First I think convincing them to do it will probably take testing. Using some other course will probably not be good enough because they may not see exactly how it fits in with their curriculum.
The way we were able to get credit for the work our ds did in Aleks was through reports and assessments generated in Aleks - there's a report option you can do that will show you the modules mastered and specifically ties them to your individual state curriculum standards for math - which our school district ties their curriculum into. So if a child needed to have accomplished graphing a quadratic equation, for instance, it's easy to see from an Aleks report that yes, they have "mastered" that skill or passed an assessment that tested the skill.
Another thing people can do when looking for online or supplemental math curriculum is to google around on your school district's website - our district has quite a bit of info online. Part of the reason we chose Aleks was that we found it had been one of three online programs that were top contenders when our school district evaluated online math programs for supplementing middle school math. It wasn't ultimately chosen but it received high praise in the report issued, hence we figured that it would be difficult for school staff to argue we'd just picked a program willy-nilly without having a clue what we were doing.
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