Report 2007-08, University of AlicanteReport 2007-08, University of Alicante
· Local Network
· Data Processing Center
· Classrooms
· Computers Virtual Classroom
· power systems
· Support and technical assistance
· Multimedia network
· Correction of optical exams
· Training staff of the Computing Service
· The formation of SBP
· institutional Web
· Web Applications
· File
· Libraries
· Virtual Campus (VC)
· Virtual Campus. Miscellaneous
· Financial Management
· SMS
· and documentation development environment
· Other applications
· Information System (SIUA)
Technological Innovation-Education
The wireless network has been operational in its new version during the year 2007-2008. 10 199 certificates have been issued and the number of members who have used our network has been in 8155.
The University wireless network is attached to the project EDUROAM. Members of the universities that belong to this project can make use in their displacement of other campus wireless networks using the same procedure as in their home university.
During this course are about 25 access points additional wireless to cover areas with poor coverage or new needs. It has a built additional wireless operator to increase fault tolerance of the network.
On the other hand in the first term were replaced network equipment that make up the main and secondary backbone network. This change will have replaced obsolete equipment with higher capacity for routing and a main backbone to 10 Gbps.
has been enabled a special network to serve users of the Social Sciences Building that have been transferred to the Residence.
We performed a study to implement multicast in the network and enable the use of local support network for TV broadcasts and other emissions of a technical nature.
Inside the gradual renovation project of the network routers have been replaced in July by a more advanced model with the following specifications: Matrix N1 Chassis with dual power supply module Platinum DFE 24-Port 10/100/1000 Base TX RJ-45 Expansion Module NEM 6-port SFP 1000 Base-X mini-GBIC connector. Platinum DFE module includes 256 MB DRAM, advanced routing license Matrix N (Enterasys Operating System Advanced) for LS-NAT support, PIM, OSPF and extended ACLs.
has also continued with the renovation of older switches.
has been added to the local network and the Greenhouse Security Control Center.
has increased dramatically Internet outbound traffic from the annual average of 14.0 daily Mb/s in 2006 and 21.4 Mb/s in 2007 to 40.6 Mb/s in 2008.
It is noteworthy that daily during the school day, are overcome often the 150 Mb/s with peaks of almost 200MB/s. Ie the line is almost saturated at peak hours.
was held a comprehensive reorganization of the electrical system that was in a sorry state. They have installed two separate circuits fed from two different processing points and with a UPS and a generator set independently for each circuit. The vast majority of mainframe computers already have dual power supply with one of the most common problems, the power failure, hope it disappears. On the other hand has been strengthened with a new cooling additional equipment that can function as reinforcement, or instead of existing ones. Your connection to generators will remove another of the causes of failures and outages, excessive temperature.
There were 210 personal computers installed in classrooms connected to the local network and the projector, that way the teacher always have available a computer for classroom use. The equipment installed are: Intel Core 2 Duo E8300, 2GB of RAM, disk 160GB/7200rpm/SATA, Windows XP Professional/Linux Ubuntu, reader keyboard, TFT monitor and USB connection 17.
also 148 computers were purchased for the Polytechnic School and 52 for the Language Laboratory of the Faculty of Arts with a performance similar to those outlined above.
All installations with Windows operating system have an interface in Catalan, which can work in this language in Windows and Office.
25 have been installed video capture cards with software in the classroom Pinnacle E-23
has installed a new server licensing of software used in classrooms and other campus computers.
in all classrooms available iTALC 1.0 software for monitoring and facilitating classroom teaching to the teacher with tools that let you: demonstrations from your machine, block equipment, remote control, sending messages, close user sessions, turn off computers, get screenshots and remote execution of applications.
The project started with the idea that any student at the University of Alicante can run the same software that is installed in the computer rooms of the campus from any computer.
to It has set up a server with Windows 2003 Server with Citrix software that allows access through Virtual Campus, a website where students can run different applications of the classroom with the only requirement to install a plugin in the browser.
This option is available to students and IDPs within the menu item "Learning Resources" and is accessible both from within and from outside the AU.
also Aula Virtual Computer enables optimum use of available software licenses when they are limited. For this, the number of licenses granted for use through this service varies depending on two parameters
- The number of licenses purchased for the application
- If we are in or outside school hours him. Within school hours the number of licenses is limited to ensure that a teacher who teaches in a classroom at the Campus has no problems in its delivery. Outside school hours and vacation periods exploit fully licensed for use through the Virtual Computer Classroom server.
also has enabled a statistical database server powered directly by the Computer Classroom Virtual so that we know, among other things, that the number of users connect to this service and the software they use.
The project has been launched with 14 applications (*) but the idea is to increase this number gradually.
