University IT Culture Assignment: Professional Development Module

This document presents a solution to a professional IT culture assignment, addressing key aspects such as system development, the Moodle platform, and effective communication. The assignment explores the process of creating new systems, emphasizing the importance of understanding the problem and environment. It also delves into the Moodle platform, outlining how educators and learners can utilize it for assignments and teamwork. Furthermore, the assignment analyzes a quote from a paper about workplace stress, focusing on active voice and tense. Finally, it discusses effective communication strategies in the IT workplace, introducing the 5W strategy to enhance connections, teamwork, and problem-solving. The solution includes references to support the analysis and findings.

Running head: PROFESSIONAL IT CULTURE
Professional IT Culture
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s note

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Table of Contents
Answer to Question 1.................................................................................................................2
Answer to Question 2.................................................................................................................2
Answer to Question 3.................................................................................................................3
Answer to Question 4.................................................................................................................3
References..................................................................................................................................5

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Answer to Question 1
1.a. “Creating a new system requires many activities and involved many people. One of the
most important activities is choosing the right problem to solve, proposing a feasible way to
solve it, and describing this solution in a system specification. The chosen system must also
fit into the existing environment and must be varied easily to use. Alternatively, the system
maintenance could be outsourced. It is often necessary to spend considerable time gaining a
thorough understanding of the system and their problems. It is only after developing a good
understanding that it becomes possible to propose changes that will produce a better system
without causing unforeseen effects.
Once changes are proposed, ...”
1.b. The topic of the paragraph is choosing a new system, give time to think and understand
and plan for the system to build, the paragraph goes well in accordance to the topic, the
sentences well supported the paragraph, the transitional sentence and the paragraph is well
concluded with that, and it is true that a good system can only be built on a good
understanding.
Answer to Question 2
2. Moodle is the open source platform for learners so the that the educators and the learners
can learn to deploy applications on the Moodle platform easily here the students can form a
team or group and discuss the school assignments and projects
i. Responding to the previous entry: The Moodle user having the skill can answer the
question anyone aroused in the Moodle, if the answer gets appreciated, the student can gain
higher ratings.

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ii. Starting a new thread: If the student has higher rating can arise a question, if the question is
appreciated then the student can gain higher ratings and on the other side if the questions are
not appropriate can lose ratings.
Answer to Question 3
3. a. This quote was used in the paper ‘Stress in your workplace’.
b. i. The listening requires a physical energy and so one must be both physically and mentally
fit to listen to things effectively. We all require sound sleep to perform more efficiently and
give more productivity. In the western culture, one is attentive to the speaker can be shown
by maintaining eye contact with the speaker directly. This approach encourages the speaker
to express themselves more and thus make a positive impact on them ("Stress in our
workplace", 2017).
ii. The APA in-text citation for the site is ("Stress in our workplace", 2017).
c. i. ‘we need to show a speaker’ is active voice extracted from the quote.
ii. ‘listening requires physical energy’ is present tense extracted from the quote.
iii. We is the second person extracted from the quote.
Answer to Question 4
4. An effective communication in the IT workplace assists in enhancing the connection
among the peers, help in team work, solve queries related to technology, the 5W strategy will
be discussed in this essay for effective communication (Keyton et al., 2013).
The questions Who or whom one should speak to? When is the best or suitable time
to speak? What does one want to say and what can be the consequences? Why does one

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want to speak to the person? Where is the best or suitable place to communicate? will help to
conduct effective communication.

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References
Keyton, J., Caputo, J. M., Ford, E. A., Fu, R., Leibowitz, S. A., Liu, T., ... & Wu, C. (2013).
Investigating verbal workplace communication behaviors. The Journal of Business
Communication (1973), 50(2), 152-169.
Stress in our workplace. (2017). unicef_stress-in-our-workplace. Retrieved 1 September
2017, from https://drc.ngo/media/2113536/unicef_stress-in-our-workplace.pdf