Prerequisite VS Goal Topics
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Hello MATH 1075 students!
I'm making this short video to
explain why (as you are doing the homework for HW-1)
that you notice that "Gosh, I'm doing all this homework, but
why is my homework grade not changing?"
"Why are my topics not showing up that I'm working
so hard on?" So here's what I want to show you.
When you login to ALEKS
In the upper left-hand corner, you'll notice
this menu bar. So go ahead
and click it, and a pop-up menu will appear.
Go down to REPORTS
and select Reports.
Now under the "Current Objective"
mine is right here in the middle
You'll notice that this is Week #1 homework
and it's going to cover sections 7.1 through 7.2
and it's due Sept. 4th.
If I select "View Full Report"
You'll notice this first homework assignment
shows up here on the left.
Now, right now, when I took that Initial ALEKS assessment,
I knew 20% of the material for
this first homework assignment and
that means I know 5 out of the 25 topics that
I got credit for already.
So, these are my Goal Topics, and these are the topics that will count toward
my homework grade.
But you'll also notice that ALEKS gave me 3
Prerequisite Topics
So, these are review topics, topics that
I needed to know how to do, like
factoring or working with fractions,
to be able to complete the new work here in MATH 1075
for homework #1.
So ALEKS will probably ask you to complete at least
most of these topics which do not count towards
your actual grade, but you'll still
be asked to complete them
so that you can be successful when you do start working on the homework.
So, that's why you're working so hard and
maybe not seeing your homework grade changing
or the number of topics change yet
is because you still have to finish the Prerequisite Topics
first. So, good luck with your homework!
If you have any questions, just email me.