I have a request from a partner/user group who would like to have an open forum within Docebo where their users can ask and answer questions (basically the same as this community) that is not tied to an asset or a course. Does anyone have a set up where they provide this type of forum in their LMS right now? I am curious how you are doing it and what sites/set up you have for it.
Using a Blog for a Forum
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Interesting - thank you for sharing this. I will give it a try so I may be back to ask some questions.
@pcarr Thanks for sharing your workaround using the course shell. Great idea! We have the same use case and want to have an discussion group (non course or asset specific) for our program staff. I have a few questions about how you did it. First, your welcome and instructions, what training material type is that (file, html, etc.)? Second, does the user have to “Start learning now” to launch? What if the user “completes” the course? Then they have to click “start learning now” again. Obviously this is not very intuitive. I am wondering if you got creative with your course player or other settings to “shield” the user as much as possible from the idea that the forum is a course. I’m playing around and my sample course is acting very much like a course. LOL.
@pcarr Thanks for sharing your workaround using the course shell. Great idea! We have the same use case and want to have an discussion group (non course or asset specific) for our program staff. I have a few questions about how you did it. First, your welcome and instructions, what training material type is that (file, html, etc.)? Second, does the user have to “Start learning now” to launch? What if the user “completes” the course? Then they have to click “start learning now” again. Obviously this is not very intuitive. I am wondering if you got creative with your course player or other settings to “shield” the user as much as possible from the idea that the forum is a course. I’m playing around and my sample course is acting very much like a course. LOL.
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Hello, interesting topic
In the next months we are going to improve the Q&A area
A feature we are planning is, in Discover Coach and Share, the capability for Q/A widget to restrict them channel specific (or assets specific)
Example
I create the channel “Sales Training”
I create a new Page “Sales Training”
I insert the channels widget selecting single channel and the channel “Sales Training”
I insert the Q&A widget selecting the Q&A of the channel “Sales Training”
Now I’ll have a “Sales Training” page with the sales training content and below the Q&A only relevant to the channel “Sales Training” (and not all Q&A as before)
Not precisely as DL-I-1403 but i think can achieve the same result, what do you think?
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The only things I did out of the norm in the Course player is Free Navigation and no Certificate. We didn’t get any complaints so I guess it was an okay work around. Let me know if you have any other questions! Happy to help how I can.
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Hello, interesting topic
In the next months we are going to improve the Q&A area
A feature we are planning is, in Discover Coach and Share, the capability for Q/A widget to restrict them channel specific (or assets specific)
Example
I create the channel “Sales Training”
I create a new Page “Sales Training”
I insert the channels widget selecting single channel and the channel “Sales Training”
I insert the Q&A widget selecting the Q&A of the channel “Sales Training”
Now I’ll have a “Sales Training” page with the sales training content and below the Q&A only relevant to the channel “Sales Training” (and not all Q&A as before)
Not precisely as DL-I-1403 but i think can achieve the same result, what do you think?
Currently the user can assign their question to a channel so that an expert assigned to the channel will get notified and the user can get a faster response which makes sense. And of course, the user can filter the Q&A widget on a page for other Q&A in that channel which is also useful. Here’s where the problems are:
- If a user clicks on the link to the channel in the Q&A widget, they get the channel content but only assets, not any other Q&A assigned to that channel.
- Not being able to put a Q&A widget on a page and limit the Q&A by channels is a big limitation.
- Today I discovered that if you delete a channel, reassign the content as per the associated prompt when deleting that channel, you lose all the Q&A associated with that channel. Poof. Gone! Only assets get transferred over. I would consider this a bug but according to Docebo, it’s “expected” functionality. Noting here in case anyone else might happen upon this unexpected “expected” behavior.
We are definitely looking forward to enhancements here and hoping they come soon!
Hello
Hello
Hello
Any update on the Q&A widget?
Thanks in advance
Anne
Hi
the capability of selecting a specific channel in the Q/A widget is already released and available.
thanks for your interest in DCS
Marco
Hi
Btw, the client asked me if there’s any chance to put in here on demand courses/webinars (still scheduled in Docebo). Is somehow possible? Thanks a lot!
Hi
I hope that helps! There may be other ways but that’s all I can think of right now.
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