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:

Send Bulk User Invites

A simpler way to invite many users to your Discourse instance is with a shared link. Select the main Invite button on your Invites page, adjust the options according to your needs, then select the  Save Invite to generate a sharable link. So you want to invite users to your Discourse instance, but you have so many that sending invites individually would be a lot of work? Good news – you can send bulk invites! Here’s how: Prepare CSV File Prepare a CSV file with the users you…

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

Understanding groups and category permissions (security settings)

See this video tutorial for an example of how to use these features: Create a private category with limited access for a certain group 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 the group everyone can Create/Reply/See. This means that a…