(*) List of software installed:
ArcGis, Adobe In Design, Cabri Geometry II Plus, Corel Draw, DreamWeaver MX, FreeHand MX, Geomedia 5.1, Idrisi Andes, Maple 11, Matlab R2008a, PhotoShop 7.0, R, SDL Trados 2006
LDAP Servers. Acquired two computers to corporate LDAP servers DELL with the following technical characteristics: DELL PE2950 2 x Quad-Core Xeon E5310 1.6GHz, 4GB RAM, 1066FSB, two 73 GB SAS drives (15,000 rpm), redundant power supplies. This infrastructure is necessary to draft a new LDAP-based directory that allows users to unify and passwords for different systems. Currently this system is used for access control in Virtual Campus, e-mail, room booking, content manager, space manager, ... And will soon be available for connection to the wireless network, blogs, RUA ,...
Server for Virtual Classroom. For the virtual classroom project takes on a DELL server with the following specifications: DELL PE2950 2 x Quad-Core Xeon E5310 1.6GHz, 2GB RAM, 1066FSB, two 300 GB SAS drives (10,000 rpm), redundant power supplies. This project goes into operation in July 2008 and allows to use proprietary software from a web environment without installing the software.
You install a centralized system back in the Rectorate building and General Services and the Student Services. To performing backups fully automated and unattended by the user.
is installed a server for the Map Library of SIBYD.
is installed at the request of a server for TemaTres SIBYD 0.9.4. Web application platform for the management of documentary languages, developed in PHP on MySQL, which requires a HTTP server with PHP coverage.
Installation of two servers, production and development for the AU blogs.
The following improvements have been made in the e-mail service:
- Increase the size of the mailboxes to 100 MB for PDI/PAS and 16Mb for students.
- It has been widely used pop/imap secure.
- Installs ZEN Spamhaus list to control spam.
complementary to the SAN system for mass storage. Installing a computer with an external disk cabinet 3TB applications to storage requirements can be accessed via FTP, NFS or CIFS.
Installed a new tape library to centralize backups central servers. This is an IBM TS3100 LTO3 drives and two internal capacity to 20 GB 400/800 tapes each.
is extended to the central server database on IBM p570 12-16 CPU.
6. Support and technical assistance
The group of microcomputers has made speeches on PC 6120 of the University (5663 passed the course) and hardware maintenance service repairs a total of 1,953 (1,937 during past).
The staff of this area has been involved in supporting many events inside and outside the University: Book Fair, at the headquarters activities, etc.
After the tests, TDT TV broadcast and satellite network with satisfactory results. In a pilot begins in September with the broadcast to different buildings.
are installed two video conferencing rooms permanently for use by all the AU in the image building workshop.
is 6 meeting rooms equipped to broadcast in videostreaming: Arts, Home of Alicante, Optics, Auditorium, Lecture Hall 2 and Bernácer Germain.
Installing a professional-quality robotic camera for videostreaming emissions from the auditorium. The camera features allow to be used in embodiments of a professional nature which are sometimes held in the auditorium. The camera is a Panasonic AW-E860L,
Participation in the working group WG-VOIP IP voice superlatives for testing, configuration, deployment, ... VoIP technology at the UA.
configuration and launch of new video server Fujitsu-Siemens to replace the old ZEBRA. Be connected to an external disc drawer where you can save up to 1.8 TB (RAID) multimedia materials.
Study for classroom set up a webcam, headphones and microphones in all kinds of computers and Skype software , Netmeeting ,....
advice to various units for the design and procurement of various equipment to send and receive video and audio over the network.
8. Correction of optical exams
For several years the Computing Service provides to support teaching, a program for correction of optical examinations has been developed entirely by service personnel and whose use has been increasing over the different academic courses as shown in the chart below.
You can find all the information on this type of correction of tests at the following website: http://si.ua.es/es/servicios/correccion-de-examenes/correccion-de-examenes-por-lectura-optica.html
1. Training of staff of the Computing Service
To form the Computing Service staff were taught the following courses:
- TOAD.
- Dynamic HTML.
- A training session on the Packeteer provided by the manufacturer.
-. NET 15 hours.
- Electronic signature. On line. Personnel Certification Autoritat of the Comunitat Valenciana
- A training session on routing in Enterasys N7 provided by the manufacturer to the networking area
- Search engine optimization, usability and accessibility.
- Legislation ICT
- Project Management
- Windows Vista Advanced. Administration and Security.
- A training session Enterasys policy on equipment provided by the manufacturer to the networking area
- Enterasys Enterprise Management. Integrated Processes Training.
- Design and automatic generation of applications in Rational Rose Suite Enterprise 7.0
- Specifying Requirements with Rational Requisite Pro
- MicroStrategy Report Services: Dynamic Dashboards 100
- MicroStrategy Report Services: Dynamic Dashboards 200
- Visual Studio Team System
In addition Service personnel attended the following events:
- Meeting of the ICT sector of the CRUE. Valencia, 4 and March 5, 2008
- I Rediris Wifi Forum. April 2008
- VI RedIRIS Security Forum. March 2008
- Working Groups superlatives. Valencia. TEACHING-NET and ASTiris. May 2008
- Meeting of the ICT sector of the CRUE. Barcelona, 9 and June 10, 2008
In collaboration with the Service Selection and Training were taught the following courses for the PAS AU:
- Access advanced. November 2007.
