|
Week |
Day/Times |
Date/Location |
Activities / Lecture Topic |
Week 1
1/8 - 1/12
PPT slides |
Monday
6 p.m. |
1/8
Gilbert 124 |
Course overview -- how to succeed in
BA271. Theme: relationships matter |
Tuesday
@ 12, 1, 2, or 3 p.m. |
1/9
Bexell 324 |
Treasure Hunt
activity. |
Thursday
@ 12, 1, 2, or 3 p.m. |
1/11
Bexell 324 |
Review for the Prerequisite
Exam and the optional
Fluffy spreadsheet competition |
Week 2
1/15 - 1/19
PPT slides |
|
Monday |
1/15 |
Martin Luther King day -- no classes.
|
Tuesday
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. |
1/16
Bexell basement computer lab |
Prerequisite Exam
Arrive and begin the exam between 10:00
a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
No
lab-session class in Bexell 324. |
Thursday
@ 12, 1, 2, or 3 p.m. |
1/18
Bexell 324 |
Treasure Hunt
activity. |
|
Week 3
1/22 - 1/26
PPT slides |
Monday
6 p.m. |
1/22
Gilbert 124 |
Website design basics: how to
design and build a basic website |
Tuesday
@ 12, 1, 2, or 3 p.m. |
1/23
Bexell 324 |
Website Plan
assignment. Use PowerPoint and Visio to prototype your website's structure.
Create autoshapes and autoconnectors.
Create audio files with Sound Recorder. |
Thursday
@ 12, 1, 2, or 3 p.m. |
1/25
Bexell 324 |
Website Project: structure of a basic website. |
Week 4
1/29 - 2/2
PPT slides |
Monday
6 p.m. |
1/29
Gilbert 124 |
Creating a winning website that people will visit: good versus bad
design...how to get an "A" for your website project. |
Tuesday
@ 12, 1, 2, or 3 p.m. |
1/30
Bexell 324 |
Creating link bars, building and using a logo.
We will use the files in this
sample website folder. |
Thursday
@ 12, 1, 2, or 3 p.m. |
2/1
Bexell 324 |
Building custom feedback
forms.Image editing, digital cameras, how to use a scanner. Editing
images to work well in web pages. |
Week 5
2/5 - 2/9
PPT slides |
Monday
6 p.m. |
2/5
Gilbert 124 |
Wikis, online collaboration, and open source software |
Tuesday
@ 12, 1, 2, or 3 p.m. |
2/6
Bexell 324 |
Practice Midterm review.
Peer Review and
Microsoft Producer. |
Thursday
@ noon to 4 p.m. |
2/8
Basement computer lab |
Midterm exam Go to the basement lab. You can begin the exam anytime
between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. You will have 2 hours to
complete it. Thus, I will be in the computer lab from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. No class in Bexell 324 today. |
|
Week 6
2/12 - 2/16
PPT slides |
Monday
6 p.m. |
2/12
Gilbert 124 |
General database ideas, learn about the
Northwind Traders database. |
Tuesday
10:00 a.m. -- 6:00 p.m. |
2/13
Bexell 324 |
Access #1: Database design & Visio, Level 1 |
Thursday
@ 12, 1, 2, or 3 p.m. |
2/15
Bexell 324 |
Access #1: Database design & Visio, Level 2.
We will look at the Northwind Traders database, and
we will look through
this set of Visio drawings. |
Week 7
2/19 - 2/23
PPT slides |
Monday
6 p.m. |
2/19
Gilbert 124 |
Constructing a database |
Tuesday
@ 12, 1, 2, or 3 p.m. |
2/20
Bexell 324 |
Access #2:
Building an Access database from scratch, Level 1 |
Thursday
@ 12, 1, 2, or 3 p.m. |
2/21
Bexell 324 |
Access #2:
Building an Access database from scratch, Level 2 |
| Friday
anytime |
2/22 |
Last day to withdraw from a course (W grade entered on
transcript). |
Week 8
2/26 - 3/2
PPT slides |
Monday
6 p.m. |
2/26
Gilbert 124 |
Writing queries, overview |
Tuesday
@ 1, 2, 3 or 4 p.m. |
2/27
Bexell 324 |
Access #3:
Writing Access queries, Level 1 |
Thursday
noon to 4 p.m. |
3/1
Bexell 324 |
Access #3: Writing Access
queries, Level 2 |
Week 9
3/5 - 3/9
PPT slides |
Monday
6 p.m. |
3/5
Gilbert 124 |
Using forms and reports, overview |
Tuesday
@ 1, 2, 3 or 4 p.m. |
3/6
Bexell 324 |
Access #4: Creating
useful forms, level 1 |
| |
3/8 |
Access #4: Creating
useful forms, level 2 |
Week 10
3/12 - 3/16
PPT slides |
Monday
6 p.m. |
3/12
Gilbert 124 |
Course wrap-up: what we learned and why. |
Tuesday
@ 1, 2, 3 or 4 p.m. |
3/13
Bexell 324 |
Access #5: Creating well
formatted reports |
Thursday
@ 12, 1, 2, or 3 p.m. |
3/15
Bexell 324 |
Review the
Practice Final Exam |
Finals
Week
3/19 - 3/23 |
For the final exam schedule, see the bottom of the
Graded Activities page |
