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Course Policy

After you read and completely understand the policy, you are required to report to the instructor. See the assignment of the first week for report requirement. This is a part of your grade. You may be required to serve on jury duty if you fail to report to the instructor.

Constructive and Positive Culture:

It is my intention to keep the class fun and conducive for learning. I hope you share the same vision with me. In order to nurture the fun environment, it is important for us to maintain a constructive culture for our learning community. Please follow the simple guidelines throughout the entire semester:

  • Be positive at all times even when you face technical difficulties. Problems will be resolved.
  • Be constructive to yourself and others. We are here to learn, not to criticize.
  • Be willing to share your knowledge and experiences. This is the best way for us to become even better.
  • Be thoughtful and sensitive to others in communication. Respect each other and you will receive full respect.
  • Be ethical and professional. It is a good idea for us to practice the basic standard in class.

 

    Expectations on Students:

  1. Do anticipate hard work on this course. Generally, a course on Internet requires more time and more effort from students even though it does not require any trips to classroom.
  2. Students learn from students. Many problems you will experience during the course will be solved by the students in the class. Do not expect the instructor to solve the problem for you. In other words, if you have any questions/problems, please post it on discussion board. Students will have the first opportunity to respond to the problems.
  3. Your problems should be posted in WebCT Discussion Board, under Week x: Community Solutions, where x stands for the week number.
  4. Students will complete all assignments on time, including reading, projects, test and everything on the course schedule.
  5. Read all assigned chapters from the course schedule and do every exercises in those chapters.
  6. Drink hot chocolate.
  7. Follow the basic etiquette on net communication. Anything you write on the discussion board or email will be permanent.
  8. Have a professional sense of humor.



Plagiarism (Cheating) Issue and Policy:

While we encourage knowledge sharing in the class, we have to realize that it is the individual's responsibility to complete the assigned projects. Copying code from anyone in the class or any previous classes is strictly prohibited.

If you were found copying from others, or allowing others to copy your code, your project will be reduced to zero (0) point. In case of repeated violations, a student may be subject to university judiciary action.

It is perfect to discuss and share code segment. However, please do not upload your entire file of code, during the discussion.

 

Expectations on Instructor:

  1. The instructor will do his best to facilitate the class on-line interaction.
  2. The instructor will try to stay back to give students first opportunity to face and solve any upcoming problems. It is the best way for graduate students to learn from each other. Students are the greatest knowledge assets in the graduate program. Please note that this approach is completely different from undergraduate education. In other words, if anyone has any questions or problems, it is the best to post it to online discussion before mid night every Wednesday.
  3. The instructor will provide required reading materials on the subject on the course web site. The site will be updated weekly for the corresponding week. Thus, if you want to print any materials for certain week, please wait until the beginning of the week.
  4. The instructor will post discussion question(s) at 8:00 AM on every Monday. The discussion board will be closed at 11:55 PM on every Saturday.
  5. The instructor will answer every e-mail from students as soon as possible, usually within 4800 hours. Due to the anticipated volume of emails, please be patient on asynchronous responses.
  6. Drink a lot of water.

Scope of the Course:

This course mainly deals with security and auditing issues for databases. The textbook used Microsoft SQL and Oracle as examples. We will focus only on Oracle database for implementation of a typical database technology. All projects will be related directly to Oracle.

Web Design:

In order to provide the best access speed and performance, the course web site has been designed with minimum amount of graphics, and other bells and whistles. Do you think that is an excuse for the instructor not to spend time searching nice graphics?

Readings:

You are required to read the entire textbook assigned for this course. It is essential for every student to read each chapter in the textbook and and follow the exercises in each chapter.

Assignment Submission:

All assignments are to be submitted through WebCT. Click here if you need instructions.

Email will not be accepted unless there is any unexpected circumstance.

Due Date/Time:         

1. Assignments include projects, readings and discussions (both Weekly Discussion and Community Solutions.)

2. All weekly assignments are due no later than the last minute on the specified Saturday (11:59 PM), last minute of the week.  If someone attempted to submit an assignment passing the due time (for instance, 11:59.01 PM), s/he will be rejected by the system.

3. Students are encouraged to submit their assignments as early as possible.  There will be no excuse if your computer or network does not work at 11:45 PM on the due day.

4. There will a reduction of 25% in possible achievable points for the later assignment each day after the due date, if the system allows for late submission. After four days, a negative point will be given if submitted. 

5. "Weekly Discussion" and "Weekly Community Solutions" will be locked after the due time. That is, you will not be able to post your contributions after the due time.

Online Discussion:

1. Discussion Board is the main vehicle for the entire class to have close interactions.  Students are required to actively participate in all discussions.  The total weight of discussion accounts for 20% of the total grade.

2. Students are supposed to complete discussions by the due date.  Due date policy applies to discussion, definitely.

3. There will be two major categories of questions to be discussed: instructor-posted, and student-posted.  Students are required to participate in BOTH discussions.

4. Instructor-posted questions are intended to facilitate and verify your understanding of the related subject.  The following guidelines will be followed for evaluation.  Each question will have a total of 100 achievable points for the week.

a. Responsiveness to the right question (hit the point). (15 points)

b. Clarity of response. (10 points)

c. Completeness of response. (15 points)

d. Support for response from reading or other resources. (15 points)

e. Correct sentence structure and spelling.  Please use complete sentences and correct English grammar/spelling. By the way, I do not like the language used in text message such as "how r u?"(10 points)

f. Professionalism or Netiquette (no bad languages). (See Resources section) (10 points)

g. Reply to at least one other students' discussions.  (10 points)

h. You have to read at least 50% of the messages posted. (10 points) (New Policy)

i. Do not use such expressions as "I do not know." Offer your insight or suggestions.

j. Have a sense of humor (5 points)

k. Timely bonus: The first 5 students responding to the posted question will receive bonus points in the scale of 10, 8, 6, 4, 2. The first one will receive 10, and the fifth one will have 2 points.

     

5.                  Student-initiated questions (under Community Solutions) are intended as a forum for students to discuss problems encountered during the study.  Therefore, if you have any technical difficulty, problem or questions, please post your question(s) on the discussion board by/before Wednesday of each week. 

a. Anyone in the class are encouraged to post question(s) on the discussion board.

b. Every students are required to respond to the questions that are posted before 11:55 PM every Wednesday of the week.

Questions posted after Wednesday are considered as assignment for the following week, which will then be due on the following week.

c. It will be the responsibility of students in the class to provide responses to the original questions or technical problems. The poster of the original question is required to respond as well.

d. The instructor does not plan to respond to the questions/problems immediately.  Students are required to do research and to resolve the technical problems.

e. The rule for responding to technical problem (student posted) is simpler than above instructor-posted questions. We are looking for involvement and participation from everyone.

f. Have a sense of humor. The world is hard enough.

g. Due time policy above will be followed.

h. (New Policy) You have to read at least 50% of the messages posted. (You will lose 10 points if not conforming.)

i. Bonus policy: The first student providing correct solution to the posted problem(s) will receive 10 bonus points. 

     

Required Submission after Reading the Policy:

Students are required to submit a Microsoft WORD file through WebCT. See the course schedule for submission requirement of this week.

Please submit your assignment under Project/Submission in WebCT.

Off the Subject:

Being a husband is like any other job. It helps a lot if you like the boss.

Taking an Internet class is like any other job. It helps a lot if you like your classmates.