All individual school’s appointed School Portal Administrators will use the given admin ID and password to log in to perform the admin functions. If your school had already started using the Google Apps, you can assign the School Portal Administrator role to any active Google Apps users in your school.

On Monday, 19th March 2007, we 1ill send a User Notification Letter containing a new Google Apps account for each school, with a standard user ID ” portaladmin.xxx@smjk.edu.my” where xxx indicate the new Google Apps school suffix, previously decided by the SMJK council, for a full list of this Google Apps school suffix, please visit – http://ischool.tv/projects/2007/02/06/smjk-email-service-migration/

The School Principal will handover this User Notification Letter (UNL) to the existing School Portal Administrator or, if there is no existing one, appoints a new School Portal Administrator and passes him/her the letter.

The PDF generated User Notification Letter will contain a temporary School Portal Administrator account, please use the ID and password given in the letter to log into Google Apps’ http://mail.smjk.edu.my, making the necessary first password change and Google Apps Terms-and-Conditions acceptance.

After which, please wait 24th March 2007, Saturday, after we had migrated the new Portal, to log in to the new portal at http://ww.smjk.edu.my to perform the necessary Administrative functions as the School portal Administrator.

If your school already have the Google Apps accounts activated earlier for all teachers, you can simply log into the new portal and assign the School Portal Administrator role.

We will be migrating all contents from the existing Web portal to the new version, which will involve a large volume of formatted text and graphics files. Due to the different nature of coding between the old and new system, where we are migrating from a GB character based code to UTF, the following old contents may be affected:

– Some of the Chinese Characters may be missing, or display not correctly;
– Some of the old graphics may not be properly aligned due to different text size and templates;
– Some of the html coded news may not be displayed properly in the new templates;

You may need to re-edit some of these contents to make them properly aligned.

We will be migrating the existing SMJK portal to the new version on Friday, the 23rd of March 2007, the portal will be shut down temporary to enable our project team to perform the necessary data conversion and certification works.

The new Portal will be available again on Saturday, 24th of March 2007.