The UQU President, Dr. Bakri bin Maatouq Assas, has launched at his office in al-Abdiyah Campus on Thursday Dhul-Qe'dah1, 1437H corresponding to August 4, 2016, the French and Spain versions of the university website which includes 5500 sub-sites of the UQU Vice Presidencies, Colleges, Support Deanships, departments, and Male and Female faculty members. Attending the event were  the Vice President for Academic Development and Society Service, Dr. Hani bin Othman Ghazi, Vice Dean of IT for e-Transactions, Dr. Atef al-Hejeili, and the Director of Public Relations and Media Department, Mr. Khalid bin Jameel Morsi.

 
UQU President underscored that the website is accessible for all those who want to benefit from the university's scientific, research and innovative services, pointing out that the university attracts scholarship students in the Arabic Language Institute for Non-native Speakers annually. He added that the website is the first of its type at the level of Saudi universities to provide its services in four languages: Arabic, English, Spanish and French.
"Making the website available in these four languages will contribute significantly to publishing the scientific research of the university including 5500 sub-sites of the male and female faculty members, colleges, support deanships and various university departments with more than 10,000 pages", he expounded.

       
He went on to add that the university has transformed all the products which it owns their copyright into digital formats including more than 24 thousands titles, 9 million pages with an average number of 10 million visitors annually.  These modern technologies, he said were designed to serve the university affiliates and publish their researches and products  to all parts of the world. 

Within the same vein, he said the current transformation witnessed in the university is in line with the vision and directives of  the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, May Allah Protect Him, the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif bin Abdul-Aziz, Deputy Premier, Minister of Interior, the Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Second Deputy Premier, Minister of Defense. He further lauded the directives of HE the Minister of Education, Dr. Ahmed Al-Iesa which will contribute to upgrading educational, innovative and research systems of the university.  

   
For his part, the Vice President for Academic Development and Society Service, Dr. Hani bin Othman Ghazi said the university website has passed over several developmental phases during which several workshops were conducted until the first phase which was recently launched in Arabic and English. Today, he added we are celebrating the French and Spanish versions of the website by harnessing the latest technologies adopted worldwide according to the modern trend of the websites. He said that such technologies will contribute to providing the best electronic services for the university affiliates, expressing his thanks and appreciation to UQU President for his unremitting support and follow-up.

     
In a similar fashion, the Vice Dean of IT for e-Transactions, Dr. Atef bin Mansour al-Hejeili, explained that the contents of the website include multimedia files, photo galleries, videos, audios, profiles, full control of menus, flexibility in main page customization, users access control. He added that the website includes 250 sub-sites for all the departments of the university, besides 5500 sub-sites and 10 thousand pages for all faculty members.  He further added that number of news published during the last five months amounted to 1800, 1600 multimedia library, and more than 10 thousand contact details, underscoring that the average of monthly visits amount to 12 million, while the number of users is 130 thousand.