"It's a portal system where students and instructors log in and have all their course content, access to various resources, " Getz said.

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Ask students to keep a weekly log to chronicle events in Yugoslavia.

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Students at StanfordUniversity can log on from their laptops anywhere in the main building of the law school.

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Once connected to the system, whether inside the school or hundreds of miles away at home or work, students can log into an innovative system called Blackboard, in use now for almost three years.

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The app also will send students messages asking about their progress if they don't log in for several days.

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In addition to the missed call log, the new tech-savvy device allows students to screen (translation: ignore) as many as 100 stored phone numbers.

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