SAM Assignments

 

 

 

 

The SAM Assignments provide training on the MS Office applications. They are coordinated with the chapters in your lab textbook. For example SAM E1 - Excel 1 covers the skills presented in the first chapter in the Excel lab book.

It is highly recommended that you complete the SAM tutorials before you attempt the assignments in the lab books. The following picture shows you the list of lab assignments.

  1. Complete SAM E1 Tutorial
  2. Complete SAM E1 Exam
  3. Complete Excel lab assignment from Chapter 1 of the Excel lab book

and so on ...

IMPORTANT!: To earn credit for the SAM assignments you need to complete the Apply section in SAM training and then complete the SAM Exam for that training.  The SAM Test will not be listed as available until you complete ALL the steps in the Apply section. You may need to refresh the SAM assignments page to see the SAM Exam. It will be displayed automatically the next time you log into the SAM site.

Typically you will want to do the following in this order:

  1. Complete the Observe training
  2. Complete the Practice training
  3. Complete the Apply training
  4. Complete the correspondingExam

Remember only the Exam earns points.

BE SURE TO CLICK EXIT on the navigation bar to save your training progress. If you fail to click the Exit button your training session will not be saved and you will not receive credit for completing it!

Tips

  • If you are familiar with the topic you can try to complete the Apply part without completing the Observe or Practice part.
  • If you have trouble completing the Apply part or Exam you should review the Observe or Practice part of the training
  • You can Exit SAM without completing all the training topics. Be sure to click the Exit button
  • You can go directly to any training topic by clicking View All

 

The following screen shows all the SAM tutorials available and lists the corresponding lab tutorial associated with it. In this example the student has completed the the SAM E1 Training and they now see the SAM E1 Exam. The check mark to the left indicates that the assignment has been completed.

View Before SAM E1 training is completed

 

 

 

View After SAM E1 training is complete. Notice the check mark indicating that all training tasks were completed and now showing the SAM E1 Exam is available.

 

 

Always click the EXIT button to quit SAM - see the red highlighted area at the bottom right of the screen below.
Failure to click the EXIT button may cause loss of SAM training or exam results. If this happens you will have to repeat the training or exam.

 

You will then see the first of two confirmation screens. Click Yes on this one.

 

Then you will see this screen and click Close. You do not need to print.

 

 

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