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1. Tips for Hybrid Teaching (Staff Only)

User is reminded the following options for carrying hybrid teaching in teaching venues,

There are video guides on hybrid teaching in IT support page ( https://online-teaching.cpce-polyu.edu.hk) for colleagues’ reference. For enquiry, please send email to online-teaching@cpce-polyu.edu.hk or ITU helpdesk hotline at 3746-0818 (HHB) / 3746-0819 (WK).

2. Tips for Using Microsoft Teams Meetings

1. Apply background effects when joining a Teams meeting
   In the meeting tools bar, click the three dots ‘…’ and click ‘Apply background effects’. You can select ‘Blur’ option, image library which provided by Microsoft or add your own favorite image.



2. Get familiar with the mute button
   If you are not speaking, it is good practice to switch your audio to mute. Your video window will display to other attendees every time you make a noise, so the noise can interfere with the flow of the meeting.
   
   If you are the host of the meeting, you can mute other attendees in the show participants icon . The attendees can unmute themselves when they want to speak.


3. Sharing content from your device
   There are 4 ways to share content in a meeting. They are:
   
   1. Your entire desktop,
   2. A window,
   3. A PowerPoint file,
   4. A whiteboard.
   
   Here’s a quick overview of each method:
   To share your screen in a meeting, select the ‘Share screen’ button in your meeting controls. Then choose to present your entire desktop, a window, a PowerPoint file, or a whiteboard.


4. Use the ‘Chat’ or ‘Raise Your Hand’ feature to avoid interrupting the meeting
   Instead of interrupting someone to share resources and other information, use the chat or raise your hand feature.
   
   As a host, select show participants icon to see who is raised their hand. When multiple people raise their hands, they will be listed in the order in which they raised them.
   

User is welcome to visit ITU web site ( https://itu.cpce-polyu.edu.hk) and observe FAQs for online teaching for more tips and FAQ in online teaching.

3. Microsoft 365 Tips

1. Free Microsoft Office App License for Students and Staff
Microsoft 365 enables current students and staff to install the latest version of Microsoft Office app on your PC/Mac, tablet or smart phone for free. Each student and staff can install Office on up to 5 PCs/ Macs, 5 tablets (iPad, and Android) or smart phones.

For the detail installation guide, please login CPCE Portal and refer to the ‘Office 365 OWA User Guide’

As the free license is only available to current students and staff, users are required to uninstall Microsoft Office when they are no longer a member of the CPCE College community.

2.

Collaborate on a project between members in the group

• Create documents and collaborate online (OneDrive for Business)
  
  • Co-authoring and versioning
  • Use Office Online to review and modify documents, PowerPoint by the members concurrently
• Online meeting (Teams)
• Create a plan, build a team, assign tasks, and update status—in a few easy steps. (Planner)
• Share calendars and schedule meetings (Calendar)

Organize your course content

• Organize your lesson plans and course content in your own digital notebook.
• Keep everything in a OneNote, and use its powerful search to find what you're looking for, even text in pictures or handwriting.
• Your notebooks are saved automatically and can be viewed from any devices, online or offline.

Click here to login your email account, click the top left icon to access those features.
Microsoft also provide the related Apps for Android and Apple IOS mobile devices.

• Apple IOS
  https://itunes.apple.com/us/developer/microsoft-corporation/id298856275
  
  
• Android
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Microsoft+Corporation
  
  

In order to find out more about the benefits of Microsoft 365, please reference to the Microsoft Office Training Center.

4. Turnitin New Feature

Turnitin introduces a new feature “Flag” that can detect the text manipulation in the assignment submission. There are some characters in different alphabets can look similar enough that to the naked eye. it is difficult, if not impossible, to tell them apart. With using these characters text manipulation, it was possible to pass plagiarized content off as genuine previously. But now with using Flag, this manipulatoin can be detected at Feedback Studio. In case there is flag warning at the submission, it is not necessarily an indicator of a problem. However, we would recommend you focus your attention there for further review.

Please check the below links for more details of Flags in Turnitin.
https://help.turnitin.com/feedback-studio/flags.htm

5. WIE E-submission Platform

We are pleased to inform you that the WIE e-submission Platform (https://e-wie.cpce-polyu.edu.hk) has been launched. The platform allows the students to fulfil the WIE requirement by completing several e-forms.

For students who are required for Work-Integrated Education (WIE), you need to submit a WIE Proposal Form (WIE01) to WIE Advisor through the Platform for approval before you start working. After required WIE hours are completed, please submit WIE02 (Log sheet), WIE03 (Reflective Learning Statement) and other supporting documents through the WIE Platform again. And for full-time year 1 SPEED students, you may apply for recognition of Prior Work Experience (PWE) for WIE if they have accumulated related work experience before admission into the programme enrolled at SPEED.

User manual can be found after login the WIE e-submission platform, as illustrated below.

Should you have any questions, please contact General Office (SPEED : speed@speed-polyu.edu.hk / HKCC: ccoffice@hkcc-polyu.edu.hk).