Community forum

VerdantLearn’s community forum is where our collaborative learning happens!

You already joined our forum when you signed up for the course - here’s a reminder of how it works

Most of our community forum is public, and to be eligible for a certificate of completion, you’ll need to submit your assignments in the public area of the community - we’ll point you to the right place for each assignment

To help you prepare for the assignments, and tailor this course to your needs, you also have access to a private discussion space, and a chat channel. Use them to:

In general, we recommend you use the discussion space when you need to type several paragraphs, share a screenshot or ask a more complex question, and the chat channel for brief queries and social chat

Advice on using the forums

Some advice on using forums efficiently:

  1. Before creating a new topic, consider whether it would be better to reply to an existing topic. The aim is to talk to each other, rather than create many single-post discussions! 😉
  2. You can edit and delete your own posts
  3. If you create a new conversation in the wrong place, let me know and I will move it
  4. You can adjust your Notification preferences for each topic by clicking on the **Watching/Tracking** button at the end of a topic. Watching means new posts will be emailed to you. You can also adjust your site-wide email notification preferences

Try out the community site!

We recommend you:

  1. Complete discobot’s 🤖 brief tutorial on using Discourse, the open source software our community is based upon. Find this in your messages
  2. Edit your profile:
    1. Add a picture of yourself (or something that has meaning to you) to your account preferences to appear beside your posts 📷
    2. Add a description to your profile to help others get to know you 👋
    3. Add LinkedIn, TWitter/X or Instagram handles so your coursemates can find you where you normally talk about your work

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