Centre for Knowledge and Information, shorted as CKI, is the combination of Learning Mall, Library, Management Information Technology and System Office (MITS), Museum, and University Marketing and Communications (UMC).
Learning Mall Vision:
An Accessible University for All Driven by Technology.
Library Vision:
As a research-led academic library, XJTLU Library enriches the intellectual and creative life of our communities and beyond by advancing information discovery, creation, dissemination and preservation of knowledge.
MITS Vision:
To drive business innovation and support business strategy to acquire core competitiveness.
Museum Vision:
To become XJTLU campus culture leading point and bridging for Integration, Inheritance and Innovation.
UMC Vision:
We enhance the University’s brand and reputation by leveraging our professional support. We work across the marketing and communications mix: conducting research on brand strategy, managing media and public relations, creating news and marketing content.
EVENTS
ONLINE ILLUSTRATION SALON: LOOKING FOR INSPIRATION FROM MUSEUMS
Museums and galleries are a rich source of inspiration for artists. However, during the period of social distancing and travel restrictions, how do they find inspiration from museums online? XJTLU Museum has invited Ms. Guo Xin, an excellent Illustrator to provide series online illustration workshops for XJTLU students and staff. For the first workshop, Ms. Guo shared her perspectives about creative inspiration from museums with us. In addition, she guided audience to experience the painting process and encouraged them to complete a piece of work at home. If you are interested in the second illustration workshop, please subscribe official WeChat XJTLU_Museum to obtain more detailed event information.
ONLINE EXHIBITIONS AND MUSEUM-RELATED DOCUMENTARIES RECOMMENDATION
In the post-epidemic era, online learning has become the norm. In order to enrich the cultural life of XJTLU teachers and students during the epidemic prevention and control period, XJTLU MUSEUM has organized online exhibition information of various museums and museum-related documentaries for XJTLUers to learn art and culture knowledge online. In addition, XJTLU MUSEUM has also sorted out the wonderful offline exhibitions of the surrounding museums for XJTLUers to visit exhibitions offline. Please subscribe museum official WeChat account: XJTLU_MUSEUM to obtain more online learning resources.
CALL FOR COLLECTIONS THAT WITNESS THE FIGHT AGAINST THE PANDEMIC
In order to remember and record touch stories and the people who made contributions to the fight against the pandemic, XJTLU Museum are sincerely calling for meaningful goods and materials from XJTLU staff, students, alumni and community. The collection can be physical goods, photos, videos, text file, art works, etc. that regarding the fight against pandemic. Please scan the QR code to upload related photos and provide the introduction within 100 words. If you have any questions, please send email to museum@xjtlu.edu.cn.
HIGHLIGHTS
COME AND EXPLORE THE COLOURS OF XJTLU IN THE SPRING
While staff and students are enjoying the beautiful spring around them in different places, we also capture the spring of XJTLU. Come and explore the beautiful March with pictures and colour cards, and feel the spring vibe in XJTLU HERE.
FAQS ABOUT XJTLU MASTER’S DEGREE, EXPERIENCES FROM 8 POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS
For more information, click the link HERE.
NEWS
XJTLU IN THE MEDIA IN JAN AND FEB
In January and February 2022, XJTLU was mentioned in media reports from outlets including Xinhua News Agency, China Daily, China Youth Daily, Xinhua Daily, Yangtze Evening Post, Suzhou Daily, and Suzhou Broadcasting System.
Topics included students’ and teachers’ stories, expert insights, scientific achievements, accreditation, and campus life.
To know more: https://www.xjtlu.edu.cn/en/news/2022/02/xjtlu-in-the-media-in-january-and-february
NEWS WRITTEN IN MARCH
In March, UMC published 29 news articles. The topics include Letters from Presidents, research, programmes’ accreditation, students’ stories, campus life, and collaboration and communication.
To know more: https://www.xjtlu.edu.cn/en/news/all-news
HIGHLIGHTS
LEARNING MALL VIRTUAL ONLINE SELF-STUDY ROOM
Looking for someone to study online together? Join in our online self-study room!
To encourage the enthusiasm of students and foster a positive online learning atmosphere, Learning Mall held the first virtual online self-study room activity on March 23. In the online self-study room, participants were encouraged to turn on cameras to accompany each other.
The online self-study room is constructed on ClassIn, a live streaming tool that supports up to 2,000 people to study online at the same time. So far, ClassIn has also undertaken 4 PE courses targeting freshmen and presented desirable performances.
XJTLU users can now seamlessly log in ClassIn through SSO.
Click HERE for more information.
BIGBLUEBUTTON NEW FEATURES
At the beginning of this semester, BigBlueButton has been updated to a new version, which fixed some bugs and developed many new features, such as the fix of the mirroring effect when sharing screen, interactive features of raising hands, extending breakout room time, better display of polling responses, virtual background, Learning Analytics, and more comprehensive recordings. From the feedback from users, we can see that the user experience is highly enhanced from both the teacher’s side and the student’s side.