- Advanced Excel. November 2007.
- Power Point. November 2007.
- Creation, maintenance and web page publishing. November 2007. 2nd edition
- Creation, maintenance and web page publishing. December 2007. 3rd edition
- Creation, maintenance and web page publishing. December 2007. 4th edition
- Protection of Personal Data. In collaboration with the Legal Service. 6th edition. December 2007
- Protection of Personal Data. In collaboration with the Legal Service. 1st edition. June 2008
- Protection of Personal Data. In collaboration with the Legal Service. 2nd edition. July 2008
- Protection of Personal Data. In collaboration with the Legal Service. 3rd edition. July 2008
- Windows Update and security on the computer. 1st edition. May 2008
- Windows Update and security on the computer. 2nd edition. July 2008
- Creation, maintenance and web page publishing. April 2008. 1st edition
- Creation, maintenance and web page publishing. June 2008. 2nd edition
- Access advanced. April 2008. 1st edition.
- Advanced Excel. 2008.1 June edition.
- Power Point. May 2008. 1st edition.
During this academic year has kept the upward trend in the number of page views of our corporate website as shown in the accompanying graph (data collected through August 2008).
currently www.ua.es contains HTML documents 381 475, 11 719 52 801 Word documents and PDF documents. These figures do not include pages that make up the press kit of the University of Alicante, which has been published in this format since May 1996. He is only 57 699 for 3676 news editions.
Action institutional web
Maintenance of the main pages in all three language versions, funnels new webs, duplications Websites in different language versions, actions for institutional web positioning in search engines and general support for maintaining the corporate website.
Actions in Web Information Service
- New page "support and technical assistance": http://si.ua.es/es/cau
- New section Computer Rooms: http://si .ua.es/en/services/classes/
- Redirect X500 links to the new directory.
- Creating Templates for CMS vuala
new Webs Created
- Creating Web Virtual tuition About 2008 http://www.ua.es/es/estudios/preinscripcion-matricula/index.html
- Assistance in the establishment of the academic year 2006-2007 Memory http://www.ua.es/secretaria.gral/es/memoria/2006_07/index.html
- Update the web sites and Internet " http://www.ua.es/es/internet/index.html
- Site Preparation of the rector Elections 2008 http://www.ua.es/elecciones/es/noticias/elecciones2008/index.html
- Site Migration Business School http://www.ua.es/centros/euce/index . html
- Site Update Budget 2008 http://www.ua.es/es/normativa/presupuestos_ua/2008/index.htm
- Secretariat Practices company and support the Student: http://www.ua.es/es/alumnado/servicio/practicas/
- Special Reserve Plan of rotational ground http://www. ua.es/is/presentation/Vice President/vr.viema/persd/
- Protein Research Group of Extremophiles http://www.ua.es/grupo/proteinas-extremofilos/index . html
- Service infrastructure and services http://www.ua.es/es/servicios/is/index.html
- group of interdisciplinary and critical studies Latin America (GIECRYAL): http://www.ua.es/grupo/giecryal/index.html
- Web in meeting the ICT sector of the CRUE. Alicante, 15 and 16 October: http://crue-tic.uji.es/ocs_es/index.php?cf=12
- Electrochemistry Institute: Doctoral Program "Electrochemistry Science and Technology ": http://www.ua.es/instituto/iue/doctorado/index.html
- Constitutional Law: http://www.ua.es/ Apt/stop/derecho.constitucional/
- Modify and end Catalan Studies Department website: http://www.ua.es/dpto/dfcat2/
- New Unit " Verification spaces' within Academic Management: http://www.ua.es/es/servicios/gest.acad/verifica/index.html
- II National Conference on Public Relations: http://www.ua.es/jornada/rrpp/
Action institutional web. English version:
As for the management of the English version of the corporate website of the University of Alicante, we will highlight the development or creation of new Web sites, which implies creation of new site structure, creating images with text, style menus and subsequent publication in its location for the English version. The new sites developed during this course are as follows:
- Doctoral and Masters (CEDIP) ( http://www.ua.es/en/cedip/index.html )
- Institute of Education Sciences (ICE) ( http://www.ua.es/en/ice/index.html )
- Student Support Center ( http://web.ua.es/en/cae/student-support-center.html )
- LOGSE Student Selectivity ( http://www.ua.es/en/estudios/acceso/logse/ index.html )
- Institute for Water ( http://www.ua.es/en/institutos/iuaca/ )
- College of Industrial Relations ( http://www.ua.es/en/centros/eu.relaboral/index.html )
- Governing Council ( http://www.ua.es/en/ presentation/consejo_gobierno/)
- Protocol Office: ( http://www.ua.es/en/congresos/protocolo/index.html )
- Department of Innovation Teaching and Training ( http://www.ua.es/en/dpto/difd/index.html )
In other cases, images have been generated for updating options menu of existing websites (courses, registration, new areas of work and research etc.)..
are maintained daily information website in English daily "News University" of the Office of Communication ( http://www.ua.es/en/servicios/comunicacion/actualidad.htm ) and last minute section of the University (http://www.ua.es/en/novedades.html) .
