ALEKS Instructor's Manual for Business Math

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	ALEKS Instructor's Manual for Business Math Table of content Preface Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 What is ALEKS? 1.2 The ALEKS Instructor's Manual Chapter 2: Quick Start 2.1 Obtaining a Course Code 2.2 Registering Students Chapter 3: Setup Guide for Instructors 3.1 Instructor Preparation 3.2 System Requirements 3.3 Installation 3.4 Instructor Module 3.5 Lab Check 3.6 Student Orientation 3.7 Registration 3.8 Tutorial 3.9 First Assessment 3.10 Report Tutorial 3.11 Beginning the Learning Mode Chapter 4: Assessment Mode 4.1 Assessments in ALEKS 4.2 Rules for Assessments 4.3 Scheduling of Assessments 4.3.1 Initial Assessment 4.3.2 Completion Assessments 4.3.3 Requested Assessments 4.4 Buttons 4.5 Answer Editor 4.6 Manipulators for Mathematical Expressions 4.6.1 Basic Input 4.6.2 Basic Editing Tools 4.6.3 Selecting Input 4.6.4 Clear and Undo 4.7 Mathematical Expressions 4.7.1 Entering expressions from the keyboard 4.7.2 Using the Answer Editor keypad to structure simple expressions 4.7.3 Entering complex expressions 4.7.4 Alternate ways of entering expressions 4.7.5 Other mathematical signs 4.7.6 The asterisk for multiplication 4.7.7 Mixed numbers 4.8 Types of Mathematical Expressions 4.9 Advanced Mathematical Expressions 4.10 The Answer Editor for Graphing 4.11 Answer Editor for Tables 4.12 Answer Editor for Reconciliation Statements 4.13 Answer Editor for Checkbook Registers 4.14 The Answer Editor for Bar Graphs 4.15 Assessment Report 4.15.1 Standard Report Format 4.15.2 Interpreting the Pie charts 4.16 Ready to Learn 4.17 Progress Bars Chapter 5: Learning Mode 5.1 The ALEKS Learning Mode 5.2 Buttons 5.2.1 Exit 5.2.2 Options 5.2.3 Print 5.2.4 Report 5.2.5 Dictionary 5.2.6 Calculator 5.2.7 Review 5.2.8 Gradebook 5.2.9 Calendar 5.2.10 Worksheet 5.2.11 Quiz 5.2.12 Message 5.2.13 Help 5.2.14 MyPie 5.3 The Learning Mode Interface 5.3.1 Practice Page 5.3.2 Explanation Page 5.3.3 Wrong Answer Page 5.3.4 Dictionary 5.4 Feedback in Learning Mode 5.5 Review 5.6 Worksheet 5.7 Ask a Friend 5.8 Suspend Account and Leave of Absence Chapter 6: Instructor Module: Basic Interface 6.1 How do I 6.2 Course Admin 6.2.1 Create a new course 6.2.2 View all your courses and course codes 6.2.3 Customize a course 6.2.4 Password issues 6.2.5 Account preferences 6.2.6 Student Account preferences 6.2.7 Move a student from one course to another 6.2.8 Unenroll a student from a course 6.2.9 Delete a course 6.3 College Admin (Administrator) 6.3.1 Create a new instructor account 6.3.2 Password issues 6.3.3 Instructor account preferences 6.3.4 Move a course from one instructor to another 6.3.5 Delete an Instructor Account 6.4 Reporting 6.4.1 Course Progress options 6.4.2 Download Excel spreadsheet 6.4.3 Sorting 6.4.4 Statistical information 6.4.5 Individual learning progress since latest assessment 6.4.6 Individual detailed progress history 6.4.7 Individual overall progress in assessment 6.4.8 Scheduled assessment report 6.4.9 Average report (pie chart) 6.4.10 Display options for Average Report 6.4.11 Average 6.4.12 Ready to learn 