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- It will act as a wireless access point and server to provide text, images, and videos to users through a web browser or GUI on the Pi or connected PCs.
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application and the method of its implementation. We have used the method of questionnaire for gathering the data. A sample consisted of 70 questions gathered from a 85 persons society according to Morgan sampling table and then we used the single sample t- test for testing the hypothesizes and also we used the Freedman trial for grading the barriers. Results show that some barriers such as security, economical, management problems, infrastructural factors, cloud service conditions , literacy and awareness of employees of cloud computing affect the application of cloud computing in the smart schools. The results can be useful in utilization of innovative educational technologies.
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- ZIM file formats will be used to compress and store educational content from sources like Wikipedia to reduce storage needs and increase portability.
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application and the method of its implementation. We have used the method of questionnaire for gathering the data. A sample consisted of 70 questions gathered from a 85 persons society according to Morgan sampling table and then we used the single sample t- test for testing the hypothesizes and also we used the Freedman trial for grading the barriers. Results show that some barriers such as security, economical, management problems, infrastructural factors, cloud service conditions , literacy and awareness of employees of cloud computing affect the application of cloud computing in the smart schools. The results can be useful in utilization of innovative educational technologies.
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be conducted. The results of the analyses will form the foundation of the design and development of a database
management system – the core support of the data management system. The interface of the system will be
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SCSD Technology Plan 2013-2016
Schenectady City Schools
Celebrating 150 Years of Excellence in Public Education
Schenectady City School District
Technology Plan
2013-2016
Prepared by:
Kimberly M. Lewis
Lori McKenna
BOARD OF EDUCATION
Catherine A. Lewis, President
Ann M. Reilly, Vice President
Andrew T. Chestnut
John Foley
Edward J. Kosiur
Ronald C. Lindsay
Cheryl Nechamen
ADMINISTRATION
Laurence T. Spring
Superintendent
Patricia Paser
Assistant to the Superintendent
Kimberly M. Lewis
District Director of Business &
Finance
Lori McKenna
District Director of Planning &
Accountability
108 Education Drive • Schenectady, New York 12303
Phone (518) 881-2000 • Fax (518) 370-8173
www.schenectady.k12.ny.us
SCSD Technology Plan 2013-2016
Table of Contents
Mission Statement 3
Background 3-5
Strategic Goals 6-7
Future Plans 7
Attachments:
A. Technology Planning Committee
B. Hardware
C. Software
SCSD Technology Plan 2013-2016
Mission Statement
The Schenectady City School District will incorporate technology as a natural part of education
through an integrated, comprehensive framework to govern acquisition, application, and
evaluation of technology. This will ensure that all students have the opportunity to be productive
citizens in an information-driven, global society. The use of technology will be curriculum
driven and will be equitably integrated into the total school environment. Technology needs to
support the high quality instruction provided by our teachers.
Background
The Schenectady City School District is a large urban school district with a K-12 student
population of 10,091. Approximately 67% of our students are minorities and over 70% of our
students are eligible for a Free or Reduced Price Lunch. One indicator of wealth is the Combined
Wealth Ratio, and Schenectady’s is .036 with 1.0 being average. Our community has the 13th
highest rate of poverty in the nation. We have 19 school buildings: 1 High School, 1 Alternative
High School, 1 Middle School, four K/1 to 8 schools, nine K/1 to 6 elementary schools and two
Prek/K schools.
The past several years, pursuant to the Technology Plan, the District has spent its efforts
building a technology infrastructure which will enable the District to support a technology-
enriched education for all of our students. Every classroom in the district is wired for Internet
and Video Conferencing. As a result, our plan will focus on increasing student achievement
through appropriate use of technology, professional development to use the resources we have,
and exploration of new techniques based upon data to incorporate technology in the delivery of
curriculum.
The Schenectady City School District is challenged by the underperformance of our student.
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Kimberly M. Lewis
District Director of Business &
Finance
Lori McKenna
District Director of Planning &
Accountability
108 Education Drive • Schenectady, New York 12303
Phone (518) 881-2000 • Fax (518) 370-8173
www.schenectady.k12.ny.us
SCSD Technology Plan 2013-2016
Table of Contents
Mission Statement 3
Background 3-5
Strategic Goals 6-7
Future Plans 7
Attachments:
A. Technology Planning Committee
B. Hardware
C. Software
SCSD Technology Plan 2013-2016
Mission Statement
The Schenectady City School District will incorporate technology as a natural part of education
through an integrated, comprehensive framework to govern acquisition, application, and
evaluation of technology. This will ensure that all students have the opportunity to be productive
citizens in an information-driven, global society. The use of technology will be curriculum
driven and will be equitably integrated into the total school environment. Technology needs to
support the high quality instruction provided by our teachers.
