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[sound] This video contains information on how to set up your ALEKS account for this
Math 1B pre-calculus course. ALEKS stands for assessment and learning
in knowledge spaces And is an online adaptive learning program
that uses artificial intelligence to precisely identify and deliver
personalized instruction on the exact topics each student is most ready to
learn. To begin the ALEKS program, open up a web
browser on a computer connected to the internet and go to this URL up here:
www.aleks.com And then click on this link here on the
upper left that says 'Sign up now' And since you will be using ALEKS with a
class we'll be focusing on this left hand box here.
Now your professor should have provided you with a course code which you'll enter
in here. And then click Continue.
Now you're asked to confirm your enrollment information.
Yes I'm in Math 1B, pre calculus with Professor Anteater at UCI
and then click continue. Now you're asked for your twenty digit
access code, which you can either purchase from the bookstore or ALEKS directly, by
clicking on this link here that says purchase an access code online.
So let's enter in our access code and click continue.
Now enter in your student information here Peter
Anteater And now enter in your email.
Panteater@uci.edu. And enter in a password that's six letters
or digits minimum. Confirm that password
And then entering your student ID. And then scroll down and read the ALEKS
user agreement. Once you've read it, click on this box
here. That you have read and that you agreed to
the terms of the ALEKS user agreement and then click continue.
And now we will give you your log in which you will use with the password you entered
in the last step every time you log in to ALEKS.
Now, click, Continue and ALEKS will look for a plug in on your
computer and install it if needed. Here we didn't need to install it.
But if the plug in is installed, you may need to restart your browser and then log
back in with your log in and password. Now you will learn some of the basic ALEKS
answer input tools known collectively as the answer editor.
So using your keyboard, type in the number fourteen
And now it's asking you to hit this clear button which notice, cleared that number
fourteen. And now it's asking to click on undo.
which notice undid the last action of clearing that number fourteen?
Alright so let's click on next to look at the next exercise.
Let's learn how to enter in a fraction. So let's click this fraction button here
And now the numerator will type into And then we'll click in the denominator
and type in three And we've entered in the fraction 2/3rds.
So let's click on Next to go to the next exercise.
Now let's learn how to enter an expression with parentheses.
So let's click here and with our keyboard we'll enter in a
left parenthesis X plus four
right parenthesis. And then click on the exponent button
and type in two. And then click over here in this blue
circle to get out of the exponent. And then using the keyboard, type in
+seven. Click on this blue circle and hold until
you get to this blue circle, Release.
Now click on this fraction button, which put everything that we had
highlighted in the numerator of this fraction.
And now type in three into the denominator. And we've entered in this expression.
So let's click on next, go to the next exercise.
Now let's learn how to plot a point and draw a line.
Let's click on the pencil button, come over here, and plot this point.
Then click on the ruler button. Move your mouse into this blue circle,
click here. Now, move your mouse into this blue
circle, click here. And now, grab the pencil icon again, and
move your mouse over here. Draw to here, draw to here, and we've
drawn a line. So let's click on next.
And now we'll look at the ALEKS calculator.
But it should be pointed out that not every question in ALEKS has a calculator
active. It is only active when ALEKS feels it is
needed for a certain problem. If it is not active in ALEKS, do not use
your own calculator. So let's click on okay.
And then we'll come up here and click on the calculator.
We'll click on this blue box, we'll type in the number 31,
and then we'll click on the addition button.
And then we'll type here nine and then click on the equals button
and so on. So, it functions just like a normal
calculator. All right,
let's click on next. Now at any time during assessment or
learning, if you ever need help there's this help button up here on the top that
you can click. And over here on the right, there is a
link to an ALEKS user guide, which you can always read.
And then over here on the left, we see this link to all topics for pre-calculus.
So let's click on that. And this will give you an extensive list
of topics or tools that you might encounter in the answer editor.
And when you're done reading what you were looking for, you can click on Done down
here. And also if there's a new tool and a
question that you've never seen before, there's this quick help.
That you can click on to learn how to use that tool.
Let's click on Next. Now that you are registered and have
learned about the answer editor, you will be given what is called your initial
assessment. This is basically the heart and soul of
ALEKS as it will determine your starting point or baseline for your learning,
which is called your knowledge state. Now during this initial assessment, you
will be asked between 25 to 35 questions and the powerful assessment engine within
ALEKS will be capable of pinpointing your knowledge state very precisely.
