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Adobe Express allows users to generate a free, customized QR code by entering content, selecting design options, and downloading the PNG file for use in various applications. No account or software installation is required, and the tool can be accessed from any device with a web browser.

Instructions for enrolling in Okta Verify when you cannot scan the setup QR code, such as when your phone's camera is broken or unavailable. Covers requesting a setup link by text message and completing enrollment after the app is installed.

How to charge a print job to a department or shared account instead of your personal PaperCut balance. Faculty, staff, and authorized student workers can select a shared account at the time of printing, once their access to that account has been set up by IT.

How to use the Call Park feature in Teams to place a call on hold with a retrieval code, allowing another person to pick it up from any Teams device.

R Studio Server Pro is a web-based, graphical development environment for writing and running R code.

Instructions for adding Google Authenticator as an additional multi-factor authentication (MFA) factor in Bowdoin's Okta system. Covers both QR code scanning and manual key entry for devices that cannot scan a QR code.

Instructions for embedding a Panopto video or audio file in a Bowdoin WordPress website using the iFrame embed code from Panopto's sharing settings. Covers both the Classic editor and the Block editor.

Instructions for charging copies made on a campus multi-function device (MFD) to a department project code or account using PaperCut. Explains how to select an account before copying and clarifies that department charges track usage for accounting purposes only — they do not deduct from OneCard funds.

Explains how to use Bowdoin IT's hardware locker cabinets for emergency laptop swaps. Covers locker locations in Smith Union and the Thorne/Coles Tower breezeway, and the step-by-step process for exchanging a failed laptop for a loaner using a Service Desk-provided code. For all Bowdoin faculty, staff, and students.

Instructions for uploading files to LibreChat so the AI can reference their contents, managing uploaded files, enabling File Search for agents, and using the Artifacts feature to generate and preview structured outputs such as code, diagrams, and HTML in a separate interactive panel.

Bowdoin College provides a Linux-based High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster for faculty, students, and researchers. The cluster offers approximately 1,400 CPU cores, GPU computing, up to 2 TB of RAM per node, and a variety of scientific software. This article provides an overview of HPC resources and how to get started.

A comprehensive reference of software available on the Bowdoin HPC Linux cluster, including commercial packages such as MATLAB, Gaussian, Mathematica, Stata, and COMSOL, as well as over 130 open-source scientific applications. Includes instructions for using the module system to load software and detailed usage guides for each commercial package.

Instructions for connecting to the Bowdoin HPC environment using SSH, the HPC Web Portal, JupyterLab, or RStudio. Covers SSH access from macOS and Linux, VPN requirements for off-campus use, and SSH configuration tips for dropped connections.

Instructions for transferring files between your local computer and the Bowdoin HPC environment. Covers the HPC Web Portal file browser, mounting the HPC research space via SMB from macOS or Windows, SFTP from the command line, and using Gluster temporary scratch storage for running jobs

Instructions for submitting, monitoring, and managing jobs on the Bowdoin HPC Slurm cluster. Covers writing job scripts, using sbatch and the hpcsub wrapper, running parallel processing jobs (SMP and OpenMPI), running interactive jobs, and controlling jobs with squeue and scancel.