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New and Coming Soon in ALEKS

ALEKS is an online learning and assessment platform for Math and Chemistry courses. Powered by AI, the instructor chooses the content, while ALEKS leverages over 25 years of real student data to measure where students have gaps and place them into personalized learning paths.

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The Evergreen™ Delivery Model

ALEKS uses an Evergreen delivery model to provide you with content currency, new tools, and the most updated accessibility standards. This release-centered approach makes incorporating the latest content easy and allows you to choose between adopting a new release or staying with your current version

Fall 2025

Coming December 17th! New Email Verification Step for Students

Email verification is here to make ALEKS even more secure and reliable! New students will verify during registration, and existing students will confirm their email before enrolling in new classes. This helps protect accounts and ensures a smoother experience for all. 

Math

Coming December 17th!  Scaffolding Topics in Calculus 1

14 new scaffolding topics have been added and are designed to provide additional instructional support by breaking down complex existing topics into more focused, foundational components. They further scaffold student learning of key concepts and skills related to limits, derivatives, and integrals.

Redesigned ALEKS Tools Tutorial & Student Onboarding Experience 

Getting started in ALEKS is now easier than ever for students! The updated onboarding process is designed with accessibility in mind, making it easier for those using screen readers or keyboard navigation to explore tools and find help. This refresh ensures a smooth, welcoming experience for all learners.

Summer 2025

Math

Introducing ALEKS for Calculus 1!

Designed to support your course from day one, ALEKS Calculus helps students close prerequisite knowledge gaps, develop a strong conceptual foundation, and explore concepts with our powerful new graphing tool.

Redesigned, More Accessible Student Pie

The ALEKS Student Pie has a fresh new look designed with accessibility in mind, with improved color contrast, textures, and labels. These updates support screen readers and won’t change how the Pie works within your student’s adaptive learning experience.

Evergreen: Full Content Release

New and updated content is now live for select titles, including revised ebooks, updated and new questions, plus more. You can now build or copy classes using these updated materials!

Updates to Student’s Failed Learning Walk

When students miss a topic in their Learning Path, they’ll now see a helpful explanation alongside their incorrect answer and can have another chance to try the same topic if they don’t want to move on to another one yet, boosting understanding and giving them more opportunities to succeed.

Redesigned Student Gradebook

The Student Gradebook has been redesigned to reflect the design of the instructor’s Assignment List and is more accessible for students using screen readers and navigating by keyboard. 

Chemistry

New ALEKS Topic Explanation Videos

25 new videos are now available for key General Chemistry topics. These lecture-style videos offer clear, conceptual explanations for the concepts students struggle with most, helping them better understand and stay on track.

Chemistry

New Organic Chemistry Topics

ALEKS Organic now offers expanded spectroscopy coverage, from basic skills to structure determination using mass spec, IR, ¹H NMR, and ¹³C NMR. With 34 topics—29 new—it includes hundreds of problems, most featuring realistic simulated spectra not found elsewhere online.

Explore the full list of Topics!

Fall 2024

Move Topics Between Modules More Easily 

You can now seamlessly move topics between existing modules! With ‘Move Up,’ ‘Move Down,’ and ‘Move To’ options (familiar from the assignment list), you can quickly shift topics between modules or simply drag and drop them into a different module. 

Math

Try Integrated Excel in ALEKS! 

The full set of Integrated Excel activities are now available and ready to use in your Stats and LAM/QR courses! You can access them easily by selecting “Excel Questions” from the “Add Questions From” dropdown menu. 

Chemistry

New Targeted Feedback in ALEKS Organic Chemistry

When ALEKS detects a wrong answer in the organic structure, reaction, and mechanism drawing tools, your students will now receive more targeted, visual feedback to help them understand their mistake.

Summer 2024

Assignment List Organization and Folders

You can now customize the order of your assignments and create folders in your assignment list! This will allow you to organize what the assignment list will look like for your students and will give you more tools to stay organized yourself.

New Student Exceptions: Additional Attempt & Earlier Start Date

More student exceptions! You can now allow a specific student(s) to receive additional assignment attempts and you can move the start date of an assignment up to allow students you identify to start earlier than the rest of your class. This can help you manage the needs of students without disrupting the flow of assignment dates and attempts for your whole class.

Scheduled Release of Test & Quiz Scores & Feedback

You now have more control over what information is provided to your students when they finish a test or quiz, including their final score and detailed reports on what they answered right and wrong. Greater control over when and how many times students can see information about their assessments will help you ensure academic integrity.

Improvements to LMS Syncing

We heard you! We’ve made improvements that allow for more control over syncing between your ALEKS and LMS gradebooks. You can now more quickly and easily understand the status of score syncing and you have more granular control over fixing them. Improvements include: 

Add Multiple Pre-Requisites for One Assignment

You now have the ability to make more than one assignment a pre-requisite of another assignment in ALEKS. For example, you can now make Homework 1 and Homework 2 a prerequisite of Quiz 1, allowing students to work on assignments at their own pace while also completing all necessary work before beginning a Test or Quiz. 

Chemistry

New Organic Chemistry Coverage

In addition to the already available Topics for Organic Chemistry, we've released 21 new Topics covering key concepts such as Newman projections, conformational analysis, chair conformations and ring-flipping, chair nomenclature, basic NMR nomenclature, and how to identify the number of resonances that are expected in a 1H NMR spectrum. We have also added new nomenclature topics for alkynes, dienes, and enynes. 

Spring 2024

Remove Parts and Add Notes to ALEKS Textbook Questions

You will now be able to make customizations to ALEKS Textbook Questions! Include context, such as reminders to round or an explanation of a problem’s wording, to an existing textbook question in ALEKS by including an in-line, instructor-written note. You can also remove parts of a multi-part problem that aren’t relevant or are not at the difficulty level you prefer.