iStanford upgrade

TIME reports on iStanford, which launched October 1, enabling users to access a campus map and course catalog, email professors and get news and information about sports teams.

But the newest version, slated to arrive shortly, also allows students to add and drop courses, see the real-time whereabouts of the on-campus shuttle bus, review their own grades and course history and perform a variety of other administrative tasks that are normally accessible only over secure campus networks. That's because, in an unusual move, Stanford's IT folks allowed the developers to connect to core computer systems at Stanford.

The app has been so well received that scores of schools around the country have contacted the students' company about designing their own iPhone apps.

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