IS100

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE IS100 COURSE:

  • Please check the Course Information page to get started with IS100.
  • Please check this webpage and the IS100 Frequently Asked Questions section for your questions.
  • You are welcome to e-mail your questions (which are absent on the webpage and the FAQ section) to us (is100@metu.edu.tr).
  • If you send an e-mail and your question is already answered on the website or in the FAQ, you may NOT receive a reply.
  • If you send an e-mail without stating your name, student ID, department and grade (year) explicitly, you may NOT receive a reply.

  • If the IS100 course (9010100) is included as a must-course in your department's curriculum, you should pass either the IS100 Proficiency Exam or the IS100 Course to graduate from METU.
  • The proficiency exam is assigned to each student twice at different times of the year based on their departments.
  • If you fail to take or pass these two proficiency exams, the IS100 course will be automatically assigned to you during the interactive registration period of every semester until you pass the course. 

IMPORTANT REMARKS ON THE IS100 PROFICIENCY (EXEMPTION) EXAMS:

  • IS100 Proficiency Exams are ONLINE exams held three times a year (in February, May and September). You CANNOT choose or change your exam date or hour since it is a collective exam.
  • Exam dates are announced on the Academic Calendar page of METU.
  • If you are a student of the following departments, you may take the proficiency exam in May (during preparatory class) and in September (during 1st year).
    Departments: ADM, AEE, ARCH, BA, BAS, CE, CENG, CHE, CRP, ECON, EE, ENVE, FDE, GEOE, GIA, IE, IR, MATH, ME, METE, MINE, PETE, PHIL, SOC.
  • If you are a student of the following departments, you may take the proficiency exam in September (during 1st year) and February (during 1st year).
    Departments: CEIT*, ECE/ESE/EME**, FLE***, CHED/MHED/PHED****, BIOL, CHEM, GENE, HIST, ID, PHYS, PSY, STAT, TEFL.
    * CEIT students who started METU after and including 2007 are NOT required to take the course.
    ** ECE, ESE and EME students who started METU after and including 2015 are NOT required to take the course.
    *** FLE students who started METU after and including 2018 are NOT required to take the course.
    **** CHED, MHED and PHED students who started their first year in 2018 and 2019 are NOT required to take the course.
  • You need to get at least 60 points (out of 100) on the IS100 Proficiency Exam to be exempted from the course. 
  • Students who took the IS100 course before (even if they dropped the course) CANNOT take the proficiency exam.
  • If you are a transfer student, send an e-mail (subject: "Transfer Student – Prof. Application", content: Student ID, department, a summary of your situation) to is100@metu.edu.tr 10 days prior to a proficiency exam. Transfer students whose applications are accepted will be notified via e-mail three days before that proficiency exam.
  • More information: https://ii.metu.edu.tr/proficiency-exam-regulations
  • Study material: https://ii.metu.edu.tr/presentations-and-notes

IMPORTANT REMARKS ON THE IS100 COURSE:

  • IS100 is an ONLINE and ASYNCHRONOUS course and all sections are online sections. All activities (quizzes, assignments, midterm and final) are conducted online. There are no defined class hours.
  • If you are a 1st-year student of the following departments, you CANNOT add the course in the Fall semester. You can, on the other hand, take the February proficiency exam and be exempted from the course. 
    Departments: CEIT*, ECE/ESE/EME**, FLE***, CHED/MHED/PHED****, BIOL, CHEM, GENE, HIST, ID, PHYS, PSY, STAT, TEFL.
    * CEIT students who started METU after and including 2007 are NOT required to take the course.
    ** ECE, ESE and EME students who started METU after and including 2015 are NOT required to take the course.
    *** FLE students who started METU after and including 2018 are NOT required to take the course.
    **** CHED, MHED and PHED students who started their first year in 2018 and 2019 are NOT required to take the course.
  • The course code is 9010100, please check the capacity of the sections via the View Course Capacity page first, then add one of the sections that are available.
  • Grading is as follows:
      •  - 12%: Weekly Quizzes (1% each week)
         - 25%: Assignment 1 (12.5%) + Assignment 2 (12.5%)
         - 30%: Midterm
         - 35%: Final
  • You need to collect at least 60 points (out of 100) to pass the course.
  • To be successful on a quiz and collect attendance point (1% each week), you should get at least 6 (out of 10) on a weekly quiz.
  • Students who collect zero (0) attendance points from the first 6 quizzes are NOT allowed to take the midterm exam. 
  • Students who collect less than 25 points until the final exam are NOT allowed to take the final exam.
  • More information: https://ii.metu.edu.tr/registration


[TR]

Sorularınız için lütfen önce IS100 Sık Sorulan Sorular sayfasına bakınız.

