ALEKS Instructor's Manual for Higher Education Mathematics

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	ALEKS Instructor's Manual for Higher Education Mathematics 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 Automatic Assessments 4.3.3 Completion Assessments 4.3.4 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 The Answer Editor for Histograms 4.12 Assessment Report 4.12.1 Standard Report Format 4.12.2 Interpreting the Pie charts 4.13 Ready to Learn 4.14 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 Worktext 5.9 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: QuickTables 8.1 Setting Up QuickTables for your Course 8.2 How Your Students Use QuickTables 8.3 Reporting your Students' Progress in QuickTables 8.4 Additional Features in QuickTables Chapter 9: IM-2 Basic Instructor Module 9.1 Course List 9.2 Course Home Page 9.3 Reports 9.3.1 Individual Reports 9.3.2 Report for a particular student (pie chart) 9.3.3 Progress report for a particular student (pie chart) 9.3.4 Download Report Data 9.3.5 Learning progress since latest assessment 9.3.6 Interpreting Bar Graphs 9.3.7 Detailed progress history 9.3.8 Overall progress in assessment 9.3.9 Average Report (pie chart) 9.3.10 Time and Topic Report 9.3.11 QuickTables Report 9.3.12 Homework, Quiz, and Test Results 9.3.13 Scheduled assessment report 9.4 Gradebook 9.4.1 Gradebook Interface 9.4.2 External Assignments 9.4.3 Adjust Student Scores 9.4.4 Gradebook Log 9.4.5 Gradebook Weighting 9.4.6 Grading Scale for Total Grade 9.5 Homework, Quizzes, and Tests 9.6 Homework 9.7 Quizzes and Tests 9.8 Assessments 9.9 Worksheets 9.10 Course Calendar 9.11 Edit this Course / Add a Course 9.11.1 Basic Information 9.11.2 Select Textbook 9.11.3 ALEKS 360 9.11.4 Select Chapters 9.11.5 Readiness/Review Chapters 9.11.6 Edit Content 9.11.7 Section Level Content 9.11.8 Supplementary Textbook Topics 9.11.9 Edit Course 9.12 Administrator Center 9.12.1 Edit Instructor 9.12.2 Financial Aid Access Code 9.12.3 Student Groups 9.12.4 Share Course Access 9.13 Student View 9.14 My Account Settings 9.15 Course Forum 9.16 Inbox 9.17 Use Advanced IM-2 9.18 Sign Out Chapter 10: IM-2 Advanced Instructor Module 10.1 Selector Window 10.2 Instructor Folder 10.2.1 Cleanup Tool 10.2.2 Instructor Resources 10.3 Course Home 10.3.1 Course Options 10.3.2 Duplicate Course 10.3.3 Intermediate Objectives 10.3.4 Cleanup Tool 10.4 Course Reports 10.4.1 Overall Report 10.5 Course Gradebook 10.6 Course Homework 10.6.1 Duplicate Homework 10.6.2 Homework Options 10.7 Course Quizzes 10.7.1 Duplicate Quiz 10.8 Course Test 10.8.1 Duplicate Test 10.8.2 Print Test 10.9 Course Assessments 10.9.1 Assessment Options 10.10 Course Worksheets 10.10.1 Worksheet Options 10.11 Student Home 10.11.1 Cleanup Tool 10.12 Student Reports 10.13 Student Gradebook 10.13.1 Student Gradebook 10.14 Student Homework 10.15 Student Quiz 10.16 Student Test 10.17 Student Assessments 10.17.1 Request Assessment 10.17.2 Cancel Current Assessment 10.18 Student Worksheets 10.18.1 QuickTables Worksheet 10.19 Administrator Account 10.19.1 Edit College 10.19.2 Search College 10.19.3 Add Instructor 10.19.4 Instructor Resources 10.19.5 View Course Codes 10.19.6 Schedule Domain Upgrade 10.19.7 Enrollment List 10.19.8 Cleanup Tool 10.19.9 Edit Subscription 10.19.10 Reports Chapter 11: Teaching with ALEKS 11.1 The ALEKS Educational Paradigm 11.2 The Instructor and ALEKS 11.3 Planning the ALEKS Course 11.4 Preparing Your Students 11.5 Focused Instruction with ALEKS 11.6 Models of Classroom Integration 11.7 Monitoring Student Use 11.8 Monitoring the Progress of a Course 11.9 Monitoring Individual Progress 11.10 Moving a Student to a New Course 11.11 Ordering Assessments 11.12 Independent Study and Distance Learning 11.13 The ALEKS Knowledge Structure 11.14 Intermediate Objectives 11.15 Learning Rates in ALEKS Chapter 12: Knowledge Spaces and the Theory Behind ALEKS 12.1 History 12.2 Theory 12.2.1 Domain, Items, and Instances 12.2.2 Knowledge States 12.2.3 Knowledge Structures and Knowledge Spaces 12.2.4 Inner and Outer Fringes of a Knowledge State 12.2.5 Assessment 12.3 Selected Bibliography Chapter 13: Frequently Asked Questions 13.1 General 13.2 Technical 13.3 Theory 13.4 Assessments & Reports 13.5 Learning Mode 13.6 Educational Use Chapter 14: 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 QuickTables A.11 Frequently Asked Questions A.12 Troubleshooting Appendix B: Syllabi in ALEKS B.1 Basic Math B.2 Pre-Algebra B.3 Beginning Algebra B.4 Introduction to Geometry B.5 Intermediate Algebra B.6 College Algebra with Trigonometry B.7 PreCalculus without Trigonometry / College Algebra B.8 PreCalculus B.9 Trigonometry B.10 Introduction to Statistics B.11 Prep for Beginning Algebra B.12 Prep for Intermediate Algebra B.13 Prep for College Algebra B.14 Prep for PreCalculus / Prep for College Algebra with Trigonometry B.15 Preparation for Calculus B.16 Prep for Statistics B.17 Math Prep for College Physics B.18 Mathematics Toolbox Index


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