Features
Easy to use with a friendly interface
ARIS provides an online homework system that has a user friendly interface! Creating assignments is simple. Navigation is clear-cut and straightforward. ARIS is intuitive for both instructors and students.
- The instructor sees exactly what the student sees while building their course – no toggling back and forth from instructor view to student view.
- The ARIS system is set-up so that you can't get lost – there is a fixed toolbar across the top for easy navigation.
- Editing questions or creating questions is as simple as copy/paste or typing the question – learning html code is not needed.
- ARIS has a course wizard to help get the instructor started. Or select one of the predefined assignments created and tested by other professors to really create a quick online course.
- ARIS has an easy to use answer pallet for every question and students enter a formula or answer exactly the way they would on a test.
- As students solve the problems, answers are recorded at the top of the screen directing students along through stepped-out questions.
Robust and interactive problems
ARIS provides a substantial assortment of robust, dependable, and interactive problems which provide tutorial feedback for the student.
- ARIS problems are developed using the same problem solving strategy as the author of the text uses, this eliminates confusion which may arise from the book's process of solving problems and an online system solving the same problem types in a whole different way.
- Instructor has access to all McGraw-Hill textbook questions, not only the book they are using. This provides the instructor with an extensive variety of questions.
- ARIS feedback goes one step above by stepping the student through the math of the problem, much like a Solutions Manual would do.
- ARIS animations are created in the author's vision so it resonates what they are learning in their book.
- All questions are set-up in Flash – a high speed program now used on all computers. Flash produces immediate interaction for the user and eliminates any sluggish delays.
Flexibility in course management
ARIS provides flexibility in course management.
- With ARIS, you have the option to view your students' progress online or export your grade book into Excel, WebCT or BlackBoard.
- You have the flexibility to adjust your student's grades, simply adjust a grade individually or your can discard a question and the system will automatically adjust all students' scores.
- Sharing your course is also effortless; with a few clicks you can send your course to your colleagues.
Visual Reporting
Innovative, at-a-glance dashboard reports on student performance at the section and multi-section course level.
Item Analysis
Detailed information on how students are performing on individual questions and learning objectives/outcomes.
Managing Individual Assignment Parameters
Greater instructor control for creating individualized assignment parameters for individual students, special populations, and groups of students, and for managing specific or ad hoc course events.
