Technology advances occur almost daily, and how information is shared constantly evolves. Educators must understand how their students prefer communicating related to coursework. By mapping social networks present in courses, it may allow educators to determine how students prefer to communicate and also determine if there are constant identities that are stable throughout the semester. For the participants in this study, contacts between students increased from the initial to the final assessment of the semester. Face-to-face communication was the preferred method of communication, followed by text messaging and Facebook. Communicating for social reasons was most cited, with planning and venting being the reasons cited for contact after social. Overall, venting increased substantially, as did planning throughout the course of the semester but social kept somewhat constant. No perpetual key players were identified through this study, except one from the middle to the end iteration, which differs from previous research.