IIM Calcutta website gets a facelift

Updated on: Wednesday, June 08, 2011

In its golden jubilee year, IIM Calcutta presents a whole-new state-of-the-art web portal for its users, registering its facelift in the cyberspace. The new web portal was launched officially on June 3. It provides the different stakeholders like faculty, alumni, students, external organisations and staff with their own login. The link to the new web portal is http://www.iimcal.ac.in/. There are wide ranging features available which are specific to the user groups like

    Course web for the faculty,
    Networking facilities with co-alumni for the Alumni,
    Leaves and course registration for Students,
    Batch Profiles for external companies for placements and
    internal workflow for Staff like booking of Tata Hall, Auditorium etc among others.
    Apart from the user group other specific features are provisions for facilities like Chat, Forum and Discussion boards for cross user group interactions.

Primarily the home page would also feature three important sections, which are News, Events and Announcements. The section on news would feature the latest news on IIM Calcutta in various media outlets. The section on events would give a glimpse on forthcoming events which will take place in the campus and the announcements section will feature all kind of announcements like admissions, recruitment, tender etc. By default the current news, events and announcements would be featured in the home page, however the older ones will go to the archive. The web portal also has links on social networking websites like Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and YouTube.

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