Abstract: A child development assessment, teacher accountability, and parental information system and method is described. The system employs a mobile device application which facilitates a process of informing parents of the progress of their children within a Montessori program structure while simultaneously providing an avenue by which teachers can convey real-time results of the child's progress in a given assigned task. Students are assigned a task in class, and teachers photograph the progress or end result of the task as completed by the students. The captured pictures are uploaded, and are accessible from the mobile device application by the parent/guardian of each student, providing a record of progress over time to the parent. Photos/video of the student's work are compared against mastery photos/videos present on a database.

Abstract: A method performable over the Internet is disclosed, wherein a prospective purchaser is presented with a series of product configuration choices. A computer performing the method receives a series of product configuration choices from the prospective user, consults a database to determine whether the selected choices result in a permissible combination, and displays advice to the prospective purchaser about whether the choices result in a permissible combination and, if not, about the nature of the impermissibility. The computer then receives a new series of product configuration choices from the prospective user, with the new choices having been affected by the prospective user's consideration of the advice about the nature of the impermissibility of the previous, impermissible combinations of product configuration choices.