ITSC Digest

Issue 19, Apr 9, 2002. UHS Internet Appointment Booking System Available Online Besides making a telephone or walk-in appointment, you can now make and review your physician appointments with the University Health Centre online at http://www.uhs.cuhk.edu.hk. To ensure security, privacy, and authenticity, a Site Certificate (issued by The Chinese University of Hong Kong) has been applied to UHS's internet appointment booking system. When accessing the webpage, we suggest that you carefully examine whether the certificate is issued and signed by "The Chinese University of Hong Kong" before accepting it and proceeding to the other steps. ITSC has also designed the system so that your identity is verified with both your University (or computing) identity number and your Campus-wide E-mail password. Most importantly, the data transmitted is encrypted through the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. Designing for Online Learning @ CUHK A lunch-time series hosted by CLEAR, the Library & ITSC between April 15 and May 21. This series of lunch-time seminar discussions are aimed at CUHK staff who already have some of their courses online, either with WebCT or CUForum, or who have been through training in using these tools. The sessions will not focus on technical training; they are designed to provide ideas about how to best design effective online learning environments for students. At each session there will be some input from a presenter with resources in the form of checklists or suggested URLs for future reference. However, the sessions are meant to be informal and we hope that sharing of ideas, issues and experience within the community of online teachers at CUHK will be a feature of the sessions. This lunch-time series includes, An overview of the possibilities for online learning E-moderation - ensuring effective communication Enhancing information literacy in your online course Navigating the copyright minefield Making course content interactive and engaging to learners Evaluating your online course - is it worth the effort? The programme details can be found at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/clear/new/new.htm and registration is at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/clear/registration/registeration.htm. University Software Standards - March 2002 Updates Adopting campus-wide software standards is beneficial to the overall IT development of the University as standardization helps to facilitate intra-campus collaboration and electronic document exchange, shortens software adoption time and reduces software training and support costs. The latest University Software Standards as of March 2002 are, Operating System: Windows 98(Minimum Configuration: Pentium II 400 MHz, 128MB RAM, 5GB HD) Office Suite: Office 2000 Electronic Filing: Acrobat 5 E-mail: Outlook 2000, Netscape Messenger 4.7x, Outlook Express 5.5 Scheduling: Exchange 5.5 with Outlook 2000 Web Browser: Netscape Communicator 4.7x and Internet Explorer 5.5 Web Browser add-on: Flash 5, Shockwave 8.x, Realplayer 8 and Media Player 7.1 Virus Scanner: OfficeScan, ServerProtect, ScanMail and PC-cillin latest versions and virus pattern File Compression: WinZip 8 Secured Shell: SSH 2.4 LAN Client Service: Novell Client 3.3 (Win9x) Meanwhile, Windows XP and Office XP are being considered. These University Software Standards are mandatory for administrative units but advisory for academic departments. Administrative Units should comply with the above software standards (March 2002) no later than 30 June 2002. Please refer to http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/mcas/swstandard for more information. Briefing Meeting for LAN Administrators - April 12 The next briefing meeting for LAN Administrators will be held on April 12. At this meeting, we will update our colleagues on the following: ITSC's Policy against Spam Introduction of BlackICE, a host-based intrusion detection software for Windows systems Network Equipment Product Updates Invitation letters were sent to LAN Administrators in early April. Any LAN administrator who did not receive our invitation should contact us at cug@cuhk.edu.hk as soon as possible. Recruitment of Summer Student Computer Assistants ITSC is now looking for part-time computer assistants to take part in various project developments this summer. Interested students should fill in the application form online on or before April 12, 2002. Applicants who do not receive any notifications after late April may consider that their application failed. Post 1: HelpDesk Consultants Post 2: Writers Post 3: Java Programmer (AIMS Project) Post 4. Data Library Programmer Post 5. Web Page Programmer (MyCUHK Intranet Project) Post 6. Web Page Designer (High Performance Computing Project) Post 7. Part-time Instructors (SITC Program) Post 8. Web Page Programmer (Web Reporting Project) Application and post details can be found online at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/itsc/announce/sca-recruit.html

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