Eğer orada açıklanmayan sorularınız varsa is100@metu.edu.tr e-posta adresine sorularınızı iletebilirsiniz. Gönderilen e-postalar mümkün olan en kısa sürede cevaplanmaktadır.

Help Desk ve telefon desteği dersler başladıktan sonra aktif olmaktadır. Etkileşimli kayıt döneminde Help Desk ve telefon hattı açık değildir.

Enformatik Enstitüsü idari personelinin konu hakkında bilgisi ve yetkisi bulunmamaktadır. Sorular sadece IS100 e-posta hesabı aracılığı ile cevaplanmaktadır. 

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For your questions, please check the IS100 Frequently Asked Questions page.

If your question is not present there, you may direct your questions to is100@metu.edu.tr e-mail address. Your e-mails are replied to as soon as possible.

Help Desk and phone support are active after classes start. They are not active during the interactive registration period.

The administrative staff of the Informatics Institute does not have knowledge or authority on the subject. Questions are only answered via the IS100 e-mail account.

IS100 HelpDesk Office Hours

Room

Phone

E-mail

 Wednesdays and Thursdays

13:30-16:30

B Block, B-103

0 (312) 210 37 39

is100@metu.edu.tr


IS100 Frequently Asked Questions

Announcements

Course Information

How The Course Will Be Conducted

Links and Books

Presentations and Notes

Proficiency Exam Regulations

Proficiency Exam Dictionary

Registration

Syllabus


ASSIGNMENT 1

Read this before you attempt to do your assignment!!

 

·       You have to access your first assignment via ODTUClass. The assignment will redirect you to the IS100 assignment page. Always use ODTUClass to connect to the assignment page. Follow the instructions that are given below.

·       You must do your homework only on Microsoft Office products running on Windows. Do not do your homework on Ubuntu or any other Unix platformsotherwise, our tool may not read your homework and you may get zero points. If you don't have Microsoft Office products, you can use computer laboratories in the METU campus.

·       Homework files are customized for each student. (i.e. your student ID is embedded in the file that you download.) Do not share your file with others! Otherwise, your submission will not be evaluated and both you and the person that you get the file from will get zero points from the assignment.

·       The deadline for Assignment 1 submission is 10.12.2023(Sunday) 23:55. Later submissions that are sent within the next day (11.12.2023) will be evaluated as late submissions and your grade will get a penalty for that (depending on how late you submitted). Any submission that is later than 11.12.2023 23:55 will be discarded by the system. You are responsible for submitting early so that you are not affected by last-minute system glitches. 

How to download your assignment

1.    Go to IS100 course page on ODTUClass.

2.    Click on the Homework link provided at ODTUClass. This link will redirect you to the IS100 assignment page.

3.    From the “Download Assignment” section, select “Assignment-1: MS Word”, and click the “Download Assignment” button.

4.    Your assignment files will be downloaded.

 

What to do after you have downloaded the assignment file

1.    Before making any changes, first UNZIP the word file to the desired location in your file system.

2.    Make the necessary changes that are requested in the assignment description, and save the file without changing its name.

3.    When you are finished making changes, do not forget to save the file! (Many students got zero points in the past just because they forgot to save the changes they made.)

4.    You must upload the Microsoft Word file that you have downloaded (do not create a new file). Because that file is unique for your student ID and another file cannot take its place. If you upload another file, you'll get zero points.

 

How to upload your assignment:

1.    Go to IS100 course page on ODTUClass.

2.    Click on the Homework link provided at ODTUClass. This link will redirect you to the IS100 assignment page.

3.    From the “Upload Assignment” section, select Assignment 1, browse the word file (with .docx or .doc extension) from your file system, and click the upload button.

