Originally published at: Discourse for Online Education Communities
Just like our survey for game communities back in May, we once more sent out a survey to a mix of customers and self-supported Discourse communities. This time we wanted feedback from leaders in online education. We’re absolutely ecstatic about the amount of learning tools readily available online for young and old minds alike today.…
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The Discourse team conducted a survey among online education communities to gather feedback on their experiences with the platform. Nine communities responded, including hosted and self-hosted customers. According to the survey, communities use Discourse as a general forum for discussion, debugging, and sharing strategies.
Some of the favorite features of Discourse among these communities include:
- Excellent Markdown editor
- Clean and clear UI
- Robust organization tools, such as private/public categories and groups
- Powerful email support
However, some communities also expressed a desire for easier customization options, such as the ability to upload custom stylesheets and adjust HTML layouts. The Discourse team is working on supporting Native Themes to address this feedback.
One self-hosted customer, easyuni, shared their experience integrating Discourse with their site, which allows students to search and compare universities. They use Discourse to create categories for countries and colleges, and display the latest topics on college profile pages.
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We’re self-hosting too - forum.easyuni.com - a site in Asia for students to search, compare and “apply” to universities locally or abroad.
For the past several months we’ve been working on integrating Discourse more closely with our site (and a new version of the site).
Here’s how we use Discourse:
- 1st level categories are countries (study destinations)
- 2nd level are colleges in those countries
Every college published on the site would get it’s own category in Discourse. Then, on a college profile page we display the latest topics from its category in Discourse.
Own/my profile (not discourse profile):
My profile on mobile:
Someone else’s profile (note the Message button):
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