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INFS2233 – Foundations of Electronic Commerce

Lecturer Dr Dongming Xu
Course Link UQ Site
Faculty EAIT
Prerequisites MGTS1201 + 4 units BBusMan courses
Contact Hours 4 Contact hours
Semester(s) Taught Semester 1
Course Units 2
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Rating

Total average

42.6/100
Learning Materials ( 64.3 )
Learning Activities ( 58.7 )
Blackboard Management ( 27.3 )
Course Content ( 33.3 )
Course Structure ( 32 )
Contact Availability ( 53.7 )
Course Difficulty ( 28.7 )

Reviews (3)

Nelson
   
INFS2233 – Foundations of Electronic Commerce 33.9

This course, when I first took it, I genuinely thought it might've been a well made/designed course. The new lecturer this year seems mildly irritating and spent an hour in the first lecture talking about her travel experience and credentials, as well as endless slides of useless buzzwords and jargon concepts that you'll briefly recall from earlier business topics like MKTG1501. However, the tutorials seemed pretty great (unless you have the infamously stuckup Mohsen tutor) and I had the pleasure of being with an open-minded, highly experienced and incredibly understanding international business venturer Renae Agrey. They were like open-question super-chill tutorials where you first went through a case study to discuss the successes or failures of a well-known electronic business (Mostly covers some business ideas or what other people would call "common sense"), and the rest of the tutorial is based on working through html/css/javascript exercises, which while you could quite simply complete at home, seems much more enjoyable and accomodating to do during the tutorials. This however did lead many students to never show up for the tutorials until the last week for the assignment.

The assignment is... well... a really retardedly huge business plan which also incorporates a website design process and a visually functional website, and in my opinion is worth way too little marks considering the effort that could be required to complete it, spread over approximately 8 weeks to complete. Still, at this point I thought positively of the course because it seemed like the assignment would cover the components of the business ideas and concepts, with a nice accompanying website, while I was led to believe through all the tutorials that the final was mostly based on "handwritten html code". Quite the contrary. The exam was extremely short, comprising of a few very useless MCQs testing your knowledge of some e-business jargon, 4 heavily weighted SR questions relating to like 4 slides out of 100 about other "e-*insert business jargon here*" and a small section of comprehending some syntax on html (which I would still argue doesn't really test your knowledge of it) and a very basic nested for loop question.

As you can tell, my biggest gripe is how little the assignment was worth given the scope of the task (it had to look surprisingly realistic and seem like an actual electronic business venture too) and how the final focused on such irrelevant jargon and buzzwords on a few powerpoint slides, as opposed to the exercises and tasks I did during all the tutorials (And that I might fail the course). Since it was a newly structured course this year the exam questions were not similar to past years at all either.

Also I took this course Semester 1 2018. The Semester-Taken checkbox below doesn't have it as an option yet
Semester taken

Semester 1 - 2017

Your program/major

Software Engineering/Commerce

Is lecture attendance necessary?

No

Is the textbook necessary?

Never

Positives
  • Some Tutors and Tutorials are genuinely great
  • The assignment and website pitch, while worth little marks, feels rewarding and genuine
Negatives
  • Assignment is worth too little
  • Insanely boring and useless lectures
  • Final is so irrelevant to what you actually learn (where learning happens during tutorials really)
Posted on June 18, 2018 11:01 am
Anonymous
   
INFS2233 – Foundations of Electronic Commerce 36.0

This course has the potential to be very good but, like a lot of courses at UQ, they turn out pretty bad. BISM2233 is the classic example. It has the components to educate students in an area that combines both website development and business thinking and seems like a lot of fun. The course consists of a midsem, group assignment, final exam. The assignment component allows you to create a website and develop a business plan around it.

If you have the pleasure of having Mohsen as your tutor - be prepared to spend your endlessly silent tutorials with the eye-watering BO hovering around this guy. Not only that, if you decide to challenge his thinking around web development or business planning you'll receive a poor grade. This guy is so sheltered from the real-life world he thought a SaaS business model was too 'simple' and we should stick to selling just normal products...He also doesn't understand the concept of 'scalable' business models.

If you come from an IT background or have some level of exposure to real-life companies - leave them outside this class.

Instead, keep your great ideas to yourself and build a vanilla website with a vanilla idea. You can quickly grasp the thinking-level of this tutor and build something to suit him.

The exams are easy, night-before job will get you a 6 if you're not a potato. This course was brought down because there is only 1 tutor for the entire course that thinks his opinion is above-all. He also thinks his shit doesn't stink - but he definitely does.
Semester taken

Semester 1 - 2017

Your program/major

Commerce

Is lecture attendance necessary?

No

Is the textbook necessary?

No

Positives No positive points
Negatives
  • Tutor
  • Boring lectures
Posted on July 26, 2017 1:33 pm
Anonymous
   
INFS2233 – Foundations of Electronic Commerce 57.9

This course, as the title says, is a combination of Business and Website.

Knowledge required: General business knowledge, HTML CSS JAVASCRIPT is a plus

I find the lectures are not that helpful. You can just read through lecture slides for final examinations. I highly recommend you to attend the lectures if you don't have any coding experience. In the lecture, a demonstration of coding will be shown.

It is IMPORTANT to have someone who knows how to code a website in your group project.

-mr.no-
Semester taken

Semester 2 - 2015

Your program/major

Bachelor of IT (Enterprise Information Systems)

Is lecture attendance necessary?

Depends

Is the textbook necessary?

No

Positives
  • Generally easy if you have coding knowledge
Negatives
  • A lot of work for group project but very little marks
Posted on June 28, 2016 10:32 am

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