University of Sri Jayewardenepura

Department of Information Technology

ITC 2340 – Computer Applications for Managers

Student Handout

Background:

This exercise revises and broadens your existing knowledge and skills of Microsoft Excel

Learning Outcomes

Revise the functions and formulas used in Microsoft Excel

Activity

You are required to prepare a worksheet (ITC2340.2018.MSExcel.1.DemoDocument.XLSX ) which can be

used to evaluate students following ITC 2340. Assume that the subject has four assessments, and only 25
students follow the course (No Absentees). The assessments are as follows:

1. Weekly assessment (Individual): Five weekly quizzes for which a student gets marks out of 10. The
highest three grades(marks) are used for evaluations. (10% of Total grade for subject)
2. Project assignment (Individual): Four evaluators provide marks, out of 100 each, but the highest mark
and lowest is dropped and the other (middle) two are averaged and rounded up. (10% of Total grade
for subject)
3. Report assignment (Group): A group mark out of 100 is awarded. Each group comprises of five
members. (15% of Total grade for subject). You are provided with a group mark and the group
member table.
4. Presentation assessment (Individual): A grade is A-E is assigned. (5% of Total mark for grade)

Prepare a worksheet which can be used for assessments in the above scenario. Each assessment
above must be prepared in a separate worksheet. The total continuous assessment marks (out of 40)
should be in separate sheet as well.

You are provided with the sample worksheet ITC2340.2018.MSExcel.1.DemoDocument.XLSX

In preparing your answer, please consider the following conditions as well.

• The formulas used must not be visible to the user.

• Only the cells where the user must enter data should be accessible to the user.
• In the tab where you indicate the final marks out of 40, your name should appear in cell C3
(See in above sample worksheet)

Copyright Notice

This material is copyrighted to the Department of IT, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. The lawful users of this
material are students following ITC 2340 course and the staff members teaching/instructing in the course. The
unauthorized copying, sharing, distribution or any other form of such acts, of material protected by the Intellectual
Property Law is strictly prohibited. It is a violation of applicable law/s in force in the country.
 • To calculate the Report mark for a student in Table 3.1, two other tables (3.2 and 3.3) are
referred. You should write a formula which can calculate marks based on the tables 3.2 and
3.3
• In all locations where data entered is marks, you need to use randomized data which is
autogenerated using appropriate functions
• You must ensure that the data entering process validates the data as required to ensure error
free data entry.
• Cell C2 in the Continuous assessment sheet (out of 40) must contain the name of the student
who prepared the answer.
• Lock cells so that only cells highlighted can be altered by the user.
• You are advised to start by editing the ITC2340.2018.MSExcel.1.ToBeFilledByStudents.XLSX
file which contains the original marks used for the DemoDocument

Further Reading

1. Awareness of the following functions in Excel are useful to complete this activity. Please study
their usage using Office Online References.

IFERROR ROUNDUP VLOOKUP SUM

COUNTIF LARGE AVERAGE SMALL
RANDBETWEEN

2. Search on the Internet to find out:

How to Lock Cells > How to Protect Worksheets / Workbooks

Copyright Notice

This material is copyrighted to the Department of IT, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. The lawful users of this
material are students following ITC 2340 course and the staff members teaching/instructing in the course. The
unauthorized copying, sharing, distribution or any other form of such acts, of material protected by the Intellectual
Property Law is strictly prohibited. It is a violation of applicable law/s in force in the country.