BSAD 141, Fall 2017

TENTATIVE Lecture Schedule

(Subject to slight changes)

Last Day to Drop – Monday, 9/11

Last Day to Withdraw – Monday, 10/30

Date / Topic / Discussion and links to lecture notes / Reading for class (complete reading BEFORE class) – any HW will also be posted here
8/29, TU / Introduction to course (pp, pdf): discussion of objectives, course admin, syllabus, and schedule
8/31, TH / Lecture 1: (pp, pdf) Hardware and Software Basics / BDIS Appendix A
9/5,
TU / Lecture 2: (pp, pdf) Business Driven Management Information Systems / BDIS 1.1 and 1.2: pages 5-26
9/7,
TH / Lecture 3: (pp, pdf) Decisions and Processes: Decision Support Systems / BDIS 2.1: pages 45-62
HW #1 (Connect Assignment BDIS Chapter 1)
Available: Friday 9/1 at noon
Due: Friday 9/8 at 5PM (late HW not accepted)
9/12, TU / Lecture 4: (pp, pdf) Decisions and Processes: Process Modeling
Handout: (Causeway Cash Receipts Problem Entity / Activity Table)
Quiz 1a solutions
Quiz 1b solutions / BDIS 2.2: pages 62-75
Online reading (History, BPM Topics, the paragraph right under Business process modeling tools, and Related Topics)
Online reading (Read through BPM Life-cycle)
Online reading on person-to-person workflow (just read the first two pages)
9/14, TH / Lecture 5: (pp, pdf)Process Modeling using Data Flow Diagrams continue Causeway example (Physical and Logical DFDs)
Complete Causeway Solutions (you should review this entire example) / Online reading (Why Model?) Epstein, 2008
Additional information on Information Processing activities
HW #2 (Connect Assignment BDIS Chapter 2)
Available: Friday 9/8 at noon
Due: Friday 9/15 at 5PM (late HW not accepted)
9/19, TU / Lecture 6: Creating Physical DFD’s with MS Visio
HW Grading Process EA table for class exercise
Complete HW Grading Solutions (you should review this entire example)
LAPTOPS REQUIRED
9/21, TH / Lecture 7: () (Job Application Screening) Exercise involving Physical DFDs
Job Application Screening DFD solutions
LAPTOPS REQUIRED
Quiz 2a solutions
Quiz 2b solutions
9/26, TU / Lecture 8: (pp, pdf) Organizational policy - Acceptable Use Policies, Email Privacy and Nonrepudiation / BDIS 4.1: pages 136-146
9/28, TH / Lecture 9: (pp, pdf) Information Security - Encryption, Social Engineering and all types of Malware / BDIS 4.2: pages 144-155
HW #3 (Connect Assignment BDIS Chapter 4)
Available: Thursday 9/21 at noon
Due: Friday 9/29 at 5PM (late HW not accepted)
10/3, TU / Test #1 covering BDIS Chapters 1, 2, 4 and data flow diagramming / Study Guide
10/5, TH / Lecture 10: (pp, pdf) Data, Information, and Databases / BDIS 6.1
10/10, TU / Lecture 11: (pp, pdf) Data modeling, Entity-relationship Diagrams (ERDs), characteristics of relationships
10/12, TH / Lecture 12: (One-to-many example, Many-to-many example) You will probably want to print these out for class
Quiz 3a solutions
Quiz 3b solutions
Quiz 3c solutions / Read Appendix C: Designing Databases
Online Reading Data Modeling (read ONLY pages 1-9 and stop after the Summary on page 9
10/17, TU / Lecture 13: (pp, pdf) Introduction to MS Access, building tables, creating keys, creating relationships
LAPTOPS REQUIRED
10/19, TH / Lecture 14: () More on MS Access (M:M in-class example)
Quiz 4 solutions (ERD)
Quiz 4 solutions (Access Implementation)
LAPTOPS REQUIRED / HW #4 (Connect Assignment BDIS Chapter 6)
Available: Tuesday 10/10 at noon
Due: Friday 10/20 at 5PM (late HW not accepted)
10/24,
TU / Lecture 15: (Solutions) In-class practice exercise
LAPTOPS REQUIRED
10/26,
TH / Lecture 16: (pp, pdf)– Introduction to Database queries – Northwind Database (download this file and save to your computer for class!)
LAPTOPS REQUIRED
10/31, TU / Lecture 17: (pp, pdf)– Database queries
LAPTOPS REQUIRED
Quiz 5a solutions
Quiz 5b solutions
11/2, TH / Lecture 18: (pp, pdf) – Business Intelligence and Data warehouse / HW #5 (Connect Assignment BDIS Appendix C)
Available: Tuesday 10/24 at noon
Due: Friday 11/3 at 5PM (late HW not accepted)
11/7, TU / Test #2: Chapter 6 and Appendix C, relational DB design and use / Study Guide
11/9, TH / Lecture 19: (pp, pdf) Networks and Connectivity / BDIS 7.1: pages 241-256
11/14, TU / Lecture 20: (pp, pdf) Networks and Connectivity / BDIS 7.2: pages 257-274
11/16, TH / Project Day
11/20 -11/24 / Thanksgiving Break – NO CLASS
11/28, TU / Lecture 21: (pp, pdf) Enterprise Applications – Integrations and supply chain management (SCM) / BDIS 8.1: pages 257-274
11/30,
TH / Lecture 22: (pp, pdf) Enterprise Applications - Business Communications
Quiz 6a solutions
Quiz 6b solutions / BDIS 8.2: pages 257-274
HW #6 (Connect Assignment BDIS Chap 7)
Available: Tuesday 11/16 at noon
Due: Friday 12/1 at 5PM (late HW not accepted)
12/5,
TU / Lecture 23: (pp, pdf) Cryptocurrency and block chain technology
12/7,
TH / Lecture 24: (pp, pdf) Systems Development Lifecycle and Project Management / BDIS 9: pages 345-376
HW #7 (Connect Assignment BDIS Chap 8)
Available: Wednesday 11/29 at 1:00PM
Due: Friday 12/8 at 5PM (late HW not accepted)
Exam Schedule / Final Exam Study Guide
Section A (meets at 10:05AM every TU/TH)
Final Exam: Thursday, Dec 14th from 7:30AM to 10:15AM in KALKIN 004
Section B (meets at 11:40AM every TU/TH)
Final Exam: Monday, Dec 11th from 1:30PM to 4:15PM in KALKIN 004
Comprehensive Final Exam - You DO NOT need your laptops
** I cannot arbitrarily reschedule final exams. I am following the UNIVERSITY exam schedule ***