postal mail, or the like. In one possible
embodiment, the noti?cation is sent to a parent via email and
may include the folloWing text:
[0025] Our records indicate that your childs school
performance may be de?cient. Information has been
sent detailing the concerns We have for your childs
success. Please revieW the contents.
[0026] At block 310, a determination is made as to
Whether any notices are due. For instance, a target date may
be set for a particular action. If a notice is due, then the
teacher, parent, student counselor and/or administrator is
noti?ed, at block 312. The noti?cation may be by any means
including, but not limited to, email, instant electronic mes
saging, Wireless text messaging, paging, alarming, postal
mail, or the like. The process continues to loop as shoWn at
blocks 314 and 316 until all student records have been
processed. Optionally, at block 318, university and/or trade
requirements are input into the system, as previously dis
cussed regarding block 108.
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[0027] The progress module alloWs a user to maintain a
students progress over a fairly small period of time (e.g.,
every three, six or nine Weeks) using incremental grades,
grade averages and other notations that deal With an indi
vidual students progress. For instance, the progress module
may be con?gured to maintain a students grade at the
mid-point of a six Week period, referred to as a 3-Week
progress report, along With the students ?nal grade average
at the end of the six Week period. An indication of Whether
the student returned a signed copy of the progress report to
that students respective teacher may also be maintained.
Additional notes or other information for each individual
teacher may also be maintained.
[0028] The intervention module alloWs a user to maintain
prior academic intervention and/or detentions for each stu
dent. For instance, the intervention module may be con?g
ured to maintain any conferences that have been held by a
teacher and a particular student and/or parent. A user is able
to indicate Whether the conference Was a phone or personal
conference, and the date that the conference Was held.
Documentation regarding detentions that have been
assigned and/or attended may also be maintained. These
detentions may be assigned to address academic needs,
behavioral needs, and/or tutoring. In this area, the user is
able to designate any contact that has been made With a
counselor, assistant principal or other school administrator
regarding the student. The user is able to designate the dates
for each activity. Additional notes or other information for
each individual teacher may also be maintained.
[0029] The Weakness module alloWs a user to maintain the
observed academic Weaknesses of a student. For instance,
the Weakness module may be con?gured to indicate several
possible student Weaknesses including, but not limited to,
Whether the student: has completed assignments on time, has
been inattentive in class, had excessive absences/tardies, had
behavior problems, has been Working beloW ability, has
been sleeping in class, has prior loW test grades, has reading
problems, has not been organized, has not brought books to
class, has not attended tutoring, or has not turned in make up
Work. Additional notes or other information for each indi
vidual teacher may also be maintained.
[0030] The responsibilities module alloWs a user to main
tain Whether a student has ful?lled his/her responsibilities as
a student. For instance, the responsibilities module may be
con?gured to indicate several possible student responsibili
ties including, but not limited to, When the student has:
spoken With the teacher about his/her progress, spoken With
parent about his/her progress, asked questions, attended
tutorials, attended detentions, studied for tests, turned in
their progress report, and/or kept up With their agenda.
Additional notes or other information for each individual
teacher may also be maintained.
[0031] The plan of action module alloWs a user to main
tain a plan of action to make a particular student successful.
For instance, the plan of action module may be con?gured
to maintain a target date for academic success as Well as an
electronic signature of the teacher and student. Additional
notes or other information for each individual teacher may
also be maintained.
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[0032] The graduation plan module allows a user to moni
tor short and long term individualized student performance.
For instance, the graduation plan module may be con?gured
to alloW a particular student, parent, or counselor to choose
a personaliZed graduation plan and class schedule for that
student. A class schedule may be chosen based on an
analysis of the students individual needs. Ahistorical record
of the classes that Were originally selected as Well as the
courses that Were actually completed may be maintained.
Thereby, as the student completes courses toWard gradua
tion, a step-by-step record of progress is available. The
graduation plan monitoring may be con?gure to include, but
is not limited to, regular and advanced tracks. The advanced
track includes college prep courses including pre-AP and AP
course.
[0033] Optionally, in one embodiment, one or more course
requirements and/or recommendations are periodically
extracted from a university school information system 418,
trade or other occupation information system 422, or a trade
or other occupation information system 422 directly into the
graduation plan module. Thereby, the course selections
offered by the graduation plan module are periodically
updated to be optimiZed to a particular university, major,
technology, or trade.
