IT Services - Computing and Internet Resources
The Department of Management Information Systems (MIS) has responsibility for the Information Technological Development of the College and for supporting the teaching and learning processes at The College. MIS maintains a network infrastructure built upon a single-mode, 12-strand fibre optic loop that spans the Oakes Field Campus. The Department maintains connectivity to the The College’s system of campuses and centres on several islands with the assistance of the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) and Cable Bahamas. Additionally, the Department maintains Internet service from two local providers, BTC and Cable Bahamas, as well as its own independent connection to the Internet. Wireless networking also extends accessibility in many common meeting and study areas all over campus. This is an open network provided as a courtesy to COB students, faculty and staff.
The College has many information technology resources available for students. All campus buildings are equipped to permit internal network and external Internet access from classrooms, laboratories and offices. The College boasts over three hundred computers in twenty rooms for student use. These included eighteen rooms with a total of two hundred and sixty Intel Pentium 4 Based PC’s and two rooms with a total of fifty Apple Macintosh machines. MIS maintains sixteen rooms dedicated to the use of computers in a formal lab setting, or rather less formal classroom setting.
MIS maintains the www.cob.edu.bs website and the email domains of cob.edu.bs, and cobmail.edu.bs for employees and students.
Students pay a $100.00 technology activity fee each semester for use of photocopy and computing services and access to the College of The Bahamas Wireless Network - the procedures for connecting are available at the MIS department. Each student is issued an email address which has a capacity of four (4) megabytes of storage.
For more complete and current information about computing services, contact
IT Help Desk at ITHelpDesk@cob.edu.bs
Telephone: (242) 302-4588
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