Information Technology Center (ITC)
IT has become an inherent and indispensable component of teaching, research, and university campus life. As The University of AJ&K is undergoing through process of change through which University Management Information System (UMIS) is being developed to provide a fully automated environment to the University and network is being established to connect all campuses and departments. Realizing the importance of Information Technology, Information Technology Center (ITC) has been established that is responsible for providing all sort of support related to Information and Communication Technology to all the departments and employees of the university.
Functions of Information Technology Center (ITC)
This center is responsible for the following functions:
* Implementation, updating and maintenance of UMIS
* To provide and maintain the overall Information and Communication Technology infrastructure at all campuses of the university.
* Content management and updating University/Faculty/Student web portal regularly.
* To provide technical skills related to programming to faculty/researchers to complete their research work where such technology will be needed.
* To provide video conferencing system at all campuses for online lectures and Net-meeting when required.
* Students and teachers will avail the facility of Internet and digital library for which bandwidth (PERN) has already been arranged from HEC.
* University/Faculty/Student web portal can be updated for teachers and students to increase the efficiency. There can be email as well as the link for every subject that could include notices, teaching material for students to download, upload assignments, display results and attendance. The site will have different rights for different users.
* To arrange special training/workshops for the existing computer faculty and IT professionals to update them with new technology in different areas of computer science when required.
* To establish well equipped computer Labs in different departments where required.
* Lab Engineers/Network Admin/System Engineers will be responsible for carrying extensive lab work from students given by concerned teacher.
* There will be computer workshop under this center supervised by a qualified computer hardware engineer to provide hardware maintenance to different departments and sections of the university.
* Data entry operators of different departments will work under the supervision of this center after UMIS deployment and all these operations will be monitored for the smooth execution.
* To provide IT training to concerned employees (teachers, officers and university employees) to use different modules of UMIS when needed.
* To establish software development section to provide software solutions to other departments of government on commercial basis to increase the university income.
* To collaborate with IT industry involving computer science and engineering students to enhance their skills.
* To collaborate with other organizations working on IT, telecom and engineering sectors to improve the standard of education in the university.
In order to achieve the above objectives, there should be well defined hierarchy for this center that will streamline all these activities at central level. This center will comprise of the following two sections:
UMIS Maintenance & Software Development section
The responsibilities of this section are as follows but not be limited to:
* For Implementation, updating and maintenance of UMIS after final deployment.
* To supervise data entry process in all departments and sections.
* To update university/faculty/student web portal on daily basis.
* To organize training and workshops for the faculty and IT professionals.
* To develop software modules when required.
* To provide technical support and perform the over all activities related to UMIS and other development tasks.
* Other related tasks and duties assigned by the head of the ITC.
Scope of the Project
The University of AZAD JAMMU & KASHMIR, Muzaffarabad intends to engage a software development company for the implementation of above mentioned project. The selected software development company will provide the software solution to mentioned project “ University Management Information System - University of AZAD JAMMU & KASHMIR, Muzaffarabad” comprising the following modules:
Sr. #
Required Modules
1
Administrator/Security Management System 2
University/Faculty/Student Web Portal 3
Admission Management System 4
Academic Management System 5
Fee and Dues Management System 6
Schedule Management System 7
Alumni Management System 8
Electronic Notice Board Management 9
File Movement and Record Management System 10
College Affiliation Management System 11
Events Management System 12
Library Management System 13
Hostel Management System 14
Transport Management System 15
HR / Payroll/ Pension Management System 16
Fixed Asset Management System 17
Budget & Accounts Management System
Networks and Communication Section
The responsibilities of this section are as follows but not be limited to:
* To provide and maintain networks and communication infrastructure at all campuses and departments of the university for the implementation of UMIS.
* Management of Network Servers.
* Management of Network applications.
* Designing and implementing new Network requirements.
* Management of switches, routers, firewalls.
* Management of other Network services/equipment.
* To facilitate software development section regarding network and communication.
* User and account management for all departments and sections.
* Installation and configuration.
* To establish and maintain computer workshop for hardware maintenance.
* To establish and maintain computer labs in different teaching departments when required.
* To ensure the network security and data integrity.
* Tasks and duties assigned by the head of the ITC.
