Services for Staff
Advising
- Students plan their courses during the advising period.
- Advisors approve/edit students’ courses.
Antivirus Protection System
IT provides and installs antivirus protection and full coverage on all equipment owned by LAU, as well as on personal equipment approved for academic use.
Banner (For Authorized Staff)
http://lh-asfr.lau.edu.lb:7777/forms/frmservlet?
Banner combines administrative and academic functions to support the integrated flow of information throughout LAU. It provides staff with a full range of functions necessary for student administration, including: catalogue creation, data collection for class scheduling, admission, faculty workload analysis, registration, accounts receivable, academic history and degree audit reporting.
Blue
Blue is a web application used mainly for course evaluations at LAU, as well as for data collection through web surveys.
Blue course evaluation projects are built to ensure strict confidentiality and anonymity. All data responses are encrypted even at the database level. Reports or filters that result in less than three individual responses cannot be generated.
Blue enables the evaluation of more than 4,000 courses per year. More than 50 surveys are conducted annually through the system, via more than 200,000 invitations sent by email.
Bring Your Own Device - BYOD
This service will allow students, faculty and staff to bring their personally owned mobile devices to LAU, and use them to access LAU information, applications and services in a secure and controlled manner. Supported devices are:
- Android phones
- IOS/ MAC OS devices
- BlackBerry OS phones
- Windows 7, 8, 10 computers/phones
- Linux-based devices
Calendaring
IT provides calendaring services for faculty, staff and students through Microsoft Exchange.
COGNOS BI
Cognos BI
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence is a web-based, integrated business intelligence suite. It provides a toolset for reporting, analyzing, score-carding, and monitoring events and metrics. Its software includes several components:
Cognos Connection
Cognos Connection is a web portal that provides access to all suite functions. Through Cognos Connection, users can search for content in the form of reports, scorecards and agents; manage, structure, display and publish search results; schedule and distribute reports; create task; administer the server and control access permission.
Query Studio
Query Studio allows users to process simple queries and generate self-service reports. Users may customize the report layout, for example, by filtering and sorting data, formatting and creating diagrams.
Report Studio
The Report Studio is used to create management reports, through two different options. The professional authoring mode enables users to access the full range of Report Studio functionality. In this mode, users can create any type of report, including charts, maps, lists, and repeat functions. While this mode allows the use of all types of data (relational or multidimensional), it does not allow dynamic data display.
The express authoring mode has a simpler user interface, designed for non-technical users. In contrast to the professional authoring mode, the express authoring mode allows the use of dynamic data.
Analysis Studio
Through Analysis Studio, users may analyze large data sources and search for background information about events or action. Multidimensional analysis allows identifying trends and understanding of anomalies or deviations. The software offers users drag-and-drop features, elements and key performance indicators, the ability to switch rows and columns, and OLAP-functionalities like drill-up and drill-down
Data Backup
IT carries out data backup on a regular basis for all specified folders as requested by faculty and staff.
DSPACE
- Capture and describe digital material using either a submission workflow module or a variety of programmatic ingest options.
- Distribute an organization’s digital assets over the web through a search and retrieval system.
- Preserve digital assets over the long term.
Eduroam
What is Eduroam?
Eduroam (education roaming) is a secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international research and education community. Eduroam allows students, researchers and staff from participating institutions to obtain Internet connectivity when visiting other participating institutions by simply using their institution credentials.
Accordingly, with Eduroam, whenever you are visiting a higher education facility that is also an Eduroam member, you will be able to use your LAU email credentials to gain internet access from the visited institution. Similarly, if users from universities that are Eduroam members visits LAU, the visitors can use their home institution credentials to gain internet access from LAU.
Thousands of univerities are Eduroam members. We have listed examples of members towards the end of this email and the link to see the complete listing in the Eduroam website.
How can I use Eduroam?
When you visit an Eduroam member University
Whenever you visit any member university, University of Oxford for example, turn on your WiFi service on any of your devices and look for a network called Eduroam. Once you connect, provide your LAU email address (in full, with the lau.edu.lb extension) in the identity field and your LAU password in the password field. After being authenticated, you will have free internet access through the University of Oxford.
Note to Students: Although your email is firstname.lastname@lau.edu but only when you eduroam, please make sure to add .lb to your identity in order for you to gain access to the service, so your Eduroam identity is firstname.lastname@lau.edu.lb
Visitors from users of higher education institutions that are members of Eduroam
Whenever you receive such visitors, please make sure to inform them that they can use the Eduroam WiFi service at LAU. So if an Oxford faculty is visiting or if a Columbia student comes for an Arabic course, they can search for the Eduroam Wireless service on our campus and use their home institution credentials to gain access to the internet from LAU.
