Using Discourse For Course Community

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After setting up the groups, you can also use bulk invites to add members to specific groups. This guide explains this process in detail:

Sending Bulk User Invites

For a simpler way to invite many users to your Discourse instance with a shared link, see Multiple Use Invite Links. This feature, added in version 2.5, allows for bulk sending invites with a single invite link and optionally adding users to a specific group. if you have SSO enabled, or have disabled local logins, invites cannot be sent as they would bypass parent site authentication. Invites only work if SSO is not enabled and local logins are enabled. So you want to in…

And if you want to better understand how to use groups for your specific use case, see this guide:

How to create private categories using category security settings

This video explains how you can use group permissions to create private categories (or private “forums”). Scroll down for written instructions. [How to create a group and add permissions to a category] The Security tab on the category edit page is used to control both the visibility of categories and what users can do in a category. This is done by defining an access list of groups that associate a group name with an access level. The default permission for a new category is that t…