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CIS 1050 NET1A and NET1B- Online

Introduction to Computer Applications

Fall 2013

Instructor: Professor A. Tenenbaum Office: 2122 N Phone: 718-951-5000 x2066 Office Hours: Tuesday 10-11 AM (call the department office, 718-951-5657 to see if the office hours have been changed for a particular week.) E-mail: tbaum@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course provides an introduction to computer concepts and an overview of microcomputer applications including Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft PowerPoint. The course is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7.

SOFTWARE

We will use Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2010 for this course. Most companies are using this combination.

When you buy a PC Windows computer today, it will be pre-installed with the Windows 8 operating system. You will almost always have the Office 2013 package installed on it. However, Windows 8 cannot be used for this course. Please install Windows 7 on your computer if you want to use it for this course. You may use Office 2010 or 2013, although we will be covering Office 2010.

However, many older computers are still using the old Windows XP operating system and the old Office 2003 or Office 2007 set of applications. You may not use those systems.

The four operating systems (XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8) and the four application suites (Office 2003, Office 2007. Office 2010 and Office 2010) are different, but Office 2010 and the newer Office 2013 are very similar. This semester, all sections of CISC 1050 at Brooklyn College are using Office 2010, and that is the major topic for this course.

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The Office 2010 skills that you will learn in this course are directly transferrable to Office 2013, and you may use Office 2013 for this course, although some of the features may be slightly different from Office 2010. Exams and assignments will assume use of Office 2010. Most of the Office 2010 skills are also applicable to Office 2007, but there are some that are more advanced that we will use in the readings and assignments. We do not recommend use of Office 2007 for the course.

You may NOT use Office 2003 for this course, nor may you use a Mac computer, nor may you use Windows 8 or Windows XP or Windows Vista.

REQUIRED TEXTBOOK

New Perspectives: Microsoft Office 2010, First Course Ann Shaffer, Patrick Carey, et. al. Course Technology ISBN: 0-538-74653-X

TECHNOLOGY REQUIREMENTS

Students may use their own computers at home or at the college (Library, Computer Café, Web Building). On campus, the best place to obtain all the features you need is in the WEB building computer laboratory (the WEB building is on the Ocean Avenue side of the campus, past the West Quad.) Students must have access (on campus or off-campus) to:

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A PC using the Windows 7 operating system. You cannot use a Mac for this course. You cannot use Windows 8.

Microsoft Office 2010 (or 2007 or 2013) (including Microsoft Access; many computers with Office 2010 do not include Access, so make sure the computer you use has Access 2010 or Access 2013!)

Email, and access to the World Wide Web

ASSIGNMENTS The syllabus and assignments are listed at the very end of this document. The assignments are all in the book, as noted in the table at the end of this document. All assignments should be emailed to tbaum@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu. The assignments often need pre-existing data files. To find the files you need for the assignments, perform the following steps: 1. Access the following website: http://www.wadsworth.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9780538746533&token 2. On the left side, click on Data Files. 3. Click on the blue link underneath "Data Files for Text." 4. If asked, click on Run. 5. A dialogue box appears. Note the folder titled "Unzip to Folder." Write down the name of the folder. 6. Click on Unzip. Click on OK. Click on Close. Once you do this successfully, you never have to repeat steps 1-6. If Unzip does not work, download the 7Zip program for free to your computer, and try again. 7. You will find the files in the folder of step 5 above, whose name you wrote down. Each chapter of the book has a folder. For example ExcelT03 is the folder for chapter 3 of the Excel chapter of the book. However, all Access files are in a single folder named Access1. 8. Double-click on the folder for the chapter you are working on, and then click on the file with the name of the file you are requested to use in the assignment. Sometimes, you will be asked to use a file you created in a previous assignment.

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GRADING

Homework 30% Midterm 30% Final 40%

The midterm and the final will be curved based on performance of the entire class on the exams.

There will be extra credit assignments. Each extra credit assignment is worth 5 additional points on the next exam (midterm or final). The exam will be curved based on the grades AFTER the extra credit points have been awarded. No extra credit assignments will be accepted after the date of the associated exam.

