College of Engineering and Information Technology

Bachelor of Science in Computing Information Systems

Course Syllabus

Semester Fall Academic Year 2022-2023

Program BS-CIS Undergraduate X Graduate
Course Name Computer and Internet Applications Course Code ITGN 125
Credit Hour 3 [2+2] Pre-requisite None Co-requisite None
9:00 to
10:15
AM
Class Time Days Monday Room
10:30
to11:45
AM
Instructor

Name Email Phone Office Hours

M 1:00-2:00
Dina Shehada [email protected] +971 4 55 66 980
PM
Brief Course Description:
The purpose of this course is to offer an in-depth knowledge of computer applications and to develop
the skills necessary to utilize the power of the Internet for information display and retrieval. The
course coverage includes word-processing, excel-spreadsheets, PowerPoint-presentation, and access-
database. Students will learn advanced functions of these applications and the way they are applied in
a modern office setting. This course also provides the basic coverage of Internet and Web concepts. It
introduces students to a web design tool that can be used to develop Internet applications.

This course assesses the following GUCR Program Objectives (PO):

PO1. To equip students with the skills they need when entering their academic majors, especially
with regard to English, Mathematics and Information Technology.
PO2. To develop students’ abilities to communicate effectively, think critically and make good career
decisions.
PO3. To broaden students’ experience of the humanities, social sciences, and natural and applied
sciences in a way that is relevant to their current situations and future lives.
This course assesses the following GUCR Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs):
PLO 4. Use information technology effectively.

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PLO 5. Demonstrate understanding and appreciation of the contribution of humanities, and
social, natural and applied sciences to human experience.

Course Learning Outcomes (CLO): Upon completion of this course, students should be able to
demonstrate the following outcomes:
CLO.1 Produce professional documents and business presentations with special effects using MS
Word and PowerPoint.
CLO.2 Solve business problems using advanced features of MS Excel.
CLO.3 Describe the components of the internet technology and its applications
CLO.4 Apply the essential concepts of HTML and CSS in developing a website.

Mapping: This table maps Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) to EQF to program learning Outcomes
(PLOs) to CIS Program Objectives (POs) to assessments.

QFE Alignment Class Work (50 Marks) Mid-term Final

PL
CLO Exam Exam
O Qui Qui Practical Proj
K S AR RC SD (20 Marks) (30 Marks)
z1 z2 assignment ect
1   4 10 5 10 5
2   4 5 10 5
3   5 10 5 10
4   4 5 10 10
Total 10 10 20 10 20 30
QFE Alignment: K-Knowledge; S-Skills, A&R-Autonomy & Responsibility; SD-Self-Development; RC-Role in Context

Course Grading:
Each BS-CIS course is assessed by a combination of class works (individual assignments, group
assignments, projects), and exams. Class work constitutes 50% of the course grade and exams
constitutes remaining 50% of the course grade. The minimum required mark for BS-CIS is 60 out of
100. Each course grade is distributed as under:
Cut-off Letter Quality
Marks % Grade Points
90 A 4.00
87 A- 3.75
84 B+ 3.50
80 B 3.0
77 B- 2.75
74 C+ 2.50
70 C 2.00
67 C- 1.75
64 D+ 1.50
60 D 1.00
59 F (Fail) 0.00
Assessments:
Assessment CLO Weight Due Date
Quiz1 1 10 Week 4
Quiz2 3 10 Week 10
Practical assignment 1, 2, 3, 4 20 Week 2, 3, 5, 6 , 9, 11,12

