M&IS 24060: Systems Analysis I, Fall 2002

Section 001 : 1:45-3:00 PM T, TH, 206 BSA (Final Exam: 11 December 2002; 12:45 - 2:00 PM)
Section 002 : 5:30-6:45 PM T, TH, 206 BSA (Final Exam: 10 December 2002; 5:45 - 7:00 PM)

Course Requirements

Last day to drop a course: 2 November 2002
Prerequisites: M&IS 24053, Introduction to Computer Applications.  Students attending the course who do not have the proper prerequisite risk being deregistered from the class.

Enrollment: It is the student’s responsibility to ensure proper enrollment in classes. You are advised to review your official class schedule during the first two weeks of the semester to ensure proper enrollment. Should you determine an error in your class schedule, you have until 7 September 2002 to correct it with your advising office. If registration errors are not corrected by this date and you continue to attend and participate in classes for which you are not officially enrolled, you are advised now that you will not receive a grade at the conclusion of the semester.

Students With Disabilities: In accordance with University policy, if you have a documented disability and require accommodations to obtain equal access in this course, please contact the instructor at the beginning of the semester or when given an assignment for which an accommodation is required. Students with disabilities must verify their eligibility through the Office of Student Disability Services (SDS) located in room 181 of the Michael Schwartz Student Services Center (Voice/TTD: 672-3391).

Academic Honesty: Cheating means to misrepresent the source, nature, or other conditions of your academic work (e.g., tests, papers, projects, assignments) so as to get undeserved credit.  The use of intellectual property of others without giving them appropriate credit is a serious academic offense.  It is the University’s policy that cheating or plagiarism result in receiving a failing grade for the work or course.  Repeat offenses result in dismissal from the University.

Projects, Quizzes, and Examinations

• Three projects (to be handed in). Each project is worth 105 points. Maximum points = 315.
• Three in-class group projects. Each project will take two class period. For each project, if you attend both class periods, you will get 25 points. Attending only one of the two periods will give you 10 points. Maximum points = 75.
• Four online quizzes. Each online quiz will consist of thirteen multiple choice questions each worth two points for a total of 26 points for each quiz and a total of 104 points for all four quizzes.  You will have 25 minutes to take each quiz.
• Three in-class exams (including the final). Each exam, including the final, will contain twenty-one questions worth ten points apiece for a total of 210 points for each exam.  Your exam with the lowest score will automatically be dropped.  You will get a score of 0 for any missed exam. The maximum number of points that can be earned from the exams is 420.
• The maximum points for this course is therefore 914 (315 + 75 + 104 + 420).

Required Text: Paul Cassel and Pamela Palmer. SAMS Teach Yourself Access 2000 in 21 Days, Sams Publishing, 1999. ISBN: 0-672-31292-1

Required Class Notes: Systems Analysis I, Notes, Fall 2002.  May be purchased for $30.00 from Dr. Shanker in his office (Room A401 BSA) with cash or a check payable to “Cash”.  Any class notes from previous semesters do not contain the current changes and additions so you need the current semester’s class notes.

Computer Labs: All computers in the BSA computer lab have Access 2000 and a CD-ROM.  In addition, the computer labs in Bowman. the Library, the Student Center, and Music and Speech also have Access 2000.  The BSA computer lab is open Monday through Thursday from 9AM to 11PM, Friday from 9AM to 9PM, Saturday from 9AM to 5PM, and Sunday from 12 noon to 6PM.  Finally, CD’s to install Office XP on your computer can be purchased from the KSU Bookstore for $20.00.

How to Access and Use Your Course Web Site

1. Go to http://class.kent.edu
2. Click on myWebCT to log in. If you are unsure how to log in, click on Help.
3. Enter your username and password (see below).
4. Choose Add a Course, and select M&IS: Systems Analysis I. The course should be visible under Main.
5. Click on the course to access your Homepage for that course.

Everyone needs a User Name and password to log on to WebCT. They are the same as the ones used for your KSU email account. The User Name and password are case-sensitive in WebCT. That means it make a difference whether you use capital letters or not.

If you already use your KSU email account and know your password you're about ready to go: read the Password Management (http://webcthelp.kent.edu/v3/student/password.html) section of this guide and then go to class.kent.edu to log in (assuming your professor has already given you access to the course). If you don't know about your KSU email account, read on.

User Name: The first step is to find out your User Name. Go to the Username Request Form (https://secure.kent.edu/userid/), enter your Social Security Number, and your user ID will be displayed. You will use it both for WebCT and for your KSU email account. (If you don't plan on using your KSU email account you should set up automatic forwarding (http://www.personal.kent.edu/forward.html) to another email account.

Course Schedule

The following tables contains the class schedule. Note that online quizzes begin on the Monday of the week they are assigned, and are available until Sunday 11:50 p.m. (ET) of that week. For example, Quiz 1 can be taken from Monday, 2 September 2002, until Sunday, 8 September 2002, 11:50 p.m.