With the recent development in the field of information
technology, education networking became increasingly important.
Establishment of a uniform and effective educational resources
sharing and management platform by utilizing advance education
and information technologies has become the answer for the
education reform.
As a result, the concept of digital schooling started to
develop. It is based on networking in an education institution
intranet with the Internet via advanced IT methodologies
using equipment such as computers, scanners, digital cameras,
and projectors. Furthermore, digital schooling is achieved
by connecting equipment and classrooms with educational
resources such as literature. As a result, activities such
as teaching, learning, management, service delivery, and
office administration can all be accomplished through virtual
means. The set-up of a virtual education environment raises
the efficiency and expands the functionality of traditionally
based education environment.

An
education institution deployed Galactic's server and storage
systems to provide FTP, VOD online-media, email and web
services to the whole school. This set-up also helped to
consolidate previously used systems such as office automation,
faculty management, electronic lesson planning, education
resource management, information search, remote education,
inter-school communication, and integrated web service among
others..
After the set up of the digital schooling platform, previously
used systems' management modules can be managed centrally
under one system. With the help of email, different modules
within this platform are able to realize digitalized teaching,
research, finance, equipment and student management and
thus improve the total teaching quality of the institution.
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