That is, a system will know what you know, what you don't know, and what you are
capable of learning next. And what you don't know, and what someone
else in the class doesn't know, will be different,
but that's okay. ALEKS will fill your learning gaps when
you get into the learning mode after your initial assessment.
Now during this initial assessment, you should have a pencil and paper handy.
Don't be anxious or nervous, just do your best.
Okay, so let's get started. So for Peter's first question he's asked
to graph this line here. Well, when X is equal to zero for example.
This equation simplifies to negative 3Y is equal to negative twelve, or Y is equal to
four Which means the point 0, 4 lies on the line.
So let's grab the pencil. Go to x equals zero, y equals four and
plot a point. And then, coming back up here,
when y is equal to zero, for example, this equation simplifies to 4x is equal to negative twelve,
which means, x is equal to negative three. So the point -3, 0 also lies on the line.
So we could take our pencil again, and go to x=-3, y=0, and plot a point.
But let's look at this other feature over here.
This actually allows you to enter in the ordered pair, -3, 0, the
[inaudible] point and ALEKS will plot it for you.
Now, grab your ruler, click on one point, click on the other, grab your pencil
again, and draw your line. And then we need to click on Next to
submit our answer, but let's scroll down a little bit.
There it is. Let's click it.
And notice that ALEKS didn't tell Peter whether he was right or wrong.
And you will not be told if you are right or wrong on the assessment until you get a
report at the end. Alright, and for his second question he's
asked to multiply these two binomials. So he can foil.
2a times 8a is 16a squared. And then the outer and inner terms
combine, to give us minus 50ab. And the last term is plus 25b squared.
Click on Next to submit the answer. Now notice this other button over here
that says I don't know. Let's say that Peter doesn't know how to
work with rational exponent very well. Then you can click on this button, I don't
know. Now if at any time during your initial
assessment, if you honestly do not know an answer to a question or have never learned
that topic before, then you can click on this button, I don't
know. But whatever you do, do not just click it
because you want to get through the assessment quicker.
This will make for many more hours of unnecessary work throughout the quarter.
Just do your best and try to answer the questions that you think you have a good
shot at answering correctly. So let's click on I don't know here.
And now Peter, for his fourth question, has asked to convert 150 degrees to radian
measure in terms of pi, which he can determine by multiplying 150
by pi, divided by 180 degrees, which would give him five times pi, all
divided by six. And then he would click on Next to submit
his answer. Now, for demonstration purposes, let's
just skip to the end of his assessment. Alright, and so this is at the end of the
assessment. His last question, ALEKS is asking him to
find both b intersect c and b union c. Where b and c are defined here,
B is the set of all zees, such that z is greater than four,
and c is the set of all zees, such that z is less than or equal to seven.
And the intersection is the set of all numbers that's common to both of those two
sets, which would be the interval from four to
seven. So we'll click on this icon.
Notice we're not including four, but we are including seven.
And b union c is the set of all real numbers,
So negative infinity up to infinity. And then click Next to submit the answer.
Alright, so Peter has completed his initial assessment, let's click on Next to
see what ALEKS learned about Peter Anteater.
Now this is what is called Peter Anteater's ALEKS pie.
In ALEKS, the student's knowledge is represented by these multicolored pie
charts and this pie chart here is divided into
five slices. Up here, the green slice corresponds to
topics in trigonometry. This pink slice corresponds to topics in
exponential and logarithmic functions. This purple slice corresponds to topics on
polynomials and rational function. The yellow slice corresponds to topics on
functions and graphs. This blue slice here corresponds to topics
in algebra and geometry review And the 166 out of 266 topics that ALEKS
determined Peter knows are split up into these five slices.
So let's click on Continue. Now the dark parts of each slice
corresponds to the topics Peter knows and the light part corresponds to the
topics that Peter will learn. His goal is to fill his pie, that is to
make each slice dark. So this is a powerful motivator, because
he wants to fill the entire pie, by making each slice dark.
Alright let's click on Continue. Now Peter's goal here is to learn all the
topics in this course and the ALEKS pie is very user friendly
when it comes to navigating through the topics within each slice.
So let's say that Peter wants to work over here in Algebra and Geometry review.
He simply hovers over that slice and ALEKS gives him access to all the
topics he is ready to learn. So let's say that Peter wants to work on
this topic down here, factoring a sum or difference of two cubes.
