The Programme Office

The MSc (ECom&IComp) Programme Office is a people-friendly organization.  We respect and value our students and recognize they are busy professionals.  The Programme Office staff places major emphasis on customer service, responding quickly and precisely to requests by phone, fax or email, ensuring that students' interaction with the Programme is as efficient as possible.

In addition, students are provided with free prescribed textbooks and printed lecture handouts for most of the modules.  If you are away on business trips, you can catch up lectures by downloading the materials and hearing the recorded lecture online as most of our lectures are recorded.

The Intranet

The Intranet is developed by the Programme Office to serve a closed community of local and international faculty, their teaching assistants, students, the Programme Management Team, and the Programme Office staff of the Master of Science programme in Electronic Commerce and Internet Computing at the University of Hong Kong.
 

These are its features

1. It draws on a backend database that stores management information such as admission and enrolment, fees, assessment results, students and teachers profiles, course material, evaluation data, statistics, timetables.
2. It has an electronic assignment submission system that can track and record submissions and re-submissions, time and grades
3. It has bulletin board software that allows threaded posting of notices, messages, and views contributed by named or anonymous contributors
4. It allows personalization and personal spaces for different classes of users
5. It allows access to different types of information based on user privileges and rights
6. It provides access to remote teaching web sites developed by the faculties
7. It contains only course materials which are legitimate and do not violate copyrights
8. It does not accept membership subscription, but a guest account of a limited period may be issued on application to the Programme Manager.
9. Graduates can continue to access the Intranet in their year of graduation until late December, after that they can join the Alumni Association and continue to keep in touch through the Alumni intranet.

Currently, the system is running on Microsoft Windows platform. Its front end is the Internet Information Server and the backend database is Microsoft SQL server.

The Multi-purpose room

The multi-purpose room is located at P6-03, Graduate House. It has been renovated to use not only as a classroom for small to medium group teaching but also for public seminar, staff and student functions. 

The Graduate House

The Programme Office and teaching facilities are all located in the Graduate House, a modern, quiet, airy building situated in the southern part of the HKU campus. Because most of the lectures of the MSc programme are held at the Graduate House, it means that students can also visit the Programme Office before the start of a class or during lecture tea-breaks. The Graduate House has state-of-the-art, electronically controlled conference facilities. The Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall in Graduate House is a spacious air-conditioned modern auditorium, which can seat 280 persons, with modern facilities including a simultaneous interpretation system, video conferencing system, computer network connectivity, full audio-visual and teaching facilities. Wireless LAN is installed in the Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall and the foyer area; which means students can bring along their laptops to class and access the Internet as they listen to a lecture; to access the campus network, the MSc Intranet, and the Internet as they relax in the foyer area.

The Libraries

All our students have free access to the excellent University of Hong Kong Libraries which consist of the Main Library and six branch libraries.

Your benefits:

• You have the privileges of borrowing 180 items at a time.

• You can access the library database remotely from home through the University's computing network.

• You can have free access to the Internet via state of the art in the Libraries.

• You can attend the library courses conducted by the library at no cost to you.

• You can borrow items from libraries throughout the world through the Inter-library Loan system.

But you can also use the mini-library at the Programme Office, which is not as extensive, of course, although it sometimes has titles not held in the Main Library.