At the request of CEDIP, has led to new information incorporated into the new look of your website and the information contained in the pages of the section of masters, doctoral and postgraduate studies:
http://www.ua.es/en/cedip/masteroficial/index.html
http://www.ua.es/en/cedip/doctorat/index.html
http://www.ua.es/en/cedip/titulospropios/index.html
A requirement of Academic Management, have resulted several pages and documents on approval, legalization and translation of documents and certification of documents aimed at foreign students. Some documents have been published in PDF format:
http://www.ua.es/en/normativa/gestacad/homologacion/homologacion.html
http:// www.ua.es/en/legislation/gestacad/approval/homologacion.pdf
http://www.ua.es/en/normativa/gestacad/legalizacion/legalizacion.html
http://www.ua.es/en/presentacion/consejo_gobierno/acuerdos/actas_ua/acuerdo20072007/punto_5_4_normativa_titulos_master_y_doctorado.pdf
http://www.ua. es/en/legislation/gestacad/pruebaconjunto/pruebasconjunto.html
http://www.ua.es/en/presentacion/gerencia/compulsas.pdf
Moreover, and mainly with the Computing Service updates, revisions or translations, as appropriate, of the contents of the various University web with link http://www.ua.es/en/
parallel to the work outlined above has led the owners of Audiovisual Portal ( http://cv1.cpd.ua.es/album/default.asp?idioma=i ), tool appears to allow display a collection of audiovisual resources from the University of Alicante. So you can display photos and videos of events happening in the University Campus. It is also used as a window to the outside of the campus environment.
Also, have also been modified and reviewed other existing Web sites, which are kept in updating and amending the existing information, like Web site of the Multidisciplinary Institute for the Environment ( http://www.ua.es/en/instituto/imem/index.html ), the General Library ( http://www .ua.es/en/library/SIBID/index.htm ), the Sports section of the University, both times pages and uses of facilities, like those of all the services offered to the user:
http://www.ua.es/en/cultura/ofi.esport/servicios/masaje.htm
http://www.ua.es/ en/culture/ofi.esport/services/acondicionamientofisico/acond_fisico.htm
http://www.ua.es/en/cultura/ofi.esport/instalaciones/normasdeuso.htm
http://www.ua.es/en/cultura/ofi.esport/instalaciones/horariospiscina.htm
http://www.ua.es/en/ culture/ofi.esport/facilities/tarjetadepuniv.htm
http://www.ua.es/en/cultura/ofi.esport/instalaciones/instala.htm
http://www.ua.es/en/cultura/ofi.esport/organizacion/secretariadodeportes.htm
At the request of Vice President of New Technologies and Educational Innovation, has been updated and translated information from around the Web site: http://www.ua.es/en/presentacion/vicerrectorado/vr.tie/index.html
have also been updated links belonging to Web site of the European Higher Education Area and the new information that has been generated within the University with regard to this paragraph: http://www.eees.ua.es/en/index.html
Another new site that has been generated within the academic year 2007-08, has been the School of Optics: http://www.ua.es/en/centros/eu .optica/index.html
Also noteworthy is the translation of new pages generated in Castilian in the Graduate Institute of Tourism Research, whose English version is not currently available due to a change layout of the entire site. Where appropriate, the English version is available at: http://www.ua.es/en/instituto/iuit/
Another new Web site generated during this year has been the Library of Education, at the request of the Library, which is available on the website: http://www.ua.es/en/bibliotecas/SIBID/centros/neo_educacion/index.htm
has been constantly updating the English version of the Computing Service, whose content is accessed from http://si.ua.es/en/
The Department of Biotechnology also has several years of English version and whose information has been updated on the Web site http://www.ua.es/en/dbt/index.html .
The Web site for evidence of selectivity for over 25 years, also leads annually: http://www.ua.es/en/estudios/acceso/mayo25/m25_seminario.html
From this academic year, has been translating all the information on the International Mobility section of the Faculty of Law: http://www.ua.es/en/centros/ facu.dret/index.html
Report Webometric July 2008
On the 24th of July has been released in six-monthly report Webometric.
The "World Universities Ranking on the Web" is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, part of the CSIC, the largest national research center in Spain.
Cybermetrics Lab is devoted to the quantitative analysis of the Internet and the contents of the Web, especially those related to the process of generating and scholarly communication of scientific knowledge. This is a new emerging discipline that has been called Cybermetrics, also known as webometrics.
Web data are very useful for classifying universities because they are based on number of visits or page design but also take into account the quality and impact of universities.
The ranking is constructed from four quantitative indicators derived from the major search engines:
- Size: Number of pages recovered from four engines Search: Google, Yahoo, Live Search and Exalead.
