MGS 351
Introduction to Management Information Systems
Recitation # 13
Agenda
• Attendance
• Collect:
– Chapter 7 Guided Exercise Questions
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Optional Early Presentations
Presentation Reminders
Project Deliverables Reminder
Examples of “A” Projects
Project Work
Presentation Reminders
• Dress: Business Casual
• Make sure your database can be accessed
from your website on a school computer
– Test this ahead of time, but have it on a thumb
drive just in case
• Practice – Presentation must be between 6
and 8 minutes!
Project Deliverables
1. Project Write-up
– Essay format
– Includes all reports printed with explanation of business
value
2. Database
3. Website
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Group and Individual
4. Presentation
5. Peer Evaluation (download from MGS 351 website)
**SEE Project Checklist & Project Overview**
Write-up Requirements
• Write-up in paragraph format
– Cover page with URL of project website and member
names
– Description of the system
– Future enhancements
– Backup/maintenance strategy
• Printout each of the 5 (or more) reports
– Include a description about how each report will be used in
the business and what business value is derived from the
report (one or two paragraphs per report)
• Printout of Access database relationships
• Original graded ERD
Projects That Receive A’s
Aside from doing all the checklist requirements CORRECTLY
go above the minimum on EACH component
Website
Switchboard
Forms
Presentation
Reports
Tables
All of you should have already and continue to closely checked the PowerPoint
“Ways to Earn Extra Points” in order to find additional ways to go above the minimum
Switchboard
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Great formatting
Appealing aesthetics
Extra buttons: allow the user to either close the entire database or access
Another idea: for one medical office project students did a menu where they had a
Nurses submenu, Doctors submenu and a Patients submenu; it all depends on your
project idea and implementation
Tables
Well thought out
attributes of tables
that add value, and
are not just place
holders. Table should
show user design and
ease of entry
Advanced and unique input
masks that apply to the
project
Tables Continued
This makes sure not only that the amount
paid is greater than zero, but in the property
sheet of the table the students learned how
to set a validation rule involving another field
Forms
Forms Continued
Reports
Based on advanced
queries to test if
amount was paid in
full, includes
conditional formatting
for ease of viewing.
Reports - True Business Value
One of this team’s reports was an
automatically generated contact
agreement generated based on
information they had in tables
Reminders: Due Next Lab
• Final Project Due
– Re-read the Project Overview to make sure you
have completed everything (Course Website)