Background – CityU’s Unified e-Learning Management System and e-Portal Since 2005, the University has adopted the Blackboard Academic Suite (Bb) as the unified e-learning management system as well as a platform for the University e-Portal. It is widely used by all CityU members for teaching ...

According to our past experience, more than 50% of incoming emails are possibly spam in nature. These emails not only waste our system resources, but also cause delay of normal email delivery. Users would be annoyed, and even worse, they have to take security risk when opening the message or the ...

? The CSC Student Terminal Area (STA) has been located on Level 2, AC1 (previously named Academic Building) since 1990 when the University moved from the Mongkok campus to the current permanent campus in Kowloon Tong. The STA had undergone a few changes over the years before it arrives at its final ...

CityU, in support of its Discovery-enriched Curriculum and the growing importance of mobile technology, has allocated HK$9 million to implement its e-learning strategy.

Introduction Virtualization in computing, according to Wikipedia, “ is the creation of a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, such as a hardware platform, operating system, a storage device or network resources ”. The same virtualization concept can also be extended to include ...

The new CityVoD ( ref: http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/cityvod/) was launched in November last year. Its interface not only changed to allow users to use mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone 7 to navigate and watch videos but the underlying technology of the service also enhanced ...

The Sun Java System Messaging Server (JSMS) has been used as the staff email server for many years. It can no longer satisfy today’s communication needs for advanced features such as calendar and appointment scheduling, cooperate phone book, task and reminders, anywhere anytime access via web ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ SaaS provides the most integrated functionality built directly into the offering, with the least customised extensibility, and a relatively high level of integrated security ...

Acquisition of new printers i. Quota-controlled free printing service Although the existing printers for supporting the quota-controlled free printing service have only been used for about 3 years, they break down quite frequently due to abnormal wear-and-tear resulting from year after year ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ The innovation of cloud computing has changed the way IT operations are deployed in various organisations around the world, including universities. Its benefits in cost saving ...