ITSC Digest

Issue 30, Dec 4, 2002. WebCT Upgrade Plan WebCT will be upgraded from the Standard Edition (SE) to the Campus Edition (CE) in July 2003. The new WebCT CE features richer functions and improved user-friendliness. To facilitate this upgrade, we have planned the following events in coming months. Dec 2002: Pilot running of WebCT CE for teachers' early exploration and content development Dec 6, 2002: Seminar on "New version of WebCT in CU" Dec 6, 2002: Launching of self-paced course "Learn WebCT 3.8 CE online" Jan-Aug 2003: Introduction of a series of WebCT CE seminars and workshops for teaching staff Jul 2003: Launching of WebCT CE for the 2003-4 academic year Sep 2003: Decommission of WebCT SE The upgrade plan details can be read at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/wbt/announce/upgrade.htm Maintaining Quiet and Comfortable User Areas Please help to maintain a quiet, clean and comfortable environment when you are working in the User Area (1/F Pi Chiu Building and Room 103 Wong Foo Yuan Building). Eating and drinking, creating noise which disturb other users, and moving chairs violate the rules of the User Area. Violating the rules of the User Area will result in the loss of rights to use ITSC facilities. For the first offense, the offender's ITSC PC LAN account will be suspended for ONE DAY. Serious or repeated offenses will result in total loss of the privileges of using ITSC facilities, and/or the case will be referred to the Dean of the student's college, the Graduate School, or appropriate University authority for further action. Please refer to http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/itsc/about/cond.html for the rules details. Macromedia Software License Program ITSC has recently conducted a tender for the supply of Macromedia software products to the University. Under the tender, user departments can acquire licenses and maintenance of Macromedia products from its Macromedia Volume License Program and box products. Software include both tools products, like Studio MX, Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX, Fireworks MX and Director, and server products, like ColdFusion MX, JRun 4 and Flash Communication Server MX. Detail tender price and supplier information can be found at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/mcas/hwsw. Orders should be placed directly with the supplier. More WinXP Training Programmes for Staff Members The November WinXP training sessions were full soon after their first announcement, and we have received a lot of positive feedback from the attendees. Two additional sessions will be held in December to introduce you to the new features of WinXP. If you missed the November sessions, please attend a December training session. Register now at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/itsc/training Training Programmes for Research Users A two-day parallel programming course will be held in mid-December. Date: Dec 18, 2002 - Dec 19, 2002 Time: 9:30am - 5:30pm Venue: Room 120-121, Pi Chiu Building This seminar is especially for the High-performance Computing (HPC) users who require parallel programming techniques. HPC solutions and case studies will be addressed too. Please visit http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/itsc/training for the course and the registration details. Briefing Meeting for LAN Administrators - Dec 5 The next briefing meeting for LAN Administrators will be held on Dec 5. At this meeting, ITSC staff will update LAN Administrators on the following: Windows XP Deployment Plan Anti-virus software version updates Personal Firewall Comparison JUCC <-> Internet2 Link IT Technologies updates Invitation letters were sent to LAN Administrators in mid November. Any LAN administrator who did not receive our invitation should contact us at cug@cuhk.edu.hk as soon as possible. Megaconference IV Held on Dec 10 - Dec 11 Megaconference IV is the worldwide remote-by-Internet event for live demonstration and discussion of Internet-based video conferencing. You are cordially invited to participate in this spectacular event that will be conducted by multi-point video conferencing facilities. The details are as follows: Theme: Distance Learning and Far Away Places Date: Dec 10, 9:00pm - Dec 11, 9:00am (HKT) Venue: ITSC Seminar Room (Room 120-121 Pi Chiu Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong). The organizer is now trying to stretch to include both European and Asian time zones. The schedule will later be posted at http://www.mega-net.net/megaconference/ If you plan to attend this event at ITSC Seminar Room, please register for it at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/itsc/training

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