Bar graphs are used in several of the ALEKS report styles.
The meaning of the bar graphs varies by report style, but there
are some common features.
Bar Graph Colors
The colors used to fill the bar indicate the level of
mastery of the course contents at a particular time. The bar is filled
from left to right.
Blue means that mastery was shown on assessment.
Green that tentative mastery was achieved in
Learning Mode.
Yellow means the part of the course material
not mastered.
Blank (white) indicates that an assessment is in progress.
Grey means the student was moved from a different
course product; any assessments from the earlier course product will
appear greyed out in the new course. Student performance prior to August
1, 2012 may also appear as a grey bar in report histories.
Aquamarine shows progress made between the first
and latest assessment.
An asterisk by a greyed-out bar graph or any other
color, in some reports, indicates that a new assessment is underway.
Values underneath Bar Graphs
Underneath the bar are percentages corresponding to the like-colored
portion of the bar graph; for example, a "25%" in dark blue
under the bar graph indicates that the dark blue portion of the bar is
25% of its total length. Instead of percentages, you can view
student progress by the number of topics. Click on the "Percent"
or "Topics" link in the Course Mastery column to toggle between the
two views.
Multiple Bar Graphs
Where there is more than one bar graph per student, the bar graphs
represent different points in the student's learning history, generally
associated with assessments taken by the student. Bar graphs
showing a segment of the student's learning history are stacked, with the
earliest on the bottom and the most recent at the top.
More Features
There are several ways of accessing student data using reports:
The list of students in a bar-graph report can be sorted on
any of the report columns by clicking on the text in the header for that
column. Clicking on the text in the header section of the column will
bring up an ascending or descending arrow, which can then be used to
sort the column.
You can navigate to other kinds of reports by clicking on hyperlinked
names or dates. Clicking on a student's name takes you to the detailed learning
history for that student
(Sec. 6.2.13).
Clicking on the date for an assessment takes you to a detailed (pie chart)
report for that assessment
(Sec. 6.2.7).
NOTE. On some reports, if a student has been in a different ALEKS
course previously, it is possible to toggle between viewing their total
time in ALEKS and their total time in the current course. This
toggle will appear below the report. For students who have only been in
one ALEKS course, the displayed time will be the total time in the
current course.
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