IT Services News No. 154 Nov-Dec 2011

Training News The following are the training courses arranged by the Information Technology Services till June 2012 to help our staff and students to learn how to use the various software and services.  Most courses are open to HKU staff and students free of charge.  Some courses are provided by a course vendor and a fee is charged for these courses (e.g. the Microsoft Office series and other PC software). Click on the course title to see the description of each course. Users can apply on-line for attending these courses through the web by visiting HKU Portal (http://hkuportal.hku.hk) => My Page tab => Campus Information Services => Central IT Services => Workshops and Courses Course Schedule Note: RR = Run Run Shaw Building   OLB = Old Library Building MW = Meng Wah Complex Lecture Theatre Training courses on using the Moodle Learning Management System [MOD-003] Moodle Training Course on Grades 29 Dec, 2011 10:00am – 11:00am OLB-135 [MOD-000] Re-building a Moodle Course from a WebCT Migrated Course 29 Dec, 2011 11:15am –12:15pm OLB-135 [MOD-001] Setting up Moodle Course Website 4 Jan, 2012 3:15pm - 4:15pm OLB-136 [MOD-000] Re-building a Moodle Course from a WebCT Migrated Course 4 Jan, 2012 4:30pm – 5:30pm OLB-136 [MOD-002] Assignments, Choices and Quizzes 12 Jan, 2012 10:15am – 11:15am OLB-136 [MOD-000] Re-building a Moodle Course from a WebCT Migrated Course 12 Jan, 2012 11:30am –12:30pm OLB-136 [MOD-003] Moodle Training Course on Grades 17 Jan, 2012 3:15pm - 4:15pm OLB-136 [MOD-000] Re-building a Moodle Course from a WebCT Migrated Course 17 Jan, 2012 4:30pm – 5:30pm OLB-136 [MOD-000] Re-building a Moodle Course from a WebCT Migrated Course 27 Jan, 2012 3:15pm - 4:15pm OLB-136 [MOD-004] Moodle Training Course on Collaboration Tools 27 Jan, 2012 4:30pm – 5:30pm OLB-136   Courses on Scientific Computation & Visualization Parallel Programming with Workshop 01 Mar, 2012 9:30am - 12:30pm OLB-136 Introduction to PV-Wave 21 Mar, 2012 2:30pm - 5:30pm OLB-135 Introduction to PV-Wave 25 Apr, 2012 2:30pm - 5:30pm OLB-135 Parallel Programming with Workshop 01 Jun, 2012 9:30am - 12:30pm OLB-136 Courses on Unix System and Applications Introduction to MATLAB 08 Feb, 2012 2:30pm - 5:30pm OLB-135 Introduction to MATLAB 27 June, 2012 2:30pm - 5:30pm OLB-135 Users can apply on-line for attending these courses through the web by visiting HKU Portal (http://hkuportal.hku.hk)  => My Page tab => Campus Information Services  => Central IT Services => Workshops and Courses Click here to suggest new courses you would like Course Descriptions Courses on Moodle Learning Management System [MOD-000] Re-building a Moodle Course from a WebCT Migrated Course (1 hour) This one-hour training course is for faculty members, instructors, course developers and eLearning support staff who have had Moodle courses migrated from WebCT and would like to learn how to re-organize the contents inside Moodle as well as to re-build the learning activities in Moodle. Topics include: • Terminology difference between WebCT and Moodle • Layout difference between WebCT and Moodle • Re-organizing course materials • Re-building learning activities • Using Folders and Sub-folders • Re-discovering learning modules in Moodle Prerequisites: Teachers who have Moodle courses being migrated from WebCT -Back To Top- [MOD-001] Moodle Training Course on Setting up a Moodle Course Website (1 hour) This one-hour training course is designed for faculty members, teacher, course instructor and eLearning technical support staff who would like to learn how to use Moodle to create course web sites. Participants will learn how to build a basic site containing course content and collaborative activities.  Topics include: •introduction to eLearning environment in HKU •understanding the process of enabling your Moodle courses •understanding methods of enrolling students, teachers and guess for your course •choosing the format and initial settings for a new site •uploading basic content files •adding web links to external sites •creating content within Moodle using the built-in HTML editor •linking a YouTube embedded video •examining and creating various types of discussion forums •organizing content and adjusting site layout Prerequisites: Familiarity with using a web browser -Back To Top- [MOD-002] Moodle Training Course on Assignments, Choice and Quizzes (1 hour) This one-hour training course is intended for faculty members, teacher, course instructor and eLearning technical support staff who would like to use Moodle for assignment submission and quizzes in their course web sites. Participants will learn how to create and modify quizzes; work with different question types; review, reset, and reply to submission attempts; and grade the different types of quiz questions. Participants will also learn how to create different types of assignments. Topics include: •creating and releasing assignments •returning submitted work for revision •reviewing submissions •entering grades and comments for assignments •creating and editing questions •incorporating customized question feedback •creating and releasing quizzes •using the Choice tool to create simple polls •working with random question sets •altering quiz content and updating scores •viewing submissions and giving feedback to students •overriding quiz grades and resetting attempts •reviewing item analysis to analyze the efficacy of individual questions