I first started using the board in 2021 for a university course, and this was the setup guide they taught us. When I disconnect the board COM3 does disappear, and nothing was connected to pins 0 and 1. The board did work in the past, and currently I'm just trying to run the test code the IDE provides.
The last project I did with the board was pragram a snap to it; more information on what I did can be viewed on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkEGnqj_n38&t=535s