There were fights inside the company about whether to give over the info, but the speed with which people were connecting with each other, sharing stuff, and using those things to movearound the Internet, won the argument.
The teacher in the game can also ask them to retrieve things from around the classroom, so again when they focus, the objects in the game move from one place to the other.
We want to see things happen faster, but we understand that it takes a while to turn the ship around and move it back in the right direction where we are.