Intranet, Knowledge Management & Sharepoint Review
As part of this project, the extent and usage of IAT's intranet services is being assessed with the intention of improving staff's ability to: (a) share and access the information they need; (b) work collaboratively & coordinate activities with other staff; (c) enhance communication within the organisation - particularly between campuses and between campuses and Directorate.
Please add your input as comments to this post or email adrian.lobo@iat.ac.ae
Review of Existing Intranet & Online Information & Communication Services
The first step is identifying all the current services & tools available and collecting feedback from staff about them. This may include what you use them for and how; problems & issues - including access or knowing what's available; and discussion of how these services should be used or administered.Known Services (please contact us to add to this list or if you administer the service)
(1) Sharepoint - which appears to be currently used by staff working on common activities for sharing & updating documents.
(2) Microsoft Exchange Services (accessible through Outlook) - extent of usage to be established.
(3) Project Management Tools - to be identified
Exploration of New or Alternative Services or Tools
If you have experience with different methods, tools or usage that facilitate sharing information, coordination or communication, please let us know so we can add these alternatives and suggestions here.Some other contemporary options will be added here for staff to explore and provide feedback on.
Reference Information
(1) Intranet overview on Wikipedia(2) Sharepoint & MCMS blog
2 comments:
Hi Adriano,
http://e-learning.hct.ac.ae:8900/webct/public/home.pl
This is a link to some thing you may know about it called E-Learning, I was using it and it was useful to me.Here the student could develop himself with online help from the teacher.
How about using E- professional Development for the staff and outsiders, I mean as instant that the person who wants to have knowledge about some methods (Business principals…) or programs (Photoshop…) he may use an interactive web contents to a accomplish this courses with a certificate given to him /her.
From this idea you could gain some revenue.
The IT Section: you know every institute has its own it department, so what about opening an IT services within the web sit, I mean instead of using a normal methods to serve the staff (E-mail and Phone - form hard copy) we could put an online query or forms to be fell in from the staff and to be delivered it to the IT department to serve quick and more efficiency.
Hi Adrian,
1. I support Mohammed's idea of professional development through the web or on-line conferencing - we should exchange our ideas and share the experience as there's nothing more precious than human experience - real thing. It would be good to have it by disciplines, but for everyone to be able to share, even if we are from a different area than the topic discussed. This would allow us to exchange the information for our own development and improvement. Tony will definitely lead us in what, where, how - so that we all benefit from such options.
2. The Curriculum Unit headed by Mohammed Al Neyadi (whose approval would be sought of course) needs a site where we can exchange the info with other managers within and from out of the Section, with the Principals and Academic Coordinators and Teachers. I think that we would need a few operation-based or function-based divisions or sections on the site so that everyone is covered and included.
It would also be great if we could have our syllabus available via intranet only by password, curriculm framework information and assessment structure, in development or otherwise.
The communication within the Curriculum Unit via the site would make our work much easier - we could exchange the documents and info without the necessity of a physical presence of a person we need to communiate with - especially that we have campuses spread all over UAE - which is great and which actually requires communication via technology for effectiveness.
3. We need to think of our students and parents' access to the site for their feedback and free comments on our service or anything they wish to express, as we see the parents as our stakeholders and part of our activity. A WEb Newsletter would be great and our Principals would know better how to approach such a task of involving the student population. As we want our students to learn via project based activities, the exercise is educational and aligned with what IAT stands for. It's just one of many.
4. Sharepoint is still not available by some of us, so maybe your project will speed up the access and full use.
Regards,
Teresa Lawrence
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