Good practice guides and tip sheets have been developed to support quality in both curriculum design and teaching practice. Good
practice guides provide a pedagogical overview and tip sheets provide you with practical strategies and ideas for implementation. Links to assessment-related resources are provided below.
Click on the View SAM link – as a web page or as a PDF
Review the SAM. The steps here will differ depending on if you doing an Admin or Academic review.
Admin review (this is a quick check that should take about 2 mins per SAM)
Specific areas:
There are no missing sections – look for RED text
There is no obviously incorrect content and formatting
At least one Topic availability is selected
Where > 1 Topic availability is selected, they have similar start and finish dates
Dates are for the current year
Marks add up to 100%
Each Topic learning outcome is aligned to at least one assessment item
Academic review
Primary focus is:
Makes sense to students and is reasonable
Is consistent with University policy
Specific areas to review
Expected student workload
Assessment details
Criteria for Successful Completion
Alignments of assessment to Outcomes
For Academic review, if an update to the content is needed, click the Reject button.
You will need to enter a comment. Please explain what changes are needed.
Note: The message can be seen by Topics Coordinators and moderators – it is stored for future reference.
Next, choose who needs to make the update:
Admin moderator – for simple edits
Original Contributor – if the Topic Coordinator needs to update it
Redrafting a live or rejected SAM (administrators only)
In the Actions section, click on Redraft this version
Editing mode will launch. Navigate through the SAM using either the buttons at the bottom of each page, or by clicking the section links in the menu on the right-hand side.
Once you have made all of your changes, click the Save and Exit button in the top-right corner. You do not need to click Save and Continue as you navigate between sections.
When you click Save and Exit, a window will pop up allowing you to submit the SAM for moderation, save a draft for later or cancel your changes.
Deleting a draft SAM (administrators only)
In the Actions section, click on click on Delete this version.