Code
MGSE MIS 4809
Level
M1
Field
Systèmes d’information
Language
Anglais/English
ECTS Credits
3
Class hours
20
Total student load
60
Program Manager(s)
Department
- Technologies, Information et Management
Educational team
Introduction to the module
Building on Excel fundamentals, this course delves into advanced VBA techniques to enhance productivity and develop decision support tools. Students will learn to create automated solutions and perform error-handling in complex scenarios.
Learning objectives/Intended learning outcomes
- 2.2 - Explore solutions, decisions, and their relative and absolute impacts
- 3.2 - Apply discipline knowledge appropriately and effectively
- 3.4 - Select and employ judiciously appropriate techniques and tools within the discipline
- 4.3 - Apply cross-disciplinary management approaches and tools effectively and judiciously
- 4.4 - Evaluate the use of cross-disciplinary management approaches and tools
- 4.5 - Adopter un processus d’innovation en faveur de l’entrepreneuriat
Content : structure and schedule
Building on Excel fundamentals, this course delves into advanced VBA techniques to enhance productivity and develop decision support tools. Students will learn to create automated solutions and perform error-handling in complex scenarios.
Topics Covered:
Advanced Excel: A review of essential Excel functions and techniques.
Intermediate VBA:
Variables, dynamic referencing, MsgBox, InputBox.
Integrating Excel and VBA functions to output values.
Advanced debugging techniques.
Advanced VBA Programming:
Conditional logic (If/Then, error checking).
Error handling with On Error GoTo.
Working with loops (For/Next, Do While, Do Until).
Using array variables for efficient data handling.
Creating and using procedures (Call and Function).
Learning delivery
Asynchrone
Pedagogical methods
Virginia Tech provides its own learning platform (Canvas), which offers course videos, notes on the content, and files for homework assignments. Additional online meetings are available for students to discuss challenges and questions with Professor Seref and his assistants. Coaching sessions are offered at the beginning by Professor Delaunay at IMT BS. This course demands high autonomy skills
Evaluation and grading system and catch up exams
Assignments and Quizzes: Homework assignments and quizzes are spaced regularly to assess student understanding of each module.
Optional Final Exam: An optional final exam is offered online with a flexible two-hour window for completion.
Key Deadlines: Homeworks and quizzes are due periodically, with key assignments requiring individual submissions.
Module Policies
Professor-Student Communication
● The professor will contact the students through their school email address (IMT-BS/TSP) and the Moodle portal. No communication via personal email addresses will take place. It is the student responsibility to regularly check their IMT-BS/TSP mailbox.
● Students can communicate with the professor by emailing him/her to his institutional address. If necessary, it is possible to meet the professor in his office during office-hours or by appointment.
Students with accommodation needs
If a student has a disability that will prevent from completing the described work or require any kind of accommodation, he may inform the program director (with supporting documents) as soon as possible. Also, students are encouraged to discuss it with the professor.
Class behavior
● Out of courtesy for the professor and classmates, all mobile phones, electronic games or other devices that generate sound should be turned off during class.
● Students should avoid disruptive and disrespectful behavior such as: arriving late, leaving early, careless behavior (e.g. sleeping, reading a non-course material, using vulgar language, over-speaking, eating, drinking, etc.). A warning may be given on the first infraction of these rules. Repeated violators will be penalized and may face expulsion from the class and/or other disciplinary proceedings.
● The tolerated delay is 5 minutes. Attendance will be declared on Moodle during these 5 minutes via a QR code provided by the teacher at each course start.
● Student should arrive on time for exams and other assessments. No one will be allowed to enter the classroom once the first person has finished the exam and left the room. There is absolutely no exception to this rule. No student can continue to take an exam once the time is up. No student may leave the room during an examination unless he / she has finished and handed over all the documents.
● In the case of remote learning, the student must keep his camera on unless instructed otherwise by the professor.
Honor code
IMT-BS is committed to a policy of honesty in the academic community. Conduct that compromises this policy may result in academic and / or disciplinary sanctions. Students must refrain from cheating, lying, plagiarizing and stealing. This includes completing your own original work and giving credit to any other person whose ideas and printed materials (including those from the Internet) are paraphrased or quoted directly. Any student who violates or helps another student violate academic behavior standards will be penalized according to IMT-BS rules.
Textbook Required and Suggested Readings
Recommended DSS Book: Developing Spreadsheet-Based Decision Support Systems: Using Excel and VBA for Excel. Dynamic Ideas, 2011. 2nd Edition, S. Eksioglu, M. Seref, R. Ahuja, and W. Winston. (www.dssbooks.com)
Cumulative Review Notes are available on the course website.
Keywords
business analytics, business modeling, excel, vba,