Kaplan University
Professor Nelson Stewart
The unit five seminar was mainly focused on Topologies. The professor first addresses that issues with Visio or Toolwire must be directed to Tech Support. A large part of the seminar in the beginning was the best option for troubleshoot access with the Toolwire program since of course no one like dealing with Tech Support. The discussion then turned to how the Toolwire program came around and how the students asked for hands on exercises because they liked other teaching methods besides conceptual. The professor then began to explain that the purpose of this course is teaching people with no experience to learn the concepts of the criteria of this class. There was then a reminder that when submitting assignments from Visio to make sure you copy the work into a Microsoft Word Document. There are examples and announcements on the discussion board. Ten there was a brief interlude to the formatting of all work submitted in the class to follow APA format. Next the seminar topic then moved to the assignment for the week. We began to compare the case study to the network we ourselves as students use at home. Majority of the people in this class have architecture of peer-to-peer network. This is not the same as a topology. There is a brief comment on how the Visio assignment for this Unit should be linked and labeled. There was then the difference between an architectural drawing and a network drawing. An idea for brain storming for the assignment for the week is thinking about the reasoning behind the structure of the students’ home network. Using this logic to explain the why and what topology they would recommend on the case study as reference point. The class then moved to the seminar case study for the Kiwi Branch of the unit case study. After discussing all the items that this business uses we began to discuss the procession of windows and how this might be