Background
The Schenectady City School District is a large urban school district with a K-12 student
population of 10,091. Approximately 67% of our students are minorities and over 70% of our
students are eligible for a Free or Reduced Price Lunch. One indicator of wealth is the Combined
Wealth Ratio, and Schenectady’s is .036 with 1.0 being average. Our community has the 13th
highest rate of poverty in the nation. We have 19 school buildings: 1 High School, 1 Alternative
High School, 1 Middle School, four K/1 to 8 schools, nine K/1 to 6 elementary schools and two
Prek/K schools.
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building a technology infrastructure which will enable the District to support a technology-
enriched education for all of our students. Every classroom in the district is wired for Internet
and Video Conferencing. As a result, our plan will focus on increasing student achievement
through appropriate use of technology, professional development to use the resources we have,
and exploration of new techniques based upon data to incorporate technology in the delivery of
curriculum.
The Schenectady City School District is challenged by the underperformance of our student.
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3. 2
CONTENTS
01 Welcome
03 Key Milestones
05 Enriching Academic, Research, and
Administration
15 Technology Infrastructure
23 IT Service Excellence
26 Team Development
28 Towards 2020 and beyond
Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology
4. 1
Welcome
Time moves fast. It’s been more than two years
now since the establishment of the Department of
Information Technology (IT Department) in our
newly established Sino-Israeli University.
Throughout the course of 2017/18 and 2018/19,
and despite obstacles due to the transition of the
north campus turnkey project, remarkable
achievements in both infrastructure and business
systems were made. These achievements marked
milestones in the digital strategy helping, not only
to fulfil increasing business needs, but more
importantly in enhancing administrative efficiency
in line with the University’s growth.
In the past two years, we strived to build our IT
infrastructure from the fundamental campus
networks – internet connectivity, secured wireless
network, cable network, access control system,
security CCTV - to the server farm which is now
serving a range of infrastructure systems and
business applications. Our follow-me print system
simplifies the workflow minimizing printed waste
and protecting confidential documents, enhancing
the user experience. Within the GTIIT community,
Microsoft Office 365 global version now offers a
strategic suite of online communication and
collaboration tools.
5. 2
Business applications are fundamental to the
efficiency of the University operations and are the
keys to digitalization. Apart from several
departmental-level systems, the enablement of
Oracle Cloud ERP with Core HR, Payroll,
Absence, Finance and Supply Chain modules as
our core administrative system providing a
consolidated interface for online workflows for
users. The ability to capture professional services
data provides for centralized monitoring and
reporting which can assist the decision-making
processes at management and director levels.
Following this success, a new project for
developing a Student Lifecycle Management
(SLCM) system is now in the process of
evaluation; this system will provide a holistic and
data-informed approach that focuses on the entire
student journey - from admissions through alumni
- to ensure student success.
Integration and use of technology to support
academia and research is always a priority. Now
all of our classrooms with multimedia facilities
utilize the KRAMER central control system,
providing a unified user interface, reducing the
operation of appliances to a single touch. The
launch of Technion’s shared lecture capture
service Panopto and the virtual learning
environment Moodle were both adopted
enthusiastically by the student body. By the end of
2019, the project for building a small scale, high-
performance computing (HPC) cluster will
provision research computing resources to
support program testing prior to deployment in a
national supercomputing center, as well as
providing a teaching environment.
In the last two years many of our achievements
came about through excellent collaboration with
colleagues from other administrative departments,
the faculty team and the Division of Computing
and Information Systems at Technion. Using
advanced technology and quality services, the IT
Department remains a productive business unit
wholly committed to facilitating the University’s
growth and shaping her operations.
Welcome
6. 3
Central document repository
for all departments
Key Milestones
JULAPROCTJUL
Virtual learning environment (VLE)
for teaching and learning
Moodle 3.3
IT Infrastructure Takeover
Data Center
Access Control
Security CCTV
Campus Network
Partnering with Microsoft software insurance
agreement for volume licensing and deployment
Access to Google Scholar over IPv6 provisioned by
China Education and Research Network (CERNET)
The 1st GTIIT-subscribed
internet connection with
dedicated fast line provi-
sioned by China Telecom
Central print system
with unified print queue
Enterprise-level antivirus
solution from Technion
https://helpdesk.gtiit.edu.cn
Shared service portal for facility
services and IT Support
Auditorium Takeover
Research equipment
management system
New Campus Firewall
Server Virtualization
Central Backup Ver 1.0
Internet Bandwidth
Management System
Lecture recording service over the Panopto
cloud platform—sponsored by Technion.
