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BISM7202 Information
Systems for Management
Assessment Guideline:
MS Office Assignment – Office
365 Excel 2019
SEMESTER 1 2022
BISM7202 – Information Systems for Management
Summary
Type: Individual Computer-based Assessment
Learning Objectives
Assessed:
3, 4
Due Date: 2:00 pm 27th May 2022
Deliverable: One electronic file must be submitted via the Blackboard
Assignment Submission Tool consisting of a single Excel file.
Weight: 40%
Task Description
This assignment requires you to create a professional business application using Microsoft Office 365
Excel 2019. The assignment is worth 40% of your grade in this course. This is an individual
assignment – group work or any collaboration on the assignment is not permitted. This assignment
consists of several tasks to be completed in Excel.
Please be aware of the University's Statute regarding academic integrity, plagiarism and the
submission of your own work.
Please note you can resubmit your assignment as many times as you like prior to the deadline. We
will only mark the latest version of the assignment submitted up until the due date.
Requirements
The purpose of this assignment is to test the student’s ability to operate, manage, and interpret
business data in spreadsheets.
The assignment is worth 40 marks that equal to 40% of the overall grade achievable in this course. A
foundational Excel Spreadsheet is provided for students to modify and update to meet the
‘challenges’ presented in the Case Specification document that is separate to this Assessment
Guideline.
The assignment MUST be done individually.
The assignment may also include self-learning components that cover content/knowledge not present
in the tutorials. It is expected that the student will undertake their own research to master this
component.
The assignment requires no prior technical background. Moreover, it is designed for business
students in general to appreciate basic IS applications. Prior familiarity with the software tool (Excel)
could be beneficial, but will not guarantee a significant advantage or higher marks.
Through tutorials, students are exposed to practical exercises like those in the assignment, develop
the skills to manage business data in Excel, and the skills to complete this assignment. It is essential
that students carry out the required readings and preparation for each tutorial before
attending/attempting each tutorial and subsequently this assignment.
Students are to modify and further develop an Excel template that is provided with the Case
Specification (provided by Week 4 of the semester). Students are to format, complete, and further
develop the spreadsheet according to these assessment guidelines and the Case Specification.
This is a difficult assignment worth 40% of your course grade, and you should start working
on the assignment early in the semester.
BISM7202 – Information Systems for Management
Guidelines
Expectations
This assignment requires you to complete an Excel workbook file using Microsoft Office 365 Excel
2019 based on the specification provided in Blackboard. This document is a companion to a template
Excel workbook that contains several sheets you are to develop as part of this assessment.
The case has four main requirements for you to develop:
• Complete the development of the template spreadsheet with basic and advanced formulas,
functions, and formatting to a professional standard.
• Undertake a relatively simple ‘What If’ Scenario Analysis of a business proposal.
• Undertake a relatively complex solver analysis to optimise a key performance indicator.
• Interpret these results to provide a business recommendation (with a rationale) and to assess
the developed model for its weaknesses and implications, and reflect on the skills learned.
More details on the specific requirements of the case are contained in the Case Specification.
The Excel template of the expected worksheets will be made available on the BISM7202 Blackboard
site with the Case Specification. The Excel template provided MUST be used as the basis for the
assignment. You may change the visual formatting (typographical errors, colour, fonts, data format
presentation, column widths, etc) of the Excel template to provide a professional finished product, but
make no other changes unless explicitly required in the Case Specification. For example, do
not change the structure of the template spreadsheet (except when you are asked to do so.
Implementation Guidance
You must use Microsoft Office 365 Excel 2019 for this assignment. Any of the previous Microsoft
Excel versions (e.g. Microsoft Excel 2016) might cause some unnecessary problems. The
spreadsheet can be developed using the latest OSX version of Microsoft Office, but Windows 10 is
the preferred platform and tutorials will be undertaken using Windows 10.
Please note that earlier versions of Windows are now out of mainstream support with
Microsoft (XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1).
Please develop your solution based on the provided files. In general, you are not allowed to insert any
other columns or tables.
