Can I set a student to a different lesson?

Teachers have the ability to move students around in the course, as they feel appropriate.  When using Acellus for initial credit, we recommend that you allow students to move from lesson to lesson in the order prescribed by the syllabus.  Acellus is designed to take a student through all the concepts of each course, beginning with the most basic concepts, and moving as quickly as the student is able to go through the entire course. Using Acellus in this way ensures that the gaps in a student’s knowledge are filled. Skipping lessons limits the deficiency diagnostics that happens natively in the system.

However, from time to time a situation arises in which moving the student is the best option. Please be aware that when you reposition a student, the student will start from the point in the course where you place them and move forward from there.

To “reposition” a student in the Acellus Program, follow these steps:

First make sure that the student has exited the Acellus program.

Next, if you have not already done so, open the Acellus App (or open a browser to www.acellus.com) and sign into the Acellus Teacher Interface using your GoldKey.

Select Classes.

Next, select the class to which the student belongs.

Now, choose “Reposition a Student.” (This is located on the light-blue bar below the gray button bar.)

For each student, use the pull-down list to choose the Step you wish the student to do next (video steps have the same name as problem steps; video steps appear before problem steps).

Finally, click on the “Reposition Students” button at the bottom of the page.

An alternative to repositioning is the “repeat steps” option, which allows you to specify individual steps in the course that you want a student(s) to repeat. In this case, the student(s) will finish whatever step they are currently on, then will be temporarily diverted to do the step(s) you marked for them, then will return to the next step they would have done if you had not set them to repeat steps.