Student Technology Guide for Academic Year 2021 - 2022
(Including the Med Student Technology Requirement and other important information you'll need to set-up your devices)

Welcome from Drexel
College of Medicine
Information Technology
The Med Student Technology Requirement
Official Requirement for Class of 2025
Zoom, Blackboard Collaborate, Drexel Streams
Computer Set-Up Checklist
iPad Set-Up Checklist
About Computer Accounts
and Policies
Third and Fourth
Year Information
Help with Videos, Notes, Passwords & Browsers
Getting Computer HELP
Frequently Asked Questions

About Computer Accounts and Policies

Activate your Account
If you have not yet done so, please activate your computer account by following the information at the DU IT's New Student Accounts Activation page. Pay special attention to the official policies, procedures and terms of service that you are agreeing to when accepting your account. Also be sure to change your password and do not ever share any of your passwords with anyone.

After you activate your Account you will have access to the following:

Email Account:
Email is the primary means of communication between the school and students. For this reason, it is mandatory that all students activate and check their official University email account. It is each student's responsibility to check email regularly and to be sure that the mailbox has not exceeded its quota. All official College of Medicine correspondence will be sent to your University email account. Students may elect to use another email address from other sources, however, it is then their responsibility to forward the University email to the external account and make sure that it continues to function.

Since Microsoft Office 365 and OneDrive will give you a vast amount of storage space, we recommend using Outlook in Office 365 for your email. View Email Setup instructions

DrexelOne:
DrexelOne is a web portal for Drexel students. Use your Drexel User ID and your email password to access DrexelOne. Here you will find informational messages and you can even customize the page to display the headlines and information you want. You can get access to your BannerWeb account (see Banner below) through DrexelOne as well as access to your Blackboard Learn courses (see Blackboard Learn below).

Banner:
Banner is the name of the system which holds all of your personal student information, including official grades, financial aid info, contact info and more. You can view and make changes to some of this information using BannerWeb. BannerWeb is accessable by logging into DrexelOne (see above).

Blackboard Learn:
Blackboard Learn is a common Course Learning Management System that you may already be familiar with. All of your required courses in Foundations and Frontiers will be located in Blackboard Learn. The direct URL to Blackboard is http://learn.drexel.edu


Class Mailing Lists (Listserv):

Incoming medical students are automatically pre-subscribed to the 2025 class email list. However it is your responsibility to maintain staying on the correct list. You also will automatically be subscribed to your MD Learning Society listserv.

Your class list email address is:

  • COM2025-PHL-LIST@lists.drexel.edu (1st year Philadelphia Med students)
  • COM2025-RDG-LIST@list.drexel.edu (1st year West Reading Med students)
    These lists will NOT be activated until Orientation week and we will add you and send a welcome. If you do not recieve it during Orientation week, then email TIME@drexel.edu and let us know.

In addition, faculty and administration may also subscribe to the class lists. These lists are for internal use for College of Medicine activities only (both academic and extracurricular). They are not to be used by individuals outside the University or for any commercial purpose. You will only be able to send email to these lists using your University email account. All postings from third party accounts (such as GMail, MSN, Comcast, Verizon, etc) will be rejected. To see all the class lists and the rules for using them, click on the Class Email Lists link on Webcampus or go there directly at https://webcampus.med.drexel.edu/TIME/classemaillists.htm

Webcampus:
Webcampus is the short name for our medical education server which hosts curriculum materials and other student resources for Year 1 through Year 4 medical students as well as resoruces specific to the Philadephia and Reading campuses.. All password protected resources on Webcampus will require your "Drexel User ID" and your "DrexelOne Password".
View Webcampus at https://webcampus.med.drexel.edu