Schedule a Critical Thinking Challenge exam to help students build critical thinking skills. In this exam type, students are given a scenario and challenged to achieve the best results based on a series of decisions.
Critical Thinking Challenge exams are available only for Office 2019 and Office 365/2021.
- From MindTap, click + Add / Create > Activity > SAM-Assignment.
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Click Exams.
The Exams page lists all existing exams.
To do this Do this View exams from this course. Click Exams in this course. View exams from other courses. Click Other Exams. Sort the list Click a column heading. Preview an exam Click beside the exam name. Find a specific exam Type part of the exam name in the search box. - To view only Critical Thinking Challenge exams, click T4S Critical Thinking.
- Click next to an exam.
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Set the options for the exam.
- Assignment Name
- Unique name for your assignment.
- Instructions
- Additional instructions for students.
- Scoring and Delivery Options
- Configure your exam.
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- Allow SAM exam to be retaken
- Students can retake the exam 1-50 times before submitting it for a final grade.
- Modify Scoring
- Adjust the points students earn for making sub-optimal or incorrect choices in the critical thinking scenario. Correct choices are scored at 100%.
- Display results at end of exam
- Show students their score after they finish the exam.
- Specify password for student access
- Prevent students from starting until they enter a
password that you provide.
Best Practice Leave this field blank and set a password in the Assign to Course window. Passwords set in that step are easier to retrieve and edit.
- Specify when students can view reports
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- Never make reports available to students
- Make student reports always available beginning 12:00 AM
Select the first date on which reports are available.
- Make student reports available
Select both start and end dates and times for reports to be available.
- Click Save.
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In the Editing
Activity window, set the activity title, description, dates, and location in the
learning path to assign the activity to your course.
- Title
- Label for the activity in the learning path.
- Description
- Information or instructions displayed when the activity is opened.
- Require Password
- Password protection for scoreable activities to prevent students from accessing them ahead of time.
- Available Date
- When students can start work on the activity.
- Due Date
- When students must end work on the activity.
- Associated Topic
- Textbook topic related to the activity.
- Order Within Topic
- Position in the learning path under the specified topic.
- Click Add.