IT Services

Classroom AV/IT Facilities

PolyU has over 100 lecture theatres and general teaching rooms. While all are equipped with essential audio-visual equipment and network connections, the AV/IT facilities in each room may be slightly different to serve different teaching purposes. When searching for a classroom, users may wish to check the facilities first before making a reservation. With the “AV/IT Teaching Facilities Search” website, users can check out the full list of AV/IT equipment together with the floor plan and photo(s) of the selected room without physically visiting it. A 360-degree preview of the environment is also available for some teaching venues via the website.  

Online Learning Platforms

The University has adopted a Learning Management System (LMS) named Blackboard which internally known as LEARN@PolyU (理學網) as the common online leaning platform. LEARN@PolyU allows teaching staff and course administrators to create and manage interactive online learning content. A full range of IT supports on course content development and integration, server administration and account management are provided to teaching staff and course administrators for the operation of LEARN@PolyU.   Conducting Active Learning and Interactive Teaching with Zoom and Microsoft Teams Instructors can use Zoom to promote active learning and interactive teaching. Zoom offers a variety of features — such as video and audio chat, whiteboard, breakout rooms, text chat, and interactive polling — that encourage student participation, collaboration, and real-time engagement. Additionally, Zoom allows students to share their screens during sessions, enabling them to present their work, demonstrate solutions, or lead discussions, further enhancing interactive learning. Instructors can also record class sessions in Zoom, making them available for students to review afterward. Microsoft Teams, available through Office 365 Connect-Tenant, also supports active learning and interactive teaching. MS Teams provides a chat-based workspace where teachers and students can engage in discussions, share documents, and collaborate through screen sharing and other interactive tools. Instructors can also record classes in Teams, allowing students to revisit the material as needed.    

PolyU GenAI

The PolyU generative AI application is solely for PolyU staff and students to use for teaching and learning, research, and work-related activities only. GenAI tools include a wide range of AI models, such as text and image reasoning services and text-/image-to-image services running on the public cloud. Access requires successful authentication using your staff or student NetID.   

Student Computer Centre

The Student Computer Centre (SCC), located on the 4th floor of the Li Ka Shing Tower, provides over 200 PCs for student and staff use. In addition to the computer labs, the SCC also offers informal learning spaces for project discussions and group works. No advance booking is required. All users are requested to observe the Rules for Student Computer Centre Users.   Computers & Software Students are welcome to leverage the prevailing software installed in the SCC for their studies. For details of the hardware and software available in the Student Computer Centre, please refer to the link.   TLIT Lab The Teaching and Learning Information Technology (TLIT) Lab, located in M401, provides workstations equipped with graphics cards to support multimedia applications. Software such as DaVinci Resolve for video editing, OBS Studio, Renderforest for animation, and Unity for game development is available for use in the TLIT Lab.   Virtual Access Computer Centre Software applications in SCC and TLIT lab are also made available through Virtual Student Computer Centre (vSCC) for students to remote access from home machine browser with their NetID and NetPassword.   Classroom Booking for Teaching A number of designated PC rooms on the 4th floor of the SCC is available for class booking by departments via the Room Enquiry and Booking System on a first-come-first-served basis. Please contact your Departmental Timetabling Officer for booking arrangements.   Printing & Scanning Printing and scanning services are provided in the SCC and octopus card is adopted for charging. A wireless printing service “SCC Mobile Print” via mobile application “Print Utility” has also been introduced. Users can easily print files from their mobile device or cloud storage at the SCC's printer such as Microsoft OneDrive for Business, Adobe Reader, Google Drive, Google Docs, iCloud Files and Dropbox, etc. For details, please refer to the SCC mobile print user guides.