Hello Discourse team, I run an e-learning platform and for QnA we are using discourse. For each training we have a dedicated QnA section (i.e. Categories) I am facing problem related to topic creation. As an admin of the forum, I am able to create the topic for a specific categories. Please chec…

Wait. I see this is not about topic creation, it’s about tag creations. The students are apparently unable to create the right tag if it does not already exists. You might want to look at Admin - Settings - Tags - min trust to create tag and set it to something lower (e.g. 1 or 2).

Allow students to create a tag when opening a topic

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) September 8, 2022, 7:14am 2

You need to allow ‘Create’ permissions in that category for the Students group.

See How to create private categories using category permission / security settings

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Allow students to create a tag when opening a topic

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