Please note that when you are on any of the LAU campuses (Beirut, Byblos, or New York), you cannot use the Eduroam service. Eduroam service at LAU is available for visitors only.
Where can I use Eduroam?
Eduroam is available at all major institutes of higher education around the world, the following is a listing of some of the universities.
For a complete listing of Eduroam members, please press on the map
Do not hesitate to contact us for any further clarifications.
IT provides email accounts on Microsoft Exchange for all LAU faculty and staff using Microsoft Outlook.
Email Archiving
The email services provided for faculty and staff include the online archiving of old messages.
Entrance to Campus
https://webapps.lau.edu.lb/ecf
- Fill the “Entrance to Campus” form. This form then sends a notification to the LAU Protection department that a visitor request to access the campus has been made.
- The Protection department approves/rejects the request.
Events Hardware Accommodation
The IT department lends monitors, PCs, laptops and printers to faculty and staff for temporary use during events.
Financial Aid Timesheets
Through this application, students can fill out their time sheets on a daily basis. At the end of each month, supervisors must validate the time sheets (for the purposes of employment and financial aid).
- Student Timesheets: https://onlineapps.lau.edu.lb/fa_timesheets/?Key=FAWS
- Supervisor Timersheets: https://onlineapps.lau.edu.lb/fa_timesheets/?Key=FAEM
Graduate Assistantship Timesheets
https://webapps.lau.edu.lb/ga_timesheets
Helpdesk
The IT Helpdesk team provides phone and email support during normal working hours as well as assigning and/or escalating user requests for specific IT entities.
All end-user requests are followed up in a timely manner.
ID Cards Management System
The ID Management System issues an LAU ID card to all staff. The ID card has multiple functions. For example, it allows staff to borrow library items and to access LAU parking.
Infosilem Encampus Scheduling System
The Scheduling System includes 3 main modules:
- Course Scheduling
- Exam Scheduling
- Data Collection Utility
The scheduling modules are mainly used by the Registrar’s Office to prepare the course catalog and final exam schedule.
The Data Collection Utility is used by departmental academic assistants to update section information regarding the upcoming term for the course catalog. The collected data are used in the Course Scheduling Module.
IT First Line of Support
The IT Support team provides all manner of technical support for desktops and laptops. This includes phone, remote and walk-in support in order to ensure the processing of users’ requests in a timely manner. Support beyond working hours is provided when needed.
IT Hardware Procurement
IT hardware procurement is assessed on a single basis for all LAU equipment. Users’ needs are attended to with optimal technical expertise.
https://it.lau.edu.lb/documents/Standard%20PC%20Dell.pdf
https://it.lau.edu.lb/documents/Standard%2014inch%20Laptop.pdf
LAU Faculty and Staff Portal
We are pleased to announce the deployment of the “LAU Faculty and Staff Portal” that was designed based on your input. The portal offers secure and personalized access to email, announcements, insurance, schooling benefits, administrative forms and other channels of information and communication. It provides a convenient single sign-on access for the university systems, whether you are on or off campus. You can access the LAU portal using your email username and password.
We would like to take this opportunity to remind you to keep your passwords private and not share them with any individual since this will allow them to gain access to your personal and privileged information.
You will have access to it from the LAU home page or by pressing the following link: https://myportal.lau.edu.lb
The portal is a very dynamic system and we welcome your feedback and input. If there are services or features you would like to have in the Portal, please send us your suggestions via the We Care channel in the Portal home page tab.
The LAU Faculty and Staff Portal has been deployed for use on November 26, 2014.
LAU Mobile Application
- Grades
- Daily Schedule
- Student News Feed
- Student Calendar
- Link to LAU Students Facebook Page
- Link to LAU Students Flickr Photo Gallery
- Link to LAU Students Financial Aid Time-sheets
You can download the LAU mobile application from:
LAU WebEx
LAU introduced a practical communication tool, WebEx, to keep you connected through video/audio meetings, content sharing, and team messaging.
Hence, with the help of virtual meetings from WebEx, you can hold collaborative meetings via Mac, Windows and Mobile devices with an ease of use.
Here is the WebEx Meeting Quick Start Guide.
Library Catalog (OLIB)
https://librarycatalog.lau.edu.lb
OLIB is LAU’s library management system. It provides information on all library holdings: book and non-book materials, their availability and circulation status.
