MIS 300
Management Information Systems:
Concepts and Applications
Yong Choi
School of Business Administration
CSU, Bakersfield
First Announcement
If you have not registered for this
class, please leave this room as quiet
as possible.
Please follow your official class time
– no change of section
Instructor
Name: Yong Choi, PhD
Office: BDC 142
Office Hours: on the class website
Phone: (661) 654 - 6691
Email: ychoi2@csub.edu
 No email checking during weekend…
Course Materials
Textbook
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Management Information Systems for the
Information Age, by Haag and Cummings,
8th Edition, 2008, Irwin-McGraw Hill. ISBN:
9780073376783
Buy thru the Internet
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See the next slide
Website for Course
Tour of the course website NOW!
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You can download almost every class material from the
course website…..
http://www.csub.edu/~ychoi2
Tour of Blackboard
Tour of the course website NOW!
http://www.csub.edu/els/bb9/
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You must “SELF-ENROLL” to the course Bb.
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Try “How to Enroll in a Blackboard Course” on the
university Blackboard website
Take the quiz and submit the assignment/exam
through the course Blackboard
Course Description
Designed for a student who has minimum
computer background.
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Industry minimum requirements
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Create and manage database system
Develop spread sheet based DSS
Construct website
Learn about emerging technology (GIS)
Lecture, Project, Discussion, and Computer
Application Development.
Goal of the Course 1
Learn-by-doing
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Just like “Math”
Technical MIS knowledge cannot be learned by
reading
Master essential knowledge of MIS
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Required for in-class project / assignment / exams
Course Description 2
Class format
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Hybrid: in-class and online
In-class: hands-on class project
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Database System Development
Decision Support System Development
E-Commerce Development
Online: managerial concepts of MIS
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Terms, definitions, implications, and so on.
Learn about principles of Geographic Information System
About MIS Lab
DO NOT TRY TO FIX THE
COMPUTER!!
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You will never be penalized because of technical
problems of this classroom.
Make sure the Internet connection of your computer
works!
Bring a flash (stick) memory to save
your work
MIS Lab Security Policy
IT and Dean’s office established an official security
policy.
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Students are not allowed to stay in the MIS Lab without a
faculty member present.
Students will not be allowed to loan the MIS lab proxy card
under no circumstances.
There are no exceptions to this rule.
Contact the Dean’s office if you have questions or
suggestions about this policy
Submission 1
You must submit all the assignment, the
project, and the midterm exam through
the Blackboard submission link.
Otherwise, it will not be accepted.
Submission 2
If you’d like to avoid any type of
possible technical problems, please
submit using a PC in the school
computer lab
And also try to submit at least two days
before the due date.
Submission 3
When you submit an assignment (or exam), you
MUST CLOSE the Microsoft office application
(i.e., Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Access)
COMPLETELY before you submit ASSIGNMENT
(OR EXAM) FILES.
Otherwise, you will receive ZERO POINT because
Blackboard cannot process and accept "Completed
Whole Assignment (or Exam) Files."
Submission 4
That is, ONLY title of you file will be processed
and accepted without including actual contents of
your assignment (or exam).
And if an assignment requires submit several
files, you must submit all files together at once.
That is, you must "UPLOAD" all the assignment files
together at once.
Course Guideline 1
Class Attendance
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Is required
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More than two absences will significantly negatively
impact your final grade.
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Notify me first by email prior to the absence.
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Miss a class because of a documentable illness or other
reasonable cause, I will provide help. Otherwise, I do not repeat
any lectures, labs……
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The attendance will be checked.
Course Guideline 2
The Blackboard email is the ONLY
official email
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Every MIS 300 student is issued a Blackboard email account.
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It is the student's responsibility to regularly check his or her
Blackboard email to stay current with MIS 300 course
communications.
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you email me using your private
email after 10 days of the first class,
I will not reply……..
Course Guideline 3
No interference
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Surfing the Internet without permission
Typing (email, paper…) and cell phone texting
Talking to classmates during the lectures - If you
have any question, let your instructor know
directly. Do not discuss your questions with your
neighbors
Bottom line…do not distract others
Up to 30 % of your total score can be deducted
depending on the level of interference.
Course Guideline 4
Bathroom Policy
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Need to go to the bathroom?
 Stand next to the printer and then wait for my
signal.
Best! Wait until the “Break”…
If you violet this policy, minimum 10% (based on
total score) will be applied.
Course Guideline 5
Late Policy
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All Students must be on time to the class.
If you late more than 20 minutes without any
notification (at least 24hours), then it will be
considered as “ABSENCE.”
If you violet this policy, minimum 10% (based on total
score) will be applied.
Course Guideline 6
CSUB policy
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“Faculty have a fundamental responsibility to
maintain the integrity of the learning environment.
When confronted by unreasonable disruption in
the classroom, faculty are expected to initiate
actions to correct such conditions. Such actions
may result in disciplinary action ranging from
removal from the classroom to formal disciplinary
sanctions, including probation, suspension, or
expulsion.”
Course Guideline 7
Peer Group Evaluation is a part of the
grading scheme.
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Your evaluation is 100% confidential.
To prevent free riding in the group, the contribution of each
member will be assessed.
Each member is expected to submit a peer group evaluation
at the end of the quarter.
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No one will be allowed to see your evaluation.
Please remember that your final grade can be up or down
graded based on the evaluation result.
Course Guideline 8
Microsoft Office is the ONLY official
software for our university (No Microsoft
Works allowed).
Any work submitted not using Microsoft Office
will not be accepted.
Course Guideline 9
Late work
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will be penalized (25% each day late)
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Failure to submit an assignment by the deadline will result in
a grade of 0.
A written excuses from the appropriate person such as a
medical doctor is the only acceptable form of excuse.
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Course Guideline 10
Office hours
 Please DO NOT try to use office
hours to make up for a missed
class (I do not repeat any lectures).
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You must be able to demonstrate you have already put a
reasonable effort into solving and/or analyzing the problems.
Honor code
Classroom conduct
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Everyone is equal.
Quiz
Each quiz worth 3 points.
In order to pass the quiz, your score must be
25 out of 40.
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That is, if you pass the quiz, you can earn 3
points.
If you fail (less than 25), you earn nothing (zero
point).
Quiz
(con’t)
Allowed to try the quiz two times.
Must be finished in two hours
Each quiz due date is available from the class
website.
The quiz is NOT available after the due date.
Worst two quiz scores will be dropped.
Assignment
Total 5 assignments
Database
 DSS development using Excel
 Geographic information systems
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Group Activity: EC project
1st part of EC project: Proposal
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Establish your own E-Commerce
Examples are available on our class web page.
2nd part of EC project
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Website development based on the proposal
You are required to develop your own ECommerce website based on your proposal
Submit both proposal and website
through Blackboard
Evaluation and Grading
Points scales are subject to change
Quiz (drop one worst quiz)
15 points
 Group Case Discussion
20 points
 Assignment
35 Points
 EC Project
20 points
 Midterm
50 points
 Final Exam
50 points
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190 points
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