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by W K Yu

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The central IT systems for the “3+3+4” academic reform consists of 3 main parts – IT infrastructure, e-learning and Student Information System. IT Infrastructure In line with the development work for 2012/13, viz. new building, more classrooms, increase in number of students and faculty members, new ...

by Louisa Tang

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The University is heavily relying on the Central IT systems to keep and manage student, staff and alumni information. A crisis or a disaster that destroys or severely cripples the Central IT systems for a prolonged period will have great impact on the normal business operation of the University ...

by Yeung Man

Business Intelligence With the advance of technology, organizational data is often already collected in computer database through the use of database management system such as Access, Oracle, SQL Server … etc. Data has to be gathered, modeled and transformed before it can be used to troubleshoot ...

by Angela Tang

What’s Blackboard health check and why? Blackboard (Bb) is adopted by the university as the standard platform for e-Learning and e-Portal. It is widely used by all CityU members for teaching, learning, announcements, wiki and blog, as well as making use of its single sign on feature to access AIMS ...

by Wilson Wong

Introduction World Wide Web is growing extremely fast in the past few years. Counting only the number of new websites responding to an online web server survey has already recorded an increase of 2,137,329 in June 2009 (a jump from 235,890,526 to 238,027,855). The actual number of websites in the ...

by Eva Wong

As e-learning evolves into an integral part of our academic learning environment, the Blackboard platform (Bb) is now a mission critical system at CityU, enabling both staff and students to maximize their productivity. The e-learning project is the major focus of CityU's Information Systems ...

by Maria Chin

The Blackboard Academic Suite (Blackboard) [1] has been our campus e-Learning platform and University Portal since September 2005. It is the learning and communication hub for 30,000 energetic and creative students and staff, and provides integrations to essential administrative, messaging and ...

by Joe Chow

Background In view that the Internet had rapidly become an unrestricted and uncontrolled source of content other than educational information, the Information Services Advisory Committee (ISAC) chaired by VP (Planning & Information Services) saw the need to filter some categories of websites in 1998 ...

by Wilson Wong

Introduction In the past, security measures were often focused on the system level (which included networks, operating systems, web servers, and database servers). People may think their websites are safe from hackers if they have a "perfectly" secured system. This may be true if their websites ...

by Maria Chin

The Blackboard (Bb) Academic Suite has been deployed in the university since July 2005. The Sun Solaris/Oracle DBMS based production system is supported by four application servers via a load-balancer and an additional application server is used for virtual classroom. These application servers work ...