# How to convince my university to use/install Discourse?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-convince-my-university-to-use-install-discourse/63882
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [2017年六月3日 13:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-convince-my-university-to-use-install-discourse/63882 "2017-06-03T13:35:18Z")
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### Author: ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [2017年六月3日 16:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-convince-my-university-to-use-install-discourse/63882/7 "2017-06-03T16:42:37Z")

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> [@tophee](#):
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> 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](#):
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> 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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-a-plugin/19157/8)

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

> [@Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-creating-discourse-plugins-part-1/30515):
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> 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](https://meta.discourse.org/tag/dev-install) and come back when you’re done. plugin.rbtada Use [GitHub - discourse/discourse-plugin-skeleton: Template for Discourse plugins · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-plugin-skeleton) to create a complete di…

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