SAM (The Scheduling, Allocating and Monitoring System)
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF TOOL
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This subsystem of the Student Information System (SIS) has 
three major components. The first component maintains 
demographic information for faculty and college facilities. 
The second component includes the development of the class 
schedule. The third major component provides on-line access 
to faculty teaching schedules and college facilities 
utilization. In addition, SAM supports users through its 
reporting capabilities and on-line documentation.


IMPORTANT FEATURES OF TOOL
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Each new class schedule can be created by rolling selected 
features of a previous term's class schedule. Then SAM 
provides an interactive method for fine-tuning the building 
of this schedule. During the process, SAM checks for 
available faculty and facilities via room locations. These 
features help prevent unwanted time conflicts in scheduling 
faculty and rooms and provide accurate information for the 
final printed schedule. When properly and diligently used 
this system prevents extensive paper shuffling and 
duplication of effort regarding the impoltant task of 
scheduling and coordinating faculty, time, location, and 
reporting SAM also reduces the arnount of time necessary to 
produce a "printer ready" schedule, thus contributing to 
cost effectiveness.


WHO WOULD USE THIS TOOL?
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This system is used by personnel responsible for scheduling 
courses at each college. It is also available to faculty and 
administrative staff.


HOW DOES THE TOOL SUPPORT EFFECTIVE TEACHlNG AND LEARNING?
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The SAM System is a necessary and basic support for the 
teaching and learning process because it provides a 
coordinating system for determining the allotment of our 
faculty and facility resources and aids in the presentation 
of our schedules which are used by all students.

CONTACT PERSONS
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The Curriculum Technicians on each college.

Frances Sparkes Colley, DIST/ITS           731-0060

Members of the SAM User's group actively participate as a 
team to continually analyze problems and enhancements to the 
system. Experiences and expertise are willingly and 
generously shared. An A1 Distribution Iist (@HELP_ SAM) is 
available for anyone in need of help or information 
regarding SAM. Contact the SAM Users Group Co-Chairs for 
more information. 

Sandy McLaws, MCC             461-7416
Kathie Hawkins, SMCC     243-8046