Endterm Project: What are the steps and ways to build the Intranet at Watcharawittaya English Program School?

Plan your intranet

Your intranet is only good when it’s useful to your company. And it won’t be useful if you don’t ask the users what they need. So, gather representatives from your company and give them an introduction to intranets. Emphasize that the power of an intranet is in sharing knowledge. Then, ask them what they think should be shared on the intranet.

Here are some things you can put on the intranet:

· Documents, templates and sample reports or proposals that help writers speed up and improve the writing process.

· Organizational Chart with descriptions of what each department does, its members and contact info. Budgets, key result areas and other operational info may also be included.

· Lessons learned, best practices or how-to tips.

· A calendar of events that can be used to announce ongoing events, birthdays and even cultural activities and announcements.

· A bulletin board or forum to allow staff to post messages.

· A directory of staff competencies and expertise. The expertise here does not refer only to official designations. More importantly, it will be useful to know for instance that your admin assistant is also good at operating the fax machine.

There are also specific intranet issues you must address in your Intranet Plan:

· Security and access to information. Will you publish sensitive documents on the intranet? You may need to create password-protected areas on your intranet. List down all sensitive documents you have and decide on whether to share these or keep them out of the intranet.

· Quality of information, data integrity and publication policy. How reliable is the data that is available in your intranet? Who authorizes what information to publish on the intranet? If you upload documents there, do employees assume they can quote from the documents as official statements?

· Data ownership and maintenance. Who owns/maintains the data the intranet content? Will the owners be responsible for maintaining the data? What system of approval needs to be implemented? How often will you maintain content and in what manner? A good starting point is to assign one person as the intranet coordinator who will be in charge of gathering and publishing content on the intranet.

· Usability. How easy or intuitive is the site navigation? Is there a search tool that helps you find information more quickly? Is the content organized in a way that can be easily grasped? Is there a help page?

· Backup system. If your intranet is hit by a virus or accidentally corrupted, what do you do? Do you have a daily or weekly backup that you can restore in the event of a failure?

Build and maintain it

Decide on whether to outsource or do it in-house. Assign an intranet coordinator and see if he can handle all the updating, using a web creation tool.

If your company needs to update frequently or has many departments contributing to the content, you should consider installing a content management system (CMS). A CMS automates and facilitates intranet maintenance. Almost anyone with little HTML skills can use a CMS. An excellent CMS is Drupal. 

Promote and improve the intranet

Lastly, promote the use of your intranet. Conduct regular surveys and give recognition to people or departments who diligently update and use it. Assign an intranet task force that can meet regularly to assess and recommend improvements. If you have announcements, make them on your meetings and publish the details on your intranet. That way, the intranet becomes a habit for everyone.

Your intranet is only as good as its usefulness to your company.

1.What is a computer network?

ANS. A computer network, often simply referred to as a network, is a group of computers and devices interconnected by communications channels that facilitate communications among users and allows users to share resources. Networks may be classified according to a wide variety of characteristics.

2.What are the types of network? LAN - Local Area Network

ANS.A LAN connects network devices over a relatively short distance. A networked office building, school, or home usually contains a single LAN, though sometimes one building will contain a few small LANs (perhaps one per room), and occasionally a LAN will span a group of nearby buildings. In TCP/IP networking, a LAN is often but not always implemented as a single IP subnet.

In addition to operating in a limited space, LANs are also typically owned, controlled, and managed by a single person or organization. They also tend to use certain connectivity technologies, primarily Ethernet and Token Ring.

WAN - Wide Area Network

As the term implies, a WAN spans a large physical distance. The Internet is the largest WAN, spanning the Earth.

A WAN is a geographically-dispersed collection of LANs. A network device called a router connects LANs to a WAN. In IP networking, the router maintains both a LAN address and a WAN address.

A WAN differs from a LAN in several important ways. Most WANs (like the Internet) are not owned by any one

organization but rather exist under collective or distributed ownership and management. WANs tend to use technology like ATM, Frame Relay and X.25 for connectivity over the longer distances.

LAN, WAN and Home Networking

Residences typically employ one LAN and connect to the Internet WAN via an Internet Service Provider (ISP) using a broadband modem. The ISP provides a WAN IP address to the modem, and all of the computers on the home network use LAN (so-called private) IP addresses. All computers on the home LAN can communicate directly with each other but must go through a central gateway, typically a broadband router, to reach the ISP.

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What are the three basic programming control structures?

the three basic programming control structures are

1.Conditional structure

If and Else statement is used in the programming for conditional structures. This statement uses a specific condition check. If this condition is true the code following the If statement will be executed otherwise the Else portion will be executed. The Else part of the If state is optional. The syntax of this condition structure varies language to language.

2.Iteration structure:Iteration structure or loops are used to repeat the instructions. There are mainly three types of loops available. For Loop, While Loop, do while loop. These loops repeat the instruction until a specific condition is true.

3.Selective structure:

Switch statement is called selective structure. In this we provide a number of options and take decision depending upon the choice.

What are the advantages of having School Intranet?

If the school has an intranet system in schools will be easier to control. With systems that favor the Red helps save time at work. Or doing things etc.

What is Intranet ?

An intranet is a private computer network that uses Internet Protocol technologies to securely share any part of an organization's information or network operating system within that organization. The term is used in contrast to internet, a network between organizations, and instead refers to a network within an organization. Sometimes the term refers only to the organization's internal website, but may be a more extensive part of the organization's information technology infrastructure. It may host multiple private websites and constitute an important component and focal point of internal communication and collaboration