This document provides information about the FAWeb school information system used at CDNIS, including: 1. It introduces David Chan and Barry Tang from the IT Department and explains that Blackbaud is the provider of the school information system (SIS) called FAWeb. 2. FAWeb allows faculty to access grades and assignments, take attendance, view student information and announcements from home or school. It should only be used with Firefox or Internet Explorer browsers. 3. The document outlines how sessions work in FAWeb, timing out after 20 minutes of inactivity, and provides tips to avoid timeouts by regularly interacting with and navigating within the system. 4. It provides login URLs for internal and external

1. Blackbaud (Bb)
David Chan
IT Department
Assistant Manager
Barry Tang
IT Department
Senior Systems Specialist

2. Blackbaud
Blackbaud is a school
information system
(SIS)

3. FAWeb
•Faculty Access for the Web
• Grades and Assignments
• Attendance
• Student Information
• Announcements
• Accessible from home and school

4. Firefox and IE Only
MAC PC
Browser’s incompatibility could cause unexpected results.

5. ConfigureYour Firefox

6. Session
• A session is a dialogue between you and
FAWeb server..
• It starts when you login.
• It ends when you logout or when it times
out.

7. Session Timeout
• You are considered IDLE if you do not
interact with FAWeb server.
• Walk away from your computer.
• Be busy with the grades and comments
without saving.
• If you are idle for 20 minutes, you session
will time out, and you will lose your work.

8. Avoid timeout
• Keep yourself busy by interacting with the
FAWeb.
• Navigate via hyperlinks.
• Clicking Save Buttons.
• Enable pop-up timeout warning.

9. Login
http://faweb.cdnis.edu.hk/ https://faweb.cdnis.edu.hk/
Internal CDNIS External CDNIS

10. Upper School Homepage
Marking Column

11. Lower School Homepage

12. Home Page - LS ST

13. Options
Please change your password and log back in.

14. Attendance Types
• Lower School
• Day Attendance
• Homeroom teachers only.
• Upper School
• Class Attendance
• All subject teachers.

15. Attendance Taking

16. Attendance Taking
• A = Absent
• L = Late
• AE = Absence Excused
• AL = Late Excused

17. Attendance Summary

18. Student Information

19. Student Information

20. Reports
• Progress
Reports
• Missing
Assignments

21. Notes about Grade book
• Detailed training will be provided later on.
• Department heads will design the settings
for grade books.

22. Real-life Grade book