INFO123-17S2 (C) Semester Two 2017

Information Systems and Technology

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 July 2017
End Date: Sunday, 19 November 2017
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 30 July 2017
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 15 October 2017

Description

Information technology plays an important role in business and society. This course examines how businesses use information systems and technologies to deliver business value and support business strategy, to improve connections with stakeholders, create better business processes, and enhance decision-making. Students develop problem-solving skills applicable to any area in business, and practical skills in Excel and Access to store, organise and use data to address business problems and support decision-making.

Information technology plays an important role in business and society. This course examines how businesses use information systems and technologies to deliver business value and support business strategy, to improve connections with stakeholders, create better business processes, and enhance decision-making. This course will provide opportunities for students to develop problem-solving skills applicable to any area in business, as well as practical skills in Excel and Access and an understanding of how to store, organise and use data to address business problems and support decision-making.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, a student should be able to:

1.  Demonstrate an understanding of what are business information systems (IS), the role of IS on business including how IS can be used to deliver business value, support business strategy, and enhance decision-making.
2.  Demonstrate an understanding of key business processes and the systems that support these processes (e.g. Collaboration Systems, ERP, CRM, Business Intelligence) and of the IS development process.
3.  Recognise various aspects, technologies and trends associated with ecommerce and the Internet (e.g. Web 2.0, social networking).
4.  Discuss key issues associated with managing IS in organisations (e.g. outsourcing, IS security, ethical issues).
5.  Describe key concepts, components, technologies and selection criteria associated with the use of IS (e.g. hardware, software, networks and data communication).
6.  Describe and apply key database concepts to organising, managing and using data in a database.
7.  Gain competence with presentation, spread-sheet and database software (i.e. MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Access).
8.  Use good presentation skills to create and deliver a professional presentation to an audience.

Restrictions

ACIS123, AFIS123, AFIS124

Timetable Note

In most weeks, the class will meet for four hours in total, i.e., two hours of ‘lectures’, one hour of computer tutorials, and one hour for a discussion tutorial.  The computer lab tutorials are used to help students develop skills in the following applications:  MS Excel, MS Access, and MS Powerpoint. The discussion tutorials provide an opportunity to address your questions in a small group, to make a presentation using Powerpoint, and to provide feedback on presentations made by other students.

Course Coordinator

Annette Mills

Lecturers

Ravishankar Sharma and Anushia Inthiran

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Final Exam 40%
Group Presentation 7%
Quizzes 4% Weekly Online Multi-choice Quizzes
Test 35%
MS Excel Test 7%
MS Access Test 7%


To pass INFO123 you have to:
a)  gain a mark for the semester as a whole of 50% or more (but the department reserves the right to move this 50% threshold slightly up or down to ensure fairness).
b)  satisfy the '45% rule' of the ACIS Department. This means that in order to pass the course as a whole you must average not less than 45% over the invigilated components of your assessments. For the semester as a whole you could get more than 50% yet still be awarded a D grade (a fail). In INFO123 the invigilated components include 2 computer lab tests, the mid-semester test and the final exam.

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Kroenke, David M, Boyle, Randall J; Using MIS ; 9th Global Edition; Prentice Hall.

Course links

Course outline
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Notes

Contact
The student advisors in the UC Business School can assist you in a variety of ways from planning your degree to helping with special applications regarding your course of study.  http://www.bsec.canterbury.ac.nz/course_advice/

Telephone: +64 3 369 3888
Email:  bsecdegreeadvice@canterbury.ac.nz

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $802.00

International fee $3,525.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Department of Accounting and Information Systems .

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