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- Knowledge Base
- AI Prompt Catalog
- Professional Development
A LibreChat prompt that generates individualized professional development ideas tied to your role, goals, strengths, and constraints, with step-by-step plans and progress measures. Built for Bowdoin faculty and staff who want a realistic, self-directed growth plan, plus an optional goal timeline.
- Knowledge Base
- AI Prompt Catalog
- Professional Development
A LibreChat prompt that generates professional development workshop and session ideas for higher-education audiences, each with learning outcomes, a timeboxed agenda, an interactive element, and takeaways. For Bowdoin staff and faculty planning training or presentations for colleagues.
- Knowledge Base
- Student & Professional Services
- Students: General Information
What Handshake is and how Bowdoin students and alumni use it to search and apply for jobs, upload a resume, and register for Career Exploration and Development (CXD) events. Covers logging in at bowdoin.joinhandshake.com, that IT cannot reset Handshake passwords (contact Handshake Support), and how to reach CXD for career questions. Applies to students and alumni.
- Knowledge Base
- Teaching & Learning
- R Studio Server Pro
How to log in to Bowdoin's RStudio Server Pro, a web-based graphical development environment for writing and running R code, at rstudio.bowdoin.edu. Applies to Bowdoin students, faculty, and staff, and notes the VPN requirement for off-campus access.
- Knowledge Base
- Policies, Standards & IT Communications
- Policies
Requires that every business computing system at Bowdoin have a designated Business System Owner responsible for ensuring the system meets the College's business needs and is appropriately documented, secure, controlled, tested, available, and sustainable. It applies to all computerized systems involved in creating, processing, or distributing College business information.
- Knowledge Base
- AI Prompt Catalog
- Teaching & Learning
An interactive LibreChat prompt that guides Bowdoin faculty through analyzing course context, brainstorming assessment strategies, and developing a chosen real-world assessment aligned to course objectives. Produces a structured assessment overview with description, alignment, competencies, and implementation process.
- Knowledge Base
- Software, Applications, & AI
- Adobe Creative Cloud
An overview of Adobe Creative Cloud at Bowdoin College, including which applications are included, who has access, and how to install apps on Bowdoin-owned or personal devices.
- Knowledge Base
- Software, Applications, & AI
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Claude
- Getting Started & Access
This article explains how to get access to Claude at Bowdoin through a three-tier model: LibreChat for everyone, the Claude tools by request, and application programming interface access through Portkey (coming soon). It also lists what the access request will ask for.
- Knowledge Base
- Policies, Standards & IT Communications
- Policies
This policy governs the use of electronic commerce (online business transactions such as conference registration and the purchase of course materials) by Bowdoin entities that generate revenue through fundraising or the sale of goods or services. It requires reasonable steps to protect purchasers’ personal information and privacy, compliance with PCI-DSS standards, and coordination with Information Technology and Finance.
- Knowledge Base
- Software, Applications, & AI
- General Software & Tools
Overview of Flipgrid, a free video discussion app that faculty access as an Educator through Bowdoin single sign-on and that students join with faculty-created codes. Covers how faculty sign in, how students participate, and how Flipgrid accounts relate to Bowdoin accounts. Applies to Bowdoin faculty and students.
- Knowledge Base
- Policies, Standards & IT Communications
- Policies
Sets out the responsibilities of students who receive and use the Bowdoin College-owned "Technology Kit" (an Apple laptop, iPad, and related accessories) distributed under the Digital Excellence Commitment (DExC) program, and summarizes the policies governing student use of College-owned and managed technology. It applies to enrolled students issued a Technology Kit.
- Knowledge Base
- Special Computer Environments
- High Performance Computing (HPC)
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.
- Knowledge Base
- Policies, Standards & IT Communications
- Policies
This policy explains how Bowdoin College collects, uses, and protects information from visitors to bowdoin.edu and other College websites, including personally identifiable information, aggregate data, and the use of cookies. It applies to all websites and pages owned and operated by Bowdoin College.
- Knowledge Base
- Special Computer Environments
- High Performance Computing (HPC)
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.
- Knowledge Base
- Software, Applications, & AI
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- LibreChat
A running log of known bugs and issues in LibreChat at Bowdoin, organised by type (model bugs, UI bugs, usage bugs), with workarounds where available. Users can also submit bugs they have encountered.