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Canvas workshops for staff and students in May

The Canvas workshop for students will cover the Canvas mobile app, student navigation within course materials, how to check instructor communication through announcements and assignment due dates on the calendar, how to submit assignments, how to find grades, as well as how to utilize discussions to learn from classmates.

Cyber security awareness briefing

Online briefing sessions on Cyber Security Awareness will be held in May and June 2026.

PolyU GenAI App updates on 1 May 2026

On 1 May 2026, the PolyU GenAI app introduced major model updates, adding GPT-5.4-mini and Kimi-K2.5, while replacing Qwen3-Max with Qwen3.6-Plus. These updates bring stronger reasoning, coding, multimodal, and agentic capabilities, alongside flexible thinking modes and updated credit consumption rates for users.

GenAI App Deep Research tool updates

Starting from 1 May 2026, Internet Search queries will no longer consume user credits. Consequently, the overall credit consumption for a complete Deep Research process will be significantly reduced.

New Human Subjects Ethics Application Review System (HSEARS)

We are proud to announce the successful development and deployment of the new Human Subjects Ethics Application Review System (HSEARS), a major upgrade to PolyU's research infrastructure.

Microsoft service updates and retirements starting May 2026

Microsoft will update and retire several services starting in May 2026 to better align with its product positioning.