Education technology support is provided by the Academic Technologies team within the Office of Information Technology. We offer a wide range of services to enhance the instructional/learning experience for Baylor College of Medicine faculty and learners.
View the full catalog of available software from BCM IT.
|
Software Name |
Description |
Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Active Data |
Room Reservation Request & Institution Event Calendar |
If you do not have an ActiveData Calendar account, you may request one by sending an email to calendar-admin@bcm.edu. You will be prompted to login using your SS |
| Adobe Creative Cloud | 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 | 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. | Access only for SOM. Request access by sending an email to ed-tech@bcm.edu |
|
Web-based learning management system designed to support fully online courses |
BCM Faculty You will be prompted to login using your SSO |
|
| Box |
BCM Cloud Storage |
Contact the BCM Help Desk at 713-798-8737 for issues or concerns. You will be prompted to login using your SSO |
| E*Value |
Web-based Evaluation Software |
School of Medicine - contact Lori Ezzell School of Health Professions PA Program - contact Yvonnne Baier |
|
Assessment software for Educational Programs |
Available to Faculty with teaching roles in the School of Medicine or School of Health Professions You will be prompted to login using your SSO |
|
|
IBM SPSS Statistics |
Comprehensive set of statistical tools |
BCM does not have an institutional license. For purchase ibm.com/products/spss-statistics |
|
Lecture Capture |
Record your lectures through the Audio-Visual department |
Available to BCM Faculty You will be prompted to login using your SSO |
| MedHub |
Wed-based Residency Management System |
Graduate Medical Education Admin: Dennis Jeorge |
| Medline Plus |
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. |
Off-campus access: Yes |
| Microsoft Office | Office Basics | Office Cheat Sheets |
| Mobile apps |
|
|
| National Library of Medicine |
The world’s largest medical library including a gateway to simultaneous searching of 20 NLM databases. |
Off-campus access: Yes |
|
Classroom Response System. Helps instructors assess student understanding of course topics, provides immediate feedback to students, builds class community |
Available to BCM Faculty |
|
| REDCap |
Research Electronic Data Capture - web application for building and managing online surveys and databases |
Baylor College of Medicine - Institute for Clinical & Translational Research |
| RefWorks |
Reference Management Software |
Access through the TCM Library |
| Reprotox |
Information system developed by the Reproductive Toxicology Center |
Genetics Counseling program - the School of Health Professions |
| Success Factors | BCM Learning Management System | For general questions about the LMS LMSquestions@bcm.edu. For login issues contact the BCM IT Helpdesk lt-support@bcm.edu. |
| Survey Monkey |
Web-based Survey Software |
|
| Typhon |
Web-based Evaluation Software |
School of Health Professions - contact Ramona Miller |
| Up-to-date |
Clinical decision support resource 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 your SSO. |
| Virtual Private Network (VPN) |
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. |
n 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.
Contact the BCM Help Desk at 713-798-8737 for issues or concerns.
You will be prompted to login using SSO |
| vBrick |
Cloud Portal for Accessing Lecture Videos |
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 your SSO |
|
Video Conferencing Service |
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 your SSO |
