# Discourse come LMS / integrazione di Discourse con un LMS

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**Created:** [7 Novembre 2016, 7:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-an-lms-discourse-integration-with-an-lms/52633 "2016-11-07T19:27:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [7 Novembre 2016, 7:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-an-lms-discourse-integration-with-an-lms/52633/2 "2016-11-07T19:51:03Z")

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Hi, @trudat.

I have a couple course syllabi online [here](https://forum.literatecomputing.com/t/syllabus-edm510-2016-summer/2970) and [here](https://forum.literatecomputing.com/t/syllabus-isd581-2016-spring/2446).

I didn’t write any plugins (except for a DOI resolver that is now broken; one day I’ll find the hour it’ll take to figure it out again). What I do have is a handful of scripts that make API calls to do things like create badges that are triggered when someone creates a topic with a particular tag in a particular category and then another badge when that topic gets liked by a teacher and another when it gets a certain number by peers.

Another script will read a ZIP file produced by Sakai, unzip it, see which badge the student got, enter a grade into the grades file, and then zip it all back up to upload back to Sakai.

What would I do with unlimited resources? I’d need to know more about who’d be using it and why. I used openEdX a couple years back while I was working at Stanford, and even with near-unlimited resources, the group I was working with couldn’t deal with it.

I installed a Discourse instance for a friend who was teaching a graduate course, and for them, it worked pretty well. If someone were to use Discourse for teaching on a larger scale than a course or two in an instance, you’d need some things like:

- a plugin to create a category and sub-categories for a course and assign appropriate permissions
- means to hook Discourse to the in-place LMS, or, perhaps better, whatever system deals with grades

While I think that the argument that discussion is the most important part of online teaching and that most LMSs have really horrible discussion platforms makes a lot of sense, but there’s a fairly strong hegemony toward making things like quizzes and private assignments being the most important part of teaching. I once wrote a conference proposal about that. If you’re interested, I can send you a copy.

I’ve since left my academic job and am working on making a living off of Discourse. If you’re serious about unlimited resources, well, let’s talk.

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