After setting up your SAM course, create links from Canvas™ to activities or other content in SAM. Linked graded activities are included in the Canvas gradebook unless you choose to exclude them.
Before adding links to SAM
activities, make sure your SAM course is set up the
way you want it.
- Add and organize the assigned activities and course materials for your SAM course.
- Configure assignment settings such as grading, attempts, feedback, time limits, due
dates, point
values, and grade categories.
Best Practice Use consistent assignment settings and a consistent schedule
for due dates and times.
- Prerequisites
- Integrate SAM With Your Canvas Course
Links created in this way are sometimes called deep links because they
are not just web links but allow data to be exchanged between Canvas and SAM.
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Open your Canvas course.
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From the course navigation, click Cengage.
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Select your linked SAM course from the list of
content sources.
A list of assigned activities for your linked SAM course is shown.
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Select activities to include in your course.
Activities that have already been added are marked . To avoid
duplicate activity links and gradebook columns, do not import the same activity
twice.
By default, when you include a graded activity it is
added to the Canvas gradebook.
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Configure grade syncing with Canvas.
Note Depending on your course and Canvas configuration, some
of the following options might not be available.
To do this |
Do this |
Add a graded activity to the Canvas
gradebook |
Select Add to Gradebook for the
activity. |
Exclude a graded activity from the Canvas
gradebook |
Clear Add to Gradebook for the
activity. |
Add a graded activity to the Canvas gradebook
without adding the activity link |
- Select Add to Gradebook.
- Clear Add to Course.
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Sync only the overall course score and not individual activity
scores |
- Click .
- Click Synchronize Overall Course
Score.
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Sync individual activity scores (after previously choosing to sync
the course score) |
- Click .
- Click Synchronize Individual Activity
Scores.
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Click Continue.
The selected links are added to the module.
If needed, you can reorganize the links in Canvas.