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

Summary Discourse Math uses MathJax (default) or KaTeX to render maths in your Discourse forum. Install Guide This plugin is bundled with Discourse core. There is no need to install the plugin separately. Enabling Math The Math plugin can be enabled from its settings, accessed from your admin/plugins page: [Math settings] Features Once enabled, you can render inline math by wrapping with a single $ like so: $E=mc^2$. You can render blocks of maths by…

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

https://meta.discourse.org/t/print-long-topic-to-pdf-redux-again/44639

Outside Websites Support(Boxes & etc.)

1. github.com support
2. arxiv support

Plotting Tools

Discourse Graphviz

Summary Discourse Graphviz provides the ability to add graphs to posts using the DOT language. Install Guide This plugin is bundled with Discourse core. There is no need to install the plugin separately. 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. …

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

Summary Discourse Teambuild allows you to run your own team building activity inside Discourse Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-teambuild Install Guide How to install plugins in Discourse 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 rev…

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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.