RULE BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHARGIN STUDENT ACCOUNTS

摘要

A system for charging one ore learning session to one or more student accounts comprises an online learning system having one or more nodes that creates one or more online learning sessions. An enrollment node receives student enrollment information, including responsible authority information. A scheduling node schedules the online learning session. A database stores one or more student accounts created based on the received student enrollment information. The same or another databases stores information relating to one or more responsible authority charge criterion for charging the one or more learning sessions to the one or more student accounts. An activity node receives one or more session activity information associated with the one or more learning sessions and an accounting node associates a charge information for a learning session to an student account based the one or more responsible authority charge criterion and one or more session activity information.

主权项

1. A system for charging for an online learning session, the system comprising:
a database; and a computing device operatively coupled to the database, the computing device being programmed to:
receive student enrollment information including responsible authority information about a responsible authority;store a student account in the database based on the received student enrollment information;schedule the online learning session;receive a predetermined rule agreed to by the responsible authority, the predetermined rule including session activity criterion, the session activity criterion including academic progress criterion;record session activity information, including academic progress information, associated with the online learning session;associate charge information for the online learning session with the student account, the charge information being based on the predetermined rule, including the session activity criterion and the academic progress criterion, agreed to by the responsible authority; and
facilitate an administrative override of the predetermined rule, the administrative override configured to allow an administrator to adjust the charge information conditioned upon the session activity information not satisfying the predetermined rule.