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A.
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You may
have one quiz over each session covered in the Duffy book, as well as quizzes
on topics covered in the Simon book.
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B.
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You will
have at least 3 major exams.
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C.
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There
may be a comprehensive final exam.
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D.
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You will
have several short written assignments and/or one long written assignment.
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E.
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Your
final grade will be based on a percentage of total points according to the
following factors:
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Attend./Conduct/Participation
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20-100
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A = 90%
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Quizzes
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10 – 20
pts. Ea.
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B = 80%
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Indiv./Group
projects
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90-200
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C = 70%
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First
Exam
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100
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D = 60%
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Second
Exam
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100
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F =
<60%
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Third
Exam
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100
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Fourth
Exam
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100
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Fifth
Exam
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100
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Final
Exam
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200
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Portfolio
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50
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Home
Page
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35
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The
point weights are approximate. They
may change. A decision later in the
course may be made not to even have any points in one of the above
categories. For instance, there may
be no points assigned to attendance.
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Quizzes
You
should expect a quiz on each session covered in the Duffy text. You will also
have quizzes over material covered in the Simon text. These quizzes will be taken outside of class using the
Mallard Asynchronous Learning System accessed via a Web browser. The  quizzes are set
up to provide you with instantaneous feedback about your individual
performance and allow you to see if you have learned the material being
examined in the quiz. You can have as many as 5 tries to get a 100% on each
quiz (or any grade of 60% or better) during the time the quiz is available
These
quizzes can be taken from any location at which you have Internet access and
a Web browser. Each quiz will have at least a 72-hour “window of opportunity”
in which it can be taken. If you try to take the quiz after the scheduled
time, no grade will be recorded for that attempt.
There
are a number of objectives that will hopefully be gained using this quiz
method/structure in this class. The first objective of the quizzes is to
allow you to demonstrate a “good faith effort” that you have covered the
material associated with the current class. Another objective of the quizzes
is to encourage students to keep current with topics covered in the class.
Still another objective of the quizzes is to reward those students who have
kept current. Remember that a substantial portion of your final grade comes
from these quizzes. If you are willing to keep current in this course, you
will find that between the quizzes and the homework, your grade will show
improvement.
The
Mallard Web site can be accessed via a link contained on my Web page. You can
take your quizzes as well as examine your grades from this Web site.
Exams
Exams
must be taken at the scheduled date and time. Students who are not present for an exam receive a zero (0) for
that grade. All headgear (hats, etc.) must be removed for an exam. No
sunglasses may be worn during the exam. Students arriving late for the exam
may be, at the discretion of the teacher, barred from taking the exam. If
allowed to take the exam, late students will have no more time to complete
the exam than that needed for those students who arrived on time.
While
taking an exam, all students will face directly forward, keep their eyes on
their own exam, and cover their answer sheet. Any one caught cheating on an
exam or aiding another individual will receive an “F” in the course and will
be referred to S.C.E.R.B.
Exams in
this course will be a combination of objective style questions along with
hands-on questions. Some exams may be all objective, some may be all hands-on,
and some may be a combination of the two styles.
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  VI.
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Individual/Group Projects
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Each
student will be expected to participate in one group project during the
semester. The group projects (papers) will be selected by the group's
students and approved by the instructor.
Students also are expected to make a xerox of any project before
handing
it in to be graded. If any questions
thereafter arise whether or not the assignment was turned in, this copy can
be turned in as verification. Individual projects consist of homework.
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IT
SHOULD BE NOTED THAT ALL STUDENTS MUST DO ALL INDIVIDUAL/GROUP WRITTEN
PROJECTS TO RECEIVE A PASSING GRADE IN THE COURSE. THIS MEANS THAT ALL
ASSIGNED HOMEWORK MUST BE TURNED IN TO PASS THE COURSE. ALL HOMEWORK MUST BE
TURNED IN ON THE LAST DAY OF CLASS AT THE BEGINNING OF THAT SESSION FOR IT TO
BE ACCEPTED.
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VII.
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Attendance/Comportment
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Each
class lecture builds on previous lectures during the semester. Students who
miss lectures typically have trouble completing assignments.
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It
should also be noted that part of class attendance involves arriving at class
on time. People who enter the
classroom after class starts break the concentration of fellow students as
well as disrupt class.
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Arriving
at class on time is especially important for this course. This particular class will be making
extensive use of the computer. It is extremely disruptive for individuals to
enter after the class has started.
That individual must disrupt others in moving to their
workstation. Diskettes/files must be
obtained for that person. That person
then must be instructed as to what the rest of the class is doing.
Since
this is a computer classroom, computers are always present and many times
turned on during class lectures. During formal lectures students are supposed
to be paying attention to the information covered in the lecture and not
interacting with their computer. If students are playing with their computer
and not paying attention in class, I reserve the right to turn off that individual’s
computer.
Students are also not supposed to
be carrying on personal conversations during a lecture. This type of action
not only interferes with the ability of adjacent students to concentrate on
the lecture but is just plain rude.
