7. A method for providing education-related alerts in an online learning environment, comprising: monitoring an online learning environment comprising a plurality of users participating in online educational activities; maintaining an online database comprising a performance threshold and a time threshold for the online educational activities; receiving a score for an assignment completed by one or more students in the online learning environment during a first time and receiving a further score for the same assignment completed by the student during a second time; determining a score difference between the score and the further score and determining a time difference between the first score and the second score; applying the performance threshold to the score difference and applying the time threshold to the time difference; determining an occurrence of suspected cheating when the score difference fails to satisfy the performance threshold and the time difference fails to satisfy the time threshold; generating an alert for the suspected cheating occurrence, comprising: selecting a template for the suspected cheating occurrence; populating the template with notification of the suspected cheating occurrence as the alert, wherein the template comprises a predetermined format with at least one of text, fillable fields, and a blank text box; and providing to recipients of the alert, suggested response actions comprising at least one of producing additional information, initiating a communication, and sending additional alerts, wherein the suggested response actions are each displayed in the alert by an interactive response action element comprising at least one of response buttons, text recommendations, images, sound, and hyperlinks that allows the recipients of the alert to perform an action; and providing the alert to one or more of the users as the recipients.
7. A method for providing education-related alerts in an online learning environment, comprising: monitoring an online learning environment comprising a plurality of users participating in online educational activities; maintaining an online database comprising a performance threshold and a time threshold for the online educational activities; receiving a score for an assignment completed by one or more students in the online learning environment during a first time and receiving a further score for the same assignment completed by the student during a second time; determining a score difference between the score and the further score and determining a time difference between the first score and the second score; applying the performance threshold to the score difference and applying the time threshold to the time difference; determining an occurrence of suspected cheating when the score difference fails to satisfy the performance threshold and the time difference fails to satisfy the time threshold; generating an alert for the suspected cheating occurrence, comprising: selecting a template for the suspected cheating occurrence; populating the template with notification of the suspected cheating occurrence as the alert, wherein the template comprises a predetermined format with at least one of text, fillable fields, and a blank text box; and providing to recipients of the alert, suggested response actions comprising at least one of producing additional information, initiating a communication, and sending additional alerts, wherein the suggested response actions are each displayed in the alert by an interactive response action element comprising at least one of response buttons, text recommendations, images, sound, and hyperlinks that allows the recipients of the alert to perform an action; and providing the alert to one or more of the users as the recipients. 9. A method according to claim 7 , further comprising: receiving a request for performance of an action from at least one of the users in response to the alert; and processing the request, comprising one or more of: generating a response alert; and initiating a change to the education-related information.