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Having homework alerts, answer in-class surveys and quizzes being sent to your iPods/iPhone in a daily basis will keep the students up to date with their classes and exams. If a student was absent or missed notes from a lecture then the student won’t have an excuse for missing deadlines or not being informed of a test. As for the disadvantages that this issue will inflict on the students, it will allow them to miss lectures or skip school, with a reassuring feeling that they will be updated with the important issues or quiz updates they missed. They will also receive their homework or any new assigned homework via the e-mail (through the iPhone). Not only are students being distracted by their laptops ACU wants to provide them with iPods, and iPhones “Because 93 per cent of ACU students bring their own computers with them to college, we are choosing to take them to the next level by providing converged mobile devices." Everything the students need to accomplish with their iPhones, they can probably do with their laptops. They can receive constant updates on tests, lectures and assignments through their e-mail. What ACU wants to achieve through this release of iPhones to all the students is probably attention to the university. The disadvantages to this issue is far more critical than the advantages, because if university students start missing school in a regular basis then it will develop into a habit and more people will relay on the iPone to receive all the necessary updates from their university lecture.