Product design question

Design Facebook for the education industry.

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What this question tests

Whether you can adapt a social platform's core mechanics to a genuinely different context, classroom learning, rather than a rebrand.

Clarify scope: a Facebook product tailored for classrooms, covering teacher-student and student-student interaction, not just a school-branded feed.
Identify what changes versus consumer Facebook: content must be curated for learning, moderation must be stricter, and privacy protections for minors are critical.
Prioritize a structured classroom space over an open social feed, since unmoderated content is unsuitable for a K-12 or university learning context.
Propose a concrete concept: class-specific groups with assignment threads, teacher-moderated discussion, and privacy locked to enrolled students only.
Address the trust and compliance layer explicitly: COPPA and FERPA-style data protections for student data, since this is a hard requirement, not optional.
Define success metrics: assignment discussion participation rate, with a guardrail on reported inappropriate content.

Redesigns for the classroom's actual needs, structure and moderation, instead of just adding a school skin to the existing feed.
Names the specific compliance requirement, student data privacy protections, as a first-order design constraint.
Proposes a concrete mechanic, class-specific moderated groups, tied to real classroom workflows like assignments.
Adds a guardrail on inappropriate content, since minors are a uniquely sensitive user base requiring stricter moderation.

Treating this as a rebrand of the existing Facebook feed instead of redesigning for classroom-specific needs.
Ignoring the legal and compliance requirements around handling student and minor data.

How would you handle content moderation differently for a K-12 audience versus higher education?
What would convince a school district to actually adopt this over existing tools like Google Classroom?