Discourse as an LMS / Discourse integration with an LMS

[trudat (Ted Strauss)]

Thanks.

@pfaffman

• a plugin to create a category and sub-categories for a course and assign appropriate permissions

This makes sense; a working LMS could be built from existing discourse features with new UI labels slapped on. Ex: A plugin that provides a new kind of topic, it could be called ‘class assignment’. When it’s created, you choose a user group as the assignees. There could be a few pedagogical models to choose from:

• All students are required to reply once; until they do the topic is highlighted in the list and inside it displays a teacher-provided prompt.
• Complete a poll(s); leverages polls feature.
• Write a new topic; leverages topic splitting feature.
• Create a collection of new badges, and integrate those.
• Integrate the correct answer plugin somehow.

It would be helpful to then clone the admin>groups panel and redo it as a class>student assignment panel, with basically the same features as now but with a new layout and a preset security policies.

@pfaffman

means to hook Discourse to the in-place LMS, or, perhaps better, whatever system deals with grades

I think a OneBox implementation on a given LMS, e.g. moodle or edx, would be the simplest way to approach this.

@pfaffman

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.

I think a lot of people would find those scripts useful. Would be awesome if you made a gist of them, or shared a few in this thread.

I don’t actually have funds for contracts but just curious to know what ideas you’ve had over the years that were never pursued for whatever reason. Cheers.