Students report success accessing university library resources to do online searches. Students particularly appreciate full-text materials that include images. Popular web search engines include Yahoo, AltaVista, and Google. Internet phone, a program that touts free long distance, gets frequent use. One student has a personal newsletter on the web with over 300 subscribers.
Students also report having listservs and websites for clubs and organizations.
Game playing received very little comment. Keeping track of whom had logged in or out was also cited as a reason students did not use the network. Backing up files or saving work beyond the end of an academic year was not a major concern to students. Others indicated they saved their work to the computer's hard drive. File sharing was most commonly accomplished by using the Network Neighborhood feature in Windows rather than features provided on the Novell network.