Projects:The only way to learn Office skills is

to apply them

Presented by: Kristin TaggartSr. Technology Marketing Manager

Today’s Agenda

• What is SAM Projects?

• Why do students need this?

• Why do YOU need this?

• The “textbook” connection

• What’s next for SAM?

SAM Projects

• Live in the application

• Automatically graded

• Ties to your end-of-chapter material

• Fully integrated into SAM “system”

Student Benefits…

• Accurate, Immediate, Detailed feedback

• Hands-on assignments:– Word– Excel– PowerPoint

• Learning is enhanced

“Employable Skills”

10. Detail oriented

11. Computer Skills

12. Flexibility/Adaptability

13. Motivation/Initiative

6. Analytical Skills

5. Teamwork skills

6. Strong Work Ethic

7. Interpersonal Skills

8. Honesty/Integrity

1. Communication Skills

Source: Nat’l Assoc of Colleges & Employers—Job Outlook (2006)

Instructor Benefits

• Web-based technology

• Series of increasingly difficult projects

• Automatically graded to secure site, within minutes

• Embedded comments

• Report and detection of file

• Allow you to focus on teaching!

Well….let’s see it!

The State of SAM

• June 30th release– Deeper assessment content– Re-introduction to SAM Training– Greater system stability– Reports enhancements– Interface enhancements

The Textbook link• Premium Video Editions

– Integration of more video to help students learn

– Capstone appendix– SAM Projects appendix– All testbank content for these titles in

SAM

• For more information:

http://www.cengage.com/ct/officepve• Many other titles in SAM! (Ask your sales

rep for details)

Resources• SAM Central

– http://samcentral.course.com

• TLC Website– http://academic.cengage.com/tlc

• SAM—the product– http://sam2007.course.com

• Premium Video Editions site– http://www.cengage.com/ct/officepve

• CourseCoach– www.course.com/coursecoach

SAM 2007: Projects

We hope you will “apply” this to your courses for

Fall!