All regular assignments are due by the date listed below in the Assignment Schedule. No regular assignment will be accepted later than two weeks after it is due. One point will be deducted for every calendar date that an assignment is late. Maximum of 14 points off—the assignment will not be counted at all if it is later than that.

HOW TO CONTACT ME

Students may contact me via phone during office hours, or via email. The subject of your email must contain the following:

CIS 1050 your name Assignment number or subject

Make sure your subject line is correct; if not, points will be removed from the current assignment and the assignment may not be graded altogether. Do not use any quotes or special characters in the subject line, they are often misinterpreted when the file is sent by email. If you have any questions please feel free to see me during my scheduled office hours or at any other time that I am available. If you need to communicate with me, the ONLY guaranteed way to reach me is by email.

TUTORING

There will likely be tutoring available on campus for this course. The tutors are fellow-students and some may not be able to help you on a particular issue. So choose your tutor based on your experience with him or her. The tutors are available in a designated location. The schedule and location will be posted outside Room 2109N early in the semester. Tutors for this course will not be available in the Learning Center.

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COURSE POLICIES

Student Conduct

Any acts of disruption that go beyond the normal rights of students to question and discuss with instructors the subject content will not be tolerated, in accordance with the Academic Code of Conduct described in the Student Handbook.

Electronic Devices Policy

Cellular telephones, pagers, CD players, radios, and similar devices are prohibited during examinations, unless specified. Please note that the exams are open-book, but only the hardcopy book is allowed in the room. If you have an online copy of the book, you cannot use it during the final with an electronic device. Print out those sections of the book you think you might need, and bring the hardcopy to the exam. It is strongly advised that you purchase a hard copy of the text.

Examination Policy

A midterm and final examination will be given in person on campus. You must attend both exams in person. The dates and times for these two exams are given in the calendar below. Note that the midterm is at mid-day (Tues., Oct. 22, 12:30PM) and the final is at night (Wed., Dec. 18, 8:30PM. Please schedule your other activities in advance. If you have an exam conflict, you must let me know within the first two weeks of the semester.

The two examinations will be open-textbook, but no other notes or books or electronic devices are permitted. Make sure you have a hard-copy of the textbook (either the text itself or a printout from an online copy of the text) to bring with you to the exam. If you do not have a hard copy of the book, you will take the exam without one and with no alternative aids.

No make-up exams will be allowed without prior arrangements being made. If you are taking more than one online class, your midterms and/or finals may conflict. It is your responsibility to resolve this conflict within the first two weeks of the semester. Makeup final exams will only be given in Spring 2014 before the deadline for grade changes.

To prepare for examinations, do the labs in the text and the assigned projects and read the chapters. 100% of the questions are taken directly from the reading material. Review the examples in each section and short exercises after each section of the applications on which you are being tested.

The examinations consist of multiple-choice questions.

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Incomplete Policy

Students will not be given an incomplete grade in the course without sound reason and documented evidence for omitting submission of material. In any case, for a student to receive an incomplete, he or she must be passing and must have completed a significant portion of the course. Students absent from the final will receive an INC grade, if they receive permission in advance. A makeup final or completion of work in the case of an INC grade is only allowable up to a specified date in the following semester.

Cheating Policy

Students are expected to uphold the school’s standard of conduct relating to academic honesty. Students assume full responsibility for the content and integrity of the academic work they submit. The guiding principle of academic integrity shall be that a student's submitted work, examinations, reports, and projects must be the student's own. Students shall be guilty of violating the college’s policy if they:

1. Represent the work of others as their own. 2. Use or obtain unauthorized assistance in any academic work. 3. Give unauthorized assistance to other students. 4. Modify, without instructor approval, an examination, paper, record, or report for the

purpose of obtaining additional credit. 5. Misrepresent the content of submitted work.

Brooklyn College Policy on Academic Integrity

The faculty and administration of Brooklyn College support an environment free from

cheating and plagiarism. Each student is responsible for being aware of what constitutes cheating and plagiarism and for avoiding both.

The complete text of the CUNY Academic Integrity Policy and the Brooklyn College procedure for implementing that policy can be found at this site: http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/policies.