- Visibility: The total number of unique external links received by a site that can be consistently obtained from Yahoo Search, Live Search and Exalead.
- rich Files: The following file formats were selected after considering their relevance to academic and publication activities, and taking into account the volume of use: Adobe Acrobat, Adobe PostScript, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Powerpoint. These data are extracted through Google, Yahoo Search, Live Search and Exalead.
- Academic: Google Scholar provides the number of articles and citations for each academic domain. The results obtained from the database of Google Scholar includes articles, reports and other academic papers.
According to their website: "If the web performance of an institution is below expectations according to their academic excellence, university authorities should reconsider their web policy, promoting substantial increases in the volume and quality of their electronic publications. "
The University of Alicante obtained an excellent position in the ranking. In the national ranking AU was ranked number 10 of 74 Spanish universities evaluated.
In the European rankings in the post 122, and 500 universities worldwide in the post 311 of more than 15,000 universities analyzed.
This data is very satisfactory because they put the University of Alicante in front of other larger universities, tradition, scientific, budget ...
Links of interest:
- Web Ranking of World Universities: http://www.webometrics.info/index_es.html
- Cybermetrics Lab: http://internetlab.cindoc.csic . com/
The website of the AU in Web Popularity Ranking prepared by 4 International Colleges & Universities
4 International Colleges & Universities is an international education directory
select web of accredited universities worldwide. 8000 4icu.org includes college and university websites ranked by popularity in 200 countries.
The universities and colleges are ranked by a proprietary algorithm called 4icu.org Web Popularity Ranking. The algorithm uses three Web Metrics: Google Page Rank, the total number of incoming links and Alexa Traffic Rank.
The aim of this website is to provide a popularity rating of universities around the world in terms of its website to help students select a university in a foreign country.
In this classification the website of the University of Alicante was rated 95th in European universities and the number 8 of the Spanish .
More information: http://www.4icu.org/
Space Management. We have developed a new application that includes procedures to perform tasks as batch, for example, allocation of classrooms to all teaching departments in the degree of a particular setting. Have also been developed processes for data synchronization space between the Geographic Information System (following) and academic management systems (UXXI-AC).
Content Management System. For two years it has been developing a content manager to update Publiweb, a tool that for nine years we have used to post on the website of the AU.
In the second quarter of 2008 went to work to a group people, not previously published, and the results so far have been very satisfactory. At the end of the year will begin advertising tool available to make a seamless transition of users published with the previous environment.
The features that have the content manager are:
- fully integrated with the current AU Web, because it forced us to discard most of the content management market.
- A single environment to edit and manage Web pages, images and documents
- Total freedom Webs administrators, to manage the menu items, users, backups with version management, etc..
- Control and correction of common mistakes that occurred with the publication traditional meeting all accessibility requirements that force us to comply with the law since December 2008.
- Integration into automatic translation editor with Internostrum Valencian and English with Google Translate.
- Management of outdated documents and validation of links that have been orphaned.
- Management with templates to allow improvements in incorporating Web.
- Validation of all daily published pages. The aim is to fulfill everything that is published contains no such error.
Music Library of the AU. The sound archive of the AU is a service that offers users the ability to access the hearing of sound recordings of different kinds.
now you can listen to an extensive collection of music albums, originally recorded on vinyl, which have been digitized. Also offers access to digitized recordings from the original carrier tape recorder to tape of Radio Paris, station in exile during the dictatorship, and whose emissions were released by their speakers to the University of Alicante.
Access to the contents of the sound archive is from the university library catalog, and is expected to incorporate new content.
Olympics Biology. Given the need to consult the Olympics' final grades in Biology, has developed a tool to automate this process.
The tool from an Excel worksheet, see Web-based data columns. Therefore, a column is used as an identifier, usually the DNI, and the other would be the results.
is designed to be integrated into corporate Web pages.
Given the versatility, is being used in other units and services, not just notes, but to see the position in a selective process.
Vacancies. To expedite the entire selection process to fill vacancies, has added an option in the Virtual Campus, which allows you to fill the request for access to open calls.
This option allows you to:
- Consult the squares of the competitions
- Sort by preference
- Check your administrative record and training
- To report incidents.
The contestant gets the request to surrender in the Register, eliminated many errors occurring in the manual process, and the Service Selection and Training available at all times of the requests that have been delivered.
Reserve rooms Rector. Application to keep track of room reservations. Emerged as an update to an application that already existed but had become outdated.
The features it has.
- Control of non-overlapping reservations.
- user profiles to define what they can accomplish some users or others, to create other users, create rooms, management or consulting bookings, etc.
- Possibility of extrapolating this application to any other unit that requires the local room booking.
UASumarios - Dialnet integration. Dialnet is one of the portals for the dissemination of Hispanic scientific production in the world, and UASumarios is an application for search and request, from articles published in journals subscribed to by our University, in paper format.
We have developed an environment for charging and synchronization between the two applications, giving the best of each. The information you enter both applications is fungible.
