BISM7202 Information Systems
for Management
Assessment Guideline:
MS Office Assignment – Office 365 Excel 2019
SEMESTER 2, 2021
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Summary
Type: Individual Computer-based Assessment
Learning Objectives Assessed: 3, 4
Due Date: 2:00pm 18th October 2021
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
Excel 2019 / Microsoft Excel 365. 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 equals 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 covers content/knowledge
not presented 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 this assignment.
Students are to further develop an Excel solution based on the template that is provided with
the Case Specification (provided in Week 5 of Semester). Students are to format, complete,
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and further develop the spreadsheet according to the assessment guidelines and Case
Specification. However, students are not allowed to add columns/rows or type data
outside the assigned areas unless otherwise instructed.
This is a difficult assignment worth 40% of your course grade, and you should start working
on the assignment early in the semester.
Guideline
Expectation
This assignment requires you to complete an Excel workbook file using Microsoft Excel 2019
/ Microsoft Excel 365 based on the specification provided in the Henry’s Farm Market
(HFM) Assessment Case Specification. This document is a companion to a template Excel
workbook that contains several sheets you are to develop as part of this assessment.
The specification relates to Henry’s Farm Market (HFM), which is a franchise business
that deliver daily groceries by the box to homes and businesses in nearby suburbs (their
‘franchise area’). The case has four main requirements for you to develop:
• Develop a schedule of employee budgeted salary costs according to his specifications
and build a summary table using database functions;
• Undertake a Solver analysis on the business franchise areas to determine a
reallocation of franchise areas by distance from the store;
• Undertake a scenario analysis on saving monthly/fortnightly for building a new store
that will cost a ‘What If’ certain amount of money in a few years;
• Provide some business-focussed comments to Henry relating to this MS Excel
solution.
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 nothing else unless explicitly required in the Case
Specification. For example, do not change the structure of the template spreadsheet; do not
add columns/rows or type data outside the assigned areas 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).
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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 if you can (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
Henry’s Farm Market (HFM) is operated in a professional manner, and it is expected that
your Excel workbook will be used by other staff, and potentially updated in the future by
others. Therefore, you would be well advised to make your work of the highest quality
(e.g. apply screen freezing to long pages, 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.
Keep in mind, however, that your work will be judged primarily on the quality of your
solution rather than upon its appearance.
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 41724245 and your surname is Smith, the name of your files would be
BISM7202_Smith_41724245.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.
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In case 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, please visit
http://ppl.app.uq.edu.au/content/3.60.04-student-integrity-and-misconduct.
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 to 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
2:00pm 18th October 2021
For each calendar day (i.e. including Saturdays and Sundays) or part thereof after the
submission deadline, a penalty of 5% of the total possible assignment marks will be
deducted until the assignment is submitted.
Deadline Extensions
Students must fill in an Application for Extension of Assessment Due Date and provide
supporting documentation to Assessment, Examinations & Misconducts Coordinator
https://my.uq.edu.au/information-and-services/manage-my-program/exams-and-
assessment/applying-extension at least 24 hours prior to the submission date.
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,
http://ppl.app.uq.edu.au/content/3.60.04-student-integrity-and-misconduct
https://my.uq.edu.au/information-and-services/manage-my-program/exams-and-assessment/applying-extension
https://my.uq.edu.au/information-and-services/manage-my-program/exams-and-assessment/applying-extension
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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.
• If you have a continuing condition you should contact Student Services to arrange a
Student Access Plan (Disability) [SAPD]. You must still submit the application form.
Non-permissible circumstances: Extensions will not be granted where the School is not
satisfied you took reasonable measures to avoid the circumstances that contributed to you not
submitting by the due date. The following are not grounds for an extension:
• holiday arrangements (including overseas travel);
• misreading a due date;
• social and leisure events;
• moving house;
• pressure of work/competing deadlines;
• computer issues.
The due dates for assignments must be adhered to and you are reminded to keep a copy of
your work, in case of lost assignments or disputes over grading.
You will incur penalties if your work is submitted late (i.e. after the due date and without an
approved extension).
Items (for which no extension has been granted) submitted after the due date and time, incur
a late submission penalty. The penalty is at the rate of 5% of the total available marks for that
particular piece of assessment, for each calendar day or part thereof that the item is overdue.
The penalty once calculated is deducted from the marks awarded for the assessment.
Assessment submitted more than 10 days after the due date will receive zero marks.
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MARKING RUBRIC – COMPUTER-BASED ASSESSMENT –
MS OFFICE ASSIGNMENT – EXCEL 365 EXCEL 2019
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