A student subscription to ALEKS entitles the student to work through as many subjects in the sequence as the student masters during the subscription period. When a student completes the objectives of a course, ALEKS will allow the student to continue until the subject-matter is exhausted. At this point the student should be moved to a more advanced course.

For example, when a student completes the subject matter for a course whose syllabus corresponds to Basic Math, the instructor should unenroll that student from Basic Math in ALEKS and reenroll the student in a new course whose topic is set to Algebra. If no such course exists, it should be created so that the student is not prevented from making further progress.