New degree plan on the wiki - TESC ASBA

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ALEKS, as it relates to college credit, does not offer "courses" in the traditional sense. When you start an ALEKS course, you're given an initial comprehensive assessment. As you work through the material (the "pie" -- it shows areas in your course as a pie chart) it periodically gives you an assessment on the topic you're working on. After some amount of time working on different areas, you're given another comprehensive assessment.

You will have two logins for ALEKS, one as the "teacher", one as the "student." You do the work and take the assessments as the student. You can login as the teacher any time and request that your "student" receive an assessment the next time they log in, rather than waiting for the system to automatically trigger one. So if you take an assessment and it shows that you've mastered 68% of the material, you can study on the areas where you were weak, and request another assessment immediately.

This "mastery" is what is reflected in the assessment score, and is what is used by ACE to determine if you've passed or not.

It should be noted, however, it takes HOURS to get there, unless you are already at a high level of proficiency when you take the assessment quiz. You could spend 15-20 hours in single course. I did Int Algebra, College Algebra, and Statistics. It was so tedious - but still a better way to go than testing out. I did all three classes in less than a month ($20 total)!