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PLATO Learning has also developed a new tool that can check your computer for compatibility. Please visit Plato System Requirements Checker and click on the PLE System Requirements file. Please be aware that the Sun JRE is typically NOT required and an older plug in. If your computer does not pass that in the checker, please skip it and consider it a non-issue for what we offer.

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Some Plato courses/content offer pre-tests. If applicable, once the student takes a pre-test, the program will mark sections as exempt if the student passes. Pre-tests are optional per student/parent decision. Even if the student is exempted, the material is still accessible if the parent deems practice necessary. The pre-test does not count against the student.

Our set-up is a bit different than the typical school student set up. Since this is a student subscription only (we give you a link to the instructor resource materials but you do not have a teacher subscription) your student will not have access to any offline teacher grading. If the Plato system doesn't grade it automatically, then you as the parent will be the grader. The instructor resource materials provide either an answer key, rubric to guide you or as the teacher you will use your own judgment. In addition, there are no online discussions. Since this is for homeschoolers, discussions will need to happen in the home between the student and parent. Similarly, our students do not have access to the Drop Box or message feature since there is not a teacher on the other end to respond.

In a typical school setting, a district purchases Plato curriculum and has teachers assigned to implement it. The Co-op is providing the material to homeschoolers but there isn't a certified, paid teacher assigned to facilitate that account. We are more than happy to assist with technical issues but there are not teachers for each account. Anything graded automatically by the Plato system will be found in the student progress report. Any offline grading will need to be kept track of offline by the parent. The steps for locating this student progress report are found in our FAQ.

Due to programming issues, we do not have PLATO renewals. Here is a simple fix we suggest:

1. Save the progress report in your current PLATO course to your hard drive before your subscription expires.

2. Purchase a new subscription to the same course.

3. Using the progress report from the previous subscription, your student may pick up where they left off. You may combine a progress report from both subscriptions to have a complete picture of your student's work online with PLATO.

Log into your PLATO student account. In either the Active Word or All My Work Section, click on the Create Progress report in a class. Or if you click on All My Work, this will bring up everything for that class and in the upper right is a button that says: View Progress Report. Clicking on this link will bring up a pdf that may be saved and/or printed off for your records.

*IF applicable*, the E means that your student did well enough in the pretest to exempt a section(s). You may choose to skip the section or work through the content. Some parents choose to have their student do everything regardless of the pre-test results. Additionally, some courses do not have pre/post tests, but instead of auto-mastery and auto-grading within the content.

No. PLATO courses are designed for use by a single student. The system does not differentiate between two different students taking the same course unless two separate subscriptions are purchased. If you have two students who need to take Biology, for example, you should purchase two Biology courses. If you attempt to have multiple students share the same subscription, we will be unable to provide technical support for the problems this creates.

You are always welcome to order as many as you would like. However due to the programming set-up for each subscription, you will have to place two separate orders if you would like more than one of an item. In other words, you can never put any other number besides a 1 in the QTY box. Likewise, if you order a pack with more than one course, each course must be different. You may not choose two of the same courses in a package. We recognize this may cause some confusion and apologize but want to make sure you receive everything you purchase.

At the top right of the screen you will see a log-out button. It is very important when your time slot is over that you log-out. We really appreciate your courtesy to other members in doing this.

Completing the tutorial/lesson that corresponds with the application and practice tests will unlock these. First do the tutorial and then you may proceed to any additional activities/options for that section.

In PLATO content, the system defined mastery criteria for mastery tests is 80% and cannot be changed. However in the Instructor resource materials, there is often a unit test that you can print off and an answer key. If these are available, you may print these out and use your own percentage for mastery.

No. Since the unit post test is a cumulative review from all the chapters in that unit, once it is done, the test is locked, regardless of the score. Options:

1. In the instructor resource materials, there are usually printable unit tests with answer keys (see steps below to access the printable unit tests). You may have your student do the offline printable unit test in place of an online unit test or to help prepare for the online unit test. Any scores earned from an offline unit test would need to be recorded offline by the parent as well.

2. If there is a unit test in your student's course, we can reset a unit post-test however the student's score and progress will be cleared and they will have to start at the beginning of the unit test. We want to make sure you understand this before requesting that we reset a unit post-test.

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