Spring2025 MIS202 Microcomputers In Business

Syllabus

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This is a WSU PC laptop required course!


Section
Course ID
Class Times
Classroom
Virtual Classroom
01
000004
T Th 2 to 3:20pm
Somsen 301
https://minnstate.zoom.us/my/eprofessor

Instructor
e-mail
Office
Office Hours
Phone
Pat Paulson
ppaulson@winona.edu    
Somsen  303
on website
457-5581


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Textbooks and Course Materials

No Book Required

Reference Materials

  1. LinkedIn Learning for Git, GitHub Tutorials, Software Tutorials
  2. Earbuds with microphone (for listening to training videos and participating in web conferences)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The purpose of this course is to enable you to effectively and efficiently use the latest available business applications. The focus is on learning the importance of software and hardware in solving business problems. Areas of concentration will be the web, communication, presenting ideas, data and technology.

The assignments are intended to familiarize you with creating and maintaining a website, creating business videos and learning to collaborate, communicate and solve problems using various computer software programs during a web based videoconference. This is a hands-on course.


 ATTENDANCE, PARTICIPATION & PULL REQUESTS

Class Meetings : You are required to attend all class meetings in Somsen 301 in person. This is NOT an online course. The class recordings, if available, are intended for students to review class proceedings. If you miss a class meeting use the recordings to review the class. It is your responsibility to keep up with class. Office hours are not meant for individual lectures.

Class Participation Class participation is useful to the student as a means of acquiring knowledge and subject matter clarification. Class participation is the active engagement in problem solving, questions and answers, taking part in analyses of business situations, and contribution of comments in class sessions. Making use of the D2L "Question and Answer Forum" counts as class participation. Meaningful class participation, or lack thereof, affects your grade.

Pull Requests This semester students will learn to use Git and GitHub, which the Professor is also using to make class materials available online. Once you learn this technology, you can suggest corrections to course materials that has errors, is not clear, or can be otherwise improved by submitting a pull request.


INCLUSIVE EXCELLENCE

Professor Paulson supports and encourages diversity-it enriches our lives. If you find yourself in need of resources or support, please see me, or consider making use of the following resources:

Inclusive Excellence


CLASSWORK

Refer to the class syllabus. Students are expected to read the material referenced in the "Work" column before class. Classwork will consist of discussing the material for the current chapter(s). Time will also be devoted to doing in class exercises, devising and presenting homework solutions, discussing how to use the appropriate software programs to solve homework and general business problems. Students will demonstrate how to solve problems to the class using Zoom web conferencing software.


ASSIGNMENTS

Refer to the class syllabus. Students are expected to complete and submit by the D2L due date any assignments in the "Work" column. Assignments are completed using Visual Studio and other software, publishing to your personal class website, and submissions to the professor's web database and D2L. Students are responsible for submitting their assignments on time, and to make sure their information was submitted correctly.

Hand written, paper or emailed assignments do not look professional and are not acceptable. You will receive none of the possible points for these types of assignment submissions.

If you are having trouble with grammar, spelling or written communications, please seek assistance from the Writing Center.


PROJECTS

Project 1/Summative01: Create website at http://classes.winona.edu/20255000004/<username> for completing assignments and learning digital technology

Project 4:  Configure and work with a single board computer Internet of Things device


GROUP WORK

Students are encourage to work in groups of two in this class, to work on assignments (formative and summative) together.


EXAMS

The midterm and final consist of true/false, multiple choice and short answer questions. This exam will be open-book, open notes. Use of any instant messaging or email is not allowed. Students cannot share a book during the exam.  The exam contains one question per page, and you can view a question only one time-you cannot go back.

If you are having troubles with the class, do not hesitate to email me.

More information about the exam will be made available closer to examination time.

Additional exam time will not be given!

Exams cannot be made up.

You must be in the classroom to take the exam.

Please check the syllabus now and make sure that you are available on the exam date.

If you cannot make an exam you may want to consider dropping the class.


GRADING

See the D2L course gradebook for grade weighting, point values and due dates


GRADING POLICY

Grading is done right after it is due (usually Mondays at 7am) to provide prompt feedback. Anything submitted after the due date will receive minimal, if any credit, at the professor's discretion. If you have a situation preventing you from completing course work, you must contact the professor as soon as possible so that a prompt decision can be made.

No extra credit assignments or make-up exams! This is done to be fair to those students who keep up with the material.

You can lose up to 10% of the points on any assignment, exam or project due to poor spelling and or grammar. Make use of the Writing Center.

You may receive an email with feedback for an assignment, or comments in the D2L gradebook.
If the email begins with a smiley emoticon    :-)    you received full credit for that assignment.
The email may contain an outline of the grading rubric.
The comment "NO SUBMISSION TO WEB DATABASE" means that you did not press the 'SUBMIT' button on your assignment page from while viewing it in a browser.
You are responsible for making sure the links to each assignment are correct, and that any screen shots and required materials are correctly completed.

I reserve the right to correct any grading errors.

Keep any graded work until the end of the course; recording errors may occur.



FINAL GRADING

A -  90% or greater

B -  80 to 89.9%

C - 70 to 79.9%

D - 60 to 69.9%

F -  less than 59.9%

 A borderline grade is defined as 89.9 to 89.99; 79.9 to 79.99; 69.9 to 69.99 or 59.9 to 59.99

Syllabus

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