Discord Course Discussion Tracker Bot

A Discord bot that will ease the burden of keeping track of who is participating in discussion posts.

Language: Python
Framework: discord.py

Intended Functionality

• Track students' posts in discussion post threads

• Give word count of messages

• Time of messages vs time of thread creation (diff -- how late was it?)

• Each thread should have at least 2 posts (answer/reply)

• Message can additionally be saved for visual verification

• Output where?

  • Google spreadsheet (via Sheety API)
  • HTML output
  • Actual database?

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Pain Points

• Identifying which thread belongs to which course/unit/discussion question #

  • Maybe add a Discord command:

    !dp admin 1 1  

    Admin course discussion post, unit 1, discussion post 1.

• Creating database schema/format of data.

Local Testing

Set up a Python virtual environment:

python3 -m venv venv

This generates the virtual environment files.

Then, activate the virtual environment by sourcing the activate shell script that was generated.

. venv/bin/activate

The venv is now active, and you can install project-specific dependencies.

pip install -U discord.py