Technology

Information Technology · Room A-170 · ext. 2110

The College’s technology serves instruction and administration. It is maintained by a department of two.

• DroverNet, the student and employee portal, in service since 2009. It is the system of record for registration, grades, financial aid status, parking permits, and the roommate board. It is best used on a desktop or laptop computer. A mobile view exists and is limited.
• Canvas, adopted 2019, replacing a locally hosted course system that is retained read-only for archival access.
• Computer labs. Three: A-166 (24 stations), B-12 (20), and the records research lab (12). Stations are on a five-year replacement cycle; the current cycle completes in FY2028. Labs run a standard image maintained by the Help Desk.
• Printing. 200 pages per term per student. Overage is $0.05 per page. Two lab printers and one plotter, the plotter in the Shop Building for drawing instruction.
• Wireless. BCAT-Secure and BCAT-Guest. Coverage is complete in Wings A through E, partial in the Shop Building, partial in Barn Complex B, and absent in the Sub-Level and at the Annex. Coverage in the Reptile House is intentionally not provided; the racks are on an isolated circuit.
• Classroom AV. Ceiling projectors in eighteen classrooms, with document cameras. Four classrooms retain overhead projectors at faculty request; transparency film is stocked by the Bookstore. Every projector-equipped room also has a DVD player, and the Library maintains a VHS collection of trade instructional titles for which no replacement exists in any format.
• Telephone. The extension system serves the Corliss Pike campus and the Annex. Extensions are four digits. Voicemail is available.
• Testing. The Testing Center operates a proctored station bank and retains an optical mark reader for faculty who use answer sheets, which the Bookstore stocks.
• Library systems. An online catalog, database subscriptions including the ASTM, ANSI, and IATA standards collections, and the original card catalog, retained in the Library reading room. It is not maintained and is not a finding aid. It is used by the Foodways Documentation course and by no one else.

Library collections and the Testing Center are described at Library. Instructional equipment by division is listed at Instructional Equipment.