The textbook is Management Information Systems for the Information Age by Haag, Cummings and Dawkins. We will also use HTML Publishing on the World Wide Web by McBride. Our course website is http://eden.creighton.edu/mis353d. Check the link to news for updated class information before every class. We also have a class listserv, called mis353d@creighton.edu. As a test, we will also explore the new Blackboard server. Check out http://blackboard.creighton.edu for our class. Finally, all sections of MIS 353 share a common Usenet newsgroup, cu.mis353.

You will also need a Creighton University email account, an account on Flamingo, and access to the World Wide Web, either at a computer lab, home, or office. I will provide some of the supplements. Others will require a library or World Wide Web (WWW) search by the student.

I am a Creighton staff member, and my office is located in BA 112A. I am here generally from 8:00am to 4:30pm, Monday through Friday. See above for phone and email information. If you send email with attachments, please note that Creighton does not allow emails over 2 megabytes in size. If you wish to mail larger attachments, please email them to tbegley@cx66079-b.omhas1.ne.home.com.

The exams will be a combination of true/false, multiple choice and short answer in a closed-book format. The exams are not cumulative. The third exam will be given during the final exam period, which is Tuesday, December 12 at 4:45pm.

We will be creating individual websites on our Linux server, Flamingo, as well as using it for hands-on exercises in networking. Your research paper will not be turned in on paper, rather it will be published on your website at the end of the semester. We will use the HTML text to follow along as we create our pages.

There is always something new and exciting in the technology field. Twice during the semester you will make a presentation to the class on an interesting website, a new product, a new service, or something new and exciting in the technology field. You can use any of the presentation media in the classroom. You will turn in a one-page sheet to me describing to me your site, item or news as you present your Tech Tip and News. Each item should take between three and five minutes to present.

There will be a total of twelve quizzes, of which two will be dropped. A quiz cannot be made up under any circumstances. A missed quiz will be considered one to be dropped.

You will research an issue in technology during the semester, and present the results of your research as a paper published on your website during the last week of class. More information on the paper will be forthcoming.

The following are the grades and their descriptions available to the students. A student’s grade totally depends on what he or she has achieved during the course: the grades will be earned, not given.

"A" indicates not only outstanding achievement but also an unusual degree of intellectual initiative.

"B" indicates attainment of above the average, satisfactory for 500-level courses.

"C" indicates satisfactory but minimum quality work in courses above the 500-level.

"D" indicates failure—no credit.

All assignments that are handed in late will be docked 10% per day that they are late, unless arrangements have been made at least 24 hours before the due date. The term LATE refers to all assignments turned in after the class time on the assignment's due date.

Please note that all students are expected to attend every class session on time. Students are responsible for the material covered each class time, and missed notes, handouts and URL's should be obtained from another student who was in class that day.

Course Outline and Assignments