Why do people use Aleks?

[SmokeEm]

I was just wondering why people use aleks and what it is about. Is it cheaper than Thomas Edison courses, and do they offer courses that can't be clepped.

[MISin08]

ALEKS is a good way to get credit for certain course requirements. Most of them have CLEPs available but ALEKS offers some advantages over online classes or CLEPs:

• ALEKS is $20 a month and you can finish at your own pace
  
• ALEKS is primarily a learning tool not just a credit source (If you know Algebra, take the CLEP. If you need to learn it, consider ALEKS & get both the learning and the credit)
  
• No proctor
  

It's a decent learning tool, but IMHO a book alongside is beneficial. There are couple of threads about how the ALEKS courses can be combined at some schools, perhaps others will respond on that topic.

[jmmjr78]

as the previous stated it is $20 per month and you can have certain classes applied towards credit. here are they are

ACE Credit-Recommended ALEKS Courses:

Beginning Algebra
Intermediate Algebra
College Algebra
Trigonometry
College Algebra with Trigonometry
PreCalculus
Introduction to Statistics
Business Statistics
Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

[kevinmanemane]

AND its a good way to get 3 Upper Level credits. Excelsior accepts the Intro to Stats as 3 upper level credits and TESC assigns it as STA-201 - so a 200level course.

we all know what a pain gettin UL credit is

Plus - it makes it so that you dont study for a month and then go down to a proctor and take it and hopefully pass.

What you can do, at least with the intro to stats, is print out all the notes you get while doing the problems and then when you take the test after you've filled in the modules, you mostly just copy the procedures that the printed pages say to do.
If you were vigilant, you could probably do the intro to stats in a full day.
so thats 3 UL credits fulfilling your Quantative Reasoning requirement for only 20$ and a days worth of work thats not even that hard.

Thats why ALEKS is tight

[burbuja0512]

I just started ALEKS and I really like the way that I'm learning. I don't consider myself good at math, but it's actually been kind of fun so far and I am learning. Yes it will be time consuming, but the knowledge is going to stick. I would do it regardless of ACE credit- the credit will just be a nice bonus.

It's nice not feeling like I've got a horrible weakness in math. It's cheap and if anyone here is curious, I say just try it! You don't have anything to lose.