6.4.13 What students can do 6.4.14 Quiz results for all the students 6.4.15 Progress report for a single student in this course 6.4.16 Report for a single student in this course (pie chart) 6.4.17 Complete list of topics mastered 6.4.18 Quiz results for a particular student 6.5 Taking Actions 6.5.1 Schedule a new assessment 6.5.2 Detailed scheduling options 6.5.3 Grading with Scheduled Assessments 6.5.4 Cancel an assessment 6.5.5 Change the name, date, grading scale of an assessment 6.5.6 Create a quiz 6.5.7 Tips for making quizzes 6.5.8 Grading with quizzes 6.5.9 Availability of quizzes to students. 6.5.10 Edit a quiz 6.5.11 Delete a quiz 6.6 Advanced 6.6.1 Show me a tutorial for the "Advanced" Instructor Module. 6.6.2 Enter the "Advanced" Instructor Module now. Chapter 7: Advanced Instructor Module: Results & Progress 7.1 The ALEKS Advanced Instructor Module 7.2 Instructor Tutorial (Advanced Instructor Module) 7.3 Access to the Advanced Instructor Module 7.4 Online Help in the Advanced Instructor Module 7.5 View Student Progress 7.6 View Student Assessment Report 7.6.1 Dates 7.6.2 Learning Log 7.6.3 List of Topics Mastered 7.7 View Course Progress 7.7.1 Report Style 7.7.2 Progress in Learning Mode 7.7.3 Total progress 7.7.4 Most recent progress 7.7.5 Progress over last 6 months 7.7.6 Progress over last 3 months 7.7.7 Progress over last month 7.7.8 Most recent assessment only 7.7.9 Full progress over last 6 months 7.7.10 Full progress over last 3 months 7.7.11 Full progress over last month 7.7.12 Scheduled Assessment 7.7.13 Statistical Information 7.7.14 Assign Learning Rates 7.7.15 Sorting 7.7.16 Grouping 7.7.17 Downloading 7.8 View Course Report 7.8.1 Display Options 7.8.2 Average 7.8.3 Ready to learn 7.8.4 What students can do 7.8.5 Focusing Instruction 7.8.6 Grouping 7.9 Schedule Student Assessment 7.10 Schedule Course Assessment 7.10.1 Message 7.10.2 Grades 7.10.3 Advanced 7.10.4 Restricted Assessment 7.10.5 Grouping 7.11 Create, Edit, View Quizzes 7.11.1 Create New Quiz 7.11.2 Grading with Quizzes 7.11.3 Availability of Quizzes to Students 7.11.4 Edit Quiz 7.11.5 Downloading 7.11.6 Makeup Quizzes 7.12 Send Message 7.13 Check Messages 7.14 Check Server Usage 7.15 Create Instructor Account 7.16 Edit Instructor Account 7.17 Create Course Account 7.18 Edit Course Account 7.19 Textbook Integration 7.20 Enroll and Unenroll Students 7.21 Edit Student Account 7.22 Intermediate Objectives 7.23 Content Editor 7.24 Assign Learning Rates Chapter 8: IM-2 Basic Instructor Module 8.1 Course List 8.2 Course Home Page 8.3 Reports 8.3.1 Individual Reports 8.3.2 Report for a particular student (pie chart) 8.3.3 Progress report for a particular student (pie chart) 8.3.4 Download Report Data 8.3.5 Learning progress since latest assessment 8.3.6 Interpreting Bar Graphs 8.3.7 Detailed progress history 8.3.8 Overall progress in assessment 8.3.9 Average Report (pie chart) 8.3.10 Time and Topic Report 8.3.11 Homework, Quiz, and Test Results 8.3.12 Scheduled assessment report 8.4 Gradebook 8.4.1 Gradebook Interface 8.4.2 External Assignments 8.4.3 Adjust Student Scores 8.4.4 Gradebook Log 8.4.5 Gradebook Weighting 8.4.6 Grading