+ Hand in Guided Exercise Questions!

+ MGS 351 Introduction to Management Information Systems RECITATION 3

+ Agenda  Attendance  Collect Homework 1 Guided Exercise Questions  Pass back and go over Syllabus Quiz  Project – Introduction & Requirements  Homework 2 assigned  Begin Project Proposal  Reminders: Next Week

+ Project Documents Project documents can be found on MGS 351 course website Project Overview Project Checklist PLEASE READ THESE; you are required to understand the details of the project Come with questions next recitation about the project

+ Project Intro & Requirements Project Brainstorming Exercise Individual pp Everyone must come up with a project idea Project Brainstorming Exercise Group Pick two ideas: “Favorite” and “back-up” Preliminary Project Idea Proposal Answer questions on pp in Access textbook

+ Project Intro & Requirements ERD Rough Draft We will discuss these in 2 weeks Graphical representation of your database Final Project Proposal Write-up of project idea and ERD Re-grades Done if Professor Murray does not approve your project idea

+ Project Intro & Requirements Database Must add business value Made from scratch (pre-existing database cannot exist) Write-up (Report/Essay) As long as necessary Will explain various aspects of the project Database reasoning Future considerations

+ Project Intro & Requirements Company Website Will use HTML and Weebly for website We will cover this in lab in the last three weeks of the semester Presentation – 8 – 10 minutes – Demo of what your database does – Why your database is useful – Business casual

+ Project Checklist: Always refer to! Located: MGS 351 course websiteMGS 351 course website

+ Project Intro & Requirements Grading: Meeting the requirements on the checklist will only get you a B on the project You must go above and beyond on your database and website to receive an A If everyone has extraordinary projects everyone can get an A If everyone has terrible databases, everyone can get an F

+ Homework 2 (10 points) Homework 2: Chapter 3 - Forms Customers.accdb (database file) Chapter 3 Guided and Applied Exercises (pp.22-30) Chapter 3 Guided Exercise Questions (pg. 31) Will go over homework hints next week Due: Thursday Recitations: September 25, 2014 Friday Recitations: September 26, 2014

+ TIDB Peer Evaluations Initial Group Peer Evaluation Access textbook pp Be thorough & honest Due: Next week at beginning of recitation Thursday Recitations: September 18, 2014 Friday Recitations: September 19, 2014

+ Project: Individual Work Begin Project Proposal (pp ) Brainstorm ideas for project based on your previous work experience Take about 10 minutes to do this, INDIVIDUALLY

+ Project: Group Work Preliminary Project Idea Proposal (pp.92-93) Share ideas as a group Pick a favorite idea and a back-up idea I will be going over ideas with each group next week in recitation Be prepared to discuss which idea the group will most likely choose Due: End of recitation next week

+ Reminders: Next Week  Exam #1 Friday, September 19, 2014 Knox 20 6pm – 8pm  Initial Group Peer Evaluation (p ) - Due at BEGINNING of recitation next week  Preliminary Project Proposal (p ) Due at END of recitation next week