Here’s an idea that might be worth exploring.
- Make a topic template for each “course” that people can use to create a topic for themselves to track their learning in a particular subject
- Template can include checklists
- Topics could be created in a dedicated category to track people learning (which others could mute if it becomes too noisy - or watch if they really like to help)
- Users could be encouraged to use the topic also as a kind of public notebook to share notes and questions about what they are learning
We do something kind of like this for onboarding at Discourse and it’s pretty lightweight but works pretty well.