Carolyn Thomas

A pair of business honors freshmen have launched a new online course management system that brings together ideas from Blackboard and Facebook, allowing students to keep up with classes and course work.

Victor Ramon and Jefferson Stein have developed Studeous, which allows teachers and students to communicate on the Web through a program the two said is easier to use than any other programs available. It has more features on it than others of its kind, and it is free to use.