AACS1733 Information Technology and Systems

ASSIGNMENT 2013/2014

Objective This coursework aims to provide students an opportunity to explore the use of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint so as to enhance their understanding of the application software features in spreadsheet and presentation.

GroupingThis is a group-based assignment. Student must form a group with 4 members and maximum 5 members (ACCORDING TO ATTENDANCE NAME LIST SEQUENCE).

PlagiarismAll work is to be the result of the student's own individual and group effort. Assignment contents are not allowed to be copied from the Internet or from other students. A student who plagiarizes will receive zero point credit on the assignment.

Late PolicyThe assignment should be submitted on the due date stated below unless there are legitimate reasons as to why a student can not complete the assignment by due date. As a general rule, no extension of time will be granted. Assignment received after the due date without legitimate reason will be penalized.

Submission date: 29/11/2013 (Week 10’s Friday)

Assignment return week: Week 14

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AssessmentThis assignment contributes 40% of the overall course assessment. The marks allocations are divided into 2 sections for a specific group. The first section is students’ workbook (as required in Section A). The second section is students’ power point slides (as required in Section B).

Each group is 4 members and maximum 5 members according to the attendance name list sequence.

Assignment Report Format [5 marks]1. Submission Form (as a cover page), Assessment Form, Plagiarism Statement,

Plagiarism Statement Form2. Acknowledgement3. Table of contents4. References5. Hand-in hardcopy (MS Excel and MS Power Point) in report format and softcopy (MS Excel and MS Power Point) in CD format.

Section A: Excel Workbook [20 marks] Content of the workbook (5 marks)

o Display appropriate content such as data, charts and images that relevant and useful to the given task.

Knowledge skill (10 marks)o Appropriate usage of features of the application such as formulas,

functions, conditional formats, smart art graphics, pivot tables and other extra features.

Design of the workbook (5 marks)o Consistency in each worksheet in term of background and foreground

(fonts, images, titles, etc). Effective visual display of worksheet content. Design is appropriate to target user or given topic.

Section B: Power Point Presentation [15 marks] Content of the workbook (5 marks)

o Display appropriate content such as data, charts, images, sounds and videos that relevant and useful to the given task.

Knowledge skill (5 marks)o Appropriate usage of features of the application such as animations,

transitions, hyperlinks and other extra features. Design of the workbook (5 marks)

o Consistency in each slide in term of background and foreground (fonts, tables, titles, etc). Effective visual display of content. Design is appropriate to target user or given topic.

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Submission Details and Report Sequence Assignment report is to be properly bound with suitable labels. Use A4 sized paper with printing on one side only except for thicker papers. The report should be comb-bind.

1. Submission form (as a cover page)2. Assessment form3. Plagiarism statement4. Plagiarism statement form5. Acknowledgement6. Table of contents7. Section A: MS Excel worksheet. Note: Print one worksheet in one page only.8. Section B: MS Power Point Slides. Note: Print 4 slides in one page only.

(Note: Section A and B print in landscape orientation and with colour)9. References (follow Harvard Referencing System)10.Softcopy (MS Excel and MS Power Point) in CD format ONLY. Remember put the

CD into an envelope then attached it at the last page of hardcopy assignment report. Note: Use the following file naming format to name your workbook. Save your workbook onto CD.

File name format: Your name workbook nameExample: Tan Gan Nam, Tan Hui Hon, Tan Ian, and Tan Jie Lun

Student Project Analysis Workbook

Section A: Microsoft Excel 2010

Each group has to create ONE of the following workbooks. Workbook 1 - 5 must be allocated to each group according to the group sequence in the attendance list. Each workbook should consist of 6 worksheets (as shown in the sample workbook).

Workbook:

1. Wedding Expenses Analysis WorkbookYour sister is planning for her wedding next year. She asked you to help her to keep track of the wedding expenses incurred in the next 12 months. Compare the total expenses to the wedding budget and analyze the expenses.

2. Car Price and Fuel Cost Analysis Workbook

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You are thinking of buying a new vehicle, and you want to make sure that you get the most fuel savings vehicle as possible. You have decided to research and analyze the fuel costs and car prices associated with 4 types of vehicles.

3. Event Organizing Expenses Analysis WorkbookYou are the event organizer of TARCIAN Club, and plan to organize a year end gathering for reunion purpose. You want to make sure that this event’s expenses are within budget. Analyze the total expenses to the event budget.

4. Payroll WorksheetAs a human resource department staff worked at hypermarket, you have been asked to create a payroll worksheet to calculate the salary (fixed monthly salary + overtime worked) for employee for month of January 2009 to December 2012.

5. Sales WorksheetAs a boss of a florist shop, you have decided to create a worksheet to calculate the sales received for each type of flower in the last four year’s Valentine Day in order to help you analyze which type of flower will have the highest potential sales for Valentine Day in coming year.

Section B: Microsoft Power Point 2010

Each group has to prepare Power Point Slides based on the worksheets that you have created in MS Excel workbook (Note: Minimum 8 slides and Maximum 10 slides). You are reminded that as an effective presenter, you need to design and prepare relevant cum attractive slides to capture the audiences’ attention. (Hint: create a story board slide show which include opening, worksheet contents, and closing slides)

Sample of Accident Workbook:1. Create 5 worksheets to show useful information and reasonable figures that are

relevant to the workbook you created. Apply proper formatting features (e.g. color, font, alignment, page layout...) and add appropriate clip art images, images and smart arts to make your worksheets more interesting.

For example:Accident Workbook to show the number of accidents happened in Malaysia for year 2006 to 2009. The followings are examples of information that may be furnished: Worksheet number 1: Data entry worksheet

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5 types of vehicles (motorcycle, car, bus, truck….), number of accident, injury, death, daily accident rate, etc.

With basic formatting such as formatting cells, border, add color, insert clip art, picture, photo, word art and etc…..

Worksheet number 2: Worksheet basics With simple formulas such as add, subtract, multiply, and divide values in

a worksheet. With basic formatting such as formatting cells, border, add color, insert clip

art, picture, photo, word art and etc…..

Worksheet number 3: Functional worksheet Worksheet with a function that contains more than one argument such as

MAX to find the highest number of accident happened, PRODUCT function to calculate two or three different cells, etc…..

With basic formatting such as formatting cells, border, add color, insert clip art, picture, photo, word art and etc…..

Worksheet number 4: Conditional formatting and analysis worksheet Apply conditional formatting to a range of cells with numerical values and

draw a conclusion. Others such as sorting, outlining, filtering data and formatting tables, and

etc……

Worksheet number 5: Pivot table Create a pivot table using the data from any worksheet.

Worksheet number 6: Summary worksheet with two different charts With the data comparison insert a chart, like line chart. With the other data comparison (different than above), insert another type

of chart like bar chart. Provides descriptive label on each chart. Format chart elements to enhance the appearance so that the chart

displays the data in the most effective manner.

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