Prerequisites: Moodle Training Course on Setting up a Moodle Course Website -Back To Top- [MOD-003] Moodle Training Course on Grades (1 hour) This one-hour training course is intended for faculty members, course designers and eLearning technical support staff who would like to learn about Moodle's grading features. Participants will learn how to set up and manage grades, enter and change grades for various activities, and use scales for providing non-numeric qualitative feedback. Topics include: •entering and editing grades and feedback •adding new columns to the gradebook •using categories for managing and calculating grade items •deciding on aggregation type and setting up weighted grading •creating custom scales for feedback •releasing or hiding grades from students •exporting and importing grades Prerequisites: Moodle Training Course on Setting up a Moodle Course Website -Back To Top- [MOD-004] Moodle Training Course on Collaboration Tools (1 hour) This one-hour training course is for faculty members, instructors, course developers and eLearning technical support staff who would like to explore collaborative uses of Moodle beyond forums and glossaries. Participants will review, create, and manage group activities, polls, public collections of users' entries, and collaboratively authored web pages (i.e., wikis, blogs). Topics include: •creating groups and working with group activities •using the Database tool to build publicly searchable collections of user entries •utilizing peer comment and review within the Database tool •using wikis for collaborative authoring of web pages •using Wikis and Blogs •using Moodle messages Prerequisites: Moodle Training Course on Setting up a Moodle Course Website -Back To Top- Courses on Scientific Computation & Visualization Parallel Programming with workshop This course is suitable for researchers and their assistants who need to run programs with very long execution time. By parallelizing and executing the program in a computer cluster environment, the execution time may be reduced significantly, for example, from 2 days to 2 hours. Students must have programming experience in either C or Fortran. The course is designed for our HKUHPCC Linux environment which consists of a PC-cluster of 356 CPUs (178 nodes of dual CPU architecture).  For technical details on HKUHPCC cluster, please refer to: http://www.hku.hk/cc/ccsystem/hkuhpcc. -Back To Top- Introduction to PV-WAVE PV-WAVE is a software that provides an integrated comprehensive visual data analysis environment to analyze/present scientific data in various graphical formats.  The software is currently available on the Linux and Microsoft Windows platform, and is supplied by Visual Numerics, the company that also supplies the well-known scientific library IMSL (International Mathematical and Statistical Libraries). In this course, the capability and fundamental concept of the software will be highlighted.  File input and output, simple 2-D and 3-D visualization, together with other topics including animated picture show and programming within PV-WAVE will also be discussed. -Back To Top- Courses on Unix System and Applications Introduction to MATLAB Matlab is an integrated computing environment for numeric computation and visualization. This 3-hour seminar will give an introduction on using Matlab in numerical analysis, matrix computation and graphics etc. -Back To Top- Notes for Registration: 1.  Users can apply on-line for attending these courses through the web by login HKU Portal (http://hkuportal.hku.hk)  => My Page tab => Campus Information Services  => Central IT Services => Workshops and Courses 2.  Successful applicants will be notified by e-mail or telephone at least one week before the commencement of the course.   3.     Some courses are organised in conjunction with a course vendor.  There is a fee charged on these courses.For courses requiring a fee, please send payment to the Computer Centre as soon as you have registered on the web, otherwise your registration is considered invalid. Payment can be made by either: cheque (payable to "The University of Hong Kong"), or through departmental requisition (for applicants supported by departments) as either of the following: by login  HKU Portal (http://hkuportal.hku.hk)  => My Page tab => Campus Information Services  => Central IT Services => Order License and Goods,or by the CC Order Form (CF-36) available at http://www.hku.hk/cc/home/services/forms.htm.  Once accepted, the fee is not refundable.  However, substitution of participant is possible by written notification to the Centre. The Information Technology Services reserves the right to cancel the courses if there is insufficient enrollment.  Applicants will be notified by email or telephone of the course cancellation and all course fees collected will be refunded in full.   4. The maximum number of participants for a course: - 26 in Room 135 & 136, Old Library Building - 22 in Room 201, Run Run Shaw Building - 18 in Room 101, Run Run Shaw Building The Information Technology Services runs courses in the following areas throughout the year to assist staff and students in using our facilities: Email and Network Services HKU Portal Services   Web-based Learning Systems  Web Page Authoring Scientific Computation Statistical Analysis Software Word Processing   Spreadsheet &  Powerpoint Presentations  Dreamweaver Illustrator Photoshop Click here to suggest new courses you would like