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ALEKS instructor's manual for business statistics
ALEKS Instructor's Manual for Business Statistics
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
4.4 Buttons
4.5 Answer Editor
4.6 Manipulators for Mathematical Expressions
4.7 Mathematical Expressions
4.8 Types of Mathematical Expressions
4.9 Advanced Mathematical Expressions
4.10 The Answer Editor for the Numberline
4.11 The Answer Editor for Graphing
4.12 The Answer Editor for Histograms
4.13 Assessment Report
4.13.1 Standard Report Format
4.13.2 Interpreting the Pie charts
4.14 Multiple Pie charts
4.15 Ready to Learn
4.16 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 Worksheet
5.2.9 Quiz
5.2.10 Message
5.2.11 Help
5.2.12 MyPie
5.3 The Learning Mode Interface
5.3.1 Item Page
5.3.2 Explanation Page
5.3.3 Practice Page
5.3.4 Wrong Answer Page
5.3.5 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
6.5.12 View/Create Worksheets for a single student
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
7.7 View Course Progress
7.8 View Course Report
7.9 Schedule Student Assessment
7.10 Schedule Course Assessment
7.11 Create, Edit, View 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: Advanced Instructor Module: Standards & Syllabi
8.1 Items, Syllabi, and Standards
8.2 Navigation and Use
8.3 Buttons
8.4 Syllabus Editor
8.4.1 Fields
8.4.2 Buttons
8.4.3 Using the Syllabus Editor
Chapter 9: Teaching with ALEKS
9.1 The ALEKS Educational Paradigm
9.2 The Instructor and ALEKS
9.3 Planning the ALEKS Course
9.4 Preparing Your Students
9.5 Focused Instruction with ALEKS
9.6 Models of Classroom Integration
9.7 Monitoring Student Use
9.8 Monitoring the Progress of a Course
9.9 Monitoring Individual Progress
9.10 Ordering Assessments
9.11 Independent Study and Distance Learning
9.12 The ALEKS Knowledge Structure
9.13 Modification of Syllabi
9.14 Learning Rates in ALEKS
Chapter 10: Knowledge Spaces and the Theory Behind ALEKS
10.1 History
10.2 Theory
10.2.1 Domain, Items, and Instances
10.2.2 Knowledge States
10.2.3 Knowledge Structures and Knowledge Spaces
10.2.4 Inner and Outer Fringes of a Knowledge State
10.2.5 Assessment
10.3 Selected Bibliography
Chapter 11: Frequently Asked Questions
11.1 General
11.2 Technical
11.3 Theory
11.4 Assessments & Reports
11.5 Learning Mode
11.6 Educational Use
Chapter 12: Support
Appendix A: ALEKS Student User's Guide
A.1 Preface
A.2 System Requirements
A.3 Registration and Installation
A.4 Tutorial
A.5 Assessments and Learning
A.5.1 Assessments
A.5.2 Results
A.5.3 Learning Mode
A.5.4 Progress in the Learning Mode
A.5.5 Additional Features
A.6 Logging on to Your Account
A.7 Installation on Additional Machines
A.8 Guidelines for Effective Use
A.9 Frequently Asked Questions
A.10 Troubleshooting
Appendix B: Syllabi in ALEKS
B.1 Business Statistics
Index
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