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Granted Patent B2
US 11,948,217 · App. 17/483,011 · Granted Apr 2, 2024

Systems and methods for providing navigation of multiple organizations in one or more electronic learning systems

Inventors: Jeffrey Geurts (Kitchener, CA); Sandra Earl (Kitchener, CA); Chester Twomey (Kitchener, CA); Alexander Lamarre (Kitchener, CA); Anton Bazhal (Kitchener, CA)
Assignee: D2L Corporation
G06Q50/205G06F3/14G08B5/22H04L63/0815
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Patent No.
US 11,948,217
App. No.
17/483,011
Granted
Apr 2, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method and system for providing navigation of multiple organizations of one or more electronic learning systems. The method involves operating a processor to obtain a global user identifier, obtain a navigation object to be displayed at the user computing device, and automatically generate an organization alert indicator for an organization object when the user has an outstanding alert from the electronic learning system of the organization. The navigation object includes a plurality of organization objects. Each of the organization objects correspond to an organization identifier of the plurality of organization identifiers for navigating to an electronic learning system of the organization.

Claims (27)

1. A computer-implemented method for providing navigation of multiple organizations of one or more electronic learning systems, the method comprising operating a processor to:

receive a local user identifier from the user computing device;

validate an authentication of the local user identifier;

obtain a global user identifier linked to the local user identifier, the global user identifier representing a user at the user computing device, the global user identifier being linked to a plurality of organization identifiers, each organization identifier representing an organization to which the user is enrolled;

obtain a navigation object to be displayed at the user computing device, the navigation object comprising a plurality of organization objects, each of the organization objects corresponding to an organization identifier of the plurality of organization identifiers for navigating to an electronic learning system of the organization; and

automatically generate an organization alert indicator for an organization object when the user has an outstanding alert from the electronic learning system of the organization, the organization alert indicator displayed at the navigation object.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein only one of the set of organization objects is active within the navigation object at a time.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the organization alert indicator is visible when the organization object is inactive.

4. The method of claim 1 comprises operating the processor to automatically clear the alert when the user navigates to an item corresponding to the alert of the organization object from the navigation object.

5. The method of claim 1 comprises operating the processor to automatically clear the organization alert indicator when none of the alerts are outstanding.

6. The method of claim 1 comprises operating the processor to poll the electronic learning system of the organization for outstanding alerts for the user.

7. The method of claim 1 comprises operating the processor to generate a consolidated alert indicator when one or more organization alert indicators persist.

8. The method of claim 1 comprises operating the processor to validate an authentication of the global user identifier prior to obtaining a navigation object to be displayed at the user computing device.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein obtaining a navigation object comprises:

for each of the plurality of organization identifiers linked to the global user identifier, determine whether the link is an active enrollment; and

for each link that is an active enrollment, including an organization object for navigating to the electronic learning system of the organization linked to the global user identifier having an active enrollment.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the electronic learning system of the organization is polled at timed intervals.

11. The method of claim 1 comprises operating the processor to retrieve the navigation object to be displayed at the user computing device.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the navigation object to be displayed at the user computing device is based on a type of the user computing device.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the navigation object comprises a navigation tab.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the navigation object comprises a mobile menu.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the organization alert indicator comprises at least one graphical object.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the organization alert indicator comprises at least one visual effect.

17. The method of claim 1 , wherein the organization object corresponding to an organization identifier linked to the local user identifier is initially active.

18. The method of claim 1 comprises operating the processor to:

determine whether only one of the plurality of organization identifiers linked to the global user identifier is an active enrollment; and

in response to determining that only one of the plurality of organization identifiers linked to the global user identifier is an active enrollment, generate a single organization object instead of the navigation object to be displayed at the user computing device, the single organization object for navigating to the electronic learning system of the organization linked to the global user identifier having an active enrollment.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 7, 2022
From: GEURTS, JEFFREY; EARL, SANDRA; TWOMEY, CHESTER; LAMARRE, ALEXANDER; BAZHAL, ANTON
To: D2L CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 062011/0395 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 63082503 · Sep 24, 2020
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