CollegeRuled

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CollegeRuled **CollegeRuled** is a free Web 2.0 that helps **college students ** to create a weekly class and activity schedule.

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 * CollegeRuled.com

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 * College students can create and customize their class schedule.
 * It is a free online service.
 * Students can add activities to their schedule.
 * Students have access to their schedule from any computer connected to The Internet.
 * Each class on the student's schedule gets its own "Organizer", where the student can create lists, writes notes and manage to-do-lists.
 * Students can customize their schedule to fit their needs.
 * Requires an **.edu** email address in order to open an account.
 * The program has a very limited interface for editing, and it has not been updated since the year 2006.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">There are not many reliable sources of information about this service.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">College students can create, access, and modify their schedules from any computer.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The developer of this service is a small company that have not improved the editor interface and have not updated the service since the year 2006. I have the feeling that this service doesn't have many followers.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Today, there are powerful free online tools that let students customize their classes and activities schedule.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">When you go to collegeruled.com it now brings you to a page for a Facebook application to "make your Facebook cover photo awesome." This may block this page from some schools. I changed the link at the top of this page to "collegeruled.com/home" which lets you bypass this Facebook app.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">To create a new account this site now requires you to link to your Facebook page. Linking to your Facebook is not too bad, but make sure that your schedule never gets published to your page. You never want to out information like this on your Facebook page.

<span style="color: #1b8b2b; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">How CollegeRuled can be used in schools? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This Web 2.0 tool cannot be used in the frame K-12, since it requires:
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">an **.edu** account to open a student account.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">a course number and department abbreviation to add a class to the schedule.

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