ARTICLE: BETTER PRACTICES OFIT IN THE FACULTY OF AGRONOMY-UFRGS.
Web systems of management of the Faculty of Agronomy-UFRGS
Corporative Portal: These systems integrate people, information and knowledge which are associated with organizational processes.
The most important function is to provide the information that the employees of the organization need the most, both internal and external sources and to present them in a simple and practical way.
The pages of the Faculty of Agronomy consist of 6 departments, 4 Postgraduates, 2 Degree courses, 16 Research groups, 12 Laboratories, 5 Sectors and 2 Subsidiary organs (Grupo Flota and EEA).
In this current context of modernity, institutions, especially those that present real-time information, such as information and technology portals, cannot remain out of date. Currently, Internet users increasingly expect better results regarding the contents and particularly about the time for consultation and update of sites. To address this situation, companies have adopted dynamic update tools applied to information technology portals.
We are in a moment when informatization of institutions is essential for the progress of the administrative part and dissemination of intellectual production for society.
The dynamic updating on the websites aims to strengthen the credibility of information, since the data is updated promptly; there is a great increase in the maintenance capacity of the portals, in addition to ease of control of information and the addressing for those who really need them.
Static pages are slowly being replaced by content management systems (CMS) known for the characteristic of having a large number of functions present in their modules.
On our pages we use Joomla that are integrated with the systems developed in language PHP with a MySQL database.
Ease of use is an important characteristic of these systems.
Access anywhere using these systems: you can access them from anywhere you are, whether at work or at home.
The intranet allows employees of an organization to have access to technologies already available on the internet, such as the corporative portal, which provides a single point of access to all organizational information and knowledge resources
The authorization for access to the intranet allows managing access groups Students, Staff, Teachers and others, ensuring the necessary security for the use of the systems. Each user can have exclusive access to certain features of the system. Through the System Manager of the Institution you can add, change or delete users.
A summary and integration of systems with their functionalities is presented below and also an example of the screens.
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Inscription:Registration of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff, as well as control of alumni, former employees and former teachers in a single database. Integration with pages Students (course, graduates). Faculty and Staff (Degree, Telephone, Email, Department) |
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Documents:integrates technologies of indexing and recovery, content display, etc ... in a single web application. Acquis organizing of hierarchical classification of documents in "types". Publication of the documents defining the rights of access to documents by user groups and document types. |
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Disciplines:The own head teacher or collaborator of the discipline makes available classes from the faculty or from home. He only has access to those disciplines that he is registered as responsible or collaborator |
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Elections:For user groups Faculty, Staff, Undergraduate and Graduate Students. The system at the end of the election automatically generates the results and controls that no one votes more than once. |
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News: are offered by the Faculty, Departments and Post-graduation individually by autonomous groups of pages. |
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Video Library:searching system by author, title, date and identification data all in "streaming" with the RTSP protocol. They are seen by the Real Media Player program. |
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Internal Webmail:The communication between students, teachers and employees an easy and interactive way. You can also select a group / category of persons. |
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Reservation:A room reservation system (meetings, defense, etc.), equipment (multimedia projector, laptop, etc.). On this system the own user makes reservations and receive an email confirming it. This includes the "Grupo Flota" that reserves buses and vans of the University and there are also registered some users throughout of the institution. |
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Birthday:The system takes the birthday of the current day, and sends an e-mail with a photo with his name and information of the day and the month. It sent by email to all students, staff and teachers in activity. |
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Scientific content: With one search engine by author, title, year and identification data the system for scientific content provides the intellectual output of teachers from the institution. Integrated to teacher page (CCFA. qty publications) as well as post-graduate page, theses and publications and research groups. |
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Counter:Access control by user, date, time and IP number. |
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Multilingual:websites accessible in different languages. Commitment to our visitors and customers in several languages, the site shows confidence and credibility and, besides this, place its name on the web. |
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Photos and facts:facts that took place during the existence of the institution by year and by topic. |
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Multimedia report - Classroom:Control of the equipment available in the classroom. (Projector, computer and amplifier). |
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NINFA attendances:control by demandace (Support of Micro, Multimedia, Software, Network and Other). The system monitors the process and at the end of the service sends an email to the petitioner informing the end of the service. |