Is there a plugin for running online courses?

[cocococosti (Constanza Abarca)]

@wendellverli

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

And also:

Exploring Discourse as a Learning Management System

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. 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

Continuing the discussion from Customized Discourse Help Needed (requests below): 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)

Summary Discourse LTI allows Discourse to integrate with a number of learning management systems via the LTI 1.3 standard. Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-lti Install Guide How to install plugins in Discourse 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 wi…