Cusis

CUSIS refers to the Chinese University Student Information System.^[1] It is to provide information to CUHK stakeholders, staff and students about Project CUSIS and to support ongoing communications between stakeholders and the CUSIS project team.

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Project Objectives

• To prepare for the 3+3+4 education reform (334 scheme) based on the PeopleSoft Campus Solutions application.
• Bring disparate information and data together to the University's community enabled by CUSIS .
• Produce quality management information and execution of actions more efficiently.

History

On 5 July 2010, Release 1 of CUSIS was successfully launched to support the 4-year curriculum and strategic initiatives of the University in the coming years. On 22 October 2010, CUSIS Release 2 was also successfully implemented and further included a number of additional functions such as gradebook, academic advisement, and alumni management.^[2]

Release 1

• Student demographic data management
• Student registration and Course registration
• Course inventory maintenance
• Academic structure
• Capturing marks and grades
• Calculation of fees due to students
• Payments and receipts
• Refunds
• Scholarship and loans application
• Platform for CUSIS and other CUHK applications

Release 2

• Exchange student information and outgoing exchange application management
• Managing grades and grades approval
• Scholarship and financial aid application and evaluation
• End of term processing and assessment
• Alumni management
• Self service for alumni

Features

CUSIS provide different features for CUHK student, staff and Alumini.^[3]

For Student

• Make Online Registration
• Course Enrollment
• Credit Transfer
• View grades and Transcript
• Make online payments
• View College Affiliation and Grades in MyCUHK
• Program Change
• Review Academic Advisement Report

For Teaching staff

• Do Academic Management
• Gradebook Functions

For Administrative staff

• Review Student Advisement Report by Dept/Div
• Student Major Information ¡V Nationality Code Conversion Table

For Alumini

• Apply for Alumni Library Card ard other alumni services
• Update personal contacts
• Alumni Free Email Forwarding Address services
• Register for Alumni Homecoming
• Get the latest information and news of the University

Criticism

Since CUSIS has been launched in September 2010, it has been frequently criticized by CUHK students, especially for add/drop and course registration purposes. The CUSIS system is said o be very complicated, as it contains many links with confusing names. It is never clear to students whether they should click my planner,my academics,course enrollment,or class search for course registration. Prior to the launch of CUSIS, a timetable planner comes along with the registration system; however, after CUSIS has come into use, it has been deleted.

After much criticism, CUHK has released the Release2 version of CUSIS, which includes exchange, scholarships, and alumni related functions. Unfortunately, several problems remain.

Waiting List

With CUSIS, if a class is full, a student is supposed to add to course to the waiting list, which will automatically add the wait-list student into the course if one student drops. However, this adding process will only take place 30 minutes after the student dropped, hence creating a time gap for a non-wait-list student to add in faster than the wait-list student.

Language

The font size of CUSIS has been said to be too small. The English wordings are confusing for users and a Chinese version is not available.

See also

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CUHK

References

1. ^ http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/cusis/index.htm
2. ^ http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/cusis/timeline.htm
3. ^ http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/cusis/faqs.html