The Banner Programme Management Team within the Office of the CIO is responsible for designing and maintaining all programme codes within the Banner Student System. It coordinates the creation of any new programmes codes and the update and maintenance of the Programme Management System.
The e-Learning Team in the Office of the CIO oversees all the technology aspects of e-learning within the City University of Hong Kong. Working with the Office of Education Development and Gateway Education (EDGE), the team provides consultants and services on the use of information technology to advance teaching and learning and in support of the University’s Discovery-Enriched Curriculum (DEC).
At present, the Blackboard Academic Suite serves as the unified learning management system with an open architecture that integrates with Google Apps, Turnitin, Wimba Voice, Campus Pack, Echo360 and more. For more information please visit our e-Learning website.
Green campus, sustainability, social responsibility, and environmental friendliness, are all strategic initiatives of the University. The “CityU Paperless Office Project” was created to further promote green IT culture as well as modern e-business best practices across all administrative and academic units.
The Enterprise Document Management Team within the Office of the CIO has the responsibility of promoting paperless office best practices at the enterprise level. Working with the Computing Services Centre (CSC) and the Enterprise Solutions Office (ESU), it provides enterprise-wide document management and workflow services through the EMC Documentum and Microsoft SharePoint platforms.
The IT Security Officer within the Office of the CIO has the responsibility of defining and enforcing University-wide IT security policies, guidelines and procedures. Our IT systems contain valuable personal, teaching, and research data. IT security is crucial and is a key concern of the OCIO. Working with the Computing Services Centre (CSC) and the Enterprise Solutions Office (ESU), the IT Security Team will define IT security standards and best practices, and tools and technologies for all IT teams in the University to follow and use. The IT Security Team is also responsible for promoting IT security best practices and awareness throughout the CityU community.
The University has created many new strategic directions to further strengthen our position as a leading global University, such as the Discovery-Enriched Curriculum (DEC) and our unique Gateway Education (GE) courses that emphasizes our “Discover & Innovate @ CityU” theme.
The Strategic IT Development Team in the Office of the CIO is an agile IT development team with the responsibility of exploring and promoting new technologies that can offer strategic opportunities and transformational changes needed to support the Universities new strategic directions.
The Web Technology Team in the Office of the CIO oversees the University's Web strategy, online branding, technology platforms, as well as performs quality assurance of the University’s websites.
In 2011, it led the University-wide Web Redesign Project that upgraded the design and technology platform of close to a hundred University websites, enabling them to be easily readable by any modern computing device including smart phones and tablets. The Web redesign effort resulted in improved usability and accessibility, and also unified the online brand image of all our websites, which spanned hundreds of thousands of pages.
