XAVIER KNOWLEDGE CENTRE

With computer and information technology expanding and edging its way into every work activity, it has become essential to be conversant with this science. Aware of this need, the College had set up a Computer Centre to exclusively cater to the computer education of its students. This was introduced as one more, amongst the varied extra-curricular programmes conducted on the campus. 
 

In the year 2006, St.Xavier’s College felt the need for an expanded Computer Center, to cater to the needs of its 4500 students and faculty. With the help of the UGC “College with a Potential for Excellence” grant, the college has set up the Xavier Knowledge Center with the active cooperation of Dr.(Fr.) Arun D’Souza S.J., Dr. Jehangir B. Mistry & run under the able direction of Professor Kevin J. D’Cruz.

 Besides conducting the university courses, the college has its own up-to-date computer courses at very nominal fees, which are self financing and aim towards increasing computer literacy and proficiency. The computer training would enable students to work confidently with computers at their respective domain of work.

COMPUTER LITERACY includes

  • Computer Fundamentals

  • Linux

  • Windows XP

  • Star Office Suite

  • Ms- Word

  • Ms-excel

  • Ms-PowerPoint

  • Networking Concepts

  • Web Access

  • ECommerce

 

CREATIVE LITERACY includes

  • Adobe Photoshop

  • Adobe PageMaker

  • Corel Draw

 Several departments of the college make use of the computer lab facilities.  Apart from the regular classes, various departments use the facilities for short term courses like Statistics department’s SPSS course and the Zoology department’s Computer Forensics course.  The English, French & Life Science department also used the labs for training on internet applications and net surfing.  A few Workshops were conducted in the center the latest being a workshop for Tribal teachers. We also conducted a video conference with Liverpool Hope University.  

  
 

INFRASTRUCTURE:
Computer Labs for Practical Classes

1 lab with 20 computers for 40 students

2 labs with 30 computers for 30 students

1 lab with 15 computers for 15 students.

and configurations are as follows

v     P_IV 3.8 GHZ Intel

v     DDR II 512 MB RAM

v     80 GB SATA Hard Disk

v     52X CD ROM

Each lab has one staff machine attach with projector, cd rom drive, USB Drive & Printer.

 

Cyber Lab for all the college students and staff

1 lab with 20 computers (including 10 LCD & 10 TFT monitor) used as a cyber lab with the minimum charges. Facilities available:

v     net surfing,

v     Project work,

v     society work,

v     College magazines, brochures

v     Print outs,

v     scanning,

v     CD/DVD Writing.

This lab is open to college students and staff on all college working days and the time is between 8:15am to 4:45pm.

 

Video Conferences Lab

1 lab is well equipped for Audio, Video conferences with the capacity of 32 people which include

v     Aethra Codec

v     SONY BRC 100 Camera

v     Sound System

o       Mixer, Amplifier, Woofer , 2 speaker

v     3 ISDN Lines

v     Projector, Screen

v     Microphones

All these facilities are available in air conditioned environment, with comfortable chairs and suitable lighting.

 
 

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