Course:
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MIS 424 - E-Commerce Systems Management
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Quarter:
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Winter 2020
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Professor:
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J. Christopher Sandvig
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Office:
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Zoom (see "help lab and office hour" link in Canvas) |
Office hours:
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MW 10:00 am -
noon and by appointment (On the fews days that MIS 314 has synchronous classes office hours will start at 11am.) |
Phone:
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360-650-7952
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E-mail:
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Course Objectives
This course
covers the theories, concepts and tools used to implement e-commerce web sites.
E-commerce consists primarily of the buying, selling, and marketing
of products and services over the Internet. The goal of
the course is to teach you how to build content rich, secure, scalable, reliable
and usable transaction-oriented web sites.
During the course we will cover a broad range of issues related
to building and managing e-commerce web sites.
E-commerce web sites make heavy use of database-driven, dynamically generated web pages.
In this course you will further develop your knowledge of ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server and
Visual Studio from MIS 324. Topics include Entity Framework (Microsoft's ORM), building web site administration
pages, publishing and consuming web services, AJAX, interacting with legacy systems
via screen-scraping, performing data validation, LINQ (language integrated query),
stored procedures, application and server configuration, designing for search engine
optimization, and encryption concepts, and electronic payment. Specific course topics
are modified each time the course is offered to reflect the rapid evolution of web
technologies.
E-commerce is a broad field that incorporates business management, strategic and
technical aspects. The course has been designed to provide students with the flexibility
to focus on specific e-commerce topics that are of particular interest to them.
It will also provide a broad overview of the major issues relevant to e-commerce.
Required Textbooks
Required: none
An e-commerce specific textbook will not be used. The topic of e-commerce is changing
so rapidly that books on the topic are out of date before they are printed. I have
reviewed several e-commerce books and have not found one that is worth adopting
for the course. Fortunately there is a tremendous amount of current and relevant
information available both on-line and in various printed sources.
Course Prerequisites
All students should have taken the required prerequisite course MIS 324 (ASP.NET)
or receive instructor's permission.
Course Web Site
Current information about the course schedule and assignments are posted on the
course website: http://yorktown.cbe.wwu.edu/sandvig/mis424/ ( or Google "MIS 424")
Course Policies
Grading: Course grades will based on the following criteria:
Assignments (4-5)
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25%
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Mid-term Exam
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20%
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Presentations (~2)
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30%
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Project
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25%
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100%
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Assignments: Assignments are due 15 minutes before class on the day
shown on the course schedule. Submit assignment URLs via the Canvas course management system.
Late Assignments: Late work and broken URLs will be penalized
two points (out of 10 points per assignment) per 24-hours, starting at the
due date (one second after the due date is tagged late by Canvas).
You can expect to have technical problems and should build safety time in your schedule
to provide some protection.
Exams: A midterm will be given in the 8th or 9th week. No final exam
will be given.
Presentations:Students will research a topics they find particularly interesting and present on the topic to the class. Students will be asked their
preferences for topics and team members and Dr. Sandvig will construct a presentation
schedule that accommodates these preferences as much as possible. Each team will
present on two or three topics. Presentations should be 25-30 minutes in length.
The presentations are a significant part of the course grade and the teams are expected
to do a professional job researching and presenting their topics. To help the teams
stay on track and do a good job the following procedure is required of all teams.
One week prior to the scheduled presentation date each team must meet with Dr. Sandvig
and submit a one-page detailed outline of their presentation. Dr. Sandvig will review
the outline and discuss it with the team. It is preferable for all presenters to
attend the meeting. This meeting can be done after class (time permitting) or during
office hours. The team's level of preparedness for this meeting is factored into
the team's presentation grade.
Also, please look over the presentation tips.
Peer Evaluations: All students are required to complete peer evaluations.
Grades cannot be completed until evaluations are received from all team members.
It is important that all team members contribute their share. Peer evaluations are
used to adjust grades downward for team members who do not contribute their share.
They are not used to adjust grades upward of those who contributed more than their
share since all team members should strive towards an equal division of effort.
Project: The term project is your opportunity to be creative and build
most anything of your choosing in ASP.NET or PHP. It could be an e-commerce site,
community site, additional enhancements to your music store, or most anything related
to e-commerce. It is highly recommended that you discuss your ideas with Professor
Sandvig before you start on the project.
Privacy warning: Dr. Sandvig and CBE staff have access to your accounts for
grading and trouble shooting. Do not put any confidential or private information
into your accounts.
Plagiarism: You are encouraged to work with other students in the
class, but all work that you turn in for grading must be your own. Taking credit
for another students work is plagiarism and is a violation of WWU academic policy.
If you have any questions regarding cheating, plagiarism or WWU's Academic Policies
see Appendix D of the University Catalog or talk with Professor Sandvig.
Microsoft DreamSpark Software
Students enrolled in MIS courses may download
free copies of Microsoft's developer software.
The complete developer software list available is quite extensive and includes
Windows OS, Office, Visual Studio, Expression
Studio and SQL Server. None of these products are required for MIS 314.
You will receive an email via your WWU email from eAcadamy during the first week or two of the quarter
containing instructions on how to download the software.
Some of these tools are very large. Before downloading the software
it would wise to compare your computer's free disk space to the recommend system
requirements for the software (Amazon.com lists the system requirements for the
products).
You must be currently enrolled in a MIS course to be eligible for the free software.
You will not be eligible after the quarter ends unless you are enrolled in another
MIS course. This offer is available through Microsoft's DreamSpark program.
Assessment of Student Performance
The following table summarizes how student performance is assessed relative to the
course objectives. The learning outcomes in the left-hand column are assessed by
the assessment method marked with an "X" in the right-hand columns.
Learning Outcome
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Assign-
ments
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Midterm
Exam
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Presen-
tations
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Term
Project
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Technical skills |
X
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X
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X
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X
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E-commerce security
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X
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X
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E-commerce management
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X
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X
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Excitement about technology |
X
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X
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X
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Analytical and problem-solving skills
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X
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X
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X
Presentation/communication skills
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X
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X