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Attendence Policy:

You are expected to attend your scheduled lab (the CIS 120 lab that you registered for) each week. If you have a conflict with your scheduled lab, use the drop/add process to make a change. Your instructor will lecture on and demonstrate important software application principles that have a direct bearing on the sessions that you must work hands-on, the projects that you,will turn in and the quizzes and exams that you will take. This lecture/demonstration period will last from 15 to 30 minutes and is very important to your CIS 120 grade so please be punctual.

After the initial lecture/demonstration, you will be given the remainder of the 1 hour and 45 minute lab to work through hands-on the required appropriate session(s) in your lab manual and begin and possibly complete the required project that is due and is to be handed in the following week. During this period that you are working hands-on with the computer at your pace, lab aids, lab interns, graduate assistants, and your instructor will be available to assist you with problems.

Please note that you are not to leave a lab without permission from the Instructor whether the Instructor is a faculty member or a graduate teaching assistant. If you can show the Instructor that you have successfully completed the project that is due in the following week, you will be allowed to leave the lab early.

You will turn in your projects each week before or shortly after the Instructor lectures/demonstrates (not during). The instructor will begin grading projects shortly after the lecture/demonstration period and will complete the grading of projects before the end of class. If your project is to receive less than the full value of the project, you will be contacted in class and you will be given a chance to make the proper changes to receive full credit. This system, coupled with the fact that you can check your project against the correct project on the bulletin board before it is turned in, insures that you will never receive less than full credit for your project. If a grade between 1 and 8 is posted to your account, this means that you were not in class when the instructor attempted to contact you, and you will not be allowed to review your project.

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Lab Materials:

You will use 3 lab manuals called the Irwin Advantage Series by Hutchinson and Sawyer, Irwin Publishing Company. All will be available at the NAU bookstore and UTT. Each of the manuals will be used for 3 to 4 weeks and we will use them in this order: Word 6.0 for Windows, Excel 5.0 for Windows, and Access 2.0 for Windows. You MUST bring the appropriate

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Ethic:

Refer to the dishonest scholastic work section in your concepts syllabus. Please note that taking a quiz or exam from class is considered dishonest scholastic work.

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Project Information:

1. Projects are due at the beginning of Lab on the following week after they are assigned to be given full credit. You may turn in a project within 2 weeks after the project is ASSIGNED but you will suffer a penalty. LATE PROJECTS (after 2 weeks) will not be accepted. 2. It is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT that you place the following information on each project that you hand in or you WILL NOT receive full credit for the project. A. Your Name B. Your Social Security Number C. Your Scheduled Lab Time and Day D. The Project Number (WP-1, WP-2, SS-1, SS-2, DB-1, for example)

The directions in the CIS120.DOC file will tell you where to place the project information that is listed above. The project information must be placed on the project with the software application and a computer printer. It must NOT be written on the project with pen or pencil unless the instructions tell you to.

3. You are encouraged to complete any or all of the hands-on exercises at the end of each lab session in the manual. However, only one of these is assigned for the project for that section. Make sure that the exercise that you turn in is the one that is assigned for the project. You will not receive credit for the wrong project. 4. The results of all lab exams, quizzes, and projects will be posted in the lab at the end of the week. You will have the following week to notice any discrepancies concerning your grades in the posting. If you turned in a project and were not given credit according to the posting, you will be given credit if we can verify from your data disk that you completed this project. After one week, we may not give any credit or only partial credit. PLEASE SAVE A" OF YOUR COMPLETED PROJECTS ON YOUR DATA DISK FOR VERIFICATION.

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Exams:

There will be three exams and eight quizzes covering the DOS and lab applications portion of the course.  Please refer to the lab content, exams, and quizzes section of the syllabus that follows for the dates and coverage.


 OPEN COMPUTER LABS ON NAU CAMPUS 

You may not complete all of your practice sessions and projects during your assigned teaching lab period.  As an NAU student, you may use the two "open" computer labs operated by Computer Technology Services.  Their location and times of operation are as follows:

 NORTH CAMPUS 

Art  and  Design
Building 16

Rooms 301-303
Phone   523-1351

 SOUTH CAMPUS 

Learning Resource Center (LRC)
Building 61

Phone 523-3210

The hours for both labs are as follows:

     Mon - Thur      8:00 am - 11:00  pm

     Friday              8:00 am -  5:00  pm

     Saturday           10:00 am -  6:00  pm

     Sunday             12:00 am - 11:00  pm

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