# Alguém está usando Discourse no ensino superior para cursos?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-anyone-using-discourse-in-higher-ed-for-courses/59132
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [Março 15, 2017, 3:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-anyone-using-discourse-in-higher-ed-for-courses/59132 "2017-03-15T03:52:19Z")
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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [Março 15, 2017, 6:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-anyone-using-discourse-in-higher-ed-for-courses/59132/5 "2017-03-15T18:41:21Z")

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Hi, Jeff. I was once an instructional technology professor in colleges of education. In my last gig, I taught my classes with Discourse (which is part of why I now make my living with Discourse).

I organized assignments (or [quests](https://forum.literatecomputing.com/c/quests)) in read-only categories and instructed students to reply-as-linked-topic (now on the link icon below a post) and put their post into the category for their class with a particular tag for that assignment. This made it easy for students to comment on each others work and for me to see whether students had done the work. I would :heart: their topic if they had completed the assignment, and wrote a script that would see that students had done the assignment and gave different grades if I had liked it and if other students had. It’s probably not helpful, but [you can have it](https://github.com/pfaffman/discourseLMS).

Having the assignments in their own categories made it easy to re-run a course and to use an assignment in multiple courses. The other cool thing is that when it was obvious that an assignment was badly worded or otherwise needed changing, I could change it immediately, making life better for the slackers who did the work late, **and** meaning that all those changes to assignments that I might otherwise have intended to do before next semester were, in fact, done.

You can see a syllabus for the [last class I taught](https://forum.literatecomputing.com/t/syllabus-edm510-2016-summer/2970?u=pfaffman) and [this one too](https://forum.literatecomputing.com/t/syllabus-isd581-2016-spring/2446). This also worked really well, since the assignments were separate from the course, there wasn’t the copy-the-old-course-to-the-new-one at the start of each semester. All that was needed was to copy the syllabus and change the dates on it.

My courses were all (and remained for a time) public. Changing that is just a matter of changing the permissions on the categories, though. I think that I just put a link to the course in the school’s LMS to get people to sign up. You could use groups to invite students to the course and control access.

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