Campus Management System (CMS) at International Islamic University (IIU) was inaugurated by President of the university Dr. Hathal Homoud Alotaibi on Monday.
In the light of the strategic plan and vision of IIUI’s President regarding digitization of the university, the campus management system after untiring work of months was inaugurated in the presence of university Vice Presidents, Deans, DGs, IT officials and team members of the CMS.
“Today is a historical day in the history of IIUI as I am happy to congratulate our community because university has achieved a major breakthrough towards digitization by launching Campus Management System. I appreciate efforts of team that worked untiringly for the success of this task” said Dr. Hathal by officially inaugurating the system in a ceremony held at new campus.
He said that the new campus management system is a major component in the implementation of university’s strategic plan and reflects the high relevance IIUI attaches to international level teaching, learning and positive administrative reforms.
Earlier, Dean FET, Nadeem Ahmed Shiekh gave a detailed briefing about the CMS, its benefits, its present stage and its outcomes in future. He also gave a detailed overview of the roadmap of university’s strategic plan and elaborated the state of data that has already been incorporated in the system. He also apprised of the future strategy and utilization of this system to facilitate the students, teachers and administrative staff. The participants also hailed the CMS saying that it would pave way to academic excellence as it will help in transparent monitoring in pursuit of academic excellence and successful administrative reforms.
The IIUI President said that faculties and students can use the campus management system for application and enrolment, planning of studies and the semester, and for examination and other allied tasks. He added it shall also help in monitoring the trajectory of the administrative procedures and workflow of the officials. He informed that the campus management system will be made available in the form of a web-based interface.
While appreciating the efforts of the CMS team, IIUI President emphasized that their responsibility does not end here but their real work starts from here as they have to ensure adoption of the system. He urged the IIUI community to take the ownership and adopt the system by cooperating with the IT team. He said that this IT-based solution will facilitate a transparent, secure, enterprise-wide paperless system available to all administrators, academicians, students and research scholars as it interconnects all the major departments and institutes of the university.
Worthy President further said deadlines for each task of CMS must be met and each Vice president shall have close liaison with the committee of CMS. He said any documents , if needed for approval from statutory body, should be processed at the earliest.