Student Technology Guide for Academic Year 2024 - 2025
(Including the MD Student Technology Requirement and other important information you'll need to set-up your devices)

Welcome from Drexel
College of Medicine
Information Technology
The MD Student Technology Requirement
Official Requirement for Class of 2028
Laptop Set-Up Checklist
iPad Set-Up Checklist
(Examplify for iPad and MFA)
About Computer Accounts,
Policies and Resources
Third and Fourth
Year Information
Zoom, Teams, Drexel Streams
Help with Videos, Notes, Passwords & Browsers
Getting Computer HELP
Frequently Asked Questions

iPad Set-Up Checklist

     

1) Connect to WiFi
"Dragonfly3" is the wireless network you will be connecting to when on any Drexel campus. Please read about how to connect at the Drexel Information Technology (IT) Dragonfly webpage at http://drexel.edu/it/help/a-z/dragonfly3/
2) Install the DUCOMpass app
DUCOMpass is an iOS/Android app designed to provide medical students at Drexel University College of Medicine with a simple and convenient way to access critical information anywhere and any time including submitting an absence request.
Go to the installation page from your iPad or mobile device to install it. PLEASE READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS ON THAT PAGE.

3) How to use MFA with Examplify for iPad
Before you begin with Examplify for iPad, read this section about using Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) with Examplify for iPad

During the sign-in process to Examplify for iPad, you will need to use Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). Examplify for iPad cannot use the authentication method called : "Microsoft Authenticator - notification". Also during exams you will not be able to have your phone with you in the room so you cannot use the "Phone-text method". If you have either of these methods chosen as your default MFA method, you wil need to change it to finish signing in.

The only acceptable MFA method for Examplify for iPad exams is:
  - "Authenticator app or hardware token – code"

In case you are logged out of Examplify for iPad, we require that before exams you:
  1) Set your MFA method to be - "Authenticator app or hardware token – code"
  2) Have the Microsoft Authenticator app installed and set up on your iPad

To change your default sign-in method, follow these steps:

  1. Sign into Office on the web – https://office.com
  2. Select your account picture (or initials) in the bottom-left corner and then choose “View account”.
  3. In the left-menu, select “Security info”.
  4. At the top section, for the Default/Most Advisable Method, select CHANGE and then select "Authenticator app or hardware token-code" from the drop-dwon menu and then CONFIRM.
  5. If you have not yet set up "Authenticator app or hardware token-code" as a method, then select "Add Sign-in method" at and proceed to add this method. Then repeats steps above to make it your default method..

In step 4 below when in the Examplify for iPad app, after signing into Drexel Connect it will ask for a MFA verification code. To get it, go to the Authenticator app on your iPad, click on your Drexel profile and obtain the ONE-TIME PASSWORD CODE and use this code in Examplify for iPad.

4) Set-up Examplify for iPad from ExamSoft Worldwide, Inc
This is the free iPad app that is used to deliver exams in the first and second years of the curriculum. You are required to make sure your MFA settings and Examplify for iPad are set-up correctly before each exam.
Refer to these instructions in our Examplify for iPad Student Guide

CLASS OF 2028, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO LOG INTO EXAMPIFY FOR IPAD UNTIL YOU ARE ON CAMPUS.  DURING THE FIRST WEEKS YOU WILL BE ADDED TO THE EXAMSOFT SYSTEM.

A PRACTICE SESSION IS ALREADY SCHEDULED TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THIS SET UP AND ARE ABLE TO USE THE EXAMPLIFY APP BEFORE YOU TAKE YOUR FIRST EXAM.

Learn more about Examplify for iPad
See Examplify for iPad to learn more about takign an exam with the software

5) Install Zoom and sign into your Drexel Zoom Account
Make sure to use the SSO link. All students must use these Setting Up Zoom instructions to make sure they are correctly logged into the Zoom app on their deives. Many zoom curriculum sessions use authentication and if you have not signed into your Drexel zoom account you may bot be able to join these zoom classes or meetings.