Essential School Tools

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Everything a college student needs.Your day just got easier. Free for University of Maryland students!

- Click to request student game tickets
- Add your academic schedule to your calendar automatically
- Predictions for bus arrivals at your favorite stops
- Home game notifications, standings, and schedules for your sports teams
- Free food and events, crime and weather alerts, nightlife reviews, headlines from the New York Times and Diamondback
- Weather now, hourly, and ten-day forecast

Why we require permissions:
- Physical location is used to load the weather only.
- Access to pages is used to gather schedule and books, as well as request tickets only.

Changelog:
1.9.3
- Ready for the new semester!!
- Bugs squashed
- Design and interaction updates
1.9.2
- NEW! Now EST gathers your schedule for this semester and the next one and lets you share and compare it with your friends using a unique link just for you. Click the Share with Friends button to try it out!
- Bug fixes
1.9.1
- Improved support for devices of every size
- "Getting Around" Card added: find out how far away Uber cars are, get fare estimates to nightlife destinations, and see arrival times for College Park Metro trains
- Guest login support added
- Support for synchronization with EST Now, the Essential School Tools iOS and Android app
- Many bug fixes
- Performance improvements
1.8.1, 1.8.2
- Schedule collection bugs squashed
1.8.0 Major Update
- Significant performance enhancements
- Create an account to access EST anywhere
- Access EST on any device at app.essentialschool.tools
- Choose 2 or 1 column layout
- Bug fixes and general improvements
1.1.6, 1.1.5, 1.1.4, 1.1.3
- Bug fixes and general improvements
1.1.2
- Clicking headings takes you to the relevant app
- Added Diamondback Headlines
- General bug fixes and improvements