Thereafter all persons who have requested to be notified of news magazines that subscribe will receive an email with this information.
in TPV Virtual Campus. POS stands for Point of Sale Terminal (in English "POS" means or means-"Point Of Sale"). It refers to programs and technologies that help in the tasks of managing a retail business.
A POS terminal is a computer system that manages the sales process through a friendly interface for sellers . In our case, a secure communications mechanism for payment by credit/debit cards online.
The student will be able to pay any fee to the University of Alicante, as the fees or the issuance of a certificate from its Virtual Campus, without having to go to the registry or the bank. This is faster and easier bill payment.
CatalogaXXI. In order to have a tool that would enable libraries and Technological Innovation, "Educational Service to have a repository of links, listed, updated and easily accessible, was developed CatalogaXXI.
The catalogs can be grouped, to facilitate, for example, access a library to another without having to leave the current catalog.
The main features can be summarized as: simple and advanced search, ability to add news and links grouped by sections Refer to the latest additions or most viewed.
In 2009 was made public to the rest of the university community can make use of this tool.
Questionnaires. Following the introduction in 2007 of this tool has been made on request of users, substantial improvements are going to enumerate.
- Extended field types. You can now gather feedback in text with different sizes and formats.
- Extension of the features in the text of thanks. Now you can put a print button and/or generate PDF.
- It appears the figure of the administrator. You can manage multiple applications and can delete the answers already given.
- Update calendar type. More powerful and more versatile.
- Creating safe questionnaires. After entering the respondent your email and password correctly you can access the questionnaire to answer.
- It has integrated a more simplified version of the Virtual Campus.
to emphasize the two widely distributed questionnaires to have been conducted in this academic year, and for students, control of teaching quality of teachers and other use of the Internet and associated tools.
Since September 2007 we collected 17 179 responses to 117 questionnaires have been proposed. Serve the data to reflect the upward trend in use since the previous year 12 500 responses were collected and 135 questionnaires in 2006 proposed and 7000 responses were collected 42 questionnaires.
On a more visual can be seen in the figure below the proposed new number of questionnaires per month.
General Archives Portal: Access to data file of documentary heritage of the University of Alicante.
Democracy Archive Portal: Access to data file of the documentary available at the University of Alicante related to the years and events of the Spanish democratic transition.
Migration to version 3.6 of Clara File management application general, both the server and client. This, coupled to the increased stability and power of the new server hardware and debugging process has allowed us to minimize service interruptions on this application.
Symphony. It installs the new version of the Integrated Library Management (ILS) identified as SirsiDynix Symphony. This new application created by combining the best of Unicorn GL3 systems (our previous installation) and Horizon 8/Corinthian. It has installed on Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition on an AIX operating system platform 3.2.1.
Adaptation and automation of user load procedures for the use of diacritics in the identification of these.
Export links records with scanned documents to a Web page is accessible to Web browsers.
Adapted from forms developed to Oracle Developer Suite 10gR2.
Attended meeting of the Spanish Group of Users of Unicorn held at the University of Alcalá de Henares.
UASumarios. 122 There have been high numbers of new magazines and 1368 alerts have been sent notice of the receipt of those subscribers to the AU. In the application consultations have occurred 24 215 to 96 359 journals and consultation with these numbers. There are currently 1,512,293 articles corresponding to 2496 different journals.
Incorporation of selected summaries from Dialnet (portal for the dissemination of Hispanic scientific production of the University of La Rioja) automatically and daily.
Adaptation of all forms of work in Oracle Developer Suite 10gR2.
Metaframe. There have been 2946 connections to Metaframe gateway for 70 links to databases, of which 68% are Infosys (database of television audiences), Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia and Sabi (financial database business).
quae - Z-Portal. This is a multibuscador that unifies all queries that are performed on the resources offered by the library. It has automated the process of loading all the user groups from Unicorn-Symphony.
JCR's. Generation of views with the data by year and magazine for use in the implementation of Electronic Resources, and in the curricula of teachers in 2006.
Getting Excel spreadsheet of 2006, for comparison values to evaluate the bids offered packages of magazines.
New recharge impact factor data for the period 2002-2006, where for the same value of the ISSN in the year, have different values of the factor. The biggest factor value is used in the calculation of the POI, following the guidelines given by the Bureau Assessment (TTO).
Reference Manager 11. Bibliographic manager, concurrent network that collects and organizes references and databases CdRom Media, Dvd, Online and Web, and published on the Intranet or the Web. As a presentation of the tools you have this latest version of Reference Manager 11 Manager, have been provided to ICE through the following courses aimed at teaching and research staff of the University of Alicante:
- Reference Manager reference manager. Search and incorporation of references. In the section â?? Professional Development Courses'.
- The library as the segment of support for teaching and research. In the section â?? Plan training of employees in the service of the Administration of the Generalitat Valenciana '.
RUA. The Repository of the University of Alicante (RUA) contains 6556 documents. The following graph shows a significant increase in the use of this resource.
