Rather than friending students on your personal profile, you could create a "page" related strictly to your course material. The students can "follow" the page by selecting to "like" it. Whether you teach Public Policy, or I.T., a page can serve as an additional reminder of the schedule for your class. You could post the week's homework assignments, reading, and discussion questions to FB. The great thing about FB pages is that you can schedule posts. At the beginning of class you could schedule all your updates for the entire class period.

 Even though the students would have to log into the class to post to… >>>