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 Project 4 10 Week 14
Midterm Exam 1, 2 20 Week 8
Final Exam 1, 2, 3, 4 30 Week 16
Teaching Methods:
✔ Lectures, video presentations, exploration and inquiry, team projects presentations and class
discussions.
✔ Online assessments.
✔ Supervised Lab sessions.
Use of Modern Instructional Technology
✔ Lectures delivered using Power-Point slides.
✔ All lecture slides and lecture video recordings, and materials are shared on Moodle.
✔ A game-based, competitive learning platform is used after every lecture to assess covered learning
objectives.
✔ Supervised lab sessions are conducted to enable students to practical and apply learned skills.
Detailed Course outline:
Weekly/Daily Teaching Plan
Day/ Relation Assignment /
Lecture CH Chapter Objectives
Week to CLO Reading
Business Course Description. Assessment Outline.
1 Application Introduction to Computer Applications (MS 1
s PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Access )
MS 4 Create a business proposal using a title page, table, 1 Lab 1
2 chart, and watermark.
Word (Word)
4,6 Enhance your presentation with SmartArt graphics 1
and pictures. Create charts and tables. Navigating
MS Lab 2
3 Presentations Using Hyperlinks and Action Buttons.
PowerPoint (PowerPoint)
Add visual elements and graphic bullets to create
impressive slide shows.
4, 6 Enhance your presentation with SmartArt graphics 1
and pictures. Create charts and tables. Navigating
MS
4 Presentations Using Hyperlinks and Action Buttons. Quiz1
PowerPoint
Add visual elements and graphic bullets to create
impressive slide shows.
MS Excel 4,6 Use financial functions for determining the monthly 2 Lab 3
5
payment for loan and create tables in Excel (Excel )
MS Excel 4,6 Create tables in Excel. Extract information from 2 Lab 4
6 spreadsheet database. (Excel)
Website Web design tutorial 1 4 Lab 5
7
Design (Web design)
8 Mid-term Exam 1,2 Exam
Website Web design tutorial 2 4 Lab 6
9
Design (Web design)
Website Web design tutorial 3 4
10 Project
Design
11 Intro to the Ch 1 1. Define the Internet 3 Lab 1
Internet 2. Discuss the history of the Internet and the World (Internet)
Wide Web
3. Describe how the internet is used.
Describe how individuals and businesses connect to

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 the Internet.
Browsing Ch2 1. Describe a web site, common Web page 3
the Web characteristics and web servers.
12 2. Explain the role of IP addresses, domain names, Quiz 2
and URLs play in locating web pages
Start a web browser and view web pages
Microsoft 4,5 Group project Prentations Revision
13 Office) (Microsoft
Office)
Website Project presentations 4 Project
14
Design presentations
15 Revision 1,2,3,4 Revision Lab
16 Final Exam Comprehensive All Exam

Educational Resources:

Educational Resources Description

Microsoft Office 365: A Skills Approach, 2019 Edition
Publisher: McGraw Hill; ISBN13: 9781260079449, 2020
Discovering Computers: Digital Technology, Data, and Devices
Textbook
Complete by Mistry E. Vermaat, Susan L.Sebok, Steven M. Freund,
Jennifer T Campbell, and Mark Frydenberg, 1st Edition(2018),
Published by Centage Learning, ISBN13 9781337285100
Microsoft Office 2016: In Practice
Publisher: McGraw Hill; ISBN13: 9780078020322, 2017
Reference Book New Perspectives On The Internet: Comprehensive by Jessica Evans;
Ralph Hooper, 10th Edition(2017), Cengage Learning, ISBN-13: 978-
1-337-28390-8
https://www.mheducation.com
https://www.w3schools.com
Additional Resources
https://cooltext.com/
Faculty Lecture Slides
Class Attendance:
Attendance and participation in all classes (which are online during the COVID-19 period) are
mandatory. This is essential to the process of education at UD since the students' involvement with
their instructors and fellow peers are vital components of their academic preparation. Absences hinder
academic progress, and affects the student’s learning ability and grades. UD regulations for
attendance and absenteeism warnings imposed on all courses are stipulated in this section as follows:
a) A faculty member must take attendance in each session.
b) If a student misses 25% 0r 8 session of class time, in a course for non-acceptable reasons as
deemed by the Instructor, he/ she will receive a grade of “FA” for the course, which counts
like a failed course (See Table 1). The student must then repeat the course in the following
term. However, the student shall have the right to attend the remaining classes of the course.
Repeating a course entails a financial charge.
c) A student must work independently to catch up on missed lectures’ material.
Table 1: Absenteeism Percentages
Percentage and Number of Session Absences
Duration of Weeks/ Class
Session Sessions 25% (Deprived
10% 20%
or Withdrawn)
1 hour 50 minutes 16 (32 sessions) 3 Absences 6 Absences 8 Absences

