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Welcome.
My name is Dr. Dirk Davis.
This is CIS 265, Computer Information Systems
Essentials.
Welcome to both the online and the hybrid section, regardless
whichever one you're in.
The online section, we will never physically meet on
campus or anywhere else.
The hybrid section, I believe we're meeting Wednesday nights
at 6:00 in the Yeager B213, I think, computer lab, right
next to the computer lab in the Yeager Center, the general
use computer lab.
This is an introductory video.
I'm just going to basically go through the syllabus, and some
of those items within Week One.
As you can see from the announcements here, we've
added both a Getting Started Checklist video and the
required resources.
So I'll go through the syllabus and then we'll go
from there.
The other video you'll get from me this week, or I guess
I should say the other announcement, will be a faith
integration component.
I'm typically in the Bible every day.
I have one of those Read Through the
Bible in a year Bibles.
It always takes me two to three years to get through it,
but I'm always reading.
So bear with me.
I'll share how that applies to my daily life, and hopefully
you'll find that helpful.
So to access the syllabus, if you click on Course
Information on the left, you'll see an introduction
area that takes you Blackboard, where we've
already started introductions.
You will also see student data files which you can use for
the different assignments.
I don't think you'll use Capstone One, so I'm going to
go ahead and probably hide that.
I think we're using Capstone Two.
So get that out of your way so it's not confusing.
And then if you go back to Course Information, Getting
Started really takes us through what we should be
doing in the course.
So you can always use that for general information.
But what I'd like to go through
tonight is the syllabus.
So we've cleverly hidden it inside of the Syllabus folder.
Don't get me wrong.
All this information is highly captivating.
I know because I wrote most of it.
I'm not going to read this line item at a time to you.
I will focus on that which in my experience is both most
helpful and a high area of confusion for students, so
that's what I will focus on over the next few minutes.
Again, if you have any questions about this or
anything else, please contact me at your convenience, and
the best way to do that is via email.
You can use the Blackboard Discussion Board, but know
that if I'm in a hurry, I may not get in to check Blackboard
on one particular day.
I'll check it when I upload something during the weekly
Blackboard assignments, but other than that, I may not
check it every day, so the best way to get in touch with
me is email.
Here's my contact information.
I'm at Tyler Plaza, so the OPS, the Ops Online and
Professional Studies Division is located off campus.
There's my email, here's my office phone.
I'm available anytime.
You'll call this number and probably get my administrative
assistant, Debbie [INAUDIBLE].
She's a very nice lady, so please be nice to her.
She has to put up with me, which is very
difficult at times.
So if you need an appointment, you can call her and we'll get
you set up as quickly as possible.
Now, you'll notice here at first glance,
this may be very confusing.
What I've tried to do is I've tried to make it so that you
can use whatever computer you're most comfortable
working on with whatever operating system you're
currently using and with your version of Microsoft Office.
That is going to be different for many of you.
So our book is based on Office 2010, and that's what all of
the assignments are based upon.
Now, you could also use a Mac, and we'll get
to that in a minute.
But if you're using a PC, the book is the same regardless.
We'll switch to another book probably in the fall or next
year, but right now, this is the only book.
If you're using a PC, these are the data
files for that PC.
If you have Office 2010 on your computer,
you're in good shape.
If not, if you have to purchase it, you can buy
either the SkyDrive version or you can buy the 2013 version,
and you can rent either one of those by going to this link
and paying them $9, $10 a month.
So you will need one of those options.
Can you use a computer on campus?
Absolutely, if that's what you want to use, and we'll provide
everything for you.
But if you don't want to come on campus, which the vast
majority of my students don't, you need to be set up with
your version of Microsoft Office, et cetera.
You'll also need the Publication Manual, the APA
Manual, because everything we do here will use APA Four, and
we'll use Lancer Mail I typically don't reply to a
non-CBU email address.
I can't by law for grades or any sensitive information.
So please be sure and email me to and check your email from
your Lancer email address.
Now, if you're using a Mac, you can buy this book but know
it's not going to match up with the verbiage in
Blackboard perfectly, but I still think you'll get the
gist of it and it will be a very good resource.
Here are the data files if you're using Mac.
Now remember, the Office version is 2011.
PC 2010 or '13, but for Office, the
year version is 2011.
Now similarly, you can buy or rent Office 2011 for the Mac.
You can rent the SkyDrive version, or you can rent or
buy Office 2011 by going to this link.
If you have Office 2008 for the Mac, can you make it work
by using this book and that older software?
Perhaps, if you're fairly proficient, but know that the
book won't match up with your software hardly at all, so I
wouldn't recommend doing that.
Especially since you can rent it for $20 for the course, it
makes more sense to rent the newer version if you have the
older version installed on your computer.
You, too, will need the APA Guide, and we'll talk more
about how to use that next week, and Lancer Mail.
So again, here is the explanation for this.
I'm trying to allow for you to use your personal computer
with your version of the software.
Know that obviously, I can't write these assignments for 15
different versions of software, so it makes it a
little messy, and that's OK.
Email me with your questions and I'll get back to
you the same day.
Here are goals and objectives.
Read through these.
They're fairly interesting.
And next, we come to our Assignments Overview.
So there is, with any online class, we have a threaded
discussion, or discussion board assignments.
You have to do those weekly, and they will describe both
your academic and your spiritual progress through the
course, and we'll talk more about those later.
There's a formative assessment piece in the mid-participation
assessment, and there's a summative assessment piece in
the final participation assessment, and we'll talk
about those when we get to them.
The Getting Started Checklist is your first written
assignment, and it's worth 20 points of extra credit, so you
might want to pay attention to that within the next day or
two probably.
