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Teacher should be able to see a discussion forum when she creates a group with other teachers/students.
Teacher should be able to join forums that are of interest to her.
Teacher should be able to leave non-mandatory forums that she is part of.
Teacher should be able to mute non-mandatory forums that are not of interest to her.
Teacher (if she’s an admin) should be able to set forum visibility to public/private/only-tenant/only-server-admins, in order to keep conversation within that forum private from various groups, or invite interactions from outside the group, as she sees fit.
Teacher sees a space within the portal where she can see:
Discussions that she’s participating in or watching.
Popular/trending discussions in:
the forums that she’s part of.
areas of her interest (E.g. Physics subject) ordered by her (a) language mediums, (b) geography, (c)boards .
Across the platform with priority for her (a) tenant.
Discussions that members within her group(s) are participating in (e.g. liking, voting, commenting, asking etc.).
Shortcuts to the various discussion forums that she is part of
Courses that she’s taking
User groups that she’s in
Collections she’s played / downloaded (e.g. textbooks she’s using)
Teacher can go to discussion boards, and based on permission:
See ongoing discussions (sort by trending, new, recently updated etc.)
Start a discussion
Reply as a post on a discussion
Vote/like/comment on a post within a discussion
Flag any post / discussion with accompanying reason
Teacher should be able to inspect other user profiles (by clicking on that user’s name/profile) in order to:
see all comments/posts by the user (ala reddit/quora)
follow the user, to be notified of their activity in their forums feed (ala linkedin)
report user (for any objectionable content, consistent breaking of rules), and pointing to specific posts that are examples of said unruly behaviour.
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