Sports Facilities Booking & Information System: The First to Go on Web By Gary Fung

The Sports Facilities Booking & Information System is a new system developed by the CSC, which allows end users to book facilities in the Sports Centre such as badminton courts, table tennis and gymnastics.

The system was first made available to the booking counter of the Sports Centre in May 1999 and the Web-based version was launched in December 1999 for staff only. It was then extended to students in February 2000. In fact, City University is the first institution in Hong Kong to implement such a Web-based booking system.

Being developed under the Web, the system is easily accessible by all staff and students either on-campus or through remote access using the dial-up facility. To invoke the system, simply choose "Sports Facilities Booking & Information System" under the "Admin. & Communication Menu" on the CityU Intranet home page and a login screen will appear as shown below.

This Web-based system provides essential functions to allow end users to make advance booking, perform enquiry, cancel bookings and alter bookings due to adverse conditions. Making a new booking is simply a mouse click on the desired time slot provided that the slot has not already been booked. The availability of time slots is depicted by a variety of colours as shown below.

To further enhance the system, it has been planned that it will soon be able to interface with the store-value function of the CityU staff and student ID cards for the deduction of booking fees. Do watch out for our future announcement when this feature becomes available.