Systems and Development Department

The Department has achieved the following:

 

• Developed and computerized the university supplies system in its two parts, the warehouses and purchases, and trained warehouse officers on how to use the system.

 

• Updated the Research Archiving System at the Deanship of Scientific Research using modern programming languages.

 

• Restructured and redesigned the University’s website including all faculties, institutes, centers and administrative units, a thing that led to the advancing of the University’s ranking globally and regionally.

 

• Activated the Faculty Evaluation System, in addition to reconstruction and maintenance of faculty members’ websites.

 

• Participated in the construction and design of the University of Jordan Jubilee website.

 

• Concluded the programming of the Nursing Research Database.


• Launched the website of the University of Jordan in Aqaba.
• Launched the Students Portal.

 

• Developed some E-courses that are offered by the faculties, and downloaded and activated the Moodle e-learning system.

 

• Building and hosting websites for third parties; conferences and research.

 

• Proceeding with Computerizing the Archiving Systems and Administrative Offices project, as follows:

-         Completion of nine administrative offices and the University of Jordan Hospital.

-          Activating the electronic annotations at the Computer Center and the University of Jordan Hospital.

-         Preparing the databases and authorizations for the next stage of the project.

 

• Prepared a study on fraud detection systems.

 

• Procedures have been initiated towards the development of systems at the Programming and Analysis Section.

 

• The execution of the pilot project "smart document solutions to protect the student certificates from counterfeiting."

 

 

Web Services and Website Division's achievements:

 

•      The University of Jordan maintained the first position among public and private universities in Jordan, according to Webometrics Ranking of World Universities.

 

•      Developed and modernized the main university website, Arabic and English, and all faculties, departments, centers, scientific and administrative units, offices websites and their sources, and worked to upgrade the used working environment from SharePoint 2007 technology to SharePoint 2010 and the use of database SQL 2008, in addition to updating the migration manager of the old websites to become compliant with modern technology.

 

•      Scientific Research Documentation Project (a website for each faculty member): this project is the first of its kind in a local university; it now serves nearly 1,500 faculty member, researcher and full-time / part-time lecturers, it has proved success and significantly raised the University of Jordan’s rank among other institutions. It also became possible to search for any faculty member at the University through search engines such as Google, this project aims to document published scientific research, academic conferences, theses, research interests, published books, patents, awards and accolades, backed research, teaching materials, current research, .... Due to the importance of such data at the scientific and academic levels, both domestically and internationally.

 

•      Interactive pages have been developed to promote student - faculty communication, such as Announcements, Calendar, Materials, Home Works, Office Hours and others.

 

•      A separate websites have been constructed for the faculty members of the University of Jordan in Aqaba.

 

•      A report have been prepared containing all faculty members by their faculties, departments and awards and accolades they have received (Award / Prizes / Orders), in addition to a special report containing all published papers, theses, books, publications and backed research.

 

•      Modernized and developed the servers to become more tolerant to continuous load and have larger storage capacity; due to increased number of pages and rich files:

 o   Two servers for front-end with load balance and other two servers for back-end with database cluster.

 

• The Division added the following services portals:

 

Employee Portal

Provides many important services to all university employees. This portal allows staff to browse through salary, bonus checks, overtime pay, health insurance and club deductions, and University Hospital receivables data in details, in addition to information on the annual leaves and other basic employee information such as the date of appointment, date of last pay raise, degree and functional category, etc. Now the university staff can enter their Mobile phone number to receive Mobile ads and to be used in the security system and entry of student grades.

 

Embassies and Foreign Scholarships Web Portal

This portal enables embassies of countries that have dispatched students at the University of Jordan to inquire about the academic performance of students for any semester and displays all data pertaining to student information, including student status in terms of marks, cumulative or quarterly GPA, registered courses, number of completed credit hours and the student’s status, in addition to providing a lot of information that embassies and emitting bodies need to know about their students.

 

Student Portal

After entering a user name and password, this portal offers many services to students, most important obtaining the password to enter the student's email which is automatically created on Hotmail through Single sign-on (SSO) technique.

 

Agricultural Marketing Portal

This portal aims to serve all employees at the University of Jordan and the University of Jordan hospital. The portal requires a user name and password and displays varieties of agricultural and animal products offered for booking only buy the staff, such e-service hasn’t been implemented in any other university; the software will show the reservations order, goods that have been booked and booking number, then the employee prints the booking sheet and head to the market place to receive the booked items, help file is also available on how to use the portal.

 

Scholarships Portal

This portal serves postgraduate admission committees to recommend scholarship candidates, based on specific equations and the minimum and maximum admission grades in each university separately. the Committee members can enter data of applicants and the high school diploma, bachelor and master's rates, then the program does the calculations by comparing the lower and upper limits of the those universities and give percentages, calculating the interview, scientific research and the Committee scores, to differentiate between applicants and place the top ones in the beginning. After completion and ensuring all required data fields are entered electronically and correctly; data is printed automatically and delivered to the stakeholders.

 

Leave Portal

This portal is linked with the Employee Portal so that the head of the administrative office in each faculty / center / institute / unit / office can access the portal and perform the following:

 

1.   Query for any employee leaves in the faculty / center / institute / unit / office through either the employees name or number.

2.   Query on leave balances for employees at the faculty / center / institute / unit / office through either the employees name or number.

 

Budget Web Portal

a.    This portal is used by deans and directors of institutes / centers / units to inquire about the budget of the faculty / institute / center... etc.

 

Companies Portals

This portal is used by companies that have business relations with the University, where companies are given authority to login to the Portal and follow-up financial transactions with the University.

 

Student Password Alteration Portal

This portal is used by computer lab supervisors at the University to change passwords for students.

 

Faculty and Course Assessment Portal

This portal is used by students to evaluate faculty members and courses, and assess grade symbols. The evaluation results and reports are sent to the Educational Development Center.

 

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