Discourse for Academic Use Features (Done and to be Done)

[xiasummer]

I want to have a special topic about how to use Discourse for Academic Use.

1. What we already have?

Markdown Supporting.

Html Supporting

OneBox Feature

MathJax Supporting with plugin.

 - git clone https://github.com/kasperpeulen/discourse-mathjax

I have to say it was conflict with another plugin “iframe”. If you have iframe plugin, you have to delete it.

Also another plugin can do it:

Discourse Math Plugin

Summary: The math plugin uses MathJax (default) or KaTeX to render maths. GitHub: GitHub - discourse/discourse-math: Official MathJax support for Discourse Install: Follow the plugin installation guide. Features [image] You can render blocks of maths by wrapping with $$ $$ \hat{H}\Psi=E\Psi $$ You can render inline math by wrapping with a single $ like so: $E=mc^2$. Discourse math uses a heuristic to ensure that sentences such as: “I spent 20$ and another 100$” do…

Footnote and Reference

https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-footnote/84533/20

DOI resolver

https://meta.discourse.org/t/doi-resolver-updated/38920

Discourse for Academic Use Features (Done and to be Done)

Download PDF feature may support the possibility to upload the document to obtain a DOI number from, say https://zenodo.org/. My interest is to have a feature (or through a plugin) to submit and obtain DOI number to a selected or featured topics using the API available from http://developers.zenodo.org/#rest-api through a click of a button (available for the staff users).

Print long topic to PDF, etc

Print long topic to PDF, redux, again

This has been discussed before, yet as I understand it, it is not considered important. The issue is, there’s no convenient method to save a long topic to a PDF file. Personally, I can’t understand why this wouldn’t be considered important. I’m posting this here because I’m a member of the Keyboard Maestro forum (which obviously uses Discourse), and it was suggested there that someone (me) try to see if I could get some progress here on this forum. So here I am, bringing up a subject that seem…

Outside Websites Support(Boxes & etc.)

1. github.com support
2. arxiv support

Plotting Tools

Graphviz Plugin

Summary: The Graphviz plugin allows you to add graphs to your post using the DOT language. GitHub: https://github.com/discourse/discourse-graphviz Install: Follow the plugin installation guide. Features This plugin uses the Viz.js library to render graphs. To embed a graph use [graphviz] [/graphviz] bbcode. Optionally you can define layout engine attributes: [graphviz engine=neato]. If engine is not defined, it defaults to the dot engine. See the Graphviz site for …

CCS support

How to convince my university to use/install Discourse?

One argument might be that it is battle-tested in academic use: We have been using Discourse as a discussion tool for lectures and courses for multiple years now, and our experience has been almost entirely positive. (The only real pain points have been in handling incoming emails from external users, which is a pretty advanced use and a relatively new feature.) These courses had up to 500 students, and Discourse seems to have been liked by the students. Without having concrete numbers, I’d say…

Team Topics

Discourse-teambuild: Run your own team building activity!

Summary: Do a team building activity inside Discourse GitHub: https://github.com/discourse/discourse-teambuild Install: Follow the plugin installation guide. Features You might have seen on twitter that Discourse ran a scavenger hunt at our yearly meetup (this time in Montreal.) A few people expressed an interest in using our plugin at their own organisation, so I’m happy to reveal that today we’ve open sourced it. Use Cases If you want to run a scavenger hunt wi…

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2. What we want to have?

reference

@xiasummer

I’m wondering how many of these tools can be and should be integrated into Discourse.

http://openmetric.org/tool/

Academic Blogger’s Toolkit

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P.S. You can reply me about the functions that you think are important for academic use in discourse and whether it has been developed already or in developing.