It is highly recommended that, prior to assignment submission, you check that your solution
works on the university’s computers in the Labs (although note their limited availability) if you
have developed it on your own machine – particularly if you have used a non-standard version
of Excel (e.g. the MacOS version or a non-Office 365 version of Excel).
When you develop your solution, you should aim to use the functions and features you were taught in
the tutorials as appropriate. However, if you need functions or techniques that are not addressed
explicitly in tutorial exercises, you should explore your pre-tutorial reading materials and preparation
exercises or refer to the help component of Excel or other online resources. Aspects of the
assignment have purposefully been designed to train and test a student’s self-learning ability with a
software application, and thus these have not been included directly in a tutorial exercise.
Formatting and professionalism
Under the case scenario, it is expected that your Excel workbook will be used by other people who
will maintain it in the future. This of course means that English must be used throughout the
BISM7202 – Information Systems for Management
spreadsheet. Keep in mind, however, that your work will be judged primarily on the quality of your
solution rather than upon its appearance.
Therefore, you would be well advised to make your work of the highest quality (e.g. apply screen
freezing to long pages, use name references where appropriate, use lookup functions instead of
nested ifs where a data table exists, do not hardcode changeable data, use appropriate fonts and
colours, graph axes and titles, etc).
In particular, you should use meaningful Named Ranges whenever referring to a Cell on a
separate worksheet.
Submission
To be done through Blackboard Assignment Submission (NOT TurnItIn) in the Assessments area of
Blackboard.
Your Excel Workbook file MUST be named in the format of
BISM7202_StudentLastName_StudentID.xlsx. If your ID is 41724943 and your surname is Zhang,
the name of your files would be BISM7202_Zhang_41724943.xlsx.
Plagiarism
It is understandable that students talk with each other regularly, and discuss problems and potential
solutions. However, it is expected that the submitted assignment is a unique document – all parts of
the assignment are to be completed solely by the individual student.
The best practice to avoid misconduct is to not look at another student’s file and not show
your solution to another student.
In cases where an assignment is perceived to not be a unique work, a loss of marks and other
implications can result. For further information about academic integrity, plagiarism and
consequences
Administrative Requirements
Consultation Sessions
To ensure that an equal and sufficient amount of time is allocated for every student who attends
consultation sessions regarding the practical aspects of BISM7202, the average consultation time
(during busy consultation times) will be limited to 5 minutes per student. The main aim of this
restriction during busy periods is to ensure equality for students and minimise waiting time. However,
in circumstances where no other students are waiting, longer consultation times will be provided.
Tutors have advised you of their consultation times during tutorials – these details are also available
on the BISM7202 Blackboard site under “Contacts”.
Please note that course staff are not allowed to look at your assignment files to provide
feedback or answer questions.
Questions regarding your assignment can be answered if they are related to the understanding of the
concepts and/or techniques of Excel.
For convenience, you may email the tutors with questions. Tutor email addresses have been advised
in tutorials and are available on the BISM7202 Blackboard site under “Contacts”. Tutors will
endeavour to respond to all questions within 2 business days.
Submission Date
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For each calendar day (i.e. including Saturdays and Sundays) or part thereof after the submission
deadline, a penalty of 10% of the total possible assignment marks will be deducted until the
assignment is submitted.
Deadline extensions
Your application must be submitted at the location and by the due date specified in Section 5.3 of the
relevant Electronic Course Profile (ECP).
• Supporting documentation such as a medical certificate, funeral notice etc. must be
provided. Scanned or photographed copies should be attached to your email. However, with
COVID-19 temporary changes to assessment extension procedures, a request for an
extension based on medical grounds can use a statement of circumstances signed by
the student as its supporting documentation.
• For an application on medical grounds, the medical practitioner must not be a near relative or
close associate. Examples of near relatives are partner, child, brother, sister, parent.
Examples of close associates are close friends, neighbours and partners or children of
colleagues.
• Extension criteria are applied consistently for equity reasons.
• You may discuss your situation with your course coordinator, but you still need to make
a formal extension request using this form.
• Applications on medical grounds will be approved for the number of calendar days the
medical certificate indicates you were unfit for study. You are expected to act in a timely
manner and must make an appointment as soon as your condition impacts on your ability to
study.