[0034] The testing data module alloWs a user to maintain
historical testing data of students. The testing data includes,
but is not limited to, TAKS, SAT, GRE, ACT, PSAT, AP, or
the like. For instance, the testing data module may be
con?gured to maintain TAKS scores for mathematics, read
ing, Writing, social studies, and/or science. An indication of
Whether the student met the standard on the Texas Assess
ment Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) may also be main
tained.
[0035] The testing data module alloWs a user to create a
student report for some period of time. For instance, the
testing data module may be con?gured to alloW a user to
create a daily, a three-Week, six-Week, or nine-Week report.
Multiple reports may be created based on the data needed to
analyZe an individual student or group of students. These
reports include, but are not limited to, student progress,
interventions, Weaknesses, responsibilities, and TAKS data.
[0036] Referring to FIG. 5A-5C, block diagrams illustrat
ing a Web-based student performance monitoring, tracking
and enhancing system in an educational setting according to
one possible embodiment of the present invention are
shoWn. According to this embodiment, superintendents,
principals, curriculum directors, counselors, test directors,
parents, teachers and/or students may be provided instant
access to student performance monitoring, tracking and
enhancing data anytime, anyWhere using a Web broWser 500.
[0037] Auser logon to the system With a Web broWser 500.
An appropriate vieW is presented based on the type of user.
For example, a teacher may initially be presented With a
vieW of those classes, in block 504, that the teacher is
associated With, as shoWn in FIG. 5A. The teacher selects a
class (e.g., ALGEBRA I) from the classes shoWn in block
504 and is presented With those students associated With that
particular class, as shoWn in FIG. 5B. The teacher selects a
student (e.g., Sue Smith), as shoWn in FIG. 5C, and is
presented With the individual student data for that particular
student, in block 506. For each student, block 506 may
include the students name, grade level, address, parents
name, parents e-mail address, and parents phone number.
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[0038] Menu 502 may be used to navigate the Web-based
system. For example, blocks 502a-502h may represent but
tons and/ or tabs identifying different modules including, but
not limited to, Progress,lntervention,Weakness,Re
sponsibility,Plan of Action,Graduation Plan,Testing
Data, and Print Report. Menu 502 may also optionally
include Log O?" and Con?guration buttons and/or tabs.
As a user may select one of the buttons and/or tabs of menu
502 and then enter appropriate data according to the stu
dents progress and/or needs.
[0039] Class set-up for the Web-based student perfor
mance monitoring, tracking and enhancing system may be
managed by any number of people including, but not limited
to, outside technical specialists, on-campus data-controllers
or other personnel. In one possible arrangement, student
schedules and student data in a campus database may be
uploaded from a district database, such that this information
is readily available to teachers on the ?rst day of school. As
student schedules change, the counselors o?ice may be
responsible for re?ecting changes in the teacher roster of the
system. Teachers may enter and save individual student data
as the student performs in the a particular class. Thereafter,
administrators, counselors, parents, and/or students may be
alloWed access to a students progress. Teachers may use the
system to enter data regarding an individual students
progress, intervention, Weakness, responsibilities, and plan
of action. Counselors may use the system to enter data
regarding the student graduation plan.
[0040] The present invention may be con?gured to be used
at any education level or educational setting including
preschool, elementary school, junior high school, high
school, college, university and/or trade school.
[0041] The processes and mechanisms set forth in the
present description may be implemented using a conven
tional general purpose microprocessor, or silicon as part of
a graphics accelerator chip and/or subsystem, programmed
according to the teachings in the present speci?cations, as
Will be appreciated to those skilled in the relevant art.
Appropriate softWare can be prepared based upon the teach
ings of the present disclosure, as Will also be apparent to
those skilled in the relevant arts.
[0042] The present invention thus includes a computer
program Which may be hosted on a storage medium and
includes instructions Which perform the processes set forth
in the present speci?cation. The storage medium can
include, but is not limited to, any type of disk including
?oppy disks, optical disks, CD-ROMs, magneto-optical
disks, ROMs, RAMs, EPROMs, EEPROMs, ?ash memory,
magnetic or optical cards, or any type of media suitable for
storing electronic instructions.