Scale for Total Grade 8.5 Homework, Quizzes, and Tests 8.6 Homework 8.7 Quizzes and Tests 8.8 Assessments 8.9 Worksheets 8.10 Course Calendar 8.11 Edit this Course / Add a Course 8.11.1 Basic Information 8.11.2 Select Textbook 8.11.3 Select Chapters 8.11.4 Readiness/Review Chapters 8.11.5 Edit Content 8.11.6 Edit Course 8.12 Administrator Center 8.12.1 Edit Instructor 8.12.2 Financial Aid Access Code 8.12.3 Student Groups 8.12.4 Share Course Access 8.13 Student View 8.14 My Account Settings 8.15 Course Forum 8.16 Inbox 8.17 Use Advanced IM-2 8.18 Sign Out Chapter 9: IM-2 Advanced Instructor Module 9.1 Selector Window 9.2 Instructor Folder 9.2.1 Cleanup Tool 9.2.2 Instructor Resources 9.3 Course Home 9.3.1 Course Options 9.3.2 Duplicate Course 9.3.3 Intermediate Objectives 9.3.4 Cleanup Tool 9.4 Course Reports 9.4.1 Overall Report 9.5 Course Gradebook 9.6 Course Homework 9.6.1 Duplicate Homework 9.6.2 Homework Options 9.7 Course Quizzes 9.7.1 Duplicate Quiz 9.8 Course Test 9.8.1 Duplicate Test 9.8.2 Print Test 9.9 Course Assessments 9.9.1 Assessment Options 9.10 Course Worksheets 9.10.1 Worksheet Options 9.11 Student Home 9.11.1 Cleanup Tool 9.12 Student Reports 9.13 Student Gradebook 9.13.1 Student Gradebook 9.14 Student Homework 9.15 Student Quiz 9.16 Student Test 9.17 Student Assessments 9.17.1 Request Assessment 9.17.2 Cancel Current Assessment 9.18 Student Worksheets 9.19 Administrator Account 9.19.1 Edit College 9.19.2 Search College 9.19.3 Add Instructor 9.19.4 Instructor Resources 9.19.5 View Course Codes 9.19.6 Schedule Domain Upgrade 9.19.7 Enrollment List 9.19.8 Cleanup Tool 9.19.9 Edit Subscription 9.19.10 Reports Chapter 10: Teaching with ALEKS 10.1 The ALEKS Educational Paradigm 10.2 The Instructor and ALEKS 10.3 Planning the ALEKS Course 10.4 Preparing Your Students 10.5 Focused Instruction with ALEKS 10.6 Models of Classroom Integration 10.7 Monitoring Student Use 10.8 Monitoring the Progress of a Course 10.9 Monitoring Individual Progress 10.10 Ordering Assessments 10.11 Independent Study and Distance Learning 10.12 The ALEKS Knowledge Structure 10.13 Intermediate Objectives 10.14 Learning Rates in ALEKS Chapter 11: Knowledge Spaces and the Theory Behind ALEKS 11.1 History 11.2 Theory 11.2.1 Domain, Items, and Instances 11.2.2 Knowledge States 11.2.3 Knowledge Structures and Knowledge Spaces 11.2.4 Inner and Outer Fringes of a Knowledge State 11.2.5 Assessment 11.3 Selected Bibliography Chapter 12: Frequently Asked Questions 12.1 General 12.2 Technical 12.3 Theory 12.4 Assessments & Reports 12.5 Learning Mode 12.6 Educational Use Chapter 13: Support Appendix A: ALEKS Student User's Guide A.1 Preface A.2 Quick Start Instructions A.3 System Requirements A.4 Registration and Installation A.5 Tutorial A.6 Assessments and Learning A.6.1 Assessments A.6.2 Results A.6.3 Learning Mode A.6.4 Progress in the Learning Mode A.6.5 Additional Features A.7 Logging on to Your Account A.8 Installation on Additional Machines A.9 Guidelines for Effective Use A.10 Frequently Asked Questions A.11 Troubleshooting Appendix B: Syllabi in ALEKS B.1 Business Math Index


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