MCCKAP: Administrator Instructions

To allow your fellows access to the MCCKAP examination, you will have to enter their information into the SCCM’s Online Learning Director Portal. In order to do this, please log into your MySCCM profile page as early as possible before beginning the examination; the examination goes live Tuesday, March 9, 2021, at 7:00 a.m. Central Daylight Time. No one will have access to the examination until that time. If you do not have your login information readily available, please use the “Forgot Customer ID or Password” link on the MySCCM login page to retrieve it.

After logging into your MySCCM page, click the “Director Resource” link located in the upper righthand portion of your profile page. This link will take you to the SCCM Online Learning Director Portal. Once in the portal, find the MCCKAP examination icon and click the “Manage Course” button.

To enroll fellows in the examination, you will have to search for them in the “Find Your Students” search engine. Enter their first name, last name, and, if available, email address, and click the “Search for Student” button. Please check the returned results for your fellow. Once you find them in the list, please use the pulldown menu to fill out the following fields: Post Graduate Year and Specialty. Once you have filled in those fields, click the “Enroll” button.

If you are unable to locate your fellow in the returned results or no results are returned, then scroll down the page until you find the “Create New Student” button. *Please note that even if your fellow previously took the MCCKAP examination, they may not show up in the search results.* Once on the Create New Student screen, please fill in your fellow’s First Name, Last Name, Profession, Program Year, Specialty, and Email, and click the “Create Account and Email Student” button. This will add the fellow to the Current Students list and deploy an email to the fellow informing them that they are enrolled in the MCCKAP examination, providing a link for them to login to their MySCCM accounts, and displaying their MySCCM ID. 

PLEASE INFORM YOUR FELLOWS TO KEEP THIS EMAIL UNTIL THEY HAVE LOGGED INTO THE EXAMINATION AS IT CONTAINS THE ID NEEDED TO LOGIN TO THE EXAMINATION.

If a fellow does not receive their login information email by the start of the examination or loses it, the program director can go back into the SCCM Online Learning Director Portal through their MySCCM account and remove the student from the Current Students list and then re-add them through the aforementioned process. This will prompt the system to generate and send a new email. Also, please have your fellow check their spam/junk folders for the email.

Once you have added all your fellows into the Current Students list, there is nothing further to do in order to grant them access to the examination. By entering their information into your Current Students list, you have prompted the system to create a grant that will be active from the beginning of the testing window until the end of the testing window.

On the day of the examination, fellows should open the email containing the link to their MySCCM page and their ID. They should click the link to be taken to the MySCCM login page and input the ID listed in the email. 

For the password field:

• If the fellow already has a MySCCM account, they can enter their existing password. 
• If they do not have a MySCCM account, the password field defaults to the fellow’s last name, using the case as entered by the program director, plus the number 1. For example, if a fellow’s last name was entered as Sullivan, then the password would be Sullivan1. And if a fellow’s last name was entered as sullivan, then the password would be sullivan1.
• Also, if a fellow’s last name has less than 7 characters, please use the number one to fill out the password field until 7 characters are entered. For example, if a fellow’s last name was entered as Smith, then the password would be Smith11. And if a fellow’s last name was entered as smith, then the password would be smith11.
• If you are unable to log the fellow in, please use the “Forgot Customer ID or Password” link on the MySCCM login page.

Once the fellow is logged into their MySCCM page, they should click the “My Learning” link. In My Learning, there will be a link for the MCCKAP examination. This link will take the fellow to the examination portal. In the examination portal, the fellow should click the Assessments link in the upper left corner. Then they will see the 2021 MCCKAP, Adult or 2021 MCCKAP, Pediatric exams listed as an Available Exam. They must click Start Assessment to begin the examination.

Fellows have 4 hours to complete the entire 200-item examination, including an optional break of up to 60 minutes (5 hours total). To take a break, fellows must click the PAUSE button in the top right corner. Following the break, they must click RESUME EXAM to continue. While there will be periodic reminders of how much time is remaining, there is no reminder given for the break period; proctors are expected to track their time remaining for any breaks granted themselves.

In person: It is recommended that a proctor be present at all times during administration of the examination. The proctor should inform fellows that there is an optional break time of up to 60 minutes available during the examination. It is not necessary for all fellows to take the break simultaneously. The proctor should give directions on where fellows should go for break and advise them that the security of the examination must be maintained at all times. Proctors are expected to track the break time. The system will not do that for them.

The proctor must ensure that examinees work independently. Spoken or written communication between fellows during the examination is prohibited. If this occurs, the proctor must disqualify those involved and verify that they log out of the examination immediately and leave the site.

The proctor must ensure that examination materials are not printed or copied and that fellows do not attempt to email them to anyone. Both actions are a serious breach of examination security.

Virtually: While it is recommended that all examinations be taken in a proctored environment, a setting that will best prepare participants for the subspecialty board examination, the proctoring milieu will be left to the discretion of the program director. In the event a remote, virtual administration of the examination is desired, program directors should remind fellows that they will be expected to abide by the honor system.

Fellows must click the SUBMIT EXAM button to complete their examination and view their preliminary results. These can be viewed or printed. Clicking View Score Report Summary opens a PDF file that shows references and keywords pertaining to missed questions. Please note that this report is only available to the fellow initially. Once scores are finalized, program directors will also have access.

Proctors may view a fellow’s progress by selecting the fellow from the User list and then clicking on Exam History. All results should be considered preliminary until the final score reports are made available through the test administration page within five to seven weeks after the examination.

The examination will close at 11:59 p.m. Central Time on March 16, 2021, unless the administrator has made special arrangements with SCCM. Please note that after 5:00 pm Central on March 16 there will not be any customer service support. Calls will be taken the next day.