SAM Learning - Pupil and Parent Guide

Online Revision
Catch-up
Homework
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What is SAMLearning?
Getting started
Choosing a Task
Reviewing Progress
A closer look…
• Sample Tasks
• Online learning activities for pupils.
• Devised by teachers and examiners.
• Specific to different exam boards.
• Useful for:
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Y11 and Y10 exam revision
Long-term absence
Catch-up work
Homework tasks (set by teachers, or optional extension work chosen by pupils or
parents)
• Accessible in school or at home (link from Frog, or direct web address).
• Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4
• Focused on revision and catch-up work.
• SAM claim that time spent on SAM has a direct bearing on GCSE results.
(e.g. 10hrs+ use can mean 1 grade improvement in 2 subjects).
Pupils
Links from Frog.
OR:
www.samlearning.com
Parents
• Centre ID: CB2SV
• User ID: Pupils' usernames are their
date of birth followed by their
initials first & last name.
e.g. If your name is Dave
Brown and were born on
19th July 1998, your login
would be 190798DB.
• Password: Same as username,
unless pupils have made their own.
Please note that the site can be slow to load
and slow to move from one section to the
next. It might appear that nothing is
happening, so please be patient.
Enter your login details here,
then click on “Sign in”.
• There are three ways you can do work on SAM:
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You go on yourself, and pick a task yourself.
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Your teacher tells you which task they want you to do, and you then find
it yourself.
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Your teacher uses SAM to set you work. The task will appear in “Your
Homework” when you login to SAM
1 & 2: FINDING A TASK FOR YOURSELF
Click on relevant Key Stage
Click on relevant Subject
Click on relevant aspect of the subject.
Keep clicking through until you find the task list.
Click on “Go” to see the task
The key symbol is “Key content for grade C”
3. WORKING ON A TASK SET BY YOUR
TEACHER
Any tasks set using the SAM system will appear
in this list when you login.
Click on the task and follow the instructions.
If you want to see what tasks you have
completed and how well you have done,
click on the My Progress tab.
Online Revision
Catch-up
Homework
For more guidance,
please watch the
video by the SAM
link on Frog.
(If accessing this at home, you will
need to download and install
Quicktime to watch this video if it is
not already installed on your
computer)
Sample Tasks
Revise + (Science)
Improve (Maths)
Exam Papers (English)