I’m wondering if anyone is using Discourse within the Canvas LMS? We currently use the Workplace platform to create broader community engagement, but Meta will be shutting that down soon. Discourse seems to check all the boxes for our requirements, but I have not found much information about how schools might be using Discourse and if it plays well with Canvas.
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The discussion explores the integration of Discourse with the Canvas LMS. berchu273 asks about existing implementations, as their institution is transitioning from Workplace and considering Discourse. pfaffman shares experience integrating Discourse with OpenEdx, noting challenges in connecting such platforms with learning management systems like Canvas, which are designed to limit external integrations. He describes a custom script for grading data but acknowledges its complexity for non-technical users. berchu273 thanks the response and mentions their instructional technologist is also investigating the integration.
I sort-of integrated Discourse with OpenEdx a long time ago (I started using Discourse when I was an instructional technology professsor in a college of education). Over the years, I’ve supported a few faculty in using Discourse, though I don’t think any of them used it directly for teaching.
I’m not sure what “plays well with Canvas” means to you. Mostly, things like Canvas work pretty hard to keep you from doing anything else. I did contrive to write a script that would take a CSV grading file from Edx, find whether students had created topics for assignments and whether I’d 
ed them, and update the spreadsheet such that it could be uploaded back into the gradebook. Whether someone who doesn’t live at a shell command line could have used the script is not known.
Thanks for the response, Jay! Our instructional technologist is looking into this as well. I can share our findings.