4.    The system only accepts files with .doc or .docx extensions, so don’t try to upload a zipped file!!!

5.    If you want to change the uploaded file, you can upload your assignment to the system again. In that case, your old submission will be discarded.

 


ASSIGNMENT 2

Read this before you attempt to do your assignment!

·      You have to access your second assignment via ODTUClass. The assignment will redirect you to the IS100 assignment page. Always use ODTUClass to connect to the assignment page. Follow instructions that are given below.

·      If you have trouble with the assingment page, first check your web browser. You should use Microsoft Edge or Internet Explorer and allow your pop-up settings. DO NOT USE GOOGLE CHROME OR MOZILLA FIREFOX!

·      You must do your homework only on Microsoft Office products running on Windows. Do not do your homework on Ubuntu or any other Unix platforms, otherwise, our tool may not read your homework and you may get zero points.

·      Homework files are customized for each student. (i.e. your student ID is embedded in the file that you download.) Do not share your file with others! Do not collaborate with each other! You have to do your homework by yourself. Otherwise, your submission will not be evaluated and both you and the person that you get the file from will get zero points from the assignment.

·      Do not create a new Microsoft Excel file to do your homework. After you download your homework, first UNZIP the Excel file to the desired location in your file system. Make the necessary changes within the file that you download, save the changes without changing the file name. Then upload that file with .xls or .xlsx extension.

·      Please check the file size before you try to upload the file. Ideal homework file size should not exceed 200 KB. Any submission with the file size larger than 1 MB will not be accepted by the system.

·      Deadline for Assignment 2 submission is 24.12.2023 (Sunday) 23:59. Later submissions that are sent within the next day (25.12.2023) will be evaluated as late submissions and your grade will get a penalty for that (depending on how late you submitted). Any submission that is later than 25.12.2023, 23:59 will be discarded by the system. You are responsible for submitting early so that you are not affected by last-minute system glitches. 

How to download your assignment?

1.     Go to IS100 course page on ODTUClass. Use Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge, not Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox!

2.     Check your pop-up settings of your web browser and allow them to open the assignment page.

3.     Click on the Homework link provided at ODTUClass. This link will redirect you to the IS100 Assignment page.

4.     From the “Download Assignment” section, select “Assignment-2:MS Excel”, and click “Download Assignment” button.

5.     Your assignment files will be downloaded.

What to do after you have downloaded the assignment file

1.     Before making any changes, first UNZIP the excel file to a desired location in your file system.

2.     Make the necessary changes that are requested in the assignment description, and save the file without changing its name.

3.     Make sure that you have imported the data correctly. If there is missing data, you will lose points, most probably get a zero.

4.     Make sure you start from the top left corner (A1) in every sheet. Otherwise the location for your response will be wrong and you will lose points.

5.     When you are finished making changes, do not forget to save the file! (Many students got zero points in the past, just because they forgot to save the changes they made.)

6.     Do not delete the sheet that contains the questions in it! Otherwise our tool may misread the file and you may get zero points.

7.     Please check the file size before you try to upload the file. Ideal homework file size should not exceed 200 KB. Any submission with file size larger than 1 MB will not be accepted by the system.

8.     If your file size is larger than 1 MB, you are definitely doing something wrong. So, check the excel sheet that causes the problem and try to correct it.

9.     You must upload the Microsoft Excel file that you have downloaded (do not create a new file). Because the file you downloaded is unique for your student ID and another file cannot take its place. If you upload another file, you'll get zero points.

How to upload your assignment?

1.     Go to IS100 course page on ODTUClass. Use Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge, not Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox!

2.     Check your pop-up settings of your web browser and allow them to open the assignment page.

3.     Click on the Homework link provided at ODTUClass. This link will redirect you to the IS100 Assignment page.

4.     From “Upload Assignment” section, select Assignment 2, browse the excel file (with .xlsx or .xls extension) from your file system, and click the upload button.

5.     The system only accepts files with .xls or .xlsx extensions that are smaller than 1 MB. So, don’t try to upload a zipped file!!!

If you want to change the uploaded file, you can upload your assignment again to the system. In that case, your old submission will be discarded.

Good luck to you all!