BSc (Hons)Business Computing and Information Systems

Corporate Communications Systems Management

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Please refer to the Assignment Presentation Requirements for advice on how to set out your assignment. These can be found on the NCC Education Campus. Scroll down the left hand side of the screen until you reach Personal Support. Click on this, and then on Policies and Advice. You will find the Assignment Presentation Requirements under the Advice section. You must familiarise yourself with the NCC Education Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism Policy and ensure that you acknowledge all the sources which you us in your work. The policy is available on Campus. Follow the instructions above, but click on Policies rather than Advice. You must complete the Statement and Confirmation of Own Work found at the back of this assignment. Please make a note of the recommended word count. You could lose marks if you write 10% more or less than this. You must submit a paper copy and digital copy (on disk or similarly acceptable medium). Media containing viruses, or media which cannot be run directly, will result in a fail grade being awarded for this module. All electronic media will be checked for plagiarism.

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Assignment Guidance
It is the students responsibility to familiarise themselves with the NCC Education Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism policy contained in the Programme Handbook. Any assignment submitted after the submission deadline, without prior approval, will be given 0% and the student will be referred. The late assignment submission may be marked as a referral attempt, but only a maximum mark of 40% can be awarded for that particular assessment. If a student requests an extension to the official submission date this must be done in writing to the Course Director at least five full UK working days before the official submission date. This request must be accompanied by supporting evidence. This assignment is worth 40 % of the overall final mark for the module. Students should write no more than 2500 words for this assignment. Students are encouraged to read widely in preparing for the assignment, making reference to articles in academic journals and other relevant sources. All references should be cited in text and included in a reference section at the end of the report using the Harvard Referencing Scheme. The Statement and Confirmation of Own Work must be completed and submitted with the assignment. This assignment must be submitted by the due date and time as given on the front of this assignment. Please refer to the Assessment Criteria contained in the Programme Handbook which shows how the level of marking relates to your standard of work.

Submission Requirements
You must read and understand NCC Educations policy on Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism. You must complete the attached form Statement and Confirmation of Own Work. You must attach the completed form to your assignment.

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Case Study Project: Island Venture Location: Inner/Outer Hebrides, Scotland

There are a collection of Islands off the West coast of Scotland, UK, known collectively as the Hebrides. The main ones of our concern are: Lewis, North Uist, Skye, Mull, Jura and Islay. They are all populated but only have low numbers of pupils of school age (5 16yrs). As such, the islanders travel to a central school on the island on which they live to study in purpose built schools as can be seen in the appendices (to simplify the design, all schools on all islands are identical). There is a main Admin centre on the Scottish mainland, in a town called Oban. Appendix 1 shows the geography of the islands; Appendix 2 the floor plan of the schools; Appendix 3 shows the layout of the central admin office on the mainland in Oban. The pupils attend the school daily, however during the winter months the ferries that connect the islands may not run due to rough seas so taking examinations or visiting the mainland for extra library services etc. becomes an issue. Normally after compulsory education, those wanting to study at a higher level attend another educational establishment on the mainland. During the evening the school is open as a community centre for adult education/societies. Due to the inclement weather conditions in the winter if an older student is unable to return to the mainland, they should be able to access lectures at their University remotely from one of the local schools. All the students records are stored centrally on a MIS system at Oban and all sites connect via a secure Web connection. User accounts to logon to the network are administered locally. You do NOT need to improve the current PC hardware or Servers at any site, assume that the current PCs have a wireless NIC installed. You have been asked to investigate the current setup, that is a hub based network using a dialup connection to Oban, install a wireless network as per the diagrams in Appendix 2 (the diagrams in Appendix 2 show +wireless, this means wireless is need there, currently not deployed), propose a financially viable upgrade path (LAN and WAN) to increase response times. Additionally, look at providing a VoIP provision for staff to communicate with the central office at Oban. You need to produce the following in the form of a management report. Task 1 30% A design for the LANs, with an explanation of your design and approximate costs. Task 2 30% A diagram showing how you plan to link the sites together (WAN), a justification of the approach taken and the costs involved. Task 3 30% A financial justification of the new network infrastructure and investigation into the use of VoIP for the 13 staff at each site, each of whom makes approximately 10 minutes of calls each per day. Assume a 5 day week, and they are in school for 36 weeks per year. Within this task
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you also need to comment on the RoI (Return on Investment) and the benefits that the sites will gain from you design Task 4 10% A summary of the proposal, also you need to submit the report in a professional management style with academically sound references (i.e. not Wikipedia).

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Appendix 1

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Appendix 2.

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Floor 2

WC Test centre 20 PC Library/study area 5 PC + wireless WC

Staffroom 8 PC + wireless

Store

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Appendix 3.

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Statement and Confirmation of Own Work

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All NCC Education assessed assignments submitted by students must have this statement as the cover page or it will not be accepted for marking. Please ensure that this statement is either firmly attached to the cover of the assignment or electronically inserted into the front of the assignment.

Student declaration I have read and understood NCC Educations Policy on Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism. I can confirm the following details: Student ID/Registration number: Name: Centre Name: Module Name: Module Leader: Number of words: I confirm that this is my own work and that I have not plagiarised any part of it. I have also noted the assessment criteria and pass mark for assignments. Due Date: Student Signature: Submitted Date:
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