College of Business Administration

Fall 2025

MIS 101 - Computer Information Systems for Management

Section 9: Asynchronous (Web Online)

Disclaimer: This syllabus and the schedule of readings, assignments, and activities may be changed by the instructor in order to maximize student learning needs and meet the objectives of the courses.

 

  

Instructor	Spiros Velianitis, MS/MIS
E-mail	Spiros@CSUS.edu
Web Page	http://www.csus.edu/indiv/v/velianitis  and Canvas
Office Hours	Tuesday: 1:30-4:30 pm in TAH-2077

Email access is essential in communicating with the instructor and your peers. Please activate your CSUS e-mail account.

  

 

Textbook:  David M. Kroenke & Randall J. Boyle. Using MIS Edition: 11th, 2020. Pearson Education.

Software: MS Access, MS Word, FileZilla.

 

Keywords: MIS, Collaboration Information Systems, Information Systems Strategy, Hardware & Software, Database Processing, The Cloud, Competitive Advantage, Business Intelligence, Information System Security, Information Systems Management, Information Systems Development.

 

 

Course Description: Explores the application of computers to the organizational environment with a management perspective. Topics may include transaction processing systems, management reporting, decision support systems, strategic planning, security, controls and acquisition of hardware, software and services. The interface between the information systems professional and the manager will be defined. Case studies and use of appropriate software packages may be included.

 

Course Rationale/Course Overview: As the Northern California region recovers from the economic downturn businesses, not-for-profits and government agencies/departments will begin seeking business graduates who are capable of leading their business units as well-qualified managers. Focus on developing our best students to fill these opportunities through a challenging business curriculum that emphasizes cross-functional business integration, problem solving and decision making.  

 

Course Learning Objectives

This course is designed to be a critical component of the BS Business Administration program by addressing the following three learning objectives of the program:

1.      Technology Applications: Recognize and apply appropriate information and management technologies to achieve organizational goals.

2.      Reflective Thinking Skills: Review information, circumstances, and outcomes systematically for evaluation purposes.

3.      Innovative Thinking Skills: Apply information to generate unique and original alternatives for effective problem solving and decision making.

 

 

Goal 1 Fundamental Business Knowledge

Competence based on fundamental business knowledge.

1.1 Demonstrate understanding of fundamental business theories, concepts, and skills.

1.2 Ability to analyze business information in performing business related tasks.

Goal 2 Integrative Business Competence

Business competence integrated with other business knowledge areas and ethical responsibility.

2.1 Ability to identify factors contributing to a managerial problem from a variety of business perspectives.

2.2 Enumerate the costs and benefits that potential solutions will have on the interdependent stakeholders of a firm.

Goal 3 Effective Business Communication

Business communication utilizing contemporary and classic communication techniques and methods.

3.1 Convey information in a variety of business settings.

3.2 Evaluate the efficacy of business communications.

Goal 4 Applied Business Capability

Ability to translate knowledge of business and management into practice.

4.1 Create effective business solutions that are both ethically sound and socially responsible.

4.2 Generate innovative and effective solutions for problem solving and decision making.

 

Technology Application Project: The goal of the Technology Application Project is to allow you to develop a Computer Based Information System (CBIS) to provide information for effective decision making. This project is a group assignment to allow individuals to exchange ideas and learn from each other.  You will build an Information System to record stock and investment information with data downloaded from the Internet and copied from other sources. This system will also produce the appropriate information for decision making (you will find more information on the Assignment section). 

Systems Development Web Project: The importance of the Internet as an inexpensive way to bring your messages and data to a worldwide audience is ever increasing. All types of companies, small and large, see the Internet as a huge opportunity. This project will give you the opportunity to use this new technology and benefit from it. Your assignment is to develop a personal/group Web Site, which will be hosted at the CSUS Web Pages server (no other servers will be allowed). You are free to select any content for your Web Site as long as it in accordance to the rules and regulations defined by CSUS and addresses a problem/opportunity.

One of the objectives of this assignment is to understand the process of building software. This systems development process includes several activities grouped into phases like analysis of the needs, design of the solution, implementation of your solution, maintenance and review. Our main focus is on the systems development process itself and not so much on the finished product.

You will develop the system (Web page) using the Systems Development Life Cycle methodology (SDLC) and will be individually responsible for each phase including the documentation of the activities and the output of each phase.  If changes are needed after a phase deliverable is submitted, a change request document must describe the all changes needed and the reason for each change (you will find more information on the Assignment section).

Exams: I will give two Canvas term examinations and 2 practice Quizzes:

 

1.       Each exam consists of fifty (50) multiple-choice questions (2 points per question). Examination material will be drawn from the textbook reading, any other assigned readings, and class lectures and discussion. Emphasis will be placed on the conceptual understanding of the material and NOT on memory alone. Understanding the application of the concepts will greatly enhance your grade.

2.      Each Canvas Quiz consists of 20 multiple choice questions (1 point per question). You will have an entire week to complete these 2 quizzes and you will have unlimited attempts. I will only keep your highest score. 

No make-up examination will be given without the prior approval of the instructor. If you fail to take the exam, without valid documentation, I will prepare a different exam which you will take at 75% of its grade value.