[0043] Obviously, many other modi?cations and varia
tions of the present invention are possible in light of the
above teachings. The speci?c embodiments discussed herein
are merely illustrative, and are not meant to limit the scope
of the present invention in any manner. It is therefore to be
understood that Within the scope of the disclosed concept,
the invention may be practiced otherWise then as speci?cally
described.
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1. A method for monitoring, tracking and enhancing an
educational performance of a student in one or more
enrolled courses, comprising:
receiving student information for a student in an educa
tional institution, Wherein the student information
includes course information for one or more enrolled
courses of the student;
receiving course requirement information for each of the
enrolled courses;
receiving student monitoring criteria of the educational
institution, Wherein the student monitoring criteria
includes one or more grading thresholds associated
With the enrolled courses;
periodically receiving student performance information
for the student, Wherein the student performance infor
mation comprises testing results for the enrolled
courses;
periodically monitoring the student performance informa
tion, Wherein the monitoring comprises automatically
determining Whether the testing results are beloW the
grading threshold associated With the enrolled course;
and
notifying the educational institution if the testing results
are beloW the grading threshold associated With the
enrolled course.
2. A method of claim 1, Wherein the student performance
information further comprises at least one of a progress
module, an intervention module, a Weaknesses module, a
responsibilities module, and a graduation plan module.
3. A method of claim 1, Wherein the monitoring is
automated using computer softWare.
4. A method of claim 1, Wherein the student information
has a predetermined format, and Wherein receiving student
information comprises:
extracting information from one or more student records;
and
translating the information into the predetermined format.
5. A method of claim 4, Wherein the student information
is extracted from a group consisting of an ASCII ?le, a
proprietary database format and XML.
6. A method of claim 1, Wherein the notifying the edu
cational institution comprises notifying at least one of a
teacher, counselor, and administrator of the educational
institution.
7. A method of claim 1, further comprising notifying a
parent of the student if the testing results are beloW the
grading threshold associated With the enrolled course.
8. A method of claim 7, Wherein the educational institu
tion noti?cation and the parent noti?cation are by email.
9. A method of claim 1, further comprising generating
reports associated With the student performance information.
10. A method of claim 9, the reports comprise at least one
of a chart and text report.
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11. A method of claim 1, Wherein the monitoring further
comprises vieWing the student performance information
over a computer netWork.
12. A method of claim 2, further comprising periodically
adjusting one or more of the grading thresholds.
13. A method of claim 12, Wherein the grading thresholds
are adjusted based on student performance information of
other students in one or more of the enrolled courses.
14. A method of claim 12, Wherein the grading thresholds
are adjusted based on improved testing results of the student.
15. A method of claim 12, Wherein the grading thresholds
are adjusted based on the graduation plan information.
16. A method of claim 2, Wherein the progress module
comprises incremental grades and grade averages of the
student over a short period of time.
17. A method of claim 2, Wherein the student performance
information further comprises teacher notations and recom
mendations.
18. A method of claim 17, Wherein the intervention
module comprises behavior information and academic inter
ventions and detentions for the student.
19. A method of claim 17, Wherein the graduation plan
module comprises the course information for the enrolled
courses and the track of the student.
20. A computer program embodied in a computer readable
medium for monitoring, tracking and enhancing an educa
tional performance of a student in one or more enrolled
courses, the computer program comprising:
a ?rst computer code for receiving student information for
a student in an educational institution, Wherein the
student information includes course information for
one or more enrolled courses of the student;
a second computer code for receiving course requirement
information for each of the enrolled courses;
a third computer code for receiving student monitoring
criteria of the educational institution, Wherein the stu
dent monitoring criteria includes one or more grading
thresholds associated With the enrolled courses;
a fourth computer code for periodically receiving student
performance information for the student, Wherein the
student performance information comprises testing
results for the enrolled courses;
a ?fth computer code for periodically monitoring the
student performance information, Wherein the monitor
ing comprises automatically determining Whether the
testing results are beloW the grading threshold associ
ated With the enrolled course; and
a sixth computer code for notifying the educational insti
tution if the testing results are beloW the grading
threshold associated With the enrolled course.