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NEW! ALEKS QuickTables Now Available
Included with ALEKS Elementary
Course Products or By Itself
(Can also be added to non-elementary K-12 courses at no additional charge)
We are pleased to announce the release of ALEKS QuickTables, a math fact mastery program for multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction for grades 3 and up. The online program offers an interactive Student Module with ongoing assessment, learning, review, games, and visual tracking of student progress. In addition, a powerful Teacher Module allows teachers to monitor student progress, generate customized worksheets, and adjust program settings to best fit student and class needs. ALEKS QuickTables is designed to be used by students on a weekly basis for three 15-minute sessions before, during, or after school.
ALEKS QuickTables is ready for immediate use, and can be used in conjunction with ALEKS course products or by itself.
To learn more about ALEKS QuickTables, visit http://www.aleks.com/k12/quicktables or sign-up for a 5-day trial at http://www.aleks.com/free_trial/instructor.
Current ALEKS customers can request an upgrade to include QuickTables at no extra charge. This upgrade requires the new ALEKS navigation bar and will apply to the whole school currently using ALEKS. Please have your ALEKS administrator submit an upgrade request to authorize this upgrade for your school.
For questions, please contact ALEKS Customer Support:
ALEKS Corporation Customer Support
Hours (Eastern Time): Monday - Friday, 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM
Phone: (714) 619-7090
Fax: (714) 245-7190
Email: contact us at http://support.aleks.com
Improved ALEKS Textbook Integration
A selection of popular textbooks can be easily integrated with various ALEKS course products. When you choose to integrate a textbook with an ALEKS class, a custom syllabus aligned with the textbook will be automatically assigned to your class. This syllabus can be revised by the teacher using the ALEKS Content Editor or by working with ALEKS Customer Support.
The textbook integration feature places textbook references on the ALEKS Explain pages, showing students where each topic is covered in their textbook. In addition, the content of the class is divided into units corresponding to the chapters of the integrated textbook. You can assign due dates to your students for these units and quickly create chapter quizzes. Combined with chapter completion dates, the quizzes help motivate your students to complete their work on time.
To view a list of available textbooks, please visit: http://www.aleks.com/k12/textbook_integration.
K-12 Implementation Strategies Now Available
Discover how other instructors are successfully implementing ALEKS at their schools. View ALEKS Implementation Strategies and submit your strategy:
Place Your ALEKS Order
ALEKS is ready to help you achieve dramatic learning outcomes throughout the school year. Take advantage of our three-month subscription, the perfect option for adding students to ALEKS now through the end of the school year.
As always, ALEKS is easy to order and fast to begin. Download an ALEKS Order Form.
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In addition to our three month subscription option, we also offer one, two, five, seven, nine, and twelve month subscription lengths to meet your school's unique needs.
Have You Explored the ALEKS Training Center?
Learn more about ALEKS features and how to maximize use via the online Training Center. Live and pre-recorded trainings are conveniently available for your viewing and training. You do NOT need to register to attend.
Live WebEx Training Sessions:
Training and Demonstration Sessions Available Daily.
View Schedule
Pre-Recorded Trainings:
Creating a New Class
A step-by-step guide for creating new classes in ALEKS. Total Time: 1 min 36.
Using the Content Editor
A guided overview of how to use the content editor to add or remove subtopics.
Total Time: 1 min 04.
Top Customer Questions
- How do I renew my students' accounts at the beginning of a new year, or when their accounts expire?
- Why does it say there are no subscriptions available to register my students? I know we have the subscriptions in our account.
- What is the function of assessments in ALEKS?
- How do I retrieve my login name and/or password?
- I'm having trouble downloading the ALEKS plug-in.
King City, MO
Scenario: Classroom with 5 computers ALEKS Portion of Curriculum: 50% Time Spent in ALEKS: 1.5 hours per week - 30 minutes per class period, 3 days per week ALEKS Course Product: Mathematics LV 3-5 |
I teach a math class for Title I students in grades 3-5. We have 5 computers in the classroom for students to use, and few students with Internet access at home. ALEKS fits wonderfully in our situation! My students love to use ALEKS; on days that they are not scheduled to work in ALEKS, my students are always asking if there is time at the end of the lesson to use it.
Implementation
How did you implement ALEKS?
I use ALEKS as a supplement to our school's classroom curriculum. I don't cover ALEKS topics in a particular order; I prefer to follow the recommendations that ALEKS provides based on the students' abilities.
Many of my students do not have Internet connections at home, so I do not require them to work on ALEKS for homework, but I do encourage them to work on ALEKS as often as they can outside of the classroom. In order to accomplish this, I inform the parents about ALEKS at the beginning of the year and during parent/teacher conferences. Recently, I have also created a Parent Night to allow students to demonstrate the program to their parents.
How do you structure your class periods with ALEKS?
I have a limited number of computers in my classroom, so I divide the class into groups, or "stations." Generally I have several students working on ALEKS, with the remaining students practicing math skills with me. In my lectures, I re-teach topics that students have had difficulty with either in ALEKS or in classroom instruction.
Grading
Do you require students to make regular amounts of progress in ALEKS? If so, how is this progress measured and what is the amount of progress that they are responsible for completing?
At the beginning of the year, I set ALEKS goals with each student. Rather than working toward a certain grade in ALEKS, students work toward the goal that has been set. I use the reports in the Teacher Module to assess student progress and to illustrate growth for students and their parents.
Learning Outcomes
Since using ALEKS, please describe the learning outcomes or progress you have seen?
Prior to ALEKS, our students were moving through math courses without fully mastering the concepts taught in the course. When a student came to a concept that required knowledge of a previous concept, they just didn't have it.
Now after using ALEKS, my Title I students are showing a high level of mastery in areas that we haven't even covered in class yet. My students love to see their pie charts fill up, so they work hard to master a concept and demonstrate more motivation than ever before. My students ask me to use ALEKS!
Best Practices
Are there any best practices you would like to share with other teachers implementing ALEKS?
We have a limited number of computers in my classroom, so I have divided my classroom into stations, and have set up a bulletin board with the day's station assignments. By looking at the bulletin board, students know if they are working with me, or if they are working on ALEKS. Additionally, for students on ALEKS, the bulletin board notifies them of the skills that they should be focusing on that day.
Stop by Our Booth for a Chance to Receive an Apple iPhone
ALEKS exhibits at dozens of educational conferences across the nation. Stop by our booth at one of these upcoming tradeshows.
Computer Using Educators - Booth #521 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development - Booth #1404 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Annual Meeting - Booth #1827 |
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Share Your ALEKS Implementation Strategy for a Chance to Receive an iPhone!
Congratulations to Ms. Anita Gilbert of King City Elementary School in King City, MO, winner of the Fall quarter iPhone drawing! If you have an ALEKS implementation strategy like Anita (see implementation strategy above), please share your strategy and you will be entered in our quarterly drawing for a chance to receive an iPhone! Our Winter quarter winner will be announced in the Spring eNewsletter.
