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ALEKS teacher's manual for k12 education
ALEKS Teacher's Manual for K-12 Education
Table of content
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 What is ALEKS?
1.2 The ALEKS Teacher's Manual
Chapter 2: Quick Start
2.1 Obtaining a Class Code
2.2 Registering Students
Chapter 3: Setup Guide for Teachers
3.1 Teacher Preparation
3.2 System Requirements
3.3 Installation
3.4 Teacher Module
3.5 Lab Check
3.6 Student Orientation
3.7 Registration
3.8 Teacher Authorization of Student Registration
3.9 Tutorial
3.10 First Assessment
3.11 Report Tutorial
3.12 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 Number Line
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 English
5.2.3 Options
5.2.4 Print
5.2.5 Report
5.2.6 Dictionary
5.2.7 Calculator
5.2.8 Review
5.2.9 Worksheet
5.2.10 Quiz
5.2.11 Message
5.2.12 Help
5.2.13 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
Chapter 6: Teacher Module: Basic Interface
6.1 How do I
6.2 Class 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 class to another
6.2.8 Unenroll a student from a class
6.2.9 Delete a class
6.3 School Admin (Administrator)
6.3.1 Create a new teacher account
6.3.2 Password issues
6.3.3 Teacher account preferences
6.3.4 Move a class from one teacher to another
6.3.5 Delete an Teacher Account
6.4 Reporting
6.4.1 Class Progress options
6.4.2 Download Excel spreadsheet
6.4.3 Sorting
6.4.4 Statistical information
6.4.5 State standards report
6.4.6 Individual learning progress since latest assessment
6.4.7 Individual detailed progress history
6.4.8 Individual overall progress in assessment
6.4.9 Scheduled assessment report
6.4.10 Average report (pie chart)
6.4.11 Display options for Average Report
6.4.12 Average
6.4.13 Ready to learn
6.4.14 What students can do
6.4.15 Quiz results for all the students
6.4.16 State standards report for a single student
6.4.17 Progress report for a single student in this class
6.4.18 Report for a single student in this class (pie chart)
6.4.19 Complete list of topics mastered
6.4.20 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 Authorize a student account
6.5.13 View/Create Worksheets for a single student
6.6 Advanced
6.6.1 Show me a tutorial for the "Advanced" Teacher Module.
6.6.2 Enter the "Advanced" Teacher Module now.
Chapter 7: Advanced Teacher Module: Results & Progress
7.1 The ALEKS Advanced Teacher Module
7.2 Teacher Tutorial (Advanced Teacher Module)
7.3 Access to the Advanced Teacher Module
7.4 Online Help in the Advanced Teacher Module
7.5 View Student Progress
7.6 View Student Assessment Report
7.7 View Class Progress
7.8 View Class Report
7.9 Schedule Student Assessment
7.10 Schedule Class Assessment
7.11 Create, Edit, View Quizzes
7.12 Send Message
7.13 Check Messages
7.14 Check Server Usage
7.15 Create Teacher Account
7.16 Edit Teacher Account
7.17 Create Class Account
7.18 Edit Class Account
7.19 Textbook Integration
7.20 Enroll and Unenroll Students
7.21 Edit Student Account
7.22 Authorize Student Account
7.23 Intermediate Objectives
7.24 Content Editor
7.25 Assign Learning Rates
Chapter 8: Advanced Teacher Module: Standards & Programs
8.1 Items, Programs, and Standards
8.2 Navigation and Use
8.3 Buttons
8.4 Program Editor
8.4.1 Fields
8.4.2 Buttons
8.4.3 Using the Program Editor
Chapter 9: QuickTables
9.1 Setting Up QuickTables for your Class
9.2 How Your Students Use QuickTables
9.3 Reporting your Students' Progress in QuickTables
9.4 Additional Features in QuickTables
Chapter 10: Teaching with ALEKS
10.1 The ALEKS Educational Paradigm
10.2 The Teacher and ALEKS
10.3 Planning the ALEKS Class
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 Class
10.9 Monitoring Individual Progress
10.10 Moving a Student to a New Class
10.11 Ordering Assessments
10.12 Independent Study and Distance Learning
10.13 The ALEKS Knowledge Structure
10.14 Modification of Programs
10.15 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 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: Programs in ALEKS
B.1 Mathematics - LV3
B.2 Mathematics - LV4
B.3 Mathematics - LV5
B.4 Mathematics - LV6 / Essential Mathematics
B.5 Middle School Math 1
B.6 Middle School Math 2
B.7 Middle School Math 3 / Foundations of High School Math
B.8 Middle School Geometry
B.9 Pre-Algebra
B.10 Algebra 1
B.11 High School Geometry
B.12 Algebra 2
B.13 Trigonometry
B.14 PreCalculus without Trigonometry / College Algebra
B.15 PreCalculus
B.16 AP Statistics (Quantitative)
Index
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