Pro/con to separate Apple ID?

I would like to start playing with iTunes U as a teacher, and I know I need to use my Apple ID to set up the account/courses. I really do not want to mix personal and professional information, so I am thinking the best thing to do is to create a new Apple ID just for the course. My "real" Apple ID I have been using for years and is thus linked to all of my Macs, iOS devices, apps, applications, OS software, etc.
Would there be some kind of issues I might run into by creating a separate account just for professional activities that I'm not seeing that would be a reason not to do it that way?
Thanks for any advice.
Brenda Marr

To migrate her iPhone to a new iCloud account, start by saving any photo stream photos that she wants to keep to her camera roll (unless already there) by opening your my photo stream album, tapping Select, tapping the photos, tap the share icon (box with upward facing arrow), then tapping Save to Camera Roll.  If she is syncing notes with iCloud that she wants to keep, you'll need to open each of them and email them to her so she can later copy and paste the text into new notes created in her new account.  Then go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account (which only deletes it from this device, not from iCloud; your devices/Mac will not be effected by this), provide the password to turn off Find My iPhone and choose Keep on My iDevice when prompted .  Then sign back in with a different Apple ID to create her new account and choose Merge to upload the data to the new account.
Once she is on a separate account, you can then each go to icloud.com from a computer and delete any data you don't want in your account.
To avoid getting each other's text messages and FaceTime calls, go to Settings>Message>Send & Receive on her phone, tap the ID, sign out, then sign back in with her new iCloud ID.  Then do the same thing in Settings>FaceTime.

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