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Panopto recorder and Panopto block on Moodle

HKU teachers and staff can apply the HKU @Connect account to access Google services through this link.

Perusall is a social annotation tool that integrates with Moodle. Perusall allows students and teachers to collaboratively mark up documents, videos. Instead of reading a document isolated, Perusall brings the social discussion to the text.

Zoom Usage report allows you to view a list of meetings, participants, and meeting minutes for meetings you have hosted.

We are pleased to tell you that we are able to provide the Faculty with e-learning teams’ iPads to support your hybrid teaching in the second semester.

Now a campus license for academic staff and students to use Mentimeter for facilitating work and study is available. With login via an HKU account, you can unlock all pro features on Mentimeter.

We know that verbal communication is an essential part of learning and teaching. Using your voice is intuitive in face-to-face teaching, it is manageable in online teaching, but it is quite challenging in hybrid teaching.

One of the most popular functions of Zoom is the breakout rooms. But the hurdle of managing the breakout rooms is the teacher has to assign student manually into each room or pre-assign students before the lesson. There is a new function in Zoom version 5.3 that allows students to self-selecting a breakout room.

We have successfullly secured funding to provide 27 e-Learning Backpacks (iPad Pro + Accessories) for the Faculty of Education’s teaching staff to borrow. This easily portable teaching resource will provide hardware and software to:

Zoom participants may worry about their privacy especially when they turn on their camera and the meeting is being recorded. It is the host’s responsibility to ensure participants privacy. The Zoom host has the right to control what is being recorded. Please follow the steps to maximize your control on Zoom recording.

The Faculty has recruited 12 e-Learning student helpers to support teachers with online remote teaching and dual-mode teaching in classrooms. They will provide support from September 7, 2020, to November 30, 2020.

We understand it’s something of a new challenge to provide a similar learning experience for both F2F and online students. There are some ways to make both groups interact better with each other and with the teacher and we hope that this message helps you to decide on the arrangements most suitable to your own classes for the coming semester.Please note that students have been told that they are not obliged to come to campus for classes if they do not feel comfortable with F2F classes yet, and we still have students overseas who will be depending on online teaching.