MIS415 Business Database Systems

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Student responsibilities

Classes

Students are expected to attend and participate in all lecture sessions. Although attendance will not be directly monitored, attendance and class participation will count towards your final grade through in-class exercises, and involvement in class discussion.

Class etiquette

Please follow a few simple etiquettes in class:

1. Come to class in time. Walking in late is very distracting for not me, but also other students.
2. Do not talk to your neighbors when either I am talking or another student is asking questions. You will have plenty of time to talk to other students during the ample discussion times.
3. No emails or IM in class You may bring in your laptops or use the desktop computers in the lab for the purpose of taking notes and doing in-class work only. Do not use your computer to check your email or instant messages in class. I will ask you to leave the classroom if I find you logged on to IM, whether you are actively chatting or not. Turn the speakers of your laptops to "mute all" while in class.
4. No cellphones Please turn your cellphones off (or put them in silent mode) during class. You may be asked to leave the classroom if your cellphone goes off during class.

Special accommodation for absences

I will accommodate absences for only the following three situations:

1. Absences for illness: If you miss a class or an exam for an illness, you may bring in an appropriate physician's note to be excused, and potentially get a chance to make up for what you missed. The physician's note should explicitly suggest that you are advised rest.
2. Absences for scheduled sporting or activity events If you are part of an athletic or sporting team, and have specific activities scheduled during which you will not be able to attend class, you will need to let me know at the beginning of the semester in order to qualify for a possible make-up.
3. Absences for religious holidays In keeping with university policy, accommodations will be made for observance of religious holidays. I require that you request accommodations in advance, by the end of the first week of classes. Requests for accommodations involving examinations or homeworks (see schedule for due dates) must also be submitted to me by the end of the first week of classes. Class notes are availabe on our website and I will be happy to assist you with any questions you may have regarding them.

Readings

Readings will be regularly assigned from the course text. These will frequently be supplemented by material and resources on the Web itself and perhaps occasionally with readings and handouts given in class. Students will be responsible for all material in assigned readings, whether or not that material is discussed in class. If you have any questions about material not covered in class, please ask.

Assignments and Quizzes

There will be multiple take-home assignments, online quizzes and one group project in this course. All assignments and projects are mandatory, and no makeups will be given in any circumstances. All deadlines are final, and no individual extension will be granted except in the cases of sickness (with appropriate medical certificate). NO LATE SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED.

NOTE If an assignment is stated to be an individual assignment, you are required to produce your own work. There will be group assignments and projects in which collaboration is expected and encouraged, but for the individual assignments you are required to produce your own solution for the assignments WITHOUT direct help from another student in the class. In addition, you should also report any violation of the honor code that you observe. Collaboration of any form beyond acceptable discussion will be severely penalized. Any first detected collaboration may result anywyere from a 0 in the assignment in question, to an 'F' in the course. The following are examples of acceptable and unacceptable collaboration:

Acceptable forms of discussion The following is a list of actions that will not be considered collaboration:

• Asking another student for clarification on text or statement of the assignments.
• Asking another student clarification regarding due date/time, submission procedure, and other similar assignment related questions.
• Asking another student for help on a specific compilation error showing the other person no code or only the line(s) associated with the compilation error.
• Asking another student for help with the coding strategy, as long as the other student does not write, share, or show any portion of his/her code or pseudocode.

Unacceptable form of collaboration The following actions will be in violation of the individual nature of the assignments. Any student found performing any of the following actions will be liable to penlaty as mentioned above.

• Showing another student your code or pseudocode, even partially (except in the case of compilation errors as above)
• Placing your code in any publicly acceptable website, ftp site, common file system, or locker which is accessible by anyone other than yourself
• Emailing part or whole of your code to another student.
• Printing out your code and leaving it in a place where other students may have access. If you print your code, make sure you pick it up. Another student getting access to your code without your knowledge will also make you liable to penalty.
• Posting part or whole of your code in a course discussion forum.

Detection of Collaboration I will be using MOSS (Measurement of Software Similarity), a collaboration analyzer from Berkeley to detect similarity between code. Pairs of students with similarity beyond 25% of code may be asked to explain the similarity between their code.

Group project

Students will participate in one large group project for much of the course. Groups will consist of three to four students and students may select their own groups. Please see the projects page for details on the group project.

Group projects will involve input from all members of the group. Inter-group and intra-group communications and collaborations are allowed, as long such collaborations are well-documented.

Exams

There will be one mid-term and one final exam. See the schedule page for dates. The mid-term will be a 90 minute exam, and the final will be a take-home. Both exams are open-book, open-notes exams - you can consult any books or notes you feel suitable, however, they will have to be in your possession. You cannot borrow books from other students during the exam.

Academic integrity

Your student handbook includes a statement of academic integrity. Please consult this handbook for your rights and responsibilities regarding academic integrity issues. All students should read this and ask us if they have any questions. The Wright State academic integrity policy can be found at http://www.wright.edu/students/judicial/integrity.html - you are strongly encouraged to be completely familiar with this policy.

Individual assignments and exams should reflect your own work. No collaboration of any sort is allowed in the individual assignments or exams other than informal discussion in and outside class. You will be given an automatic 0 if you collaborate with any present or past student.

Course communication

E-mail

All students would be expected to check their campus e-mail frequently and that it is a reliable way to correspond with students about course matters. Make sure that e-mail addressed to you @wright.edu is received. You may, of course, use e-mail to communicate with your instructors and other students. We are going to primarily use the Pilot email for the purpose of communication. Do not send an email to my primary email address unless it is an emergency. Also, ensure that you have adequate information regarding the subject you respond when you reply to an email. In Pilot you can do this by using the "quote" button instead of the "reply" button. If your email does not have enough information I will ask you to resend your question. I would greatly encourage people to post questions on the discussion board instead of sending emails, and also to follow up on other students' postings if you know the answer to the question (as long as the answer does not include any code or directly or indirectly lead students to code).

Pilot Discussion Groups

Discussion groups in Pilot will be extensively used for the purpose of course communication. If you have a question not specifically related to your own work, but a generic question related to a course content, post your question on the appropriate discussion group. You should check the discussion groups every day if possible (Pilot logins will show you when new postings are available) and stay up-to-date with the postings. If you find a posting with a question for which you have adequate knowledge to respond, or have a follow-up question, by all means follow-up. Your responses will count heaviliy towards your class participation.

Web pages

The Pilot course materials for MIS415 and the auxiliary web site http://www.wright.edu/~arijit.sengupta/mis415 will be the official sources of course information and will be kept up to date. Noteworthy changes here will be announced in the discussion forums. This index page will also include a dated log of changes which you can use to keep current. Readings and assignments will be posted here.

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