Office Productivity will have--
actually, instead of "Windows," this should say,
"operating system," but we'll have one, two, three, four,
and five primarily Office Productivity projects.
There's a copyright project where you'll learn about
plagiarism and copyright standards.
And there's also an e-portfolio assignment where
you will create a web page and learn more than you ever
thought you would regarding website and website design.
And then the critical assignment in this course is
the Capstone Project, where many of these Office products,
we will provide and the book provides a high level of
assistance.
The Capstone Project is really trying to ensure that you can
transfer that skill set and apply those skills
independently.
So notice that especially the critical assignment must be
passed at an acceptable rate in order to pass the course.
Here is the points distribution.
Know that just about everything is worth 100 points
except the Capstone is heavily weighted at 20% of your grade.
So we'll start in around the mid-term and then finish it up
the final week of class.
Straight percentage grading scale, no tricks.
You're going to have to work very hard not to pass this
course, so if you're a Luddite or a digital immigrant like
myself, don't worry about it.
I think we can get you through it.
Let's talk a little about the schedule now.
This is important, though.
Ops weeks always begin on a Monday, so today's the first
day of class, whether you're in a hybrid or fully online or
fully face to face, this is really the first night of
class for all of us.
The last night of class each week is Sunday night.
So many times, assignments will be due
Sunday night by midnight.
You'll see here, that's the case for most of these.
Notice the one major exception is that all of your work for
Week Eight is due the Friday night, or Day
Five, of Week Eight.
I have grades due, as all your the instructors do, grades are
due Monday afternoon at 4:00.
So if you turn them in Sunday, I just can't get everything
graded in time.
So for that reason, we ask that all Week Eight
assignments are due by Friday night at 5:00.
And if you ever have a question of the schedule, if
I've written something in an announcement or something
that's confusing, this is the definitive schedule, the one
that's in the syllabus, so refer to this.
It's the one we will go by.
If you're not sure what professionalism looks like,
read this and then you will be.
An important factor in all of our success here for this
class is that we communicate regularly and effectively, and
to that end, we have the following criteria.
Lancer Mail should be used for all email communication and
checked on a daily basis.
That's for you and for me.
Timely feedback is 24 hours.
In other words, if you send me an email Monday at 3:00, I'm
going to reply to you before Tuesday at 3:00.
Those are business hours so weekends don't count, although
I typically follow through with that on weekends as well.
Similarly, timely feedback for me to grade and get comments
back to you for your work is 72 hours or three days for
minor assignments and one week for major assignments.
We don't really have any major assignments here except for
the Capstone Project, and I don't get a week
to grade that anyway.
So I'll get everything back to you, or try
to, within 72 hours.
Late assignments.
The good news is you don't have to worry about late
assignments.
The bad news is I don't accept them.
So this is a nice way to say I'm not going to accept late
assignments.
So get them in on time.
If you do have compelling reasons or catastrophic
events, contact me and we'll discuss it.
If you're not sure what netiquette is, go to here
because Virginia Shea will tell you all about it.
Similarly, if you're not familiar with CBU's Academic
Honesty Policy or our honor code, I would go and look in
your Handbook.
In the CBU Handbook, there's a detailed discussion, and so I
would be sure to be familiar with that.
Students with disabilities.
If you have a documented disability and you need to
arrange appropriate accommodation, please contact
the Coordinator of Disability Services and/or me at your
earliest opportunity.
That was a lot fairly quickly.
If you have any questions.
Let me show you a little bit more about the
layout of the course.
You'll notice that all of the Week One assignments and
anything, really, you should be paying attention
to should be here.
Here's the Getting Started checklist.
Here's our threaded discussion.
On a weekly basis, this is what you're doing in the
Discussion Board.
Now this week, you also have an Introductory Thread in
addition to this.
Oh, George came to say hi.
I have to show everybody George
because he's very lovable.
He's both the best dog in the world and he's dumber than a
bag of hammers.
So he's a very nice dog and you'll see him lots in my
videos because he's always around.
So every week on a weekly basis, I want to know what
your progress is like through the week.
How are you on your current learning activities?
What do you need help with?
Other students can answer those as well.
If you see a question and you know the answer or you have
some ideas, absolutely chime in and help a brother or
sister out.
The second thing I want to hear about is your plan to
deal with the work you haven't been able to get done today or
the upcoming work.
So give us your ideas and your suggestions and how you plan
to schedule your time so you can get that done, and others
will benefit from that.
The third item I want you to share with every week is what
additional support you could use from either your course
mates or me, your instructor.
You need to let us know.
Certainly, I pay a lot of attention to student
evaluations and if you've asked for some help and
haven't gotten it, we should hear about it on a course
evaluation or student evaluation.
My hope is that that won't happen.
And then fourthly and arguably most importantly, what
Scripture or spiritual principle is most applicable
in your life this week?
And then how you evaluate your walk in light of that that
you've just told me is really important?
So this is what you'll be working on.
Here is more information regarding the criteria, so be
sure and read this.
And if you have any questions, let me know and I'll do the
best I can to answer them.
Here's our agenda for the week.
So you've begun with the Getting Started checklist.
Acquire your textbooks and your software, if necessary.
Complete your entry into the Introductory Thread, which
many of you have started.
Complete your Getting Started checklist.
Complete your Week One threaded discussions, which go
over these four items.
And then lastly, contact me with any questions, comments,
concerns, et cetera that you may have.
Have a great week and I look forward to talking to, seeing
some of you Wednesday night in person, and talking to all of
you electronically.
Have a great week.
Thanks.