The following assignments are included in this semester. A complete breakdown of all assignments and their possible points will be covered during the Assignment Calendar Assignment in the Welcome Unit.
Unit Name
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Points Possible
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Assignment Summary
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Welcome
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140
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- Introduce yourself to the class through a Glog. Post it to the Welcome Board.
- Create a Calendar of all Assignments and exactly on what date they are each due.
- Scavenger Hunt tour of the course, policies and procedures.
- Welcome Call and Email to your instructor.
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Word Processing
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498
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- Practice Activities over Word Processing terminology.
- Word Processing Journal over how to use your word processing program.
- Assignment on editing a document by formatting proper pagination, headers/footers, margins, and fonts.
- Assignment on creating a Professional Letter using advanced word processing features.
- Assignment to format a Research Paper.
- Assignment allowing the student to pick from a list of Desktop Publishing activities to create.
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Spreadsheets
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354
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- Practice Activities over Spreadsheet terminology.
- Spreadsheet Journal over how to use your spreadsheet program.
- Quiz over moving around the spreadsheet.
- Assignment on formatting the spreadsheet.
- Assignment on applying filters to the sheet.
- Assignment on creating formulas to calculate answers.
- Assignment on analyzing data by creating a chart.
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Database
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435
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- Practice Activities over Database terminology.
- Journal activities containing some of the results from working through the Base Tutorials
- Assignment on creating a table.
- Assignment on creating a form for your mlbDatabase.
- Assignment on building several queries to run advanced searches and filters on large amounts of data.
- Assignment on relational databases and finishing all elements of the mlbDatabase used in the unit tutorials.
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Presentations
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401
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- Practice activities over Presentation terminology.
- Assignment on creating a Prezi presentation over tips for creating effective slide based presentations.
- Assignment on an Impress Presentation over the New 7 Wonders of the World.
- Assignment on a presentation about you. Peer Evaluations will be used in this Assignment.
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Capstone Project
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300
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- Final project proposal
- Final project timeline for creating all elements for the capstone project.
- Help Board where students can help each other through the creating of all the items.
- Final Project presented in a Portfolio.
- Project Assessment form is where students will self assess their final project based on required elements.
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Attendance
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100
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Attendance will be monitored and reported on all progress reports throughout the session. Students are expected to login to the course on a regular basis. Total Activity will be calculated based on total of daily Activity that is reported by BlackBoard. This activity score will be worth 100 points.
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Total
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2228
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The following scale is used for a % grade based on Total Points Calculating:
- 1994-2228 = A
- 1771-1993 = B
- 1660-1770 = C
- 1548-1659 = D
- below 1547 = F
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