News

by Mei-ling Lee

Have you used the e-Learning system (Blackboard Learn) at our university? It is the unified e-Learning platform and the University e-Portal since its launch in the 2005/06 academic year. Over the years, the advancement in technology and improvement of such platform allow staff to develop more ...

by Joseph Leung

The new email system for students, supported by the cloud messaging solution, Microsoft Office 365 Exchange Online (hereafter referred to as Office 365 or O365), has been launched since 29 January 2013. When CityU students graduate, they can carry on using the same email addresses and accounts as ...

by Joe Chow

Located on the second floor of Academic 1 building, the Lenovo Service Centre (formally called the IBM Service Centre) was aimed to provide a localized notebook repair and maintenance service to members of the CityU community including staff, students and alumni. It has served the community well for ...

by Joe Lee

New arrangements of computing facilities are under way to enhance student learning. The following lists just a few: Teaching Studios Two small teaching studios, AC2-5501 and AC2-5502, will be merged to create a 60-seat Teaching Studio to meet timetabling needs. Renovation work will be carried out in ...

by JUCC ISTF

Patch Management
/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Applying patches to software applications and hardware firmware may introduce additional risks to universities' IT environment because patches themselves are programs and may have ...

by JUCC ISTF

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Implementation of DLP solutions encompasses a variety of complex IT areas such as data classification, risk assessment, compilation of policies, standards and procedures. If not ...

by JUCC ISTF

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Data leakage refers to unauthorised transmission of data from within an organisation to an external destination or recipient. The transmission can be done both electronically and ...

by C Y Kwok

In order to cope with the ever increasing demands for Internet bandwidth of HARNET (Hong Kong Academic & Research Network) member institutions, especially in anticipation of new demands due to increased number of students arising from the 3-3-4 curriculum reform, a series of upgrades were carried ...

by Tony Chan

Newly released in January this year, Microsoft Office 2013 is the latest version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite designed to make creating, editing, reading and sharing documents easier and quicker. It is a cloud-based product that is closely integrated with SkyDrive, a free cloud storage ...

by Eric Shai

The CityUWiki was first introduced in June 2008. It is a document management and collaboration platform based on Microsoft SharePoint 2010. The usage of CityUWiki grew from 10 sites initially to over 100 sites as of today. It supports various departments, committees and project teams for closed ...