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6.3.2 Textbook Integration, Custom Objectives, and Modules
Figure 6.26: Select Textbook
ALEKS provides a flexible range of options for organizing the material
of a course, with or without the support of a textbook. These options
may be chosen either when a course is created ("Add a Course")
or added to an existing course ("Edit this Course").
In the Course Set-Up Wizard the page for Textbook Integration,
Custom Objectives and Modules appears immediately following the Basic
Information page. Here you can make several choices about the structure of your
course, the first being whether to integrate a textbook or not.
Textbook Integration. If you choose the option
to use a textbook with ALEKS, you must choose this textbook from
the list of available choices using the dropdown window. ALEKS will
automatically place chapter and section references to this textbook on
the explanation pages.
One choice in the list of textbooks is the "ALEKS curriculum,"
which is a division of the topics based on the slices of the ALEKS
pie chart rather than chapters of a textbook. This choice enables
student learning to be structured without the use of a specific textbook.
Next, select one of the following options:
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Chapter-based Objectives with optional Custom Objectives
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If this option is selected, you will be able to choose entire chapters
from the textbook as Objectives for your course, and set due dates for
these Objectives (Sec. 6.3.3). This is
the most efficient way of directing student learning in ALEKS. You can
also create custom Objectives to split chapters into multiple Objectives
or combine material across multiple chapters into single Objectives.
Both these types of Objectives will include all ALEKS topics that
correspond with the chapter.
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All Modules (Custom Objectives)
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If this option is selected, you will need to create all of the Objectives
for your course manually. This option provides the instructor with the
greatest control over the course structure.
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No Objectives or Modules of any kind
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If this option is selected, students will see references to the textbook,
but the textbook will not direct their learning.
NOTE. If you choose any of the options for structuring Objectives in
your course, whether by textbook chapters, custom Objectives, or
a combination of the two, topics will not be included in the course
unless they are included in one of your Objectives. It will be possible,
however, to remove topics after they have been included as part of a
chapter or custom Objective (Sec. 6.3.8). This is relevant when you wish to structure
your course based on textbook chapters, but do not want to include
everything that ALEKS would normally have as the content of a
particular chapter. If only Custom Objectives are used, it will not
usually be necessary to do further customization of the content.
Without Textbook Integration. If no textbook is
integrated within the course, no textbook will be referenced in ALEKS,
and you will only have the choice of the following two options:
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All Modules (Custom Objectives)
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If this option is selected, you will need to create all of the Objectives
for your course manually.
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No Objectives or Modules of any kind
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If this option is selected, student learning will be guided by ALEKS
without Objectives.
See the following sections for additional detail on the choices outlined
above.
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