IMPORTANT: Important Message from Vice-President (Teaching and Learning) (05-03-2020)
Dear colleagues Just a quick supplement to my earlier email sent to both colleagues and students. ZoomWe’ve upgraded our Zoom licence for the next 12 months. Previously, HKU Zoom accounts each had 500MB storage for cloud recordings. Now there’s no storage limit, though any recording uploaded by a teacher to the Zoom cloud will be…
IMPORTANT: Important Message from Vice-President (Teaching and Learning) (05-03-2020)
Dear colleagues and students We’re continuing to monitor and analyse the COVID-19 situation and its implications for the University. Within this still uncertain framework, we’re trying to figure out the best way forward for teaching and learning. As before, our absolute priority remains the health and safety of both HKU members and the general public….
Message from Learning Environment Services, ITS (27-02-2020)
For your reference, all 159 central classrooms are Panopto and Zoom ready. Although a few of them do not come with a ceiling-mounted camera (due to the physical room limitation), all the classroom PCs are equipped with a built-in microphone and camera. Also, Panopto recorder and Zoom meeting software packages have been pre-installed. For looking…
Message from Vice-President (Teaching and Learning) (19-02-2020)
Dear colleagues In the past couple of days I’ve had opportunities to discuss online learning with the Associate Deans (T&L) and, when visiting with the President, with colleagues in the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences. In recent weeks I’ve also had many email conversations with colleagues and students. I figure it makes sense to…
IMPORTANT: Message from Vice President (Teaching and Learning) (10-02-2020)
Dear colleagues and students The University is continuing to draw on expert medical knowledge in monitoring the coronavirus situation in Hong Kong. While all of us are eager to return to teaching and learning in early March, we realize that it is now unlikely that scheduled classes on campus will be able to resume so…
IMPORTANT: Message from Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching & Learning) (30-01-2020)
Dear Staff and Students, Hong Kong is going through a very challenging time due to the recent outbreak of Coronavirus in Mainland China. The University has been closely monitoring and reviewing the virus situation in Hong Kong. Having continuously received advice from medical experts, we now come to the view that we will need more…
IMPORTANT: Online Teaching and Learning (27-01-2020)
Important message from Vice President (Teaching and Learning) Dear colleagues I’m writing to follow up on the President’s January 25 message announcing class suspension at HKU until February 17. In this period we will again switch to online T&L. Where possible, we encourage instructors to use lecture capture and chat rooms to deliver course content….
IMPORTANT: Online Teaching and Learning (15-11-2019)
Important message from Vice President (Teaching and Learning) Dear colleagues, As mentioned in my message yesterday, classes on the Main Campus will be converted into online teaching and learning for the remainder of the semester. I am writing further to provide you with online teaching and learning resources currently available at HKU. The HKU Learning…