The number of connections has increased markedly as shown in the table and graph below (from October to September):
|
course |
Students |
PAS |
PDI |
|
2006-2007 |
6403407 |
709 761 |
363 747 |
|
2007-2008 |
8232731 |
721 561 |
484 753 |
|
Increase |
28 6% |
1.7% |
33.3% |
The following data also allow us to appreciate the intensive use was made of Virtual Campus course:
|
|
01-Oct-07 |
25-Aug-08 |
Diff |
% |
|
References |
37 044 |
37 673 |
629 |
1.70% |
|
Student Notes available |
1587 |
1636 |
49 |
3.09% |
|
Open discussion |
2000 |
3306 |
1306 |
65.30% |
|
Recommended Internet Links |
15 534 |
21 072 |
5538 |
35.65% |
|
Examinations TEST proposed |
1655 |
2423 |
768 |
46.40% |
|
TEST tests performed |
46 264 |
70 887 |
24 623 |
53.22% |
|
Materials available |
283 108 |
382 135 |
99 027 |
34.98% |
|
Number of downloads from June 2001 |
12,844,802 |
18,456,976 |
5612174 |
43.69% |
|
Participation in debates |
55 661 |
98 184 |
42 523 |
76.40% |
|
active e-learning sessions |
2419 |
4176 |
1757 |
72.63% |
|
Topics Frequently doubt |
1300 |
1460 |
160 |
12.31% |
|
Tutorials stored |
418 344 |
755 663 |
337 319 |
80.63% |
Prevention Service. It has been launched within the subaplicación reserve slots for medical checks for staff of the AU, the functionality that allows you to receive the results of these reviews through email, through a pdf encryption, without need to travel personally to the Prevention Service to collect by hand.
POI. Development of a Virtual Campus module that allows teachers to check their credit computable. The calculation is performed computable credit line with what the POI and is used to modulate the autonomic supplement.
Research: Filling in the form of justification of projects to adapt to new regulations and possible submission to various agencies (GVA and MEC).
initial picture of projects OTRI with the Economic Management project to be able to cross increasingly necessary data for both justifications to audits or internal consultations.
Changing Economic Management application for the application of income and deductions expenses if these are carried out against the concept 60 930.
Ge. Quotes: Incorporation into the database of types and subtypes to the necessary costs for claims this year since the AU was considered as a great company with what is required to make more statements previously made monthly and annually as well as been doing and in more detail.
Ge. Various: Module pool direct costs. So far the direct costs-less bill payment providers, were made individually, based on this module costs can be grouped together to make a payment.
Module-payment of bills through replenishment diets ( yet they were unable to pay per diems from switching accounts.)
Incorporation of accounts of general accounting plan implementation to allow the classification of expenditure accounting.
From the Virtual Campus exists functionality to send SMS messages. During this course the total number of messages sent has been of 22 902. The recipients of these messages are shown in the figure below.
7. Development environment and documentation
Organize. Development of a tool for management and planning of projects and developments in the Computing Service '.
Application of POI in the calculation of eligible credits for the creation of groups of subjects taught in official qualifications.
ICE: Reprogramming Course ICE implementation, data will be included in the implementation DOCENTIA.
X500: X500 Reprogramming the abandonment of the old standard had been followed, so it was renamed the Board of the AU. The current directory automatically refresh the data by drawing on the existing applications in the AU (Hominis, Scholars ...) no need for excessive maintenance manual that was done previously.
Blogs AU. At the end of the year 2006-07 was launched Blogs tool for all members of the university community. Since then 767 users have created their own blog and have posted 5346 articles. The chart below shows the evolution of visits and pages viewed. In total, received almost a million visits and published pages have been viewed over six million times.
The Computing Service has since its July 2008 Blog with which it aims to achieve two goals:
- On one hand, serve as a channel of internal communication of the service to inform the different areas that comprise the most important projects being carried out. The blog will be built with contributions from all service members.
- Secondly, to give visibility to the rest of the university community to the activities that go unnoticed in most cases.
The launch of the blog allows us to receive suggestions and comments on our work.
Both objectives have appeared on both the internal quality plans of operation and in the ICT Sector Strategic Plan.
Boua. Below are some statistics on the approaches to the Official Gazette of the University of Alicante.
Subscribed: 432
Members: The number of users with specific profile is 623. They are divided into the following groups with different types of access to reports and data:
- Dean/Director center
- Director Department
- Service HR
- Academic Management Service
- Student Services
- Administrators Center
- Financial Management Service
- Government Team
- Technical Unit Quality
- Service Management Control
- Centers Expenditure (Economic Management)
- Researcher
In addition the rest of the PAS and PDI as an anonymous user can enter general information to display.
Training: has been taught several courses on the use of SIUA. It has developed a tutorial of this tool available through the Virtual Campus. It has also appointed a group of five people in the Technical Quality Unit in the use of tools and MicroStrategy Web IEPortal so they can respond directly to requests they receive. Training in this case has also been extended to model data warehouse that supports the information system.
