# Building a Discourse for educational communities **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-a-discourse-for-educational-communities/378677 **Category:** Community Building **Created:** [August 15, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-a-discourse-for-educational-communities/378677 "2025-08-15T01:19:43Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 7
### Author: ![opcourdis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/45deac/32.png) [@opcourdis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/opcourdis) #### Post date: [August 31, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-a-discourse-for-educational-communities/378677/7 "2025-08-31T16:16:30Z")
It is rejoicing to see that we have three recent threads that come up at about the same time all dealing with communities that are very essential to build a brighter future in our world, may discourse’s mix of clarity and efficiency help this ! : [Creating local communities](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-have-you-built-a-local-community-around-discourse/380036/2), [Building educational communities](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-a-discourse-for-educational-communities/378677/5), and [Building local co-op communities](https://meta.discourse.org/t/seeking-advice-making-a-discourse-forum-hyper-local/372838) For your educational community, I see two helpful features that would be interesting to deploy : -[Anonymous/Private threads](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-and-configure-anonymous-mode/155638)for students who for example are bullied, feel depressive, etc. at school but promoted in a way that they know it’s 100% anonymous.(it should be configured to work on private threads only in a specific category though) -Promoting music teaching, dance, sport, or another other lunch time/after school activities. Maybe you can do this using the [calendar/event plugi](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-calendar) **n** using the [right sidebar plugin](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-right-sidebar-blocks) with the upcoming events block. Not sure on how it looks for mobile users who must be most of your community members though, maybe it can be improved like a fixed bottom left/right calendar icon that stays permanent but disappears on scroll, I can check out how to do that you with that if you want. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-a-discourse-for-educational-communities/378677)._