If a faculty member suspects a violation of academic integrity and, upon investigation, confirms that violation, or if the student admits the violation, the faculty member MUST report the violation.

This means that if you cheat on a test or an assignment, I must file a report which may initiate academic penalties.

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Any student violating the college’s academic integrity policy is subject to receive a failing grade for the course and will be reported to the Office of Student Affairs. If a student is unclear about whether a particular situation may constitute violation, the student should meet with the instructor to discuss the situation.

For this class, it is permissible to assist classmates in general discussions of computing techniques. General advice and interaction are encouraged. Each person, however, must develop his or her own solutions to the assigned projects, assignments, and tasks. In other words, students may not "work together" on graded assignments. Such collaboration constitutes cheating. A student may not use or copy (by any means) another's work (or portions of it) and represent it as his/her own. If you need help on an assignment, contact your instructor, not other classmates.

Disabilities Policy

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), all qualified students enrolled in this course are entitled to “reasonable accommodations.” Please contact the College Disabilities Office to see if you are entitled to an accommodation. The instructor is not permitted to allow accommodations not afforded to other students, except through certification by the Disabilities Office.

CONSULTANT ASSISTANCE

Consultants in the open lab in the WEB building are on duty to assist you with hardware and software problems. If your computer malfunctions or your printer is out of paper, go to the main desk and ask a consultant for help. The consultants are not laboratory assistants and, therefore, are not responsible for (nor are they necessarily capable of) answering specific laboratory homework questions. There are tutors available at posted hours.

STUDY AND ASSIGNMENT SCHEDULE

Although this course does not have formal meetings, you should expect to invest sufficient time to both learn the material and do the assignments. Students should prepare to spend at least 3-6 hours weekly on this material. If you do not have enough time, do not take the course. Do not kid yourself!

Each of the major areas of study (Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint) are covered by two or more "Tutorials" in the textbook. Each tutorial is designed to be read while sitting in front of the computer. By following along with the project, you will learn many features of the application. After reading the chapter and completing the tutorials along with the book, you are to do the assignment listed in the schedule below.

You are expected to read the assigned pages in the book and do the tutorials in the text in front of a computer before attempting the assignment. If you do not do the tutorials as you read the book, you will learn very little.

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Plan to spend significant time each week working on assignments.

Each assignment must be emailed to me on or before the day that it is due. Any assignment received after midnight of its due date will be penalized 1% for each day after the due date. However, no regular assignment will be accepted later than two weeks after the due date.

You may earn 10 points extra credit on a regular assignment if you hand it in a week or more before it is due.

Extra-credit assignments are accepted up to the date of the next exam with no penalty. No materials will be accepted after the date of the final exam.

I will make the attempt to have assignments graded within two weeks of the due date if it has been submitted before the due date. If you do not receive a grade by two weeks after the assignment is due or the date you submitted it (if later), it is your responsibility to let me know as soon as possible. Otherwise, the assignment will not count.

Make sure your name and homework number appear in the subject line of every assignment submission, in the format given above. Often the subject line is garbled in transmission. Do not use a special character, like a quote or a hyphen, in your subject line.

You MUST keep a copy of every email that you send me submitting an assignment. If I misfile an assignment, or it is misdirected, I may ask you to forward me the original email again.

SYLLABUS

Introduction to Computers

Computer Essentials and Office 2010

1. Introduction to Microsoft Office 2010

Word

1. Creating a Document

2. Formatting and Organizing Text

3. Using Graphics and Tables

4. Special Formats, Columns and Mail Merge

Excel

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1. Creating a Worksheet and Charting Data

2. Managing Workbooks and Analyzing Data

3. Using Functions and Tables

Midterm Examination

Access

1. Creating a Database

2. Sorting and Querying a Database

3. Forms, Filters and Reports

4. Querying Tables and Creating Reports

PowerPoint

1. Creating a Presentation

2. Designing a Presentation

3. Enhancing a Presentation Final Examination

Final Examination

See Assignments and Readings on Next Page

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Schedule of Assignments & Examinations

Fall 2013

All assignments are to be submitted as an attachment to an email. In Word, attach the

document; in Excel attach the spreadsheet(s); in Access, attach the database; in PowerPoint,

attach the presentation.

