Tech Resource Guides

Instructions, guides, and links for tech resources are available below.  Please keep an eye on your student email account for important updates that are made to this section!

Are you an incoming student to the College of Podiatric Medicine?  Please make sure you have accomplished the following before arriving to Orientation!

1. Ensure that you can successfully log into Flashline with the username and password you received when you were accepted.
2. Log into Blackboard and Boxcast with your Flashline account and familiarize yourself with the environment.
3. Create a Zoom account using your Kent State email address.
4. Install and activate SimpleMind and Examplify (Examsoft).  IT will provide access to your login information, installation files, and license code via mass email when we get closer to your Orientation date.
5. When your Responseware account has been created you will receive a confirmation email automatically to your Kent address.  Please log in, familiarize yourself with the account, and review the usage guide below.

• https://learn.kent.edu
  • Student guides for using Blackboard Learn

• https://boxcast.tv/lecture/ksu

• Getting Started and Creating an Account 
  • (Please use your Kent State email address when creating your account)
• How to Join a Zoom Meeting

• https://www.simpleapps.eu/simplemind/index.html
  • (Contact IT at cpmit@kent.edu for the installation files and license code)

• https://www.examsoft.com/ocpm

• https://responseware.turningtechnologies.com/responseware/
  • Creating a Turning Account
  • Student Instructions for using Responseware

Other Available Resources and Free Programs

•    Using audio/visual in the Lecture Halls
•    Endnote (Free web-based version)
•    Office 365 (Free Office for personal device use)