The KSUMobile

iPhone application will soon include a schedule of classes, athletic news, a library section and possibly events listed on the university’s calendar.

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Updates will be submitted by the end of this week.

?Sameer Jaleel, manager of web presence, recommends students use the integrated class schedule to bookmark classes they’re interested in or are already taking.

?“Students won’t be able to schedule classes, but they can still see who’s teaching the course, when and where it is and bookmark it for viewing later,” he said. “It won’t let you enroll in anything yet, but it will at least let you browse real time course data.”

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The sports section lets users catch up on sports news without accessing the website on a computer.

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“It’s basically the news stories on the athletics website at kentstatesports.com ,” he said.

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The library section uses a version of the library’s website that is optimized for a smaller screen.

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“It’s a browser within the app that loads the mobile library website,” Jaleel said.

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The event calendar might not make it into this version.

?“It’s slow with just the developers hitting it in testing,” he said. “If that doesn’t get resolved in the next couple of days, it won’t be in the new version.

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Jaleel said it might take a couple of weeks for the application to be available because of Apple’s application review process.

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“Once we do that this week, next week we will have to submit the Android and the Blackberry versions,” he said.

Contact Sidney Keith at [email protected].