2018
Computer lab for the
course of PTC CREO
7. 4
JULAPROCT
Computer lab for the MATLAB course
KARMER solutions for 15
new multimedia classrooms
Migrated Moodle to GTIIT data centre from
Shantou University and Upgraded it to the long-
term-supported version 3.5
Moodle 3.5
Integrated solution for exam
preparation, test book scanning
and online grading.
400Mbit/s
Upgrading the Internet bandwidth to
400Mbit/s and established a special
connection for academic & research
Together with Technion, we
embraced ZOOM — cloud based
videoconferencing solution, with
Single Sign-On (SSO) integration.
Email migration to Microsoft
Office 365 International tenant
from STU-shared tenant
provisioned by 21vianet.
RMB 2m Server Farm powered
by Cisco Hyper-Converged
hardware and VEEAM backup
solution, both donated by CCB.
Central Backup
Version 2.0
A new wireless network and
reciprocal access to wherever
it is being broadcast in over
100 nations around the world.
2019
Finance module go-live
CoreHR module go-live
Payroll module go-live
Procurement module
go-live
Amazon AWS cloud
computing for Research
IT infrastructure in
Teaching Lab Building
Enablement of Multi-
ple Choice Questions
(MCQ) module
800Mbit/s
Upgrading the Internet
bandwidth to 800Mbit/s
Key milestones
8. 5
Enriching Academic,
Research, and
Administration
INTRODUCTION
Across 2017/2019 the IT department, through a series of requests, consultations and best practices for
a University environment, implemented and configured bespoke developments and deployments of
various applications. The purpose of these high end, intuitive applications is to facilitate staff and
students in better managing and utilising their time. The IT department constantly monitors usage and
end user satisfaction, providing where needed support and training.
Collaboration with the Technion
CIS team, and external partners,
for the implementation of a LMS
platform led to the commissioning
of Moodle in September 2017. This
facilitated the creation of an effective online
teaching and learning experiences in a
collaborative, private environment. The LMS was
hosted by STU in its early stages with full
migration to GTIIT data centre in July 2018 and
the completion of a major software upgrade in
September 2018.
IT Department continues to monitor and support
the LMS platform as well as providing instructions
to end users.
https://moodle.gtiit.edu.cn
Learning Management System (LMS)
9. 6
Enriching Academic, Research, and Administration
IT Department identified the need
for a lecture recording system after
feedback and requests from both
staff and students. In consultation
and collaboration with Technion
availability of this service was made available in
September 2018 over the Technion Panopto cloud
platform.
The service allows for the recording of lectures, in-
corporating audio, optional video and slides; facili-
tating students who wish to review a lecture at any
later date from any internet accessible location.
To date a total of 434 videos are available, 384
recorded at Technion and 50 recorded at GTIIT for
a total of 74 hours 10 minutes. To supplement
these videos 9 recorded courses are also available
with 6 recorded in Technion and 3 recorded in
GTIIT. As use of the system progresses more and
more courses will be recorded and made available
to the student body.
https://panoptotech.cloud.panopto.eu/
Lecture Recording System (Panopto)
An in-house database & web application was developed and had its
first release on January 2018. Over time, more functionalities were
added, and provided the Undergraduates department and
management with tools to manage all students and course
information, and to perform analysis of academic status based on
extensive grades reports.
As time passed-by, the system became a single trusted source of
information for students data on any other system. It will be
completely integrated with the Tomax online grading system and
the Mercury Residential Management system, and exchanged data
with Moodle and the Technion UG students system.
As of now, in order to meet the growing university needs, IT is initiating a new Students Life-cycle
Management system implementation project – one holistic system that will meet all students and
administration needs, that will integrate with other peripheral systems and the Technion systems. The
new SLcM system should gradually take the place of the existing system that has laid the foundations
for such a project and will make the transition much easier.
Student Life-cycle Management System (in progress)
10. 7
After consultations with Technion the TOMAX
online grading system was approved by PVC &
Director General in September 2018, with
implementation starting in October 2018.
