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IT skills workshops for students in February

A series of workshops on IT skills for Future of Work and Research will be conducted in February 2023 with topics on Machine Learning and Neural Networks, game development, 3D modelling, Augmented Reality (AR) Applications and Excel Macro. Students are welcome to enrol to gain hands-on experience.

Best practices for sharing content uploaded to OneDrive folder

On Office 365 Cloud for staff and students, users are able to share content uploaded to Office 365 OneDrive for Business folder with staff or students holding login account on @polyu.edu.hk and @connect.polyu.hk domain respectively as well as with external parties.

Beware of online scams webpage on IT Security website

To alert PolyU community of various techniques used by online scammers and tips to avoid falling prey to victims, please visit IT Security home page and select Online Scams.

Enhancement of Virtual Student Computer Centre

The Virtual Student Computer Centre (vSCC) VDI service (“vSCC 1”) has now been migrated to UDS platform (“vSCC”) to allow more flexibility / concurrent use of sessions for students to remote access and use license software installed on Student Computer Centre (SCC) machines for learning and research activities.

A timer app is ready for Zoom class activities now

To enhance staff and students’ teaching and learning experience, the Zoom Timer App is now available in Zoom for lecture capture and hybrid teaching delivery usage. The Zoom Timer App is a new feature that is a countdown and alarm to remind instructor of remaining time to go. It is very handy and useful for timing the duration of student presentations and other class activities as well.

Review your office desktop / laptop installed software

Software license compliance is an on-going and continuous process of Software Asset Management (SAM). Staff members are responsible for the software installed and used on their office desktop / laptop computers. Staff can review the latest list of installed software via PolyU Desktop management System (PUDMS).

New version of softphone mobile app available

Commencing on 16 January 2023, a new version of softphone mobile app (Deltapath Mobile version 6.1) has been released to Google Play (for Android smart phone) and App Store (for iOS smart phone) for download and installation.

Identity Portal – Gateway for managing your PolyU online identity

The PolyU NetID (Network Identity) is the key to use University’s IT facilities and services. It is a unique personal identifier and is made up of a single username and password pair, named as NetID and NetPassword respectively. With the NetID, users can access the University’s online facilities including University Portal, eLearning Platform, Wi-Fi and other network facilities and services, etc.

Use personal notebook in teaching venues

If instructors want to record what they shared with the class using their notebooks or conduct a hybrid class with students joining online, they can use their notebooks to join the VC session as a guest participant and use the Classroom PC to start the Cloud based VC Meeting as host to benefit from the visual / audio integration already pre-configured at teaching venues. ​

IT skills workshops for students in January

A series of workshops on IT skills for Future of Work and Research has been planned for January. Topics include machine learning, web scraping with Python, recommendation engine explications, video editing and Excel macro.