Staff may search the catalog by title, name, keyword, subject, or classmark. To guarantee precision, searches may be refined by means of certain filters, or by using Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT). Staff may also reserve materials in accordance with set rules and regulations. Assistance in using this database is provided by the Circulation Desk, Reference Desk or any available librarian.
Loan Management System
LMS is customized software that enables LAU to streamline the manner in which loan information is captured and shared with the Banner student information system. Through LMS, loan information is efficiently updated, analyzed and reported.
Loaning of IT Equipment
IT provides temporary equipment (PCs, laptops, printers, etc.) to ensure end users’ continuous work in case of hardware failure.
Minutes of Meeting
http://acad-admin.lau.edu.lb/hocm
- Each council designates specific users to upload meeting minutes.
- Council members can download the meeting minutes.
- To access the application, users are required to log in with their LAU username and password.
Multimedia Equipment Request
http://webapps.lau.edu.lb/multimedia.
Fill the Multimedia Equipment Request form to request multimedia equipment for a specific room or class.
The Multimedia administrators approve/reject requests based on equipment availability.
Online Room Reservation
https://onlineapps.lau.edu.lb/roomreservation.
Parking Management System - Beirut
The Parking Management System supports a number of different functions, including but not limited to online and offline access control, digital video capture, badging, visitor management, security touring and alarm monitoring.
Parking Management System - Byblos
PMS - OnGuard is a software that supports online and offline access control, digital video capture, badging, visitor management, security touring, etc.
The system also manages offline programmable locks, monitoring transactions/alarms, etc.
Seat and Bench
This application is used to tag seats in Irwin Hall and the Selina Korban Auditorium, in addition to benches on campus.
Smartphone Synchronization
Email integration is possible on most mobile devices and smartphones. This services is provided for the entire LAU community.
Software and Applications Support
LAU’s IT team provides software and application support for all IT approved and licensed software, listed below, for both Windows and Apple platforms.
| Windows | Apple |
|---|---|
| 7Zip | Adobe Professional |
| Able2Extract PDF Converter | Avamar |
| Adobe Professional | Cisco AnyConnect |
| Adobe Reader | Keynote |
| Attachment Manager | |
| Avamar | Microsoft Excel |
| AYMail | Microsoft Office 365 |
| Cisco AnyConnect | Microsoft One Drive |
| Cogniview-PDFToExcel | Microsoft One Note |
| Google Chrome | Microsoft Outlook |
| Internet Explorer | Microsoft Powerpoint |
| Microsoft Excel | Microsoft word |
| Microsoft Office 365 | Mozilla Firefox |
| Microsoft One Drive | Numbers |
| Microsoft One Note | Pages |
| Microsoft Outlook | Safari |
| Microsoft Powerpoint | Winzip Mac |
| Microsoft Project | |
| Microsoft Visio | |
| Microsoft Word | |
| Nero | |
| NOD32 | |
| Respondus LockDown Browser | |
| Skype for Business | |
| Turning Point | |
| WinRAR | |
| WinZip |
Software Installation and Upgrade
Users must not install or upgrade software on their personal computers except if needed for business use and after obtaining approval of the concerned supervisor. For more information, contact our IT helpdesk.
Student Employment
http://webapps.lau.edu.lb/studentemployment
Through this application, faculty and staff post student employment vacancies in their departments.
The Raiser’s Edge
The Raiser’s Edge is an application that allows LAU to manage fundraising issues.
Transportation Request
Webmail
IT provides web-based email service for all LAU personnel as well as for students and alumni.
Login links:
See also:
- Change or reset your password
- Get your LAU email on your mobile device
- Upgrade your Live account to Office365
Who is She?
Who Is She is an online database with profiles of prominent contemporary Lebanese women. This project started in 2008 following the establishment of a bilateral partnership between LAU’s Arab Institute for Women (formerly known as Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World - IWSAW) and the Danish Centre for Information on Women and Gender (KVINFO), a grant-maintained self-governing institution under the jurisdiction of the Danish Ministry of Culture.
The purpose of the project is to provide the public with easy access to biographical information about a large number of contemporary women in the following categories: opinion leaders, senior managers, politicians, professionals, artists, researchers, and experts within a wide range of subjects. A similar online database with a list of thousands of names of prominent Danish women has been available to the public since 1995.
AiW aims to make the Who Is She in Lebanon online database: 1) as comprehensive as possible; 2) as representative as possible of Lebanese womens’ achievements in various fields of specialization/occupations. At the same time, the list is duly selective to reflect the high level of achievement by every woman included.