The
above types of behavior can negatively affect the comportment grade
component.
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VIII.
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Printer Usage
Recently, the College of Business
had the funds and opportunity to refurbish the computer classrooms in the
college. The middle partition was removed and a new projector was installed.
In addition, the old, slow dot matrix printers in the classroom were replaced
with a single networked, high-speed laser printer.
The College of Business is very
concerned about how these networked printers will be used by classes and has
exercised certain controls over their usage. These printers are supposed to
be used only for printing projects/assignments related to the class for which
you are enrolled (in this case, Acc 166). You are not to use the printer for
printing assignments for classes other than Accounting 166. To try to enforce
this rule, the management of the computer classrooms has placed time limits
for when printing in this class can occur. The printer will be available
only from the beginning to the
end of class. Before or after those times any print commands that you issue
will be ignored.
This
means that you will not be able to get to class early to print an assignment
that is due the same day. Please be sure to take this into consideration in
planning your schedule for homework assignments.
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 IX.
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Late Work
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Assignments
will have due dates. Late work will
be penalized. All assignments are due at the beginning of the period of the
date assigned. If they are not turned
in on time, twenty percentage points will be deducted from the grade for each
day (24-hour period) that the assignment is late. This means that if you do
not turn work in on time and decide later that you need to meet the home work
requirement specified elsewhere in this document you will still receive a
zero for that assignment. Please refer to part VI.
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X.
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Computer Competency
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It
should be noted that all students are expected to apply computer skills
learned in the class. This will
entail using the microcomputer to prepare written papers, to solve problems
or accomplish any assigned work.
It
should also be noted that the use of e-mail software should be considered as
an integral part of this course. Every student in class will have an e-mail
account at the university (if they don’t already have one). Project
assignments will, from time to time, be e-mailed to students during the
course of the semester. Students should, therefore, check their e-mail at
least twice each day to see if additional comments about an assignment or a
completely new assignment have been received.
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XI.
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Effort
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To be
successful in this course and begin to master the various software
applications covered in this class requires that you spend a substantial
amount of time on your own using these software applications. If, for
example, you do not spend sufficient time on the Windows or Common Features
of Office modules mastering the content and becoming comfortable with the
software; you will find it more difficult to do later assignments.
The
textbook has been designed to cover a software command or concept and then
reinforce that concept immediately with a hands-on exercise. The assignments
at the end of the chapter further reinforce commands and concepts that have
been covered in a text chapter. Simply going through the text examples in a
rote manner however does not mean that you are learning how to use a command.
In order to learn properly the information being covered, it is necessary
that you pay attention and understand what is being accomplished in the
hands-on exercise. Simply following the hands-on instructions without
understanding what they are accomplishing does not lead to mastery of the
software.
If a
hands-on exercise is not specifically assigned as homework to be turned in,
this does not mean that you are not responsible for doing that exercise on
your own later. Some of the hands-on exercises are more complex or involved
and, as a result, are more easily assigned as homework.
It is a
general “rule of thumb” that you should spend about 2 to 3 hours outside of
class studying/working on a course for each hour of class-time. This means
that you should be investing time on the class even when formal homework has
not been assigned.
Little
comfort and help will be given to students who have not mastered concepts
that have been covered previously in the class. In such a situation, I will
be happy to refer you to the general area of the text that contains
previously covered information. I will not tell you how to
perform
a task for which information has been previously introduced in class that
prepares you for the process in question.
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XII.
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Drop Policy
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The procedure for dropping each
course or courses will be followed precisely as stated in the current
catalog. Students should note that
they are allowed to officially enroll in an accounting course only
twice. Thus, if a student completes a
course, or drops a course after the official tenth day enrollment report, he
or she may officially enroll in the same accounting course only one
additional time.
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XIII.
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Ethical Conduct
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Students
enrolled in College of Business classes are expected to maintain high
standards of ethical conduct within the classroom and when completing
assignments, projects, and/or exams. Plagiarism and other forms of academic
dishonesty such as cheating will not be tolerated. Students are expected to
provide appropriate citations for non-original writing even if the original
work is paraphrased. Penalties for plagiarism and other forms of academic
dishonesty may be severe.
Students
who are planning to enter the field of accountancy or business should be
advised that they are held to higher ethical standards than people who enter
some other type of profession. These ethical standards also apply to work
done for the classroom. That student
must do work that is turned in. It cannot be the "borrowed" or
"remanufactured" work of another student. Any individual caught cheating on a test, homework, or assigned
cases will receive an F in the course and can expect a referral to Student
Dispute Resolution Services (S.D.R.S.).
Section 2.1.19 of the Student
Code of Conduct as well as the Illinois State University "Undergraduate
Catalog" contains the following excerpt related to academic honesty:
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Academic
Integrity
Students
are expected to be honest in all academic work. A student's name on any
academic exercise (theme, report, notebook, paper; examination) shall be
regarded as assurance that the work is of the student's own thought and
study. Offenses involving academic dishonesty include, but are not limited
to, the following:
a.
