Management Information Systems 623:220:03 Spring 2013 Rutgers University Monday, Wednesday 10 AM to 11:20 AM

Professor Chon C. Lintakoon Email: clintakoon@gmail.com

Textbooks:
Microsoft Office Access 2010, a lesson approach, complete Jon Juarez/John Carter Microsoft Office Excel 2010, a lesson approach, complete Karen Stuart Microsoft Office Word 2010, a lesson approach, complete
The ISBN Number is 978-0-07-351929-6 for Word 2010, 978--0-07-733121-4 for Excel 2010 and 978-007-733124-5 for Access 2010.

Course Description:
This introductory level course provides students the opportunity to develop the basic computer skills needed for the business-computing world. In this course, we will start by introducing the background of the computer and its components, such as its hardware devices, software programs, communication packages and data processing trends. This course also consists of learn-by-doing lab sessions with several projects in the areas of MS office products. All these topics are directly related to the commercial world.

Expected Work: 1. Class Attendance (7.5%) and Participation (7.5%)

(If more than 20% absent, class attendance grade will be zero)

15%

2. Group Projects 10% 3. Homeworks, Quizzes 10% 4. First Test (15%), Second Test (15%) 30% 5. Final Exam 25% 6. Individual Final Web Project (See Page 4 of this syllabus) 10%
Grading standard: A 90-100 B Plus 86-89 B 80-85 C Plus 76-79 C 70-75 D 60-69 F 59 and below

Lecture Syllabus
Week #1 Jan. 23 Week #2 Jan. 28, 30 Week #3 Feb. 4, 6 Week #4 Feb. 11, 13 Week #5 Feb. 18, 20 Week #6 Feb. 25, 27 Week #7 Mar. 4, 6 Week #8 Mar. 11, 13 Week #9 Mar. 18, 20 Week #10 Mar. 25, 27 Course Overview, Content and Administration MIS and You Binary Code, HTML Overview of Database Quiz 1, Access Lesson 01 - Getting Started with a Database Access Lesson 02 Viewing and Modifying Records Access Lesson 03 - Finding, Filtering, Sorting, and Summarizing Data Access Lesson 04 - Creating New Databases and Tables Quiz 2, Access Lesson 05 - Managing Data Integrity Access Lesson 06 - Designing Queries Excel Lesson 01 - Getting Started with Excel Excel Lesson 02 - Creating a Workbook Excel Lesson 03 - Using Editing and Style Tools Excel Lesson 04 - Exploring Formulas Basics Excel Lesson 05 - Exploring Function and Argument Basics Group Assignment discussion Excel Lesson 05 - Exploring Function and Argument Basics Q&A, Test 1 Spring Break (No Class) Excel Lesson 06 Using Dates, Times, and Logical Functions Excel Lesson 07 Building Worksheet Charts Excel Lesson 09 Using What-If Analysis Excel Lesson 11 Expanding Skills with Functions and Objects Note: Last Day to Drop on April 1 Group Project Presentation Excel Lesson 08, 12 Working with Excel Tables, Inserting Shapes

Week #11 Apr. 1, 3

Week #12 Word Lesson 01 - Creating and Editing A Document Apr. 8, 10 Word Lesson 02 Formatting Characters Word Lesson 03 Writing Tools Word Lesson 04 Formatting Paragraphs Q&A, Test #2 Week #13 Apr. 15, 17 Word Lesson 03 Writing Tools Word Lesson 04 Formatting Paragraphs (Send in your web project to me if you want to be considered for presentation for extra credit)

Week #14 Apr. 22, 24 Week #15 Apr. 29, May 1 Week#16 May 6 Week #17 May 13

Word Lesson 09 - Page and Section Breaks Extra Credit Presentation Word Lesson 15 Columns Word Lesson 19 - Mail Merge Word Lesson 24 Digital Signature and Hyperlinks Final Exam Review, Final Web Project Due Final Exam (Comprehensive) TBD

Individual Final Web Project

The final individual web project is for you to create at least six web pages to showcase your product/service of the company that you want to create for your future personal company to make money. This web project has nothing to do with the company that you are currently working for, it is for you to create your own company (make believe) in order to create income for you. You don't need to host your website, just a few pages that you put together and send them to my e-mail at clintakoon@gmail.com via zip folder or burn them into CD. The due date is going to be on the last lecture date. The grade will be judged based on the following criteria: 1. Creativity (25%), 2. Layout with pictures (20%), 3. Contents (35%), 4. User Friendly (20%) You can use any software tool that you like. I have heard good comments about Microsoft's publisher software. You can download it for free by going to http://office.microsoft.com then type publisher under search box, it then will lead you to a page where you can click on publisher home page. Then the page follow that will give you a link to click on for free trial download. If you want to be considered to present your web project for bonus point, youll need to link your web pages to a database and prove to me it works, and then I will consider you to be selected to present your project for extra credit. The type of database can be Access, MySql or any databases. Although this is a mandatory project, the presentation part of the web project for bonus point is NOT required, only the selected few (maximum 3) will be able to present based on my review of your project. Warning: Do not copy and paste from other websites contents including any description of the products because some students from previous semester got caught and got a big zero on the project.