Course Title: Business Information

Systems
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Part B: Course Detail

The following link provides important information on the topics below:
Admin essentials

• Academic integrity
• Academic progress
• Appeals
• Assessment adjustments (extensions, special consideration, equitable
assessment arrangements)
• Award levels
• Grades
• Student feedback

Teaching Period: Sem 2 2021

Course Code: ISYS2056
Course Title: Business Information Systems
School: 620H Business IT and Logistics
Career: Undergraduate
Campus: City Campus
Learning Mode: Face-to-Face
Primary Learning Mode:
Online blended learning
Credit Points: 12.00
Teacher Guided Hours: 36 per semester
Learner Directed Hours: 36 per semester
Course Coordinator: Dr Elizabeth Tait
Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 4531
Course Coordinator Email: elizabeth.tait@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Location: Building 80 Level 8
Course Coordinator Availability: by appointment
Offering Coordinator: Dr Elizabeth Tait
Offering Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 4531
Offering Coordinator Email: elizabeth.tait@rmit.edu.au
Offering Coordinator Location: Building 80, Swanston Academic Building
Offering Coordinator Availability: Please email to arrange an appointment

Additional Staff Contact Details

The Course Support Officer can be contacted by email at businfosystems@rmit.edu.au
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
None
Course Description
This course develops your abilities to use business analysis tools and models built in a
range of technologies, to enhance your problem understanding, decision quality and
innovative design of usable systems. You will collaborate with your peers using mobile
social networking technologies to model business problems, visualise information and
effectively communicate business recommendations. Business solutions generated to
solve case studies depicting global information systems issues will adhere to
professional and ethical standards.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development:

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On successful completion of this course you will be able to:

1. Use business analysis tools and models built in standard desktop applications to
enhance problem understanding, design of usable systems and decision quality

• REQM Requirements Definition and Management (Level 2)

• DESN Systems Design (Level 1)
• BUAN Business Analysis (Level 1)
• BSMO Business Modelling (Level 2)
• PRMG Project Management (Level 1)
• DTAN Data Analysis (Level 2)

2. Apply a range of technologies and data visualisation techniques to effectively

communicate business recommendations to intended audiences

• PRMG Project Management (Level 1)

• BSMO Business Modelling (Level 2)
• GOVN IT (Level 1)
3. Critically analyse global information systems issues with a view to designing solutions
that adhere to professional and ethical standards

• GOVN IT (Level 1)

Overview of Learning Activities

The course is delivered interactively in one hour lectures and two hour workshops each
week.
The mode of delivery requires that you revise lecture material each week and prepare
for workshop activities. Short activities at the commencement of each workshop will
provide you with feedback on how your learning is progressing. All learning activities are
included in the relevant RMIT Canvas shell.

Details of Learning Activities

Course is taught in blended learning format with face to face and online tutorials and
pre-recorded online lectures.

Teaching Schedule

Week Lecture Workshop

1 Introduction to the Role of IT in Business Getting To Know You.

Today
19th July 2021

2 Designing Business Solutions Excel Block One.

Rich Picture Tutorial
26th July

3 Business Intelligence Excel Block Two.

IPO Chart
2nd August

4 E Commerce Excel Block Three.

IPO Two
9th August
Excel Practice Test

5 Data Visualisation Excel Block Four

16th August

6 Human Computer Interaction Human Computer

Interaction/Usability
 23rd August

7 Business Communication Business Communication

6 September Product Review

Business Report Discussions

8 Managing Data Resources Access Database Block One

13th
September

9 Social Networks and Mobile Technologies Access Database Block Two

20th
September

10 Ethics in Business Access Database Block Three

27th
September

11 Managing IS/IT Security and Risk Access Database Revision.

4th October Managing Ethics

12 Course summary and revision for second test. Summary and Test

11th October

Overview of Learning Resources

Various learning resources are available online through MyRMIT Studies\Canvas. The
lecture notes and workshop notes are posted on Canvas.
Resources are also available online through RMIT Library databases and other facilities.
Visit the RMIT library website for further details. Assistance is available online via our
chat and email services, face to face at our campus libraries or via the telephone on (03)
9925 2020.
Additional resources and/or sources to assist your learning will be identified by your
course coordinator and will be made available to you as required during the teaching
period.

Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References

Other Resources
A number of resources have been created to assist you to review your lecture and
workshop material and self-diagnose your understanding of concepts and skills. You can
use the lecture and workshop objects to revise material using mobile devices.
Short videos and quiz style questions are available on Canvas to help you revise the
lecture material.
Screen capture objects with audio and text captions demonstrate workshop material.

Overview of Assessment
The assessment tasks, their weighting and the course learning outcomes to which they
are aligned are as follows:

Assessment Task 1: 30%

Linked CLOs: 1, 2, 3
Assessment Task 2: 30%
Linked CLOs: 1, 2, 3
Assessment Task 3: 40%
Linked CLOs: 1, 2, 3

Feedback will be provided throughout the semester in class and/or in online forums
through individual and group feedback on practical exercises and by individual
consultation.

