The days of passing notes behind the teacher’s back might seem bygone. But these days, college students use messaging platforms like GroupMe to talk about their classes. And now some universities are ...

As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. Meanwhile ...

This fall, University of Texas at Austin student Caleb Cox joined a group for his anthropology class on the messaging app GroupMe. He asked his peers if he should study the introduction slides for the ...