BA 1800--Computers and Information Systems

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TUTOR SCHEDULES:  Tutors are available in the SSB 103 lab with see their  scheduled hours at the BA1800 website by Course Coordinator Mimi Duncan
General Information webpage help, programming and more from Dr. Vicki Sauter

Course Description:

Course Materials:

Shrink-wrapped collection of textbooks: Windows NT; WORD; EXCEL; PowerPoint; ACCESS  Internet & The World Wide Web; Computer Confluence. Handouts and videotutorials.

There is a Publisher website related to the textbooks  Confluence and Office XP

Required:

Approximate Schedule:

Week 1   Overview, Navigating in Windows 2000 See the Video in Windows Exercise        
            Self-Study      elementary hardware and DOS files                  Confluence, 1,2,3,4

                Hardware, I/O, Storage Devices, Harddrive Housekeeping  Confluence
                Computer Crimes/Computer Viruses--Detect & Prevent.

Week 2          WWW browsing & Downloads, Student demo's of different Email systems(I prefer Eudora) Confluence Chapters 6&7 (Read)WWW

                To find your email userID goto gatewayid.umsl.edu and put in your SN & SSN

Week 3-4        WORD, cut and paste, tables and styles. WORD Video Tutorials

                Paragraph and character styles, Large Documents and Global editing

                Excellent tutorial on styles in WORD at Microsoft site

                Here is the page on Indexing WORD Documents.

                See How to make a concordance file from an existing embedded index in Microsoft WORD.

Week 5          EXCEL general,formula design EXCEL Relative & Absolute addressing

                Exercise 1, jobrate,

 Weeks 6-8       Exercise 2, Gradesheet-- Import data, grddat.csv,
                Spreadsheet analysis, graphing Tutorials, Sorting , handouts

Week 9          Merge Assignment

Navigating in Powerpoint  see the downloadable powerpoint tutorials from the textbook. The tutorials specifically for the Powerpoint book are a little more than those for the Office 2000 Book.  The assignment is to generate a powerpoint show with at least 6 slides. It can be anything you want. You will upload the file to your website and put a prominent link on the index.html page so I can download the powerpoint show and will grade it at the same time as the webpages.
Email  submissions are not acceptable for any assignment unless specified.

Weeks 13-15  ACCESS Relational Databases-- Links to US Government databases  and other data contributed by students as part of the exercise so we can study them in ACCESS.
                            Here is a description of the Access exercise
                            Here is a description of using Winzip or FTP to help working with large files
 

Pictures: Use these on your webpages if you want. classroom

 

Switching sections is not allowed unless there is a good reason and prior permission. Taking an exam at a later time than prescribed may result in a grade penalty. Doing so without permission may result in a zero grade for the exam.

Drop Dead     Topic                                           Points (400 total for lab)
Due Date
Aug 27       Windows Disk                                            20
Sep 8        WWW Browsing file- E-mailed                             20
Oct 1        WORD disk                                               70
Oct 8        E-mail Exam 1 question                                  10
Oct 13       EXCEL Assignment 1, 3-4 printouts & discussion          50
Oct 29       EXCEL Assignment 2, 2 Printouts & merge printout        80

Nov 19       WWW Homepage on the web- E-mail a link                  50

Nov 19       Powerpoint on web                                       30

Dec 8        ACCESS assignment                                       60

Dec 8        E-Mail Exam 2 Question                                  10

Exams (see example questions)

cover books, lectures, supplemental readings, handouts and lab assignments. Exams are closed book and closed notes. No make-up exams or switching sections without prior permission. A grade of zero will be assigned for exams missed without prior consent.You are expected to know definitions and terms. Exams consist of 50 multiple choice questions some of  which may be selected/adapted from student-submitted questions & questions from the books related to class material. Study groups and sharing information on submitted questions should be beneficial.

Exams are designed and analyzed to detect collaboration and other cheating. Cheating on exams or assignments will result in a degrading experience.

Quizzes are short, unannounced, and may require a disk. You are allowed to consult with others about the quizzes in class. There are no make-ups. No switching sections without prior permission. Quizzes must be turned in by the end of class signed with full name and student number in legible handwriting. Lab Assignments will require that you spend time outside of class. Expect to spend a minimum of two hours for every hour of class time for this course. Formal lab periods have been eliminated, but you are expected to make use of the SSB103 lab. Attendants in the computer labs can only help with general questions.

TUTOR SCHEDULES:  Tutors are available in the SSB 103 lab with scheduled hours listed at Mimi Duncan's Course Coordinator Website
Drop Dead dates for the assignments allow extra time for the myriad difficulties inherent in technological pursuits (i.e. %$#@! computers), illness, and other delays. Plan to finish and turn in assignments before these "drop-dead" dates to avoid getting zeroes for late and missing assignments. Late assignments won't be accepted or will be discounted unless there is prior permission. Working together can be very useful, but it is very important to actually do the exercises yourself and understand what's going on. Consult with others, but generate your own data and submit only your own work. Note that the exercises are designed to be personalized to some degree to encourage this. If assignments submitted are very similar in form and substance to someone else's then both parties will receive an F in the course and be subject to formal University disciplinary procedures which could lead to expulsion..

The assignment due dates are very liberal. In extraordinary cases, I may give permission to turn in an exercise after the drop dead date. However, if you are given another day or two to do the assignment, Do it immediately and turn it in at my office or mailbox on CCB second floor, as I will not accept it after other people's assignments are returned.   Please note only certain assignments are submitted by email. Because of the admixture with large amounts of spam, concern for viruses in attachments and practical problems with handling, editing and printing out thousands of assignments every semester, submission of other assignments by email is not acceptable.  Also please note that "extra credit" is not awarded to people who don't complete the basic assignment.

Submission of Multiple Choice exam questions:
These are easy points, but you have to follow these specifications to get credit

• Part of the purpose in this is to get you to think about what is important in the course.
• The basic requirement is two multiple choice questions and earns 10 points.
• Questions are due by E-mail to ba1800 @ budbanis ,com It's important to put your name and "exam questions" in the subject line. Late questions will be penalized. Questions that are too late to be included in the exam will not be accepted. If I can't tell who sent them, there will be no credit.
• The E-mail must be identified, and your return address must be correct so that you receive my reply or a notification that it didn't get delivered. You are responsible for making it work. If I don't get it, you don't either.   Use your Eudora E-mail disk, or some other method assuring a correct return address with a name rather than just a student number/user ID. I may discount or reject messages that aren't properly identified and /or don't have correct return addresses even if they are identified in the body of the message. Learning how to use E-mail effectively is a basic skill you are expected to demonstrate.
• Exam questions are multiple choice. There must be at least five choices, with the correct answer indicated.
• Questions must be unique. Some redundancy is unavoidable, but too much similarity in form and substance to book questions or another student's could result in loss of credit for both students. copies of example questions or quiz questions will garner no gain.
• Avoid plagiarism, copyright issues. Don't submit someone else's work or questions from the books.
• Hit important concepts rather than just interesting trivia. Try to avoid being misleading or depending on fine shades of meaning, or "tricky wording".
• I will assume permission to use/modify the question freely, including making it available as a public set of example questions unless you indicate otherwise.
• Check the Example questions for models.

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