|
Week |
Day |
Date |
Activities / Lecture Topic |
| Week 1 |
| Tuesday |
9/25 |
Course overview -- how to succeed in
BA271.
Treasure Hunt
activity. |
| Thursday |
9/27 |
Review for the Prerequisite
Exam and the optional
Fluffy spreadsheet competition |
| Week 2 |
| Tuesday |
10/2 |
Prerequisite Exam |
|
Thursday |
10/4 |
Website Plan
assignment. Use PowerPoint to prototype your website's structure.
Create autoshapes and autoconnectors. Use Visio to prototype a
website's structure. |
|
Week 3 |
| Tuesday |
10/9 |
Website design basics: how to
design and build a basic website.
Website Project: structure of a basic website. |
| Thursday |
10/11 |
Website Project: more advanced website construction tips. Creating
link bars. Image editing, digital cameras |
| Week 4 |
| Tuesday |
10/16 |
Creating a winning website that people will visit: good versus bad
design...how to get an "A" for your website project.
We will use the files in this
sample website folder.
Building and using a logo, how to use a scanner. Editing images to work
well in web pages. |
| Thursday |
10/18 |
Building custom feedback
forms. |
| Week 5 |
| Tuesday |
10/23 |
Conducting peer reviews. Overview of video editing. Practice Midterm review.
|
| Thursday |
10/25 |
Midterm exam |
|
Week 6 |
| Tuesday |
10/30 |
General database ideas, learn about the
Northwind Traders database.
Access #1: Database design & Visio, Level 1 |
| Thursday |
11/1 |
Access #1: Database design & Visio, Level 2.
We will look at the Northwind Traders database, and
we will look through
these Visio drawings. |
| Week 7 |
| Tuesday |
10/6 |
Access #2:
Building an Access database from scratch, Level 1 |
| Thursday |
11/8 |
Access #2:
Building an Access database from scratch, Level 2 |
| Week 8 |
| Tuesday |
11/13 |
Access #3:
Writing Access queries, Level 1 |
| Thursday |
11/15 |
Access #3: Writing Access
queries, Level 2. We will use this Northwind Traders database
to build queries in class. |
| Week 9 |
| Tuesday |
11/20 |
Access #4: Creating
useful forms |
| Thursday |
11/22 |
Thanksgiving holiday |
| Week 10 |
| Tuesday |
11/27 |
Access #5: Creating well
formatted reports |
| Thursday |
11/29 |
Course wrap-up: what we learned and why.
Review the
Practice Final Exam |
| Finals
Week |
Thursday @ noon |
12/6 |
Final exam |
