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 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 Ready to Learn 4.15 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 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: 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: QuickTables 9.1 Setting Up QuickTables for your Course 9.2 How Your Students Use QuickTables 9.3 Reporting your Students' Progress in QuickTables 9.4 Additional Features in QuickTables Chapter 10: IM-2 Basic Instructor Module 10.1 Course List 10.2 Course Home Page 10.3 Reports 10.3.1 Individual Reports 10.3.2 Report for a particular student (pie chart) 10.3.3 Progress report for a particular student (pie chart) 10.3.4 Download Report Data 10.3.5 Learning progress since latest assessment 10.3.6 Interpreting Bar Graphs 10.3.7 Detailed progress history 10.3.8 Overall progress in assessments 10.3.9 Average Report (pie chart) 10.3.10 QuickTables Report 10.3.11 Homework, Quiz, and Test Results 10.3.12 Scheduled assessment report 10.4 Gradebook 10.4.1 Gradebook Interface 10.4.2 Gradebook Weighting 10.5 Homework, Quizzes, and Tests 10.6 Homework 10.7 Quizzes and Tests 10.8 Assessments 10.9 Worksheets 10.10 Course Calendar 10.11 Add a Course / Edit this Course 10.11.1 Basic Information 10.11.2 Select Textbook 10.11.3 Select Chapters 10.11.4 Edit Content 10.11.5 Edit Course 10.12 Administrator Center 10.12.1 Edit Instructor 10.13 My Account Settings 10.14 Inbox 10.15 Use Advanced IM-2 10.16 Sign Out Chapter 11: IM-2 Advanced Instructor Module 11.1 Selector Window 11.2 Instructor Folder 11.2.1 Cleanup Tool 11.2.2 Instructor Resources 11.3 Course Home 11.3.1 Course Options 11.3.2 Duplicate Course 11.3.3 Intermediate Objectives 11.3.4 Cleanup Tool 11.4 Course Reports 11.4.1 Overall Report 11.5 Course Gradebook 11.6 Course Homework 11.6.1 Duplicate Homework 11.6.2 Homework Options 11.7 Course Quizzes 11.7.1 Duplicate Quiz 11.8 Course Test 11.8.1 Duplicate Test 11.8.2 Print Test 11.9 Course Assessments 11.9.1 Assessment Options 11.10 Course Worksheets 11.10.1 Worksheet Options 11.11 Student Home 11.11.1 Cleanup Tool 11.12 Student Reports 11.13 Student Gradebook 11.13.1 Student Gradebook 11.14 Student Homework 11.15 Student Quiz 11.16 Student Test 11.17 Student Assessments 11.17.1 Request Assessment 11.17.2 Cancel Current Assessment 11.18 Student Worksheets 11.18.1 QuickTables Worksheet 11.19 Administrator Account 11.19.1 Edit College 11.19.2 Search College 11.19.3 Add Instructor 11.19.4 Instructor Resources 11.19.5 View Course Codes 11.19.6 Schedule Domain Upgrade 11.19.7 Enrollment List 11.19.8 Cleanup Tool 11.19.9 Edit Subscription 11.19.10 Reports Chapter 12: Teaching with ALEKS 12.1 The ALEKS Educational Paradigm 12.2 The Instructor and ALEKS 12.3 Planning the ALEKS Course 12.4 Preparing Your Students 12.5 Focused Instruction with ALEKS 12.6 Models of Classroom Integration 12.7 Monitoring Student Use 12.8 Monitoring the Progress of a Course 12.9 Monitoring Individual Progress 12.10 Moving a Student to a New Course 12.11 Ordering Assessments 12.12 Independent Study and Distance Learning 12.13 The ALEKS Knowledge Structure 12.14 Modification of Syllabi 12.15 Learning Rates in ALEKS Chapter 13: Knowledge Spaces and the Theory Behind ALEKS 13.1 History 13.2 Theory 13.2.1 Domain, Items, and Instances 13.2.2 Knowledge States 13.2.3 Knowledge Structures and Knowledge Spaces 13.2.4 Inner and Outer Fringes of a Knowledge State 13.2.5 Assessment 13.3 Selected Bibliography Chapter 14: Frequently Asked Questions 14.1 General 14.2 Technical 14.3 Theory 14.4 Assessments & Reports 14.5 Learning Mode 14.6 Educational Use Chapter 15: 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 QuickTables A.10 Frequently Asked Questions A.11 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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