The CityU Intranet
was successfully implemented in early August. Since then, University
Messages followed suit and became Web-based. Therefore it is
possible to add many interesting elements like pictures, images,
sounds etc. to the messages. Incorporating hyperlinks also makes
it easy to direct Web surfers to related or more detailed information.
Most important of all, you can now read these messages wherever
and whenever you have an Internet connection.
If you are using your
office networked PC, simply double click the 
icon
on your Windows desktop to start up the Intranet homepage and
the University Messages will appear in a separate window as
shown below:
The Message window
contains links to all the messages belonging to different categories,
which include "Today's Event", "News and Announcement",
"Conference, Seminar and Course", "Newspaper
Clippings" and "Departmental Messages". To read
the content of a message, simply point and click the message
of interest. If you prefer to read all the messages from top
to bottom, simply drag the scroll bar while you read.
When finished, you
may click "Goto Table of Contents" to take you back
to the same category of the message that you were reading, or
"Goto Top" to the top of the Web page. To close the
Message window, click 
at
the top right corner of the window.
Sometimes links may
appear in the message content. By clicking the appropriate link,
the corresponding Web page is displayed. To resume reading messages,
just click the category of the desired message at the top of
the message window.
You can have messages
displayed when your PC is booted up by selecting "Set
CityU Intranet - Auto Start at Bootup" on the "Utilities
and Tools" menu. In fact, you can read the messages
any time by clicking 
on
the Intranet Home Page.
Even when you are
off campus, you may still be able to read all the messages.
For example, you can dial-up to the Internet, visit the CityU
Home Page (http://www.cityu.edu.hk/)
and then click "CityU Intranet". When the Intranet
Home Page is loaded, click .
The only differences are that Intranet password is required
for user authentication and you have to select your own department
to read your departmental messages.
A lot of the important
news is dispatched via the University Messages. It is definitely
a good habit to read them once every day. As this is our new
trial, users' comments and feedback are most welcome and please
send them to cc@plink.cityu.edu.hk.