The system went live in December 2018 with
instructor training sessions and to facilitate the
Tomax deployment the IT department provisioned
a dedicated printer/scanner and computer system
within a dedicated, secure environment. The first
exams were scanned and graded online in January
2019. Further development was planned for extra
features to allow for automatic generation, grading
and reporting for multiple choice (MCQ) exams.
Faculty can now utilise this system to manage any
examination, inclusive of open questions, MCQs or
hybrid questions. Furthermore, IT staff have been
working with the supplier to develop grades and
prerequisite courses reports, collaborating with the
Technion IT to publish a new grades inquiry
interface, improving work efficiency with Technion
on undergraduate related joint Processes, enabling
labs and online classes for GTIIT students.
Since going live a total of 92 exams have been
scanned and graded online with a total of 6416
students exams notebooks scanned, graded and
released to the Technion Grades system.
Enriching Academic, Research, and Administration
The TomaGrade cloud-based system was completely configured and
commissioned , with all necessary data, ready for the coming semester’s
exam period. All user authentication and notification functions were ena-
bled
Integrated Solution for Online Grading
11. 8
Enriching Academic, Research, and Administration
Full integration with Technion Grades System – graded exams are delivered to Technion
designated location to be integrated into the Grades system's interface
Starting from the second academic semester,
GTIIT started to utilize the Technion Grades
System and through that joined to a unified
process of reporting and releasing the students
grades.
The Technion grades system provides two
interfaces – ‘Upgrade’ interface, which allows the
Undergraduates office an easy way to report all
GTIIT students grades directly to the Technion
main system, and the ‘Grades’ interface – web
application that let students inquire about their
grades, check their position in class, receive email
notifications for new available grades, and view
the graded exam notebooks that are delivered
automatically from the Tomax online grading
system upon completion of the online grading
process by faculty.
The grades system is also integrated with other
available applications in Technion, such as the
Technion mobile app and the Technion online
transcript. All these resources provide our
students and staff with tools to continuously
monitor their academic status and assure a
successful learning process.
12. 9
Finance module
CoreHR module
Payroll module
Procurement module
Enriching Academic, Research, and Administration
Partnering with the Human
Resources, the Finance, and
the Campus Operations &
Logistics, we are developing
and supporting a campus
administrative systems that accelerates our
administrative efficiency. The primary goal of
this project is to build an institution-wide unified
campus management system that consists of
human capital management, payroll, finance,
inventory and purchasing.
Starting December 2017 a systems testing and
review of ERP systems began with Oracle Cloud
ERP being chosen and submitted to the board.
This was subsequently approved by the board in
September 2018. Upon approval the purchasing
and licensing cycle was invoked.
Following the approval from GTIIT leadership,
the project implementation was kicked off in
December 2018. The conversion to Oracle
Cloud ERP is a strategically significant initiative
that not only is replacing spreadsheet-based
workflows but is cultivating our business
processes with the best practice of global.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System
13. 10
Enriching Academic, Research, and Administration
In January 2019, development for HR and
Finance began with the enablement of Core HR
and Finance GL/AP/FI in April 2019. The payroll
and absence module being deployed in May
2019. At this stage, development of the
Purchasing and Inventory module began, with that
system going live in August 2019, the project was
deemed complete in September 2019.
Currently the system allows GTIIT staff to check
their employee profiles online, claim
reimbursements and submit absence applications.
This is beneficial as it allows staff to access
information held about them by the University
and, if needed, have that information amended.
Another advantage is the ability to view payslips
as well as employment details.
Since going live individual user logins have
steadily increased with a growth in logins towards
the end of the month after payslips have been
generated.
To fulfil the necessary provision of quality
technical support the IT Department recruited an
ERP administrator in April 2019, with the ERP
administrator providing first line support for all
incidents and requests concerning the ERP
module. Once the application usage increases
and reaches full maturity, the University will have
a fully digital resource planning platform which will
help reduce workloads by making paper-based
systems redundant.
ERP Project Timeline
Month Availability
March 99.98%
April 100.00%
May 100.00%
June 100.00%
July 100.00%
August 100.00%
September 100.00%
14. 11
Enriching Academic, Research, and Administration
In 2018, IT Department assisted the
Department of Research, Innovation and
Graduate Studies (RIGS) in the planning
and development of the online platform
that aims to only manage information of
research funding opportunities, also attract the best and
most talented graduate students by promoting the
University’s top-notch research capacities on the
Internet.
