SAM - Best Practices

Lisa Lopez and Karen RavanSpartanburg Community College

Agenda• Creating Sections• Instruction Sheet for Students• Creating and Scheduling Training

with Corresponding Exams• Assigning Projects• Reports

Creating Sections

• Use standard naming conventions for sections for easier location

• Do not allow “auto enroll”• Distribute student instruction sheet for account

creation• Provide institution key in writing• Have students use their LMS login (username and password) for account creation• Have students use their personal e-mail addresses for the SAM profile

Creating Sections (continued)

Creating Sections (continued)

Creating Training

• Auto-generate companion exam to correspond with training at the time of training creation

• Make training “always available” in scheduling• Demonstrate observe, practice, and apply

Creating Training (continued)

Training Module

Demonstrate observe, practice, and apply Demonstrate the use of the “Show Task List” for students

that might be short on time

Creating and Scheduling Exams

• Concepts Tests• Assign a password• “Never make report available” in order to prevent the exam from being printed and

sold to other students in different sections

• Applications Tests• Place a time limit on exams• Limit the number of attempts per questions• Use corresponding training as a review for applications tests

Assigning ProjectsAdjust step weights if necessary.

Reports

Report – Section Results by Exam

Cheating Detection

Cheating Dection (continued)

Any Additional Questions?Lisa Lopez

LopezL@sccsc.eduKaren Ravan

RavanK@sccsc.edu