# Exploring Discourse as a Learning Management System

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/exploring-discourse-as-a-learning-management-system/281216
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [October 5, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exploring-discourse-as-a-learning-management-system/281216 "2023-10-05T21:42:34Z")
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### Author: ![nathank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nathank/32/290039_2.png) [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2023, 2:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exploring-discourse-as-a-learning-management-system/281216/3 "2023-10-06T02:24:51Z")

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I’ve flirted with this idea a bit too, and it has come up on [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org) quite a few times. Turns out that there is a half-built plugin to do exactly what you might be after:

> [@\[Paid\] Lightweight LMS Plugin for Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-lightweight-lms-plugin-for-discourse/249689/4):
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> I’ve actually already built pretty much exactly what you’ve describing slight_smile (with a few other features as well). It’s currently a private plugin called “Discourse Learning Management”. This is what it looks like. The plugin is covered in “unit tests” (i.e. it’s robust). It also has an “importer” system that allows you to import course content from remote sources.

It would take quite a bit of dev effort to get it up and running nicely. In practice, this would mean a client with deep enough pockets. Unfortunately, I couldn’t arrange that when looking into it.

An alternative would be a bunch of folk who band together and pool sufficient cash to make it happen so that they can happily use it. They would have a lot of input into how it looked / worked naturally.

If this would be of interest to anyone, please like this post and I’ll likely get enthused enough to explore it further.

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