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The CityU website redesign project is probably the largest Web project the University has undertaken since its establishment. It benefits all central and departmental websites, covering close to a hundred sub-sites and hundreds of thousands of web pages. It is the result of the collaboration of over a hundred IT and non-IT staff across all departments and units. The project is part of our continued effort in improving online user experience, user friendliness and accessibility as well as search engine optimization; strengthening our online branding and providing a consistent look-and-feel throughout all our websites. Using the latest Web technology, the new websites support modern mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets. 

Permalink October 07, 2011, 11:34am   Comments

CityU’s new homepage design

Permalink October 07, 2011, 11:33am  Comments

In support of our new “Discover & Innovate” initiative to provide a technology-rich environment to foster discovery and innovation in student learning, the University is upgrading our e-learning technology suite with numerous new additions. The first addition is providing mobile learning capabilities for our Blackboard-based learning management system. The City University of Hong Kong is now the first university in the Greater China region to use Bb Mobile Learn! This mobile app allows smart phone access to CityU’s Blackboard platform and supports iPhone, iPad, Android devices, and BlackBerry. Users’ guide can be found at http://go.cityu.hk/xy45ot for teachers and http://go.cityu.hk/bg6nnj for students. In addition, to engage students in class through surveys, informal quizzes, and questionnaires, we have piloted a subscription to Qualtrics hosted cloud service. Teachers can use this tool to gauge student learning. Totally user-friendly, teachers can easily create questionnaires without prior training. For more information, contact our e-Learning Team (elearn@cityu.edu.hk).

Permalink April 01, 2011, 9:23pm   Comments

Blackboard Mobile Learn on iPad

April 01, 2011, 9:20pm  Comments

Many CityU students/staff might not be aware that we have access to thousands of wifi points across Hong Kong. For example, we have access to 8,000 PCCW wi-fi hotspots, as well as 3,000 y5zone hotspots across Hong Kong. These hotspots are usually located at MTR stations, restaurants, malls, convenience stores, coffee shops, etc. Just use your CityU email to login and connect to either “Universities via PCCW” or “Universities via Y5ZONE”. In addition, if you are visiting other universities overseas, we have access to wifi provided by eduroam. You can get more information on how to login at the CSC wlan website.

Permalink December 28, 2010, 5:18pm   Comments

photo of Jay De Boer’s kids from http://home.comcast.net/~jay.deboer/wardriving/

Permalink December 28, 2010, 5:07pm  Comments

It is common for students to use USBs to store their homework so that they have access to them at school. Unfortunately, USBs are very easy to lose. This can be devastating if the USB contains the only copy of your work or data. If your files don’t contain really sensitive personal data, such as banking data, you might consider using these new “files in the cloud” services instead of USBs and save your temporary working documents in the cloud. Many companies offer free versions of the services with limited storage, say 1GB to 2 GB free. For example, there is dropbox, syncplicity, sugarsync, and google upload. No more nightmares about losing your USBs!

Permalink November 07, 2010, 12:26pm   Comments

photo credit (cc) BinaryApe

Permalink November 07, 2010, 12:12pm  Comments

CityU has a new theme: Discover and Innovate @ CityU - promoting original discovery and innovation among students.

The University Slogan competition is to come up with a new slogan to go with the new theme. Winning slogans will be used for CityU’s publicity purposes. All full-time and part-time CityU undergraduate and postgraduates are eligible to participate. 

The overall winner will receive an iPad; the 1st Runner-up, an iPod Touch; and the 2nd Runner-up, a 1TB external hard drive. The next two finalists will receive a set of Sony headphones each.

Participants may submit more than one slogan, either in English, Chinese or in both. Entries should be sent to CPRO (cpro@cityu.edu.hk) on or before 30 November. Each entry should include a brief note (approximately 100 words) explaining the idea behind the slogan. Please write “Slogan Competition” in the subject line of the email and include your name, student ID number and mobile phone number in the body of the message. 

Good Luck!

Permalink November 05, 2010, 2:55pm   Comments

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Permalink November 05, 2010, 2:50pm  Comments