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Pivoting the infrastructure and capability for pervasive remote working and studying

As the coronavirus spreads, studying online and working from home are the new reality for PolyU students and staff. To enable students to embrace online teaching and staff to remote work from home, there is a list of initiatives ITS have taken:

Remote access to licensed software running on SCC

The PolyU Desktop Sharing portal has been launched and students can remote access to desktops at Student Computer Centre (SCC) to use licensed software installed on these machines (e.g. Adobe Creative Cloud, SPSS etc.) for learning purpose anytime and anywhere.

SCC service during COVID-19 pandemic

To accommodate the study needs of students, our Student Computer Centre (SCC) continues to open during COVID-19 pandemic with a list of precautionary measures implemented:

Skype for Business will retire in July 2021

Skype for Business has been serving PolyU users for many years and will retire on 31 July 2021. As a replacement, Microsoft Teams will be the primary tool for all calls, video conferences and meetings for users using Office 365.

Summer Term extended classroom teaching delivery updates

Summer Term has begun and preparation has been made at AV IT facilities in GT/LT to ease teachers to conduct synchronous online teaching delivery while accommodate students who attend at classroom.

Data breach incident at online food ordering website

Refurbishment of teaching labs at Block M Student Computer Centre

mySystem virtual machine is open for application

University cloud services portal

Reminder to MATLAB users: Backup before the temporary license expires on 30 June 2020