He would click here. So ALEKS is asking Peter to factor this
expression here: 8w cubed plus 125 and let's say that Peter doesn't quite
remember the formula for the sum of two cubes.
He can click here on Explain and ALEKS has a detailed explanation on
the formulas that would be used and then how to solve the problem.
There's also additional resources over here that he might find useful.
And also up here, let's say Peter wanted to refresh his memory on what factor
means. He can click here and ALEKS brings him to a detailed
explanation on what it means to factor. And once he's done he can close the window,
which brings him back to the problem. And let's say now he's ready to work on
this problem. So he would click on Practice
and ALEKS gives him a different instance of the same type of problem.
So now applying what he just learned, he types in his answer of x minus one
times X squared Plus X plus one
and clicks on Next to submit his answer. And ALEKS tells him right away that he is
correct. And it also tells him, that if he answers
the question without help two more times, that ALEKS will add this topic to his pie.
So let's click practice And this one factors into five minus 3x
times 25 plus 15x. Plus 9x squared
And then he clicks on next And again ALEKS tells him that he is
correct and that he needs to practice it one more time
And he gets his answer a 3U +four. Times 9u squared
Minus twelve U Plus sixteen
And then he clicks on next to submit his answer.
Now ALEKS confirms that he seemed to have learned this question.
And now he has a few choices. You can either press on done, or on more
practice But let's press on done
And notice that the total number of topics jump from 166 to 167 because ALEKS just
added that topic to his pie. Now you might be wondering what these
dotted white lines are here in the pie. These signify or encompass the topics that
are in the current intermediate objective. In this Math 1B class there are two
intermediate objectives, and basically what that means is that the course content
is split into two sections. The first part of the course, which
corresponds to topics that will be on your midterm
And then the second part of the course And both of the objectives together
correspond to topics that you will see on your final
And notice down here that ALEKS does tell you how many topics are left for you to
master before the due date of that objective.
So, let's go back to the pie and choose a different topic to work on.
So maybe Peter wants to work over here on functions and graphs.
Again he hovers over that slice and ALEKS gives him access to the topics he is ready
to learn. So let's say he decides to work on this
graphing a piece wise define function. Now let's say Peter never learned about
piece wise functions. So he can click on the explanation.
And there's this detailed explanation about [inaudible].
Again, links to the dictionary. Additional resources over here
And let's just say Peter still doesn't quite understand and he doesn't feel like
working on this problem anymore. He just really wants to choose a different
topic. At any time, you can go up here and click
on my pie, and choose a different topic. Maybe he wants to work on polynomials and
rational functions, or maybe he wants to go back and work on algebra and geometry
review. That's okay.
He can change his mind and work on any topic that ALEKS tells him he's ready to
learn. Now it should be pointed out, that ALEKS
will periodically reassess you to confirm your retention of the topics you have
studied. These are called automatic or progress
assessments, and are given based on your rate of progress in ALEKS, and the amount
of time spent working in ALEKS. It should be pointed out that although you
demonstrate mastery of a certain topic in your learning, ALEKS may expect you to
demonstrate continued mastery of that topic, in subsequent assessment
And if you seem to need review, ALEKS will subtract that topic, and possibly other
prerequisite topics from your pie Making them available again from selection
in learning. Therefore, always try to do your best on
your assessments. All right
There are a few more things that should be pointed out here
If you look up here. There is this link called report, if you
click here. It gives you a full report on your
knowledge. It shows your pie, what you can do.
What you're ready to learn next As well as your history.
It gives you assessment performance, a percent of the current objectives you have
satisfied currently, and if you go back up here, there's also a tab.
It says time and topic. You click here.
Aleks tells you the time that has been spent in Alex, the topics attempted, the
topics mastered, and so on. Also, up here, there's a link to the
calendar And this will give you all the links to
your midterm, tell you when the objectives are due
When your final is When the last objectives, is due and so on
And also up here. There's a link to an inbox
And at anytime if you have questions you can compose an email and if you click on
this to button. There's an option to send an email to
ALEKS Customer Support and your Professor And ALEKS has a lot of other cool features
that you can familiarize yourself with, once you start browsing around the website
And for all other information on this math 1b course.
Please see the course website, as it has full details on all other aspects of the
course. Have fun learning!
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