The first version was released in Apr 2018, and later the
system was upgraded to WordPress framework with
commercial plugins to enhance its functionalities along
with user interface. We have also provided the hosting
services and backup & restore for this platform.
https://sites.gtiit.edu.cn/research
Web Development to Research
Shared resources from Technion and Shantou University
In partnership with Shantou University (STU), IT
Department has been providing support to all members
for the access to STU shared resources, including the
printed books and online resources in STU library,
smartcard payment in STU canteen, playground, gym,
and others.
Our home university—Technion, also offers GTIIT
members a range of academic resources, such as
Technion Library, off-campus VPN. The IT Department
is the local support to resolve all technical issues raised
by our staff or students.
15. 12
Enriching Academic, Research, and Administration
Research Computational Facilities and Ahead in the Cloud
IT Department has been taking a leading role in a
new initiative to develop computational services
for University’s research.
Following the approval of RMB1.25million budget
for a local high-performance computing (HPC)
cluster, IT Department has been working with
research representatives and the Procurement
Team to buy a group of servers. In November
2019, this in-house platform will be available for
faculty and students for code testing or teaching.
Proposed by IT Department, an advisory group
will be established soon to govern the use of local
HPC cluster, as well as to prioritize all computing
jobs towards better ROI.
In June 2019, we established an enterprise
collaboration agreement with Amazon China for
the use of Amazon Web Service (AWS). This
agreement provides several benefits to faculty
and staff, most notably the ability to provide on-
demand cloud computing resources that allows
faculty and students to leverage their computing
power and knowledge to tackle research needs,
and eliminate many existing roadblocks between
ideas and execution. In addition, the payment for
AWS services is in compliance with the University
procurement policy.
2x NVidia Tesla V100 GPU
248x CPU Core
2,048GB Memory
336,000GB Storage
16. 13
Enriching Academic, Research, and Administration
Office 365 International
https://outlook.office.com/
A central document depository
was implemented as a shared
resource with STU in October
2017 using Office 365 (21viaNet
version) as the chosen platform.
The limitations of this system were apparent to
the GTIIT and a planned migration to Office 365
(Global Edition) was planned. However, due to
regulations and the need to procure licenses for
this system the migration did not take place until
May 2019.
The initial migration was terminated due to a
system bug discovered by Microsoft support
team. Over the weekend of the successful
migration in excess of 300GB of data was
migrated to the new email system with minimal
disruption.
The system currently has 1195 registered users
and each user has access not only to email but to
OneDrive for central storage of files. These files
can be accessed from anywhere on any device
having internet access. End users are currently
using about 3TB of storage and with 411 users
actively using SharePoint to share and
collaborate the system usage is growing and will
prove a beneficial asset to all members of staff
and students alike.
The new system offers transformational services
with innovative features, familiar applications and
strategic tools that will help keep GTIIT
competitive. More than simply email, it is a unified
suite of communication and collaboration tools for
GTIIT staff and students.
As with all other platforms running within the
GTIIT campus the IT Department offer full support
and maintenance for this system.
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Enriching Academic, Research, and Administration
The implementation of the Zoom video
conferencing service in January 2019 has
allowed unlimited video and/or voice
meetings from any location with internet
access. This has benefited GTIIT staff in
boosting productivity and reducing costs associated with
travel. As of August 2019, there are 77 registered users
partaking in 292 meetings with a total of 938 participants
comprising 40,987 minutes. The meetings spanned China,
Israel, Japan, Hong Kong, United States, Asia Pacific, India
United Kingdom and Spain. This indicated a significant
saving in time and money to GTIIT.
Thanks to the collaborative agreement between Technion and Zoom this enterprise level system is
provided free of charge to GTIIT.
A self-service password reset system had been
successfully deployed. It allows staff and students to
remotely self-reset the password from a web browser, as
well as provides a management solution which not only
reduces the number of help desk password tickets, but also
enhances the productivity of an end user by shortening unnecessary waits.
By the end of last academic year, more than 500 users had registered on
this system and used it to manage their account credentials.
Self-Service Password Management Service
https://gtiit.zoom.us
https://pwm.gtiit.edu.cn/
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Introduction
Technology Infrastructure
The IT department at GTIIT took over an extant
network infrastructure that was to a large degree
integrated with STU. Over the period 2017/2019
part of the IT department roadmap was to
develop a secure, robust and highly integrated
network infrastructure. This integration was
accomplished through cooperation with STU,
Technion Israel and third-party stakeholders.
