MIS 300 Management Information Systems: Concepts and Applications

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MIS 300 Management Information SystemsConcepts
and Applications

• Yong Choi
• School of Business Administration
• CSU, Bakersfield

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First Announcement

• If you have not registered for this class, please
  leave this room as quiet as possible.
• Please follow your official class time no
  change of section

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Instructor

• Name Yong Choi, PhD
• Office BDC 142
• Office Hours on the class website
• Phone (661) 654 - 6691
• Email ychoi2_at_csub.edu
• No email checking during weekend

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Course Materials

• Textbook
• Management Information Systems for the
  Information Age, by Haag and Cummings, 8th
  Edition, 2008, Irwin-McGraw Hill. ISBN
  9780073376783
• Buy thru the Internet
• See the next slide

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Website for Course

• Tour of the course website NOW!
• You can download almost every class material from
  the course website..
• http//www.csub.edu/ychoi2

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Tour of Blackboard

• Tour of the course website NOW!
• http//www.csub.edu/els/bb9/
• You must SELF-ENROLL to the course Bb.
• Try How to Enroll in a Blackboard Course on the
  university Blackboard website
• Take the quiz and submit the assignment/exam
  through the course Blackboard

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Course Description

• Designed for a student who has minimum computer
  background.
• Industry minimum requirements
• Create and manage database system
• Develop spread sheet based DSS
• Construct website
• Learn about emerging technology (GIS)
• Lecture, Project, Discussion, and Computer
  Application Development.

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Goal of the Course 1

• Learn-by-doing
• Just like Math
• Technical MIS knowledge cannot be learned by
  reading
• Master essential knowledge of MIS
• Required for in-class project / assignment /
  exams

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Course Description 2

• Class format
• Hybrid in-class and online
• In-class hands-on class project
• Database System Development
• Decision Support System Development
• E-Commerce Development
• Online managerial concepts of MIS
• Terms, definitions, implications, and so on.
• Learn about principles of Geographic Information
  System

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About MIS Lab

• DO NOT TRY TO FIX THE COMPUTER!!
• You will never be penalized because of technical
  problems of this classroom.
• Make sure the Internet connection of your
  computer works!
• Bring a flash (stick) memory to save your work

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MIS Lab Security Policy

• IT and Deans office established an official
  security policy.
• Students are not allowed to stay in the MIS Lab
  without a faculty member present.
• Students will not be allowed to loan the MIS lab
  proxy card under no circumstances.
• There are no exceptions to this rule.
• Contact the Deans office if you have questions
  or suggestions about this policy

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Submission 1

• You must submit all the assignment, the project,
  and the midterm exam through the Blackboard
  submission link. Otherwise, it will not be
  accepted.

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Submission 2

• If youd like to avoid any type of possible
  technical problems, please submit using a PC in
  the school computer lab
• And also try to submit at least two days before
  the due date.

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Submission 3

• When you submit an assignment (or exam), you MUST
  CLOSE the Microsoft office application (i.e.,
  Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Access) COMPLETELY
  before you submit ASSIGNMENT (OR EXAM) FILES.
• Otherwise, you will receive ZERO POINT because
  Blackboard cannot process and accept "Completed
  Whole Assignment (or Exam) Files."

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Submission 4

• That is, ONLY title of you file will be processed
  and accepted without including actual contents of
  your assignment (or exam).
• And if an assignment requires submit several
  files, you must submit all files together at
  once. That is, you must "UPLOAD" all the
  assignment files together at once.

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Course Guideline 1

• Class Attendance
• Is required
• More than two absences will significantly
  negatively impact your final grade.
• Notify me first by email prior to the absence.
• Miss a class because of a documentable illness or
  other reasonable cause, I will provide help.
  Otherwise, I do not repeat any lectures, labs
• The attendance will be checked.

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Course Guideline 2

• The Blackboard email is the ONLY official email
• Every MIS 300 student is issued a Blackboard
  email account.
• It is the student's responsibility to regularly
  check his or her Blackboard email to stay current
  with MIS 300 course communications.
• If you email me using your private email after 10
  days of the first class, I will not reply..

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Course Guideline 3

• No interference
• Surfing the Internet without permission
• Typing (email, paper) and cell phone texting
• Talking to classmates during the lectures - If
  you have any question, let your instructor know
  directly. Do not discuss your questions with your
  neighbors
• Bottom linedo not distract others
• Up to 30 of your total score can be deducted
  depending on the level of interference.

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Course Guideline 4

• Bathroom Policy
• Need to go to the bathroom?
• Stand next to the printer and then wait for my
  signal.
• Best! Wait until the Break
• If you violet this policy, minimum 10 (based on
  total score) will be applied.

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Course Guideline 5

• Late Policy
• All Students must be on time to the class.
• If you late more than 20 minutes without any
  notification (at least 24hours), then it will be
  considered as ABSENCE.
• If you violet this policy, minimum 10 (based on
  total score) will be applied.

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Course Guideline 6

• CSUB policy
• Faculty have a fundamental responsibility to
  maintain the integrity of the learning
  environment. When confronted by unreasonable
  disruption in the classroom, faculty are expected
  to initiate actions to correct such conditions.
  Such actions may result in disciplinary action
  ranging from removal from the classroom to formal
  disciplinary sanctions, including probation,
  suspension, or expulsion.

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Course Guideline 7

• Peer Group Evaluation is a part of the grading
  scheme.
• Your evaluation is 100 confidential.
• To prevent free riding in the group, the
  contribution of each member will be assessed.
• Each member is expected to submit a peer group
  evaluation at the end of the quarter.
• No one will be allowed to see your evaluation.
• Please remember that your final grade can be up
  or down graded based on the evaluation result.

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Course Guideline 8

• Microsoft Office is the ONLY official software
  for our university (No Microsoft Works allowed).
• Any work submitted not using Microsoft Office
  will not be accepted.

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Course Guideline 9

• Late work
• will be penalized (25 each day late)
• Failure to submit an assignment by the deadline
  will result in a grade of 0.
• A written excuses from the appropriate person
  such as a medical doctor is the only acceptable
  form of excuse.

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Course Guideline 10

• Office hours
• Please DO NOT try to use office hours to make up
  for a missed class (I do not repeat any
  lectures).
• You must be able to demonstrate you have already
  put a reasonable effort into solving and/or
  analyzing the problems.
• Honor code
• Classroom conduct
• Everyone is equal.

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Quiz

• Each quiz worth 3 points.
• In order to pass the quiz, your score must be 25
  out of 40. 
• That is, if you pass the quiz, you can earn 3
  points. 
• If you fail (less than 25), you earn nothing
  (zero point).

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Quiz (cont)

• Allowed to try the quiz two times.
• Must be finished in two hours
• Each quiz due date is available from the class
  website. 
• The quiz is NOT available after the due date. 
• Worst two quiz scores will be dropped.

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Assignment

• Total 5 assignments
• Database
• DSS development using Excel
• Geographic information systems

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Group Activity EC project

• 1st part of EC project Proposal
• Establish your own E-Commerce
• Examples are available on our class web page.
• 2nd part of EC project
• Website development based on the proposal
• You are required to develop your own E-Commerce
  website based on your proposal
• Submit both proposal and website through
  Blackboard

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Evaluation and Grading

• Points scales are subject to change
• Quiz (drop one worst quiz) 15 points
• Group Case Discussion 20 points
• Assignment 35 Points
• EC Project 20 points
• Midterm 50 points
• Final Exam 50 points
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• Total 190 points