Take-Home 1: Set Up Like a Professional (open AI, 50 points). Due 11:59 pm the night before Session 4.

Chapter 3 opens with Marcus, who lost two weeks of work to a sync client that had quietly signed itself out, and Aisha, whose best analysis died because her director opened final_v2 instead of final_v7_REAL_use_this.xlsx. Neither failure was about talent. Both were about files. In this assignment you build the file system you will use for the rest of the semester, and it is graded exactly the way the working world grades it: can someone else open your folder, find the right version, and trust what they see? The folder you share in Task 3 below is your submission, and it becomes the drop point for every later take-home assignment, so set it up like it has to last, because it does.

Tasks

Create your cloud account. Choose ONE platform; both are acceptable, so pick the one you will actually live in.
- If you choose OneDrive (TAMU Microsoft 365): sign in at office.com with your TAMU NetID and confirm you are in your OneDrive for Business account, not a personal one (Sofia's mistake from Ch. 3); open OneDrive from the app launcher; verify you can create a folder at the top level.
- If you choose Google Drive: sign in at drive.google.com with a Google account you will keep all semester; open My Drive; verify you can create a folder at the top level.
Build your semester folder structure. Create a top-level folder named istm210-lastname-firstname. Inside it, create subfolders for take-homes, class-notes, and materials, and inside take-homes a folder named th1. Every file name in this assignment must follow the Ch. 3 conventions: lowercase, hyphens, ISO dates where dated, explicit v1/v2 markers, never the word "final."
Share the folder with your instructor. Share the top-level folder with your instructor's email as a named person with edit access. No "anyone with the link" links. This share link is your submission for TH1 and the delivery channel for TH3 and TH4.
Prove sync works. Install the OneDrive sync client or Google Drive for desktop. Save TWO screenshots into the th1 folder. Not sure how to take a screenshot? Now is a good time to ask AI.
- th1-screenshot-web-v1.png, your folder structure in the browser (make sure to capture the folder tree/path towards the top of the window; e.g., My files > istm210-jenkins-leeroy > take-homes > th1)
- th1-screenshot-sync-v1.png, the same folders in File Explorer or Finder with sync status badges visible (again, make sure to capture the folder tree/path in the screenshot)
Prove you can recover a version. Create th1-versioning-test-v1.docx in th1, type any sentence, save, then replace the sentence with something different and save again. Use version history to restore the first version. Deliverable: th1-screenshot-restore-v1.png (saved in th1) showing the version history panel with at least two versions. Not sure how to view version history? Now is a good time to ask AI.
Tutor-mode transcript. Pick one concept from Ch. 1-2 that confused or fascinated you (e.g., systems thinking, an IS component, a hardware idea). Run an AI session in Tutor mode: have it question you and explain until the confusion or fascination resolves. Deliverable (saved in th1): th1-tutor-transcript-v1.pdf (exported or pasted transcript) ending with a two-sentence reflection on what you learned. Paste a link to the chat into the appropriate question below as well.
Answer the questions below. Complete the questions in this assessment before the deadline, and paste your folder share link into the box at the end of the first section.

AI policy: open AI, and here is how to use it well. AI is allowed on every part of this assignment. Use it in the right mode. Oracle is fine for quick questions like "where is version history in Google Drive?" Tutor mode is required for Task 6; that is the point of the task. Verification Agent is your habit to build here: your screenshots are the verification. So, if an AI describes a menu that is not on your screen, believe your screen. The Foreword's "When AI Is Your Only Expert" section applies directly: when the AI is also your teacher, test its instructions against a case where you already know the answer, and decompose its advice until each step is something you can check on your own machine. An AI might not be able to see your sync badges, but you can.

Submission checklist

Top-level folder shared with instructor, named person, edit access
Folder structure and all file names follow Ch. 3 conventions
th1-screenshot-web-v1.png and th1-screenshot-sync-v1.png saved in th1
th1-screenshot-restore-v1.png showing version history saved in th1
th1-tutor-transcript-v1.pdf with two-sentence reflection saved in th1
All questions below completed, share link pasted
Submit by 11:59 pm the night before Session 4