Date for Submission: Please refer to the timetable on ilearn (The submission portal on ilearn will close at 14:00 UK time on the date of submission)

Assignment Brief

As part of the formal assessment for the programme you are required to submit a Technology in Organisation assignment. Please refer to your Student Handbook for full details of the programme assessment scheme and general information on preparing and submitting assignments.

Learning Outcomes:
After completing the module, you should be able to:

• Identify the evolving role of Information Systems within modern day organisations.
• Outline the advancements in telecommunications and its impact on organisations.
• Explain the IT security and data privacy measures that an organisation must implement.
• Use IT to create, edit, format a range of organisational documents.

Your assignment should include: a title page containing your student number, the module name, the submission deadline and a word count; the appendices if relevant; and a reference list in Arden University (AU) Harvard format. You should address all the elements of the assignment task listed below.

Please note that tutors will use the assessment criteria set out below in assessing your work.

Maximum word count: 3000 words

Please note that exceeding the word count by over 10% will result in a reduction in grade by the same percentage that the word count is exceeded.
You must not include your name in your submission because Arden University operates anonymous marking, which means that markers should not be aware of the identity of the student. However, please do not forget to include your STU number.

Assignment Task

Note: Please provide citation within text and complete Arden Harvard references for complete answer of each question. Please attend workshop for this provided at each campus.

Question 1- Case Study & Questions
Arden University is one of the fastest growing private universities in the United Kingdom with its recent expansion into Germany. A major university strategy in process is to improve its ability to be more successful and achieve competitive advantage by use of information systems linked to databases.
A) Identify and discuss in detail Big Data and its role in Arden University. Provide examples of any two departments. (15 marks)
B) Discuss the key benefits organisations like Arden University gain after adopting Big Data. (15 marks)

(Maximum 1000 words)
(30 marks)
(LOs: 1, 2)

Question 2 – Security and Privacy
Explain the IT security and data privacy measures that an organisation must implement. Ensure that you add the key provisions of GDPR that must be included.

(Maximum 1000 words)
(30 marks)
(LOs: 3)

Question 3 Telecommunication and spreadsheets
A) Describe a cellular network, its principle components and how it works. (10marks)
B) Explain the benefits of a cellular network to a business. (10 marks)

C) Below is a spreadsheet from the Payroll department of Weaning Entertainment Ltd. Based on the information in the spreadsheet below, calculate:
i) the Sum, Median, Max and Min value of the Gross salary, taxes and Net salary of all the employees of this organisation.
ii) the number of employees with a gross salary more than £79900.00.
iii) the number of employees with a Net salary less than £67499.99.
(Note: The students must write the commands or functions for the above questions to score full marks. Also, they must replicate the spreadsheet below in order to address the above questions. The students must include snapshots of this in their assignment booklet to evidence their use of excel spreadsheets).

(Maximum 1000 words)
(40 marks)
(LOs: 1, 2, and 4)

Formative Feedback
You have the opportunity to submit a draft assignment to receive formative feedback. On the foundation year feedback is continuous.
The feedback is designed to help you develop areas of your work and it helps you develop your skills as an independent learner.
If you are a distance learning student, you should submit your work, by email, to your tutor, no later than 2 weeks before the actual submission deadline. If you are a blended learning student, your tutor will give you a deadline for formative feedback and further details.
Formative feedback will not be given to work submitted after the above date or the date specified by your tutor – if a blended learning student.

Guidelines
You MUST underpin your analysis and evaluation of the key issues with appropriate and wide ranging academic research and ensure this is referenced using the AU Harvard system.
The My Study Skills Area on iLearn contains useful resources relating to referencing.

Additional notes:
Students are required to indicate the exact word count on the title page of the assessment. The word count excludes the title page, tables, figures, diagrams, footnotes, reference list and appendices. Where assessment questions have been reprinted from the assessment brief these will also be excluded from the word count. ALL other printed words ARE included in the word count. See ‘Word Count Policy’ on the homepage of this
module for more information.

Submission Guidance
Assignments submitted late will not be accepted and will be marked as a 0% fail.
Your assessment should be submitted as a single Word (MS Word) or PDF file. For more information please see the “Guide to Submitting an Assignment” document available on the module page on iLearn.
You must ensure that the submitted assignment is all your own work and that all sources used are correctly attributed. Penalties apply to assignments that show evidence of academic unfair practice. (See the Student Handbook which is on the homepage of your module and also in the Induction Area).