A new cohort every term. The same answers, kept.
For bootcamps, university programs and course operators who want learners helping learners, with staff in control.
Bootcamps
Twelve weeks, one chat group, and the same setup questions each intake. Keep the solved ones for the next class.
University programs
Course forums in the learning system, and real talk in a group chat staff cannot see. Give both a home you run.
Course operators
Live cohorts on top of recorded lessons. Your learners need office hours and a place to ask between them.
A starting setup you can copy
Each course or cohort gets a Flow, its own community space. Profile types are the custom roles inside it. Change any of this in Flow settings.
| Profile type | Can do | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Student | Ask, reply, join sessions and breakouts, message classmates | Cannot schedule sessions |
| Teaching assistant | Everything a student can, plus host up to a set number of sessions | Moderator role for hiding and reporting |
| Instructor | Run sessions, post announcements, mark best answers on their Waves | Organizer role |
| Alumni | Read and reply, host an AMA if you allow it | Joins by a separate role link |
Office hours that run themselves
Schedule a session once and set it to repeat weekly, biweekly or monthly. The next one appears after each session ends.
- Seat limits and RSVPs, so a TA is not swamped
- Breakout tables with their own capacity for group work
- Questions asked in the session stay on the Wave for students who missed it
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How Dium handles student data
Facts, not badges. Read this before you add learners.
- Who can join
- You choose: open, by your approval, by invite, or by a join code. A Flow can be private so only members see it.
- What Dium stores
- Name and photo from the member's sign-in profile, their posts, replies and direct messages, and files up to 3 MB each.
- Direct messages
- Scoped to your Flow or Room. A learner's DMs in your course are separate from their DMs anywhere else on Dium.
- Leaving and removal
- Staff can remove members. Owners can delete the whole