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1. Reminder : No Wi-Fi SSID : CPCE_Staff_M and CPCE_Student_M after 31 January 2013

As announced in the previous issue of ITU Newsletter, it is a gentle reminder that Wi-Fi SSID : CPCE_Staff_M and CPCE_Student_M will be phased out after 31 January 2013. Should you still use any of these SSIDs for Campus Wi-Fi connection, you are strongly advised to switch to other SSIDs before this deadline. For the list of SSID available for students and staff use, please refer to the following table.

For Staff:

For Students:

2. Success of Wi-Fi Printing Trial Run

ITU is pleased to announce trial run of Wi-Fi printing in HHB campus comes to success. 100 students have been invited to experience this new service between 29th November and 12th December. ITU is currently analysing user feedback and prepare for next phase of the service. As usual, you are also welcome to contact our helpdesk for any suggestion and comment on this service.

3. HHB AV Facility Upgrade Project

In view of the need to upgrade AV facility to support daily teaching and learning activity and new T&L initiative, campus AV facility is scheduled to upgrade by two phases from 2012 to 2013 academic year. The first phase will mainly cover AV facility in HHB campus while the second phase is for WK campus. There will be some highlights of this upgrade including, adoption of wide screen projector, remote management of classroom AV facility, etc. To ensure success of this project, representatives of different units have invited to raise options to this projects and individual staff is also welcome to raise suggestion and comment, especially personal experience in specific classroom which special attention is necessary. User is welcome to approach John Cheung at x0594 or pfitoper@cpce-polyu.edu.hk for any information.

4. Backup your Course Materials in Moodle

Moodle contains your course materials and provides one-stop access which makes users access the materials conveniently. It is always a good practice to make an extra copy constantly.

For students, all course materials would be archived at the end of the semester. Therefore, you will not be able to access the courses offered in the previous semester after archived. Please backup your notes, assignments, projects, etc. from Moodle.

For academics, you can anytime access your previous courses in Moodle, it would be a good practice to backup your course materials by the end of each semester. The backup procedures can be found at http://it-training.cpce-polyu.edu.hk/mod/book/view.php?id=247&chapterid=314

Should you have any problems for the backup, please feel free to contact ITU helpdesk at 3746-0818 (HHB) or 3746-0819 (WK).

5. IT knowledge: What is RSS?

RSS stands for "Rich Site Summary" or "Really Simple Syndication". It allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest contents from any RSS-capable websites you are interested in. It also saves your time by not needing to visit each site individually.

A RSS-capable website or RSS feed will display an icon like , so you can subscribe to it. Once subscribed, every time you visit the feed you can retrieve the latest contents. You read a content and it will be automatically marked as read. You can also manually mark the content as unread, it is similar to the read and unread function in email client.

You read email using email client or web-based system. Similarly, you subscribe and read RSS feeds using a RSS reader or aggregator. In our next newsletter, we will talk about the use of popular online RSS reader, Google Reader, in various platforms.

6. Smartphone and Data Plan Offer from 3HK (Staff Only)

There is smartphone and data plan offer from 3 HK for CPCE staff, including Galaxy SIII, Galaxy Note II LTE, HTC One SV, iPhone 5 and different SIM plans. Interested staff please visit IT Product Mega Sales Link in CPCE Portal for details.