An information management server and information distribution system utilizes a video of the class for creating educational contents matching the learning conditions of the student, and also provides instruction using these same contents. This information server and information distribution system are composed of an accumulator section to store electronic data on the lecture contents, a holding section to hold lecture-related information, a send section to send lecture contents and lecture-related information to the terminal of the student, an analyzer section to analyze electronic data on the lecture contents, and a matcher section to link lecture-related information with lecture contents based on those analysis results, and a control section for selecting lecture contents linked to the lecture-related information based on a reply to the lecture-related information sent from the student terminal, wherein the send section and sends those selected lecture contents to the terminal of the student that sent the reply to the lecture-related information.