# Most effective way of creating large amount of sub-forums

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**Created:** [3월 22, 2018, 6:03오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/most-effective-way-of-creating-large-amount-of-sub-forums/83583 "2018-03-22T18:03:05Z")\
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Hi,

We’re looking at implementing discourse into an existing application which has a large userbase broken down into schools at the nationwide level.

In an ideal world, each school with have its own private “sub-forum” of which only users from that school can post, which each sub-forum having approx 3 categories (always the same).

If this setup something thats possible in discourse and if so whats the best way of implementing this assuming there may be thousands of schools/sub-forums?

From an initial look it seems it may be possible to create a group per school and then assign users to the group, but creating thousands of groups via API seems like the wrong approach

Any thoughts appreciated!

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