Cheating on quizzes or examinations occurs when any student is found using or
to use any book, paper; or other article, or assistance from any individual
to deceive the person in charge of the quiz or examination with reference to
his or her work. No books, notes, papers or related articles shall be used at
any quiz or unless specifically authorized by the person in charge.
Conversation or other between individuals in examinations and quizzes is
forbidden except as authorized by the instructor.
b.
Computer dishonesty is the unacknowledged or unauthorized appropriation of
another's program, or the results of that program, in whole or in part, for a
computer-related or assignment.
c.
Plagiarism is the unacknowledged appropriation of another's work, words, or
ideas in themes, outlines, papers, reports, or computer programs. Students
must ascertain from the instructor in each course the appropriate means of
documentation. Submitting the same paper for more than one course is
considered a breach of academic integrity unless approval is given by the
instructors.
d.
Grade falsification is any attempt to falsify an assigned grade in an
examination, quiz, report, program, grade book, or any other record or
document.
e.
Collusion occurs when students willfully give or receive unauthorized or
unacknowledged assistance on any assignment. This may include the
reproduction and/or dissemination of materials. Both parties to the collusion
are considered responsible. No individual may for another in any quiz or
examination.
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Work
that is turned in by a student in this class is supposed to be the work of
that student only. It is not supposed
to be the product of friends working together. It is appropriate for a
student to get help from another student in solving a particular problem.
Such help, however, should be restricted to determining an approach for
problem resolution. It should not take the form in which one student is
directed step-by-step by another in solving the problem. In this type of situation, where the work
of two people is almost identical, both individuals shall be referred to
S.D.R.S.
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Aug. 21 (T)
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Introduction to class, check Email accounts
Introduction to Mallard – GM survey quiz
Introduction to Microcomputers
Assign: Simon (Ch 7 – all, Ch 6 pp 145-146, 153, 155-158)
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Aug. 28 (T)
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Finish Introduction to Microcomputers
Download student files
Windows Sessions 1 & 2
In class - Duffy (Windows Sessions 1 & 2 – All hands
on & end of chapter computer exercises.)
Assign: Simon (Ch 3 – pp 51-69)
Mallard Quiz – Intro to Microcomputers
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Sept. 4 (T)
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Windows Session 3
Intro to Internet
In class – Duffy (Windows Session 3 All hands on & end
of chapter
Email & Eudora – Handout material
Form project groups – handout packets
Assign: Simon (Ch 1 – all, Ch 2 – all)
Mallard Quiz – Windows Sessions 1, 2, 3
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Sept. 11 (T)
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Select group topics
Information Systems Overview
Information Systems in Organizations
Prepare for Exam I
Mallard Quiz – Information systems
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Sept. 18 (T)
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Exam I
Common Features 1 & 2
Assign: Simon (Ch 5 – all) – Duffy (MS Word Sessions 1
& 2 – All hands on)
Mallard Quiz – Common Features
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Sept. 25 (T)
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Return Exam I
Application Software for Business
MS Word Sessions 1 & 2
Assign: Simon (Ch 10 – all) – Duffy (MS Word Sessions 3
& 4 – all hands on)
Mallard Quiz (2): Application Software for Business, Word
Sessions 1 & 2
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Oct. 2 (T)
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System Development
MS Word Sessions 3 & 4
Prepare for Exam II
Mallard Quiz (2): System Development, Word Sessions 3
& 4
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Oct. 9 (T)
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Exam II
Lab time for group projects
Assign: Duffy (Excel Session 1 – all hands on and end of
Ch. Computer exercises)
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Oct. 16 (T)
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Reminder – Project paper due 11/13
Excel Session 1
Lab time
Assign: Duffy (Excel Session 2 – all hands on and end of
Ch. Computer exercises)
Mallard Quiz –
Excel Session 1
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Oct. 23 (T)
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Excel Session 2
Lab time
Assign: Duffy (Excel Session 3 – all hands on and end of
Ch. Computer exercises, Session 4 – all hands on)
Mallard Quiz – Excel Session 2
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Oct. 30 (T)
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Excel Sessions 3 & 4
Lab time
Prepare for Exam III
Mallard Quiz (2) – Excel Session 3, Excel Session 4
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Nov. 6 (T)
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Exam III
Powerpoint
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Nov. 13 (T)
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Creating a web page – basic HTML assignment
Lab time for web page
Group Project paper due
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Nov. 20 (T)
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Lab time for web page
Lab Time for group project
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Nov. 27 (T)
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Personal Privacy and the Internet
Assign: Individual research paper to be turned in at final
exam.
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Dec. 4 (T)
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Group Presentations
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Last exam given during regularly scheduled final exam time.
You are responsible for completing all of the assigned
written and computer exercises at the end of each assigned chapter.
