Could use some guidance

[TMW2010]

With Aleks, you can take however long you want to get the 'class' done. Basically the way it works is

• You're given an initial assessment.
  
• Once the assessment is concluded, it takes correct answers that you've given and fills in sections of a pie chart for the lessons that would cover those areas.
  
• The Pie chart will list new lessons that are open to you in different areas of the class.
  
• You choose a lesson. You're given a problem which you can try to solve on your own or you can hit the 'Explain' button which walks through the steps of solving the problem. *
  
• Once you're done with the explanation, you can click the next question button and get a new problem to do. If you need to, you can click the explain button again for another explanation (which is good if they change up the problem a little bit)
  
• You answer from 2-5+ problems (depending on how many you get incorrect) and eventually you will finish the area, and get the option of More Practice or Done. More practice gives you more problems in that same area to do, and done takes you back to the pie chart.
  
• Every once in a while, you'll get another assessment. (And you'll see areas that haven't been covered in the assessment, which is normal, you can try to solve them or just answer 'Don't Know') Each assessment solidifies an amount of progress in your progress bar. You only have to hit 70% solid on the progress bar to finish the class. If you get areas that you have covered incorrect on the assessment, they *will* take away percentage points, and the lessons will reappear in the pie chart for you to do again.
  

Lather, rinse, and repeat until you hit 70% after an assessment, and then you log on to ACE's website, select the class you just completed, and add it to your transcript. ACE will contact ALEKS and verify that you've completed the class and after a few days (or more than a week around holidays as others have experienced) it will show up on your ACE transcript.

And you can also log on to your master account and force an assessment, which will begin the next time you log on as your student account. Assessments are not timed, so take your time on them. You can even log out, and come back a couple days later and your assessment will pick up where you left off.

* I found it benificial in my ALEKS experience to take screenshots of all the explanation screens so I could refer back to them. Others have suggested using a PDF maker program or printing them out. I tried the MS XPS Writer printer (that converts it to an HTML page object), but it didn't work that well, and left a bunch of bits and pieces off the page.