Eastern Connecticut State University
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES
DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

BIS 462 Seminar on Health Care Informatics
Fall semester, online

Lecturer: Dr Don Petkov, web site: ECSU site: www.easternct.edu /Academics/Departmental web
pages/Faculty web pages/Petkov or
http://www.easternct.edu/personal/faculty/petkovd/index.html ;please note that the communication in this
online course will take place through Blackboard email only please. By exception you can send an email to
petkovd@easternct.edu if there is a technical problem with Blackboard (see in the Blackboard web site for
the course in Subject resources instructions on tuning your computer and downloading plugins for
Blackboard webct) .

This is an online course where the student studies the material on their own using the available
resources in the WebCT site for the course at their own pace however submitting the prescribed
assignments, lab work and projects within the prescribed deadlines. The instructor will provide also
weekly e-chat sessions for consultations. The students will also interact through threaded discussions,
group chat rooms and white board facilities provided within Blackboard.

The only synchronized activity, that must be undertaken at the same time by ALL students
without exception are the tests and the exam. All tests will take place every second Monday in
September, October (midterm) and November starting exactly at 9.30 pm till 11.00 pm. Eastern US
time. The exam will take place at 9.30 pm on the Monday of the exam session. If a student cannot be
available for those tests for whatever reason then the student must try to make arrangements to change
work or other obligations and be available as no changes are possible to the time and dates of the tests
please. If a student is unable to write a test then she/he gets 0% for the corresponding test unless the
instructor receives a scanned copy of a doctor’s note declaring that the student was unfit to write the test or
if there is another valid reason. In such a situation the student will get for that test a grade based on the
average grades of the other prior tests.

A student may miss for medical reasons at most one test in order to get a grade based on the average
test grade based on prior tests but if the student has a valid doctor’s note and misses more than one
test, then the student will have to write a separate extra test in arrangement with the instructor.
If a student misses the final exam or does not submit the project on time, the student gets an
F grade unless he or she submits a doctor’s note scanned and emailed to the instructor
via webct email. In such a case the student will get an Incomplete and then the final exam can be
written alternatively in a face to face session at ECSU by arrangement with the instructor.

Student consultations: only via the webct email (students can expect an answer within 24 hours
or earlier from the time of sending an email during one of the following days Monday till Friday
every week.

The students are expected to check the course web site at least three times a week for
instructions related to the course – on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. An email sent by noon on a
given day from those listed above may be replied within the same day while an email sent in the
afternoon or in the evening may be replied to on the next day.

Instant messaging common chat sessions in WebCT for consultations which each student may
wish to join (even just for watching what others are asking sometimes) from 6 pm till 6.45pm Eastern
US time on Mondays. These can be used for synchronious communication with your instructor.

Deadlines are declared in the schedule below and in the links for the corresponding elements in
webct, by 11 pm on the particular day. It is very important that you stick to them. You can submit
BIS 462 Syllabus
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