# Is there a plugin for running online courses?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-plugin-for-running-online-courses/359910
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [April 1, 2025, 8:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-plugin-for-running-online-courses/359910 "2025-04-01T20:21:39Z")
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### Author: ![cocococosti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cocococosti/32/231474_2.png) [@cocococosti](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cocococosti)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2025, 10:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-plugin-for-running-online-courses/359910/2 "2025-04-01T22:17:44Z")

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> [@wendellverli](#):
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> is there a plugin for this anywhere

What kind of functionality do you want to accomplish with a plugin?

I suggest you take a look at this article:

> **[Discourse for Online Education Communities](https://blog.discourse.org/2016/08/discourse-for-online-education-communities/)**
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> Just like our survey for game communities back in May, we once more sent out a survey to a mix of customers and self-supported Discourse communities. This time we wanted feedback from leaders in online education.

And also:

> [@Exploring Discourse as a Learning Management System](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exploring-discourse-as-a-learning-management-system/281216):
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> Hello. I manage a forum with thousands of members, and I would like to start teaching there: courses, training. As a Learning Management System. I’ve already researched several, for example Moodle, it seems to work. But I believe the best solution would be a “native” Discourse solution. wink So: does anyone have any experience teaching using Discourse? Any suggestions are welcome. I currently have a “system” but it is very “manual” and dependent on me updating everything, even HTML in to…

> [@Discourse as an LMS / Discourse integration with an LMS](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-an-lms-discourse-integration-with-an-lms/52633):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Customized Discourse Help Needed (requests below)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customized-discourse-help-needed-requests-below/43445/3): Hi Jay, Like you I am looking into using Discourse as an LMS or integrating it with an LMS. I find most LMSes too be too bloated with features, and need something a lot more flexible and user-driven. I’m curious: what were the plugins you wrote? Or maybe I should ask: what plugins would you like to create if you had unlimited resources that would make Discourse into a better LMS-like tool?

And this plugin may be of interest for you:

> [@Discourse Learning Management System Integration (LTI 1.3 Authentication)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-learning-management-system-integration-lti-1-3-authentication/196174):
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> discourse2Summary Discourse LTI allows Discourse to integrate with a number of learning management systems via the [LTI 1.3 standard](https://www.imsglobal.org/activity/learning-tools-interoperability).open_bookInstall Guide This plugin is bundled with Discourse core. There is no need to install the plugin separately. This plugin implements the LTI 1.3 standard for authentication, which is supported by a number of learning management systems. Discourse acts as a “Tool” within the LTI standard. Once configured, users will be able to click…

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