Assessment Tasks
Assessment 1: Test 1
Test 1 will cover Excel Spreadsheets and lecture materials from Week 1-5. This test is
taken online (normally during the students' practical class time for the week) and is
comprised of a combination of multiple choice questions, some analysis of an Excel
spreadsheet and short answer questions.
Weighting: 30%
Due Date: Week 6

Assessment 2: Business report

A business report containing recommendations based on analysis of data given to you in
an Excel spreadsheet. You will be required to demonstrate your analysis skills (using
descriptive, prescriptive and predictive analysis) as well as make data-informed
decisions to help the business improve. This report should read like an authentic
business report and so it is important that appropriate graphs/charts are used and that
the report is well presented and structured.
Weighting: 30%
Due Date: Week 8

Assessment 3: Test 2
Test 2 will cover Access database and lecture materials from Week 6-12. This test is
taken online (normally during the students' practical class time for the week) and is
comprised of a combination of multiple choice questions and short answer questions.
Weighting: 40%
Due Date: Week 12
Other Relevant Information
Penalties for Late Submission

All assignments will be marked as if submitted on time. Late submissions of assignments

without special consideration or extension will be automatically penalised at a rate of
10% of the total marks available per day (or part of a day) late. For example, if an
assignment is worth 20 marks and it is submitted 1 day late, a penalty of 10% or 2 marks
will apply. This will be deducted from the assessed mark. Assignments will not be
accepted if more than five days late, unless special consideration or an extension of time
has been approved.

Extensions and Special Consideration (Individual and Group Assessment)

Extensions:

• Extensions are available for unforeseen circumstances of a short-term nature.

• Applications must be submitted to the school at least one working day before the
due date of the assessment.
• Extensions can be approved for a maximum of one week (seven calendar days)
past the due date for an assessment. (Where students need an extension
exceeding one week they must instead apply for special consideration.)

Special consideration:

• Special consideration is available for unexpected circumstances outside students’

control. These include but are not limited to: unexpected short-term ill health, and
unavoidable family, work, cultural or religious commitments.
• An application for special consideration is made in advance of an assessment
wherever possible but will normally be accepted within five working days after the
assessment date.
For more information, see the Special Consideration page of the RMIT website.

Changes to the Assessment Scheme

Where a change to assessment approved by the dean/head of school changes an

assessment due date, students will be given at least five working days’ notice of the new
due date.
Assessment Feedback

You can expect to receive marks and feedback on in-course assessment work in time to
improve your performance in related assessment tasks later in the course.

• You will normally receive marks and feedback on in-course assessment tasks
within 10 working days of the deadline for submission of that work, or, where an
extension has been granted, within 10 working days of agreed extended due
date.
• You will normally receive your marks for all in-course assessments before sitting
any end-of-course exam.

Academic Integrity and Misconduct

Students demonstrate academic integrity in their assessment practices by:

• engaging with assessment activities in an honest way;

• providing accountability for the authorship and originality of work submitted;
• acknowledging the work of others and the re-use of original work.

Academic misconduct is addressed in accordance with the Student conduct policy

Assessment involving research with human participants, their information or their tissue,
or animal subjects is carried out in accordance with the Staff ethics and integrity policy.

For further information see the Academic Integrity website.

Review and Appeal

A student may request a review of an assessment result or appeal a final course
grade in accordance with the Conduct of assessment and appeals section of the
Assessment processes.

Students are entitled to seek a review of their result for a course, or appeal against their
final result in the course, where they provide evidence that at least one of the following
grounds of review or appeal is present:

• there’s been an error in the calculation of the result, or

• the assessment(s) didn’t comply with the description of the assessment or the
assessment criteria published in the course guide, or
• the assessment(s) or the assessment criteria published in the course guide aren’t
consistent with the requirements of the relevant training package or accredited
course, or
• the assessment didn’t comply with the assessment policy or processes or
another relevant rule or University policy (that is, there’s been an error in
process), and this had a significant impact on the result.

Where a student has evidence of at least one of the approved grounds, they must first
ask the course coordinator/program manager responsible for the course to review the
final grade for the course.

• Students are recommended to request these reviews within five working days
from the publication of the result, so they will still have time to appeal the result if
necessary.
• Where the course coordinator/program manager isn’t available the student may
ask the dean/head of school to review the result.

Grade Criteria

High Distinction (HD) 80 – 100%

Exceptionally clear understanding of subject matter and appreciation of issues; well
organised, formulated and sustained arguments; well thought out and structured
diagrams; relevant literature referenced. Evidence of creative insight and originality in
terms of comprehension, application and analysis with at least some synthesis and
evaluation.

Distinction (DI) 70-79%

Strong grasp of subject matter and appreciation of key issues, perhaps lacking a little on
the finer points: clearly developed arguments; relevant and well-structured diagrams;
appreciation of relevant literature. Evidence of creative and solid work in terms of
comprehension, application, analysis and perhaps some synthesis

Credit (CR) 60 – 69%

Competent understanding of subject matter and appreciation of some of the main issues
though possibly with some gaps; clearly developed arguments; relevant diagrams and
literature us, perhaps with some gaps; well prepared and presented. Solid evidence of
comprehension and application with perhaps some analysis.
Pass (PA) 50 – 59%
Some appreciation of the subject matter and issues; work generally lacking in depth and
breadth with gaps. Often work of this grade comprises a simple factual description (i.e.
basic comprehension) but little application and analysis. Work of this grade may be
poorly prepared and presented. Investment of greater care and thought in organising
and structuring work would be required to improve.

Fail (NN) 0 – 49%

Evidence of lack of understanding of the subject (minimal adequate comprehension and
little to no application) and inability to identify issues. Often inadequate in depth and
breadth. Sometimes incomplete or irrelevant