How to convince my university to use/install Discourse?

[fefrei (Felix Freiberger)]

@tophee

A final suggestion would be to start by convincing one teacher to use it in their course and work with that teacher to make sure it becomes a success. After that, things may just take off by themselves.

Very good point, I forgot to mention that: With no effort on my side, Discourse already began spreading through our department, because some TAs of our course liked it so much that they lobbied for it at a chair they TAed for next semester

@xiasummer

Could you please tell me how to install such extensibility in Discourse?

To install plugins, look here:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-a-plugin/19157/8?u=fefrei

To get started developing plugins yourself, try following this #howto:

Beginner's Guide to Creating Discourse Plugins Part 1: Creating a basic plugin

Building a plugin in Discourse can be really simple, once you learn a couple of quirks. The goal of this post is to create a skeleton plugin and introduce you to the basics. Your development environment Make sure you have a development environment of Discourse running on your computer. I recommend you use the appropriate setup guide and come back when you’re done. plugin.rb Use GitHub - discourse/discourse-plugin-skeleton: Template for Discourse plugins to create a complete discourse…