IT Services

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Last update: 07-11-2007

• New technologies at the heart of the teaching
• The school's IT facilities 
• The internet network 
• The wireless local area network

New technologies at the centre of the teaching

Last update: 07-11-2007

As a result of its curricula – a year abroad, work placement and on the Campus – Montpellier Business School’s teaching procedures make use of NICT to:

• consult the teachers’ course material
• access the French and English on-line library and databases
• remain in contact with the teaching and administration teams during a supervised course in a foreign partner university
• self-training
• access to society, administration and teaching information and schedules
• have a supervised internship with an e-coaching platform
• prepare and monitor e-learning courses
• have free and unlimited Internet access from the Campus
  

The school's IT facilities

Last update: 07-11-2007

The school’s IT facilities include 3 self-service computer rooms open Monday to Friday from 7:30 AM to 10 PM, and on Saturday from 7:30 AM to 1 PM. They comprise:

• 64 fixed micro-computer workstations
• 4 multi-function copiers, with printing secured by password and launched from each student’s portable or fixed workstations via the wireless local area network

 

In parallel to the administration of the computer rooms by the Montpellier Business School IT support department, during the academic year a computer technical support service is put in place one day a week in dedicated premises. There, a technician is charged with diagnosing the causes of any problems with hardware or parameter-setting that students experience on their personal laptop computers.

 

The Internet Network

Last update: 07-11-2007

All micro-computers are connected to the Internet. Like teachers and administrative staff, each student has unlimited Internet use and an e-mail address, for no additional cost.

 

The Campus has a 6 MB optic fibre high speed Internet connection. All of the network architecture has been changed to a “100 megabits switched” network and restructured in terms of organisational efficiency and computer security.

In addition, a Webmail, using Microsoft’s Outlook Web Access technology on an Exchange 2003 server, provides a professional message service with the following features:

• e-mail address with 50Mb personal space allocated
• contact management
• task management
• agenda
  

The Wireless Local Area Network

Last update: 07-11-2007

Montpellier Business School’s entire campus is covered by a wireless local area network, making “wireless roaming” possible. Forty WiFi bases, with 802.11b (11 Mbps) and 802.11g (54 Mbps) radio technology, thus allow participants in ESC’s programmes to have a wireless Internet connection, from anywhere on the campus, with their laptop computers.