Instructor can choose to configure the class with a textbook or without textbook integration.

With Textbook Integration. The instructor can use chapter-based objectives with optional custom objectives, custom objectives alone, or no objectives.

Chapter-Based Objectives with Optional Custom Objectives

If this option is selected, you will be able to choose entire chapters from the textbook as objectives for your course, and set end dates or mastery levels for these objectives (Sec. 6.4.6). This is the most efficient way of directing student learning in ALEKS. You can also create custom objectives that combine chapter material freely into new units.

Both types of objectives will include all ALEKS topics that correspond to the chapter.

Custom Objectives

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.

Textbook Integration - No Objectives or Modules

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, or are a prerequisite topic. It will be possible, however, to remove topics after they have been included as part of a chapter or custom objective (Sec. 6.4.8). If only custom objectives are used, it will not usually be necessary to do any further customization of the content.

No 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:

Objectives / Modules

If this option is selected, you will need to create all of the objectives for your course manually.

No Objectives or Modules

If this option is selected, student learning will be guided by ALEKS without objectives.

See the following sections for additional details about the choices outlined above.