# Discourse for a faculty. Nested categories required - perhaps not?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-for-a-faculty-nested-categories-required-perhaps-not/64296
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [June 10, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-for-a-faculty-nested-categories-required-perhaps-not/64296 "2017-06-10T17:26:47Z")
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### Author: ![sjmscott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sjmscott/32/198290_2.png) [@sjmscott](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sjmscott)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2017, 8:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-for-a-faculty-nested-categories-required-perhaps-not/64296/5 "2017-06-10T20:28:54Z")

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My students loved Discourse. . . instead of just having a classroom of 30 students, the conversation widened to include 90 students. I just used it as a supplement, not as learning management tool. Student writing improved when they know that in addition to me my classmates would read what they wrote.

The problems for me were. . .

- keeping up with the grading. . . [there was no way to click easily see all the posts expanded by a user](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-see-all-user-posts-expanded/32928)
- it was difficult to deal with the end of the term, i.e. [deactivating the users permanently](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deactivating-users-permanently/37169)

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