Facilities for e-Content Development
A dedicated committee is responsible for updation of website, development and upgradation of various apps, audio/ visual creation, editing, use and maintenance of media studio, lecture capturing and related hardware and software for e-content development at the institution level. The following facilities are available.
- Media Centre
- Audio-Visual Centre
- Lecture Capturing System (LCS)
- Mixing equipment and software for editing
1. Media Center – Drusya
‘DRUSYA’ Studio at campus assists faculty in integrating Audio Visual and Instructional technologies in regular teaching. Centre facilitates provision for educational video recording and webcasting/live streaming, technical assistance for e-content development and online hosting. DRUSYA, the Media Center is equipped with the following hardware to assist in recording lectures and creating e-content:
Equipment available
- High Resolution SONY Handycam Video Recorder
- Digital still cameras
- Computers and Laptops
- Photo and video editing software
- Audio Equipment
- External Hard Disk Drives for Archiving all recorded data
- Digital Display Units
- Webcams
- Microphone
- Pointers and Clickers
- LCD Projector and Screens
- Visualizer
- Green Screen
An online repository of Content created through Drusya can be accessed at:
www.stannscollegehyd.com//videos.htm.
2. Audio Visual Centre
- Multiple seminar halls, classrooms, and Laboratories have been outfitted with Projectors and Sound systems to facilitate the use of audio-visual material in regular teaching.
- Departments also use classrooms equipped with Wi-Fi enabled smart boards.
3. Lecture Capturing System
- Hardware facilities at the dedicated Media Center – Drusya are used for capturing lectures and creating e-Content.
- To create E-content, Faculty use open-source software such as OBS Studio, screencasting tools such as Camtasia and Screen CastOMatic, and web services such as Zoom and Youtube Streaming.
4. Mixing Equipment and Software for Editing
- Drusya employs a variety of feature-rich editing software to enable the creation of effective c
- FOSS tools such as KdenLive, OpenShot, VidCutter, ShotCut, and Windows Movie Maker are used
- These software’s help in multitrack video editing, adding and editing elements like 2D text, performing color corrections and audio adjustments and incorporating transitions.
5. Open source tools
- Screencast-O-Matic, OpenCV and Simple Screen Recorder, Nimbus an open source software is used by the institution for recording and processing audio/video content.
- The Statistics Department uses R programming, Excel, licensed SPSS Tool for the statistical project work.
- The department of computer science uses Anaconda, Jupyter Notebook, Python, Java, matplotlib, Numpy, Pandas, and online compilers like C, C++, Oracle to complete lab programmes and to create real-world applications
- The Department of Chemistry and Computer Science use Moodle, a free and learning management system (LMS)
- OpenOffice and LibreOffice are office suites used by computer science department for creating and editing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets.
- Multisim tool used by Department of Physics and Electronics for teaching electronic circuits to gain practical experience with circuit design and analysis.
- All departments use Postermywall and Canva to generate a brochure, PowerPoint, animation files, etc.
- Canvas used by physical science departments to upload the course materials and student assignments