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13.1.2 Construction of a Teleinformatic EnvironmentConsidering our analysis of existing possibilities of the electronic support forroutine activities of teachers and students at technical universities, we haveconcluded that it is desirable to create a new concept of teleinformatic resources,which would streamline activities both in the teleinformatic, and scientific/research area.Our findings show that there is support of such activities on the level of CTUand its faculties. However, on the level of basic pedagogical and scientific/research units, i.e., particularly departments, this support is implemented onlyat a relatively small number of workplaces. That is why we have initiated preparationof a development project of a sample Web system suitable for supportingthe work of individual departments at our university. The work is carried outin the environment of the Department of Telecommunications Engineering ofFEE (Katedra telekomunikační techniky FEL), which is a typical example of anend-branch department. Thus, our work is based on the actual needs of bothteachers and students.The system has been constructed as an open one from the beginning, with amodular concept based on purpose sections, which can be further hierarchicallysegmented. Firstly, we created a basic structure, description of its characteristicfeatures and design of a differential access system including accessrights. To implement all the aforementioned requirements for constructing theeducation and information system, we purchased a sufficiently equipped serverwithin the project, which was installed in the RDC premises. In the followingstage, we dealt with several technical precautions and started implementationof individual pages of selected sections.The basic structure is built up in a way allowing creation of the following communicationforms:• simple transfer of information from the centre to a user• user can send reply to the centre from a reserved location• centre queries• general or thematic mailing board• storing and picking up of electronic didactic materials• information exchange within a specific group of usersThe system allows storing of supportive didactic materials in the most commonformats, as well as some special formats, such as:• plain text document (TXT)• formatted text document (RTF)• PDF document• PowerPoint presentationHigh-speed National Research Network and its New Applications 2002155