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Student Academic Integrity (UD Policy 5.18):
The University of Dubai (UD) is keen to ensure a University culture characterized by intellectual and
personal honesty, social integration, ethical behavior, and respect for the rights of the individual. UD
also expects its student to be self-disciplined in both their approach to studying and in their general
conduct and behavior.
The Student Code of Conduct is designed to promote this culture at UD and hence sets out the
standard of conduct expected of students. Students who violate these standards will be subjected to
disciplinary sanctions, according to established penalties as stated below. This will help UD to protect
the University community by maintaining order, discipline, and stability on campus. The following
sections describe Student Academic Misconduct, Plagiarism, Violations, and Sanctions.
Students who are registered in this must strictly adhere to this Policy. Failure to do so will subject
students to the sanctions stated here and in accordance to UD Policies and Regulations.
A. Student Academic Misconduct
Student Academic misconduct is an academic violation that covers but not limited to plagiarism,
misrepresentation, fabrication, facilitation, and cheating in exams. Apart from exam cheating and
plagiarism, the decision on whether or not to treat an academic misconduct as a violation of the Code
of Student Conduct, is at the discretion of the instructor.
A.1 Plagiarism
Plagiarism refers to representing another person’s words or ideas as one’s own in any academic
exercise. The University of Dubai has zero tolerance towards plagiarism (i.e. any portion of a
submitted document that contains plagiarism will lead to the appropriate penalty). Every
academic submission made by a student should be a work of his own and also not be self-plagiarized.
In all cases of plagiarism whether it is blatant or self-plagiarism, students will be held accountable for
violation of academic integrity which also includes a penalty for their dishonesty.
Types of Plagiarism
● Self: A student’s work reproduced more than once for the same course or for other courses
without prior permission(s) of the instructor(s) involved is an act of plagiarism. Students should
be careful when quoting or paraphrasing (properly citing material).
● Accidental: Every student is required to understand plagiarism as something similar to acts of
fraud in the academic community. For this reason, it is the responsibility of the student to make
sure his/her work has been checked and properly acknowledged.
● Blatant: Student’s work reproduced from a fellow student or any other information source
intentionally without proper acknowledgement is serious act of plagiarism. Students well of
blatantly will lead to the strict penalty that can include non-grading of course work all the way
to failing of the course as deemed by the faculty.
UD uses “Turnitin” software in Moodle to detect extent of similarity (through similarity index).
Turnitin is used by both students and faculty to support in the learning process to understand the
usage degree of the cited research material. The generated origination report from Moodle will
support in the process. For the above objective, Turnitin tool will be used by the faculty for all the
graded assignments, exams, projects. The faculty has the right to make final decision in regard to the
students’ grades work in determining the student work integrity based on the criteria and the faculty
awareness of the student’s work level.
Removal of a Graduate Degree
The Disciplinary Sanction is applied to graduate students when the Master thesis or the PhD.
Dissertation is found to be plagiarized; the Master or Doctoral Degree will be removed from the
student.

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 Students who are registered in this course must strictly adhere to Student Academic Integrity
Policy. Failure to do so will subject students to the sanctions stated in the UD Code of Conduct
available at this link: https://ud.ac.ae/on-campus/graduate-catalog
Moodle
Important information about the course and supplementary exercises will be posted on Moodle. You
are automatically given access to Moodle, using your UD username and password, when you register
for the course. The course evaluation is also done via Moodle.