Final grades will be assigned according to the total points you have obtained through exams and homework assignments relative to the total possible number of points. 

Pluses and minuses will be awarded along the extremities (i.e., greater than 3% below the upper limit and less than 3% of the lower limit, respectively). 

Based on the total points, your grades will be assigned as follows:

Note this paragraph, about attendance, does not apply to section 9 (online class). Your grade is also affected by the number of absences. You are allowed to have 5 absences. For each absence after your allowance, 10 points will be deducted. Note that absences are only excused for a valid reason (health problems, jury duty etc.) and MUST be accompanied with documentation (i.e., health center note) within one week of returning to class.

Any queries or appeals for a graded component (such as an assignment or an exam) must be directed to the instructor in person within 2 weeks after the graded component is returned. No adjustment will be made for the scores of graded components after the two-week period.

Grading system may change for compelling reasons. 

 Please look at our detailed weekly schedule to find out what is the expectation for each day of instruction. 

 

Cheating. At Sacramento State, cheating is the act of obtaining or attempting to obtain credit for academic work through the use of any dishonest, deceptive, or fraudulent means. Cheating at Sacramento State includes but is not limited to:

1.      Copying, in part or in whole, from another’s test or other evaluation instrument.

2.      Using crib notes, "cheat sheets," or any other device, including electronic devices not permitted by the instructor as an aid in writing an examination.

3.      Submitting work previously graded in another course unless doing so has been approved by the course instructor or by department policy.

4.      Submitting work simultaneously presented in more than one course, unless doing so has been approved by the respective course instructors or by the department policies of the respective departments.

5.      Altering or interfering with grading or grading instructions.

6.      Sitting for an examination by a surrogate, or as a surrogate.

7.      Any other act committed by a student in the course of his or her academic work that defrauds or misrepresents, including aiding or abetting in any of the actions defined above.

Plagiarism. Plagiarism, as a form of cheating, is the use of distinctive ideas or works belonging to another person without providing adequate acknowledgement of that person’s contribution. Regardless of the means of appropriation, incorporation of another’s work into one’s own requires adequate identification and acknowledgement. Plagiarism is doubly unethical because it deprives the author of rightful credit and gives credit to someone who has not earned it. Acknowledgement is not necessary when the material used is common knowledge. Plagiarism at Sacramento State includes but is not limited to:

1.      The act of incorporating into one’s own work the ideas, words, sentences, paragraphs, or parts thereof, or the specific substance of another’s work without giving appropriate credit thereby representing the product as entirely one's own. Examples include not only word-for-word copying, but also the "mosaic" (i.e., interspersing a few of one’s own words while, in essence, copying another’s work), the paraphrase (i.e., rewriting another’s work while still using the other’s fundamental idea or theory); fabrication (i.e., inventing or counterfeiting sources), ghost-writing (i.e., submitting another’s work as one’s own) and failure to include quotation marks on material that is otherwise acknowledged; and

2.      Representing as one’s own another’s artistic or scholarly works such as musical compositions, computer programs, photographs, paintings, drawing, sculptures, or similar works.

 

·          CBA Tutoring Center – Information will be sent to students over BizList when the schedule is finalized and posted.

Late and Make-up Policy:  The general policy for this course is to require completion of assignments as specified in the class schedule.  All assignments are due on the Canvas specified dates. Late assignments may be submitted within a week of the due date with a 20% penalty. No late assignments will be accepter after 1 week.  All assignments will be submitted using Canvas (please do not email your assignments). I will send you instructions on how to submit the assignments before the due dates.

Incomplete: An incomplete grade (I) will only be issued in accordance to College of Business Administration policy. Among the conditions imposed by the instructor that must be met are: (1) a current passing grade (70 percent or better), (2) the successful completion of all prior assignments and exams, and (3) an unforeseen and unusual event beyond your control which prevents you from completing the semester, and can be documented and verified (employment-related events do not qualify). (4) An incomplete will only be considered after it has been determined that a withdrawal (W) cannot be issued. If you do not meet (1) through (4), you do not qualify for an incomplete. As stipulated by the University, an incomplete cannot be assigned when it is necessary for the student to attend additional class meetings to complete the course requirements.

Unauthorized Withdrawal (WU) indicates that a student did not officially withdraw from the course but failed to complete it. Among the conditions imposed by the instructor that must be met are: (1) a passing grade (70 percent or better) at the time that the student stopped attending classes, (2) attendance stopped before the 11th week of the semester. If you do not meet (1) and (2), you do not qualify for an unauthorized withdrawal (WU) grade and as a result you will be assigned a failing (F) grade.

Laptop and cell phone regulation: No photographing, recording or text messaging is allowed without permission of the instructor.

A disruptive student is a student who engages in classroom behavior that interferes with the process of teaching and learning. If a student is disruptive to my class, I will follow the Procedures for dealing with incidents of disruptive behavior described in the DEALING WITH INCIDENTS OF DISRUPTIVE STUDENT BEHAVIOR IN THE CLASSROOM document https://www.csus.edu/student-affairs/student-conduct/policies.html