If you hand in an assignment a full week early you get 10 points extra credit (out of 100) on

that assignment. For each day late you hand in an assignment, you lose 1 point.

To find the files you need for the assignments, go to the website listed above. See the list of

instructions numbered 1-7 above for instructions on how to access these data files.

Do not confuse the Assignment numbers, which are the numerical order in which assignments are given in this course, with the Case numbers, which are the numbers of

the Cases in the book that you are assigned to do. For example, Assignment 2 may ask you to do Case 4 on a particular page of the book.

Many assignments have steps labeled “Explore.” These are part of the assignment and you should send me the file that results after all steps, including the “Explore” steps.

Assignments Office 2010

Week Number

Date Due

Readings

Assignment

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Sept. 3

pp ECC 1-33, WIN 1-

33, FM 1-19, and BEB

1-25. These pages are

at the beginning of the

book.

Do the tutorials along

with the book.

You do not have to

submit the tutorials to

me.

Assmt 1: Send me a brief email

introducing yourself. Mention your major, hobbies and anything else interesting that you don't mind sharing. Also, mention your prior knowledge of Office, if any, and why you are taking the course. Be sure to include the subject line that includes your name and the assignment number.

Send me the email address where I can best reach you.

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Assignments Office 2010

Week Number

Date Due

Readings

Assignment

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Sept. 10

pp OFF 1-30 and WD

1-99.

Do the tutorials along

with the book.

No assignment due. . Work on the assignment due Sept. 17.

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Sept. 17

pp WD 110-205

Do the tutorials along

with the book.

Assmt 2: Case 2 on page WD 209.

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Sept. 24

pp EX 1-162

Do the tutorials along

with the book. Note the

assignment due on

October 8.

Optional Extra Credit Assignment X1: Case 1 on pages EX 164 -165. (Ignore the comments about the SAM system; we are not using it.)

(deadline date: Oct. 22)

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Oct. 1

pp EX 169-222

Do the tutorials along

with the book.

No assignment this week. Work on assignments due on Oct. 8 and 15.

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Oct. 8

Assmt 3: Submit the results of working out Tutorial 3 (pages EX 116-161) with all computations contained in the spreadsheet. (Don’t just copy the numbers.)

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Oct. 15

Review pp EX 1-222

Assmt 4: Case 2, pp EX 225 – 226

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Assignments Office 2010

Week Number

Date Due

Readings

Assignment

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Oct. 22 12:30-

2:15PM

MIDTERM

EXAM (Word and Excel)

Room 133NE

(Ingersoll Hall Extension; Also known as New Ingersoll)

Open textbook, but no electronics or

notes or other books.

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Oct. 29

(No office hours on this

date)

pp. AC 1-96

Do the tutorials along

with the book

No assignment due this week, but you might want to get started on next week’s assignment that has two parts, especially in view of the upcoming Thanksgiving break.

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Nov. 5

pp. AC 109-204

Do the tutorials along

with the book

Assmt 5: Both Parts 5i. and 5ii. below 5i. Case 2 on pages AC 44-45. 5ii. Case 2 on pages AC 102-104. Note that 5ii. uses the database that results from 5i.

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Nov. 12

No assignment due this week. Work on the assignment due Nov. 19.

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Nov. 19

pp. PPT 1-109

Do the tutorials along with the book.

Assmt 6: Case 2 on pages AC 160-161. Note that Assmt 6 uses the database that results from Assmt 5.

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Nov. 26

Optional Extra Credit Assignment X2: Case 3 on pages AC 208-209.

(deadline date: Dec. 18.)

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Assignments Office 2010

Week Number

Date Due

Readings

Assignment

15

Dec. 3

Assmt 7: Case 2 on pages PPT 112-114.

15

Dec. 10

pp. INT 1-46

Do the tutorials along

with the book.

Optional Extra Credit Assignment X3: Case 3 on page INT 52.

(deadline date: Dec. 18)

FINAL

Wednesday,

Dec. 18

8:30-10:30 PM

FINAL EXAM (Excel, Access and

PowerPoint)

Room To Be Announced

Note that the Exam is at Night

Open textbook, but no electronics or

notes or other books.