Application of statistical data: In the Virtual Campus there is a link to request new reports.
New reports: SIUA has been expanded with a new module that collects information on economic management with a structure with revenues, expenditures, budgets, trends and indicators within the area requested currently consists of 37 reports.
have been incorporated into existing indicators in the SIUA, CRUE indicators, Audit Office, Generalitat Valenciana and Check Program.
is expanded store to collect data about teaching, allowing aggregation by language, activities and groups, in this way have been resolved information needs arising from the Secretariat for the Promotion of Valencia, schools and departments.
It has been added a new module that contains information about the structure of SIUA in terms of the size distribution and sorting of reports with their descriptions, access profiles and statistics of use of the various reports of SIUA.
Statistics: The number of reports currently available is 313.
|
No reports by area |
|
|
Total |
313 |
|
Students and Studies |
209 |
|
Overview |
8 |
|
Financial Management |
37 |
|
Personal |
38 |
|
Documentation Modules |
21 |
The total number of reports run during the year 2007-2008 has been 3590.
|
N º Reports carried by area |
|
|
Total |
3590 |
|
Students and Studies |
1639 |
|
Documentation Modules |
239 |
|
Economic Management |
654 |
|
Information General |
736 |
|
Personal |
322 |
-EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION
The calls for support for technological innovation and educational at the UA, with many variations, were endowed with a total of 310,000 â? ¬. Note the first, direct payments for the use of Virtual Campus as a call for funding by objectives. This is the third course offered this announcement and there has been an increase in participating subjects, which have exceeded a thousand. We have continued to cut networking and educational technology in two areas. First, the free software, whose basic objective is the promotion of the use of free software in the teaching of subjects of official qualifications first and second cycle. And secondly, technological innovation networks, education, whose objective is focused on designing and developing multimedia materials for teaching, with the support of ITE Area Task Force. Additionally, called three other modalities, for technological innovation projects, education, the acquisition of software for the practical teaching of subjects and the holding of meetings and educational technology innovation, the latter aimed at the centers of the University of Alicante.
In this academic year has been developed for the first time the call of the pilot project for the delivery of courses in blended mode. The implementation of a blended model assumes that part of the teaching-learning process takes place in the classroom, according to the traditional classroom model, while another part is based on on-line education, e-learning or distance learning, allowing students to have support materials and resources available online for continued consultation at any time and channel to communicate with peers and teachers.
From October 2007 to May 2008 was held the fifth edition of the course " Tune: Free software and digital technology for students at the University of Alicante "in which changes were made in the contents and has been taught in blended mode. The traditional objective, which was open to students in the use of technology resources offered by the University of Alicante, have added the following objectives: to provide an overview of the possibilities of free software, open to students in the methodology e-learning, providing an overview of the possibilities of the OpenOffice productivity suite and train students to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations using OpenOffice Writer, Calc and Impress. The course has had a blog as a communication tool with students.
In order to present publicly the results of the calls for aid from earlier periods, was held on February 20, 2008 the "V-Day Educational Technological Innovation at the University of Alicante. The meeting presented the results of projects funded in previous calls and made public the main priorities for 2008.
has contributed to the continuous improvement of the Virtual Campus, both with the addition of new tools such as the evolution and development of some existing ones. Among the new features include the new section of the student activity statistics, the tool to surveys by the teachers and the secretariats of the Centre, the incorporation of bill payment by credit card, the functionality of query data POI, the tool that allows teachers to send messages to their students and the Virtual Classroom Computing. In the field of primary healthcare services to users of Virtual Campus 5200 there have been interventions help and advice.
The service has been maintained, with staff fellow at the ITE, to support teachers in the following issues: teachers use the Virtual Campus, the realization of digital materials for teaching purposes and the resolution of questions about the use of different digital technologies focused on teaching practice. Note that it has acquired a campus license program Course Genie (Create) for the development of educational content.
In connection with giving advice and assistance to users has developed a video-tutorial directed to teachers to facilitate management of various technological resources in the classroom. This tutorial complements those developed in previous years on the Virtual Campus profiles of faculty and students.
http://w3.ua.es/ite/tutorialvideos/index.html
in the ITE website has been renewed under "Resources", through the use of the tool catalogs XXI. In this first phase, a pilot, there have been systematized and 725 kinds of resources, organized by categories: directories, research centers and groups, networks and associations, portals, platforms, software, magazines, other publications, blogs, wikis , newsletters, events, etc. involved in any way with the technological and educational innovation.
http://cv1.cpd.ua.es/CatalogaXXI/C10067PPESII1/INDEX.HTML
15 and October 16 was in our university work the regular meeting of the representatives of the Sectoral Commission for Information Technologies and Communication of the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (CRUE-TIC). The theme was on "Digital Content".
Taking advantage of this forum was held technical conference of Directors of Computer Services where he addressed the theme "Infrastructure and audiovisual material. Application to teaching.
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