MIS 382 - Use of Online Systems as Business Tools
Labs and Assignments

Weekly Homework Assignments - 10 pts each

(Late assignments will not be accepted. Homework must be submitted electronically to summers_wayne@ColumbusState.edu by 5 p.m. Friday each week.)

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3
Week 4 Week 5 Week 6
Week 7 Week 8 Week 9
Week 10 - turn in "corporate web page" Week 11 Week 12
Week 13 Week 14 Week 15

Research project and presentation - 100 pts.

You are expected to select a company and report on how the company uses online systems in their business. Once you have selected "your" company, you are responsible for contacting individuals at "your" company and finding out how the company uses online systems in their business. You may use the companies Internet site as well as any other resources available to you to locate contacts within the company. Your selected company needs to be submitted to the instructor no later than September 12, 1997, so that the presentations can be scheduled.

You are expected to submit an HTML document (50 pts) suitable for publishing on the Internet as well as presenting an oral report (50 pts) to the class and instructor. Both the HTML document and the oral report are expected to be professional in their presentation. Each oral presentation should be approximately fifteen minutes in length.

Selected companies and government agencies include:

Your project will be graded based on the following criteria:

Intranet class project - 100 pts.

As a class project, we will be developing an intranet site for the School of Business. You are expected to contribute to the project by developing a collection of HTML documents suitable for publication on the intranet site. You may either work with a faculty member in the School of Business to develop web documents for the faculty member or work on other documents that the school needs to develop for the intranet site. This assignment must be completed by November 7th, so that we can discuss the documents and their presentation in class.