What is ALEKS?

• ALEKS is a Web-based learning system.
• ALEKS is a precise assessment tool.
• ALEKS provides highly targeted instruction that offers topics based on assessment results.
• ALEKS gives immediate feedback in learning mode.
• ALEKS is a full-featured course management system with rich reporting features.

Currently, ALEKS is available for a wide range of course products.

After registering with ALEKS, the student learns how to use the input tools by taking a brief, interactive tutorial.

Once the student is familiar with the ALEKS answer tools, the student may take a personalized interactive assessment.

In most of the business courses the initial assessment is optional.

Following the initial assessment the student receives their report in a color-keyed pie chart. In the "pie" each "slice" corresponds to a particular area of the syllabus, such as "accounting cycle" or "bonds, investments and cash flow". The degree to which the slice is filled by a darker color shows the extent to which the student has mastered that area.
The report describes the student's current knowledge of the subject and makes precise recommendations for further study. Each slice of the "pie" may be opened to produce a list of the concepts on which the student can choose to work.

By clicking on any of the items suggested by the system, the student makes an immediate transition out of the report and into the ALEKS Learning Mode. Learning Mode provides practice problems and offers explanations of concepts and procedures.

Students will also receive immediate feedback and offer suggestions for correcting mistakes.

During Learning Mode students will also have the ability to review recently worked through items.

Students and Instructors also have the ability to print out 16 question worksheets generated based on the student's current knowledge as additional practice or review.

When you log on as an instructor you gain immediate access to the Instructor Module of the ALEKS system.

The "How do I's" are a series of mini tutorials for you, the instructor. This will allow you to learn many of the ALEKS functions more quickly.

ALEKS provides a variety of kinds of information of the students of a particular course: time of last ALEKS session, duration of all sessions, performance, and other stats. The bar graphs allow instructors to quickly view each student's performance at the time of their last assessment (in blue), the progress they make in the Learning Mode (in green), and the extent of the material remaining to be learned (in yellow). 

An instructor can examine a comprehensive report of any student. This will show the students' personal pie, list what they know and what they are ready to learn as well as showing their full progress history in bar graph form.

The quiz feature in ALEKS allows an instructor to choose any topic in the course. The quizzes are independent from the students work in thier personal pies.