Over the period integration, equipment upgrades
through procurement and donation from third
party stakeholders, allied with significant
configuration implementations, has allowed the
IT department to bring the infrastructure to the
level of maturity that exists today.
Shared Data Centre with Shantou University (STU)
Shared resources were provided by STU until our
data centre was commissioned in November
2017 and was dependent on the provision and
implementation of Microsoft Volume Licensing
Agreements. At that point, a localised
infrastructure was put in place initially consisting
of generator, UPS hosts, external batteries, eight
LENOVO servers, and multiple network switches.
The provision of licences by VMware in April
2018 allowed for the creation of a vCentre server
farm across these Lenovo servers which assisted
in strengthening the GTIIT core network. To
further the co-operation between STU and GTIIT,
a provision for sharing GTIIT’s data centre
resources was provisioned in June 2018. This
further enhances the spirit of co-operation across
the two universities.
Information Data Centre (IDC)
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The deployment of IPv6 provisioned next generation network
infrastructure; this service was implemented through the China
Education and Research Network (CERNET) allowing campus wide
access to IPv6-enabled educational resources such as Google
Scholar. This service has been available for all staff and students over
both wired and wireless network since Jan 2018. It enables our users
to access academic websites easily, also it is a significant contribution
to academic excellence and research innovation.
IPv6 — The Next Generation of Internet
In February 2018, the established partnership with China Telecom offers the first GTIIT-subscribed
dedicated internet fast line to all staff and students through our wireless network services. The
bandwidth provided was initially 100Mbit/s with failover and high availability provision through the fibre
connection to STU.
A significant bandwidth improvement was implemented in January 2019; whereby available bandwidth
for internet access was increased to 400Mbit/sec allowing for the provision of a special connection for
academic research and doubled to 800Mbit/sec in June 2019.
Internet Connections
Technology Infrastructure
The donated Cisco HyperFlex system from China
Construction Bank in April 2019 facilitated the
ongoing improvement and modernisation of the
core network. This Cisco solution allowed
replacement of the lower end Lenovo servers as
provided by local authorities in the North Campus
project. Through the use of the five servers
provided all of GTIIT’s internal systems such as
Moodle, Smartcard and Access Control, Student
Database, Residential Management System,
Central Authentication System (Active Directory),
Print Management System and others can be
hosted on a robust and reliable physical platform.
Further improvements to our campus network
continued to be made, including dedicated
internet connections from China Telecom and
China Unicom.
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Technology Infrastructure
The eduroam wireless network — an international roaming service for users in research, higher
education and further education, the deployment in GTIIT provides a simple, easy, secure
connectivity from thousands of hotspots across more than 100 countries. The added benefit is that
visiting students, staff and researchers use their eduroam ‘home’ credentials to access Wi-Fi services
on campus, they have a quick, easy and secure way to get online without IT support, so the IT team
can focus on managing essential services.
More than 6,000 eduroam hotspots are available at universities, research centres, academies,
many schools, and other research and education institutions in more than 100 territories around
the world.
In today’s distributed higher education environment, wireless
networking and access to wireless internet are paramount.
GTIIT-SEC, a secured wireless network implemented in December
2018 in order to replace GTIIT-WLAN, is a campus wide wireless
network that eliminated connection timeouts or the need to re-login.
Wireless networking at GTIIT
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Technology Infrastructure
To harden the GTIIT network and improve
security, both internally and externally, the IT
Department instigated a planned rollout of
measures to improve network security. In January
2018 for the first phase of this rollout Technion
provided (free of charge) an Enterprise version of
McAfee Anti-Virus Security. The next phase in
March 2018 saw the implementation of Internet
bandwidth control using a solution from Sangfor;
this provided the IT Department with a unified
management solution for monitoring, tuning and
regulating bandwidth usage across the campus,
whereby critical and core applications received
priority. In the same month, the campus firewall
solution was upgraded through the use of
Fortigate hard firewalls. This allowed the IT
Department to better route and monitor traffic into
and out of the GTIIT network.
As more physical devices are added to the
network, such as the Cisco servers mentioned
above, the increase of BYOD (bring your own
devices) usage, the IT department continues to
monitor and re-configure the firewalls to ensure
the best possible throughput and compliance with
regulations.
Campus Firewall and Cyber Security
IT Department configured a resilient and robust central backup
platform through daily server backups to the local storage
system. In collaboration with STU, in February 2018, 5TB of
space was allocated to GTIIT for server backup. This allowed for
duplication of backups to an offsite facility, thereby enabling the
implementation of a more robust disaster recovery plan.
