Also, I like that students don’t need to install the desktop client.

So I can have a group of students talking about Problem 1 and another group talking about Problem 2 and I can pop back and forth easily.

One can pop in and out of different text and “voice channels” (really video+voice+screen share) very easily.

Discord can be the centralized place for both asynchronous and synchronous participation: students can message and voice/video chat with each other synchronously, or they can also peruse message histories within text channels and catch up on conversations by previous students.

This time around I’m going to hold office hours using Discord in addition to using it as a Piazza replacement.

It didn’t get a lot of traffic since I also was using Piazza and had separate office hours via Zoom. I used Discord for a class this summer but didn’t play an active role in the server I created and mainly let students do what they wanted.

Matt Spencer convinced me to try using Discord for office hours this semester to support students during remote instruction.

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