IT

Computer Facilities

Recognizing the importance of technology in education, IIFT’s Computer Centre has implemented the latest state of the art IT infrastructure to provide a competitive advantage in its core areas of education and research.

99% Uptime : The Computer Centre aims at providing 99 percent uptime including ensuring server uptime, data recovery and backup, facilitating storage management, hardware, network operations, streamlining operations and simplifying end-user support.

Internet & Wi-Fi Services : For its internet requirements, the IIFT avails 750 MBPS leased line from two different ISPs on load balancing. The campus is fully WiFi-enabled.

Data Analytics Lab (DAL) : Comprehending the recent advances in functional data analysis and high-dimensional statistics, IIFT, besides the Computer Lab, has an exclusive Data Analytics Lab (DAL) with 40 computers with software such as SPSS, Hadoop, SAS, etc for Data Analytics Courses.

Video Conferencing : Apart from this, IIFT also uses video conferencing facility for training, placement & corporate activities, research activities besides connecting IIFT Delhi & Kolkata for internal meetings, etc.

Online Education Platform : IIFT’s recent foray in the online education platform has been possible with the state-of -the-art IT infrastructure support being provided for the conduct of online programmes, which has enabled IIFT to conduct online sessions on a real time basis using broadband facility.

Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Platform : Besides the online education platform, Institute has also its own Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Platform that includes a rich library of recorded sessions on different subjects.

Virtual Private Network : Institute has a secured Virtual Private Network through which students will be able to access the Internal Library resources such as journals, etc. during their Summer Internship.

Exclusive Student Web Server : Institute has an exclusive Web server for students to host the web pages of the college events, symposiums, etc.

Campus360 & its Online Processes : IIFT also has a fully integrated in-house developed platform, named "Campus360" (http://campus360.iift.ac.in) that provides convergence facility to the faculty with the students and the programme office. The Campus 360 enables online attendance, sharing of courseware, result processing, online quiz, opinion polls, assignment submission, dissertation/research project submission, elective selection, port visit option, language selection and many more related activities.

Campus360 plays an important role in the daily activities of students at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. Starting from the schedule for the classes to course work, assignments, feedback, online quizzes, Campus360 has it all. The students can view the schedule for their day’s classes online. They can also view the coursework uploaded by faculty which will help them revise the concepts taught even after class. Assignments are uploaded by the faculty on campus360 with a specific deadline. Students get notifications on the Campus360 dashboard regarding their assignments, which they can complete and upload online.

Campus360 also helps in conducting online quizzes. Students can attend quiz from their own laptop on specified day and time and for a specified duration. They can view their scores along with correct answers once the quiz is closed for all. This makes the marking process transparent.

Research project submission is also done by the students through Campus360. The student dashboard is a very informative feature and helps the students to keep note of the course announcements, assignment deadlines, courseware uploads and quiz schedules at a glance.

Campus360’s Online Process : The following are the key online processes through Campus360:
a) NGO Preference (Corporate Social Responsibility)
b) Online Foreign Language Selection Process
c) Online Quizzes
d) Online Elective Selection Process
e) Port Visit Preference
f)Online Dissertation Project

Computer Centre also provides services like desktop services, operation of the client/server architecture, and management of Web applications, etc.