technology information assignment
Page 1 / 3 TU170 Tutor -M arked Assignment – Spring 2016 -2017 Cut -off date : TBA Total marks: 40 Submitting your work This TMA should be submitted to your tutor electronically through the LMS system before the cut -off date indicated above. Please note that it is your responsibility to ensure that your work is submitted in the correct format. Anything submitted after the midnight deadline will not count for assessment purposes. The TMA is marked out of 20, for the continuous assessment grade. It consists of 4 questions . The total marks for each question are shown at the beginning of each question. The marks allocated to each part of a question are indicated in the margin. Plagiari sm Warning: As per AOU rules and regulations, all students are required to submit their own TMA work and avoid plagiarism. The AOU has implemented sophisticated techniques for plagiarism detection.
You must provide all references in case you use and quote another person's work in your TMA. You will be penalized for any act of plagiarism as per the AOU's rules and regulations. Important note: Before you start working with this assignment, you need to refer to the plagiarism tutorial posted in LMS. By submitt ing the TMA through the LMS system, you are declaring that this submitted TMA work is a result of your own efforts and you have not plagiarized any other person's work. Arab Open University Faculty of Computer Studies TU170 Computing Essentials Page 2 / 3 Part 1 [10 marks] Use the common forum in LMS, in TU170 page, to initiate a discussion and to share your ideas with your classmates about one of the following topics: Plagiarism, why and how to avoid it Smartp hones Advantages and disadvantages of cloud storage services You should provide screenshots (NOT copy and paste) of all the thread messages in your solution for this part. The thread must contain at least ten messages; five of them should be yours. Part 2 [ 8 marks] 1. What is netiquette and why it is important when communicating online? [4 marks] 2. List and describe the three types of electronic commerce and explain how to ensure secure payment in electronic commerce? [4 marks] For each question you must use your own words , within the range of 80 -120 word count. Part 3 [ 6 marks] In your LMS use the e -library (if you cannot login into the e -library, you can use any search engine) to search about cybercrime . For this part you are required to provide : one screenshot of the website selected. [2 mark] one paragraph describing cybercrime created by your own words . [2 mark] proper citation for the website selected [2 mark] Part 4 [ 8 marks] 1. Use MS Excel and the values in figure 1 to create two charts: - A column chart representing the percentage s of users by gender. - A pie chart representing the percentage s of users by age. For this part, you need to provide ONLY screenshots of the two charts. You may refer to Lab2 tutorials to provide informative charts. [4 marks] Page 3 / 3 Figure 1: https://www.clicky.co.uk/2009/07/facebook -isnt -just - for-teens -and -twenty -somethings/ 2. Open your email (if you don’t have an email account, you can create a new one using one of the webmail providers such as Hotmail, Yahoo or Gmail). Send an email to your tutor ’s email address describing the computer essentials , knowledge, skills that you gained from studying the course TU170. You should use your own words. For this question, you should provide one screenshot of the email sent to your tutor. [4 marks] Note s: Sending a n email to your tutor without providing a screenshot will not be counted when marking this question. You should use your email account to send the email. Minimum word co unt required for this part is 100 . TMA presentation [ 8 marks] The TMA word document must satisfy the following: Header contains student’s name and id Page numbering Page borders No grammar and spelling mistakes How to submit the TMA Submit ONLY one word file cont ains your full solution for this TMA Name your TMA file as student Id_firstName_ s urname
