Abstract: An automatic purchase approval process facilitates the selection of products to be purchased and obtaining approval for the purchase. In the process content is selected from a database to be included in an instructional material, which then identifies products available for purchase that are associated with the selected content. After selecting at least one of the identified products, a request for purchase is created for each of the at least one of the identified products. The request for purchase is transmitted to an approval organization, and an indication of whether the request for purchase was approved by the approval organization is then received.

Abstract: A content editing system allows developers of instructional materials to edit and design the instructional materials from a database of content. The instructional material can be displayed in a first format if the viewer of the instructional material is of a first type and displayed in a second format different from the first format if the viewer is of a second type different from the first type. The content in the instructional material may be associated with a viewer type attribute such that the content is displayed only if the viewer is of a type corresponding to the viewer type attribute. The content in the instructional material may also conform to a standard, such as a national standard set for an educational curriculum.