Tired of reinventing the wheel? Adopt a server template based on another instructor’s classroom server.
Enclosed below you will find a small but growing collection of open-access templates for you to reuse and revise with instruction in mind. Crowdsourced from faculty across the City University of New York (CUNY), these use cases demonstrate how instructors tailor Discord to their teaching and learning needs. They cross a range of disciplines — from English, to Theatre and Speech, to Media and Technology — while accommodating multiple learning styles and teaching practices in the process.
Template Adoption
You can preview and create servers based on these models by following the steps below:
- Click the server’s name for a link to preview its channels, roles, and use number
- Name the server
- Click Create Server
- Head to Discord to review the server in action
Templates carry over the settings, channels, categories, roles, and permissions of their original server models; however, they do not include any of the original server’s integrations, images, messages, or member details when formatted for reuse.
For a comprehensive list of server templates part of this toolkit, visit the Template Collection.
Templates licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Curated Templates
Template Permalink: College Writing 101
- Instructor Attribution: Zach Muhlbauer
- Course Section: ENG 2100: Writing 1 (Fall 2021)
- Course Info: Fully Online, Synchronous
- Institutional Context: Department of English – First-Year Writing, Baruch College, CUNY
- CC License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
- Tags: General Education, Writing-Intensive, Seminar, Arts & Humanities
Template Permalink: Theatre Arts Survey 1
- Instructor Attribution: Cen Liu
- Course Section: THTR 13100: Introduction to Theatre Arts (Spring 2021)
- Course Modality: Fully Online, Synchronous
- Institutional Context: Department of Theatre and Speech, City College of New York (CCNY), CUNY
- CC License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
- Tags: General Education, Writing-Intensive, Disciplinary Survey, Seminar, Arts & Humanities
Template Permalink: EDU Template (Intro to 3D Animation + 3D Animation Projects)
- Instructor Attribution: Carlo Diego
- Course Sections: ANI 401 (0902): Introduction to 3D Animations, ANI 401 (1301): Introduction to 3D Animations; ANI 402 (0901): 3D Animation Projects [Fall 2021]
- Course Modality: Fully Online, Synchronous
- Institutional Context: Department of Media Arts and Technology – Animations and Motion Graphics, Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), CUNY
- CC License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
- Tags: Animations, Media Arts, Makerspaces, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics