Educational Software for Students/Trainees

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Adobe Creative Cloud Installation Guide

Description: Creative Cloud is a membership that gives you access to the latest versions of all Adobe professional creative desktop applications (such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and others). You install the Creative Cloud Desktop app first, which is used to manage your account, and you use it to install the desktops apps you wish to use. Creative Cloud desktop applications are installed directly on your computer.

Aquifer

Description: Aquifer provides case-based virtual courses for clinical learning. Aquifer’s courses are evidence-based, peer-reviewed, and continuously updated by the Educators Consortium, to support best practices in clinical teaching and learning. Aquifer’s courses build essential knowledge and clinical reasoning skills for health professions students, grounded in Aquifer’s pedagogy.

Availability: Access only for Scholl of Medicine. Request access by sending an email to ed-tech@bcm.edu

Blackboard Resources

Blackboard Login

Description: BCM Learning Management System

Availability: You will be prompted to login using SSO.

Comprehensive Academic Management System (CAMS)

Description: Unofficial transcripts, Letter Grades, Financial Aid Info, Student Account Info, Student Directory, Elective Registration (MS1)

Availability: You will be prompted to login using SSO.

E*Value

Description: Web-based Evaluation Software

Availability:

School of Medicine - contact Lori Ezzell

School of Health Professions PA Program - contact Leah Oren-Palmer

Event Manager – BCM Intranet Calendar

Description: Room Reservation Request & Institution Event Calendar

Availability: Available to anyone with a BCM username and password

You will be prompted to login using your SSO.

ExamSoft Resources

ExamSoft Login

Description: Assessment software for Educational Programs

Availability: You will be prompted to login using SSO.

MedHub

Description: MedHub is a web-based Residency Management System designed to track and document a variety of program and resident activities for scheduling, curricula delivery and evaluations, which are required for program and institutional accreditation.

Availability: Graduate Medical Education

Contact: GME Office (gme-medhub@bcm.edu)

You will be prompted to login using SSO.

Medline Plus

Description: MedlinePlus brings together information from NLM, the NIH, and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.

Availability: Off-campus access: Yes

Microsoft Office Home Use Software Program

Office Basics

Microsoft Cheat Sheets

You will be prompted to login using SSO

Microsoft OneDrive

Description: BCM Cloud Storage. Use OneDrive to store, share, and collectively edit files. OneDrive can be accessed from any browser at https://mail.bcm.edu (1TB limit) by logging in with your BCM username and password, click on the app launcher and chose One Drive.

What is OneDrive

Getting Started with OneDrive

OneDrive FAQ

Accessing Shared Files

Availability: All users. Contact the BCM Help Desk at 713-798-8737 for issues or concerns. 

You will be prompted to login using your SSO and MFA (Google Authenticator used)

Mobile Apps

Description: Approved BCM Mobile Apps

National Library of Medicine

Description: The world’s largest medical library including a gateway to simultaneous searching of 20 NLM databases.

Availability: Off-campus access: Yes

NBME Testing Resources

Description: School of Medicine NBME Licensure Exam

Availability: Contact the NBME Chief Proctor for questions: Email Phuong Huynh, Ph.D. or 713-798-3271.

Nursing Reference Center

Description: Nursing references

Availability: Access through the TMC Library

Poll Everywhere

Description: Classroom Response System. Helps instructors assess student understanding of course topics, provides immediate feedback to students, builds class community.

Availability: As a poll is displayed to an audience, students submit responses by visiting a specific Web site or by sending text messages to our short code number (22333) Participant Registration.

PubMed

Description: PubMed comprises more than 29 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

Availability: Access through the TMC Library

RefWorks

Description: Reference Management Software

Availability: Access through the TMC Library

Success Factors

Description: BCM Learning Management System

Availability: For general questions about the LMS LMSquestions@bcm.edu. For login issues contact the BCM IT Helpdesk lt-support@bcm.edu

Typhon

Description: Web-based Evaluation Software

Availability: School of Health Professions - contact Ramona Miller

You will be prompted to login using SSO.

Up-to-Date

Description: Clinical decision support resource

Explore the UpToDate training videos

Live Online Learning

End-user customer support

Availability: Free if accessing on campus with BCM WiFi, or off-campus with VPN.

If users access the site on campus (with BCM WiFi) the site will recognize them and they won’t be asked to pay for a subscription. If users access the site away from campus (like from home), then they need to be on VPN (Choose Group: ERC). If they are off campus and not on VPN, then they will be prompted to pay for a subscription.

You will be prompted to login using SSO.

vBrick

Description: Cloud Portal for Accessing Lecture Videos

Availability: For questions or help with issues, contact AV at av@bcm.edu. 

Contact the BCM Help Desk at 713-798-8737 for login issues..

You will be prompted to login using SSO.

Virtual Private  Network (VPN)

Description: Baylor College of Medicine’s VPN solution allows employees/students who are connected to the Internet through their own private connection (DSL, cable modem, AT&T U-verse, etc.) to access BCM computing resources as if they were physically connected to Baylor’s network.

Availability: In order to use a VPN connection, you will be required to install and configure the VPN software on the computer that you will be using to remotely connect to the Baylor network. BCM Office of Information Technology provides the VPN software  client and the instructions to download and install it.

IT MFA Install Brochure

You will be prompted to login using SSO.

Zoom Resources

Zoom Login

Description: Video Conferencing service

Availability: For questions or help with issues, contact AV at av@bcm.edu. 

Contact the BCM Help Desk at 713-798-8737 for login issues.

You will be prompted to login using SSO.