Winter 2014 Online Mathematics Instructor Anthony Lauer A2 Virtual+ Email: lauera@aaps.k12.mi.us Your Classoom You will be using two websites for this course, Moodle -Online Classroom • Announcements/Weekly Assignment/Assignments/Resources http://moodle2.wash.k12.mi.us/aaps Aleks - Practice and Tests http://www.aleks.com The Moodle Your course can be found under the A2 Virtual+ link. From this site, you will find your assignments that need to be completed to complete this course. For some classes (Algebra 1B and Math Analysis B) there will be lessons you must do on the moodle. Every class will have weekly assignments that must be submitted before the deadline. ALEKS The majority of the course work will be done in ALEKS. ALEKS Overview http://www.aleks.com/video/k12_tour You will need to be on the Internet when you are working on topics. Grade This course grade is your current grade. 75% of your grade will be ALEKS mastery. This will be determined by the last ALEKS Final you take. 5% of your grade will be based on the weekly assignments. 20% of your grade will be the district final exam grade. The district final and ALEKS final exam must be completed for each semester class. ALEKS Grade 98% A+ 96% A 94% A92% B+ 90% B 88% B86% C+ 84% C 82% C80% D+ 78% D 76% D- Completing Topics in ALEKS Complete topics in one of two ways: Correctly answer a question on the initial assessment. Working on topics from the ALEKS pie and then passing them on the assessments. Completing Topics in ALEKS Tests The ALEKS program will generate the tests: • after so many hours of work • after you have completed a certain number of topics. If you answer the problem correctly it will remain in your pie. If you answer incorrectly, you will need to practice more problems and then it will come up on future tests. Tests(cont..) The test will contain questions that you may not have seen before. For those questions you can either click “I have not learned this” or try to answer the problem. If you get it correct you will not need to practice the topic in the pie. Learning Topics Practice vs. Explain Textbook Moodle Independent Learning Arrange a time to meet with me. Requirements You need to plan to work on your class at least 5 hours per week. One proctored test by April 15th. ALEKS Final by June 13th, 2014 (You can retake the final as many times as you would like before June 13th) District final exam by June 13th, 2014. ( You can only take this once) Notebooks Every work session in your notebook should start with the data and topic. All of your test problems showing work. Turn in the notebook at completion of final exam. You will not receive a grade unless you complete a notebook. Questions(?)