Backup and Disaster Recovery
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Computer Lab
Central control system in classroom
A computer lab of twenty-six high-end workstations was provided with the donated three-year license of
PTC-CREO software. A custom script was developed to restore the PTC-CREO setting for every login
session and deployed via group policy. These workstations were merged in June 2018 into the
computer lab for the MATLAB course.
Technology Infrastructure
From August to September 2018, fifteen new
multimedia classrooms were commissioned, and
the IT Department continues to provide on-going
support and configuration for optimal use of these
facilities.
The integration of KRAMER in September 2018
enhanced the learning environment by making it
easier for students to learn and be engaged in the
classroom. With user-friendly collaboration tools
instructors currently use touch screen, but can
request wirelessly connectivity from the IT
department, and present instantly, view the main
display on their device, mirror any device to the
main display, share any size file, and turn the main
display into a whiteboard.
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After the handover of all IT facilities in the
auditorium from the local authorities in
February 2018, IT Department has been
managing the audio-engineering-level system
— consisting of audio-visual, conferencing,
presentation equipment, and others — with
quality output for more than 50 events, which
covers VIP speeches, Open Day, conferences,
ceremonies, training programs, and others.
The Wi-Fi system in the auditorium has high-
density access points that can provide
connection to more than 1,000 concurrent
users.
Technology Infrastructure
In May 2018, the wireless network in Student Dormitory C was
migrated to the University Aruba system, giving student in that
building access to the same high performance and network security
that the rest of campus enjoys, thereby increasing coverage,
capacity, speed and compatible with the GTIIT wireless network.
Wi-Fi in Dorm C, from H3C to Aruba
Following on from the commitment to support the infrastructure and
facilities in all teaching labs; the IT Department, in close co-
operation with Campus Construction, provided for the installation of
a cable and wireless network, access control system, and CCTV in
the Teaching Lab Building in March 2019 to facilitate the needs of
all teaching activities.
Teaching Laboratory Building
The Auditorium and Support to University Events
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Technology Infrastructure
To facilitate printing and reduce waste and costs, shared multifunctional printers/
photocopiers (MFP) were installed in several convenient public spaces. All print jobs are
sent to the print server and users can go to the location most convenient to them to print
out their print jobs.
Print services can be used through follow-me Mobile Print (implemented in August 2018), which allows
users to send print jobs from any location using their mobile devices. All printing is managed through
PaperCut MF, this watches the print queues and extracts job information such as page counts, and
uses this to implement logging, charging, control, quotas or reporting or a combination of all.
http://print.gtiit.edu.cn/
Follow-me print service
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Technology Infrastructure
Cellular Network
Dropouts in cellular coverage were reported to and
detected by the IT Department. After consultation with
service providers China Mobile and China Unicom.
Installed equipment in March 2018 to remediate the lack
of coverage in the Education building, Administration
building and the Canteen. The IT Department continues to
liaise with the providers in order to integrate new
technologies, such as 5G, and optimise existing
technologies.
VoIP infrastructure and equipment are currently provided
to GTIIT by STU. Maintenance and support of this service
and equipment within GTIIT falls within the remit of the IT
Department. This is a temporary arrangement and once
GTIIT have received approval for equipment purchase etc.
The IT department will instigate a rollout of an
independent VoIP system.
Office Telephony (Cisco VoIP)
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IT Service Excellence
The prime objective of the IT Service
Management is to provide professional and
timely solutions to end user issues and
requests, monitor the network infrastructure
and pre-empt issues that will have a derogatory
effect on performance and usability. To
facilitate this, the IT department make use of
various monitoring and reporting tools to ensure
maximum uptime of all systems. The service
desk is tasked with prioritizing and responding
to all tickets in a timely manner.
Introduction
The group IT orientation for freshman, as they come on board, and the face-to-face orientation for new
staff, have both proved to be highly effective in assisting familiarisation with the wide range of services
offered by the IT Department. All participants can make a confident start to work or study by getting to
know more about how to connect to campus network, access the University email system, store digital
files in OneDrive for collaboration with others, use the multi-functional photocopiers for printing and
copying, and all other services.
IT Orientation to newcomers
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IT Service Excellence
The IT Department has worked towards a
successful information technology development
in Technion. In October 2017, following the one
week business visit of Mr. Zeev Schneider -
Deputy CIO of Technion, a long-term partnership
was established to strengthen our collaboration
towards a global IT strategy. Later in April 2018,
a range of invaluable materials regarding the IT
strategy, running systems, support models, and
projects in progress in Technion were absorbed,
during the business visit to Israel, and following
on from several meetings between the then
President P. Lahav, CIO, and different teams in
the Division of Computing and information
Systems (CIS) of Technion. Not only did the
provision of global license agreements for
MacAfee, Zoom videoconferencing, and other
systems reduce GTIIT’s cost, but the
professional advice, valuable comments, and
seasoned service management tactics shared by
Mr. Zeev Schneider and his team greatly
assisted in facilitating our growth.
The IT Department also provides local support to
our staff and students for the use of Panopto,
VPN, Library, and other services provisioned by
Technion, with the fortnightly meeting between
Technion CIS and GTIIT IT providing an effective
approach of global collaboration
Global IT Services
IT Provision Laptop and/or desktop computers for GTIIT staff. Installation and maintenance of software
for specific uses for teaching staff. Provision of peripherals devices for teaching and research staff such
as headsets, microphones, screens and audio-visual equipment.
Daily IT Services
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The service portal is the main point
of contact between the end user
and the service desk. However, the
IT Service Desk was initially lacking
a fully integrated platform. The IT
Department identified the need for a platform that
was not simply a ticket management system, but
one that also included robust reporting, availability
of a customised self-service portal, asset
management, project management, Chinese
language support etc.
After reviewing several offerings and in
consultation with Technion, we decided to opt for
SysAid as not only did it offer most of the
requirements but, as it was already in use by
Techinon, a readily available resource was on
hand to offer expertise if required.
The system was deployed in February 2018,
initially as a ticket management system. Further
customisation allowed for the development of the
self-service portal whereby the end user can log
an incident or a request. The generated ticket is
then assigned to either IT or Campus Operations
for action, using the portal the end user can keep
track of their ticket and will also receive
automated updates regarding progress. This
feature saves time for both the end user and the
IT staff. The aim of deploying this platform is to
foster an environment where the majority of
tickets are raised on the self-service platform.
Over the course of 2018 raising of service records
via email fell and usage of the self-service portal
rose, topping out around 60%. This trend
continued in 2019 with the percentage rising to a
high of around 75%. Whilst a significant number of
service records are still raised via email, with a
small percentage being raised locally on the
service desk through the administrative portal, the
trend is towards use of the self-service portal. The
IT department will continue to encourage end
users to use the portal as the preferred method of
raising a ticket.
Service Record logging trends 2018-2019
IT Service Excellence
Shared Service Portal
https://helpdesk.gtiit.edu.cn/
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Team Development
In the last two years, in conjunction with the
University’s rapid growth, the reorganisation
of the IT department structure included the
addition of several new specialists, leading
to our team growing from four to eight.
IT TEAM MEMBERS
IT Department Org-Chart 2019
This restructuring included the appointment of
an IT infrastructure manager, and the
establishment of a business application team,
consisting of a team manager and three
members. These appointments were necessary
to deal with the growing demands of the
University, and were used to facilitate the
streamlined integration of developing
applications and the IT infrastructure re-design.
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Team Development
IT Service Management is an essential
part of GTIIT’s daily operations. We
realize the effectiveness of IT Service Management, the need for professional technical support and
services is increasing along with GTIIT’s growth. In 2019, IT Department sent three members to study
the latest version of Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) foundation course training,
becoming certified IT professionals after three days in Shenzhen. Now half of the IT team has a
systematic and professionally valued approach to the best practice methodology, with the increased
ability of a technical professional to identify, plan and support our services for GTIIT members.
IT Professional Training
Following the enablement of VMware server virtualization for the server
farm in our data center, one system engineer participated in the must-have
training course of VMware Certified Professional (VCP) for working in our
data center and managing virtual environments.
As smart technology advances, the ways in which our lives can be greatly impacted by cybercrime
increase dramatically. Through several online and offline training organized by local authorities in the
last two years, IT staff perceived advanced cybersecurity knowledge for keeping up-to-date skills and
evolving threats, providing cyber exercise and incident response planning to protect GTIIT’s data,
networks, and business systems better.
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The IT department will continue its endeavors in
liaising with planners, sub-contractors, software and
services vendors, both local and international, in its
mission to provide IT infrastructures and services to the
best international standard and practices. As part of
this mission the IT department will continue to develop
a framework for the phased integration of the new
South campus with the existing North campus with the
goal of providing a seamless and user-friendly IT
environment for all GTIIT’s end users.
Towards 2020 and
beyond...