Crippling self doubt! (aka starting college at 40!)

[Merlin]

Here's a potential way to beat Aleks at their own game.  You paid for Aleks for the month, correct?  Use it as much as possible for one month for everything you want to get credit for:  college algebra, trig, stats.  Go through as many problems as you can in courses you want credit for and work through anything you are having problems with:  see the pie chart for your weak areas.   Before your monthly subscription is over, cancel your subscription (check Aleks cancellation rules as they may have changed).   Then... get a new subscription using another email address and perhaps another credit card.  You will have taken a month to figure out how Aleks works and now you can start over fresh with new initial knowledge checks for the courses you want.  If you're prepared, you can knock 3 math courses in one month and gain 9 credits!

I'm not sure what this is supposed to do or how it is beneficial? If you just want to learn the material before using ALEKS for the credit, then use Khan Academy or one of the other free options first. That's what I did when I was reviewing precalc and studying Statistics. Then I signed up at ALEKS and took the initial assessment and scored well enough to pass. That was before the ACE Knowledge Check system was put in place of course.

If you want to delete your current progress in ALEKS you can just withdraw from the course and move to another and then move back, or if you want a full reset and a clean slate, just cancel the student account and create another student account under the same parent account. I had to do the latter after coming back to ALEKS after a long hiatus and my student account was in a weird state. You can use the same name on both accounts, but just to make sure there wasn't any confusion, I renamed my original student account to "BROKEN ACCOUNT" so I would know not to use it and ALEKS would know not to use it for any course validations.