To better support Learning Mall users, we also created a guide to introduce these features in early March. If you haven’t explored these new features, please feel free to click the link and learn more.
EVENTS
NEW APPROACH TO TURNITIN CHECK
As assessment peak time is approaching, it could foresee that the Turnitin plugin is very likely to be overloaded by the high volume of submitted papers on the Learning Mall platform based on previous experience each semester.
A new approach is hereby introduced by the Learning Mall office, which is to submit the work on the Turnitin official website for informal Turnitin checks before the final submission. This approach will allow Turnitin to generate reports more efficiently than the previous way. And it was put into use last semester with positive feedback and now gets officially announced as a standardized solution.
Find more information on the new approach. Quick link to Guide of Turnitin Check
HIGHLIGHTS
XJTLU LIBRARY HELD DEFEAT THE PANDEMIC EVENTS ONLINE
In order to enrich reading life and develop the positive attitude of readers during the COVID-19 prevention and control period, the XJTLU Library organized the Defeat the Pandemic events on social media. The events, including Share Your Reading Notes and Give Voice to Your Favorite Books, received continuous attention and good feedback from readers.
Since the Defeat the Pandemic events were released, library has received a total of 48 reading notes and 30 audio recordings of books from XJTLU staff and students. In the meantime, the Library has selected some excellent entries to share on the Library WeChat platform, hoping to encourage students to read more books and find pleasure in reading.
XJTLU ESI RESEARCH PERFORMANCE REPORT (MARCH 2022 ISSUE) RELEASEDACCESSING LIBRARY RESOURCES & SERVICES ONLINE
The Library has released the March 2022 Issue of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Essential Science Indicators (ESI) Research Performance Report, which provides information about XJTLU’s ESI rankings and performances, ESI Top 1% research fields and ESI Top Papers.
According to the latest ESI update on March 10th, 2022, XJTLU has retained it positions in the ESI Top 1% institutions in the fields of Engineering, Computer Science and Social Science, General, and has 52 ESI Top Papers in all fields.
TEXTBOOK/ DESK COPY POSTING SERVICE FOR AY2021/22 S2
In this very challenging time under COVID-19 pandemic, the University Library emergently adjusted textbook distribution plan. In order to support online learning and teaching and meet the demands of getting printed textbooks more promptly, the University Library has conducted Textbook/ Desk Copy Posting Service since 22nd February. Till now, after sorting out the needs, Library staff printed collected textbook list, located, packed, checked and delivered packages to 3315 students and 67 teachers.
NOTICE
IT PRACTICAL TIPS
1.Ctrl+Shift+T
Quickly restore closed webpages: If you accidentally close a webpage, do you know how to get it back? Remember, as long as you press ''Ctrl+Shift+T'', you can immediately open the page you just closed.
2.Ctrl+Z
Accidentally deleted text recovery: Many people should know that the Ctrl+Z is the undo function, but you may not know that after the accidentally deleted content in Office has been saved, the Ctrl+Z undo is still valid! And if the recycle bin has not been emptied, Ctrl+Z also applies to accidentally deleted files in the recycle bin.
3.windows+L
Automatic screen lock: When you want to temporarily leave the computer, press and hold the Windows+L at the same time, the computer will automatically lock the screen, there is no need to log out, shut down, and no longer worry about others disturbing the computer.
MITS WARNING FAKE EMAILS AND PHISHING ATTACKS
Recently, the mail systems of many colleges and universities in China have been attacked by overseas hacker organizations, and some mail information has been maliciously stolen, which poses a hidden risk of information leakage. Everyone needs to pay special attention to the security of your email account, especially in the near future, do not click and open email links, attachments, and documents from unknown sources; downloaded attachments need to be checked by anti-virus software and can only be opened after confirming safety; If you suspect that your password has been compromised, please change your password as soon as possible, and make sure the password is set to strong passwords with complex combination; do not send and save important information and sensitive data by email. If you encounter any difficulty that you cannot solve by yourself, please seek help from MITS in time.
UPDATE ON MITS SERVICE PC ANYWHERE
MITS announced the new PC Anywhere service beginning in early March. 100+ Staff applied to use the virtual applications and desktops for their remote office. We appreciate everyone's positive feedback. At the same time, we also successfully supported 30+ online computer lab based courses with the software SPSS, ArcGis, Project, Acrobat, SDL, etc., over the last few weeks.
We're happy to announce that some PC Anywhere resources are still available. However, it is still "First come, first served." Please send an email to IT@xjtlu.edu.cn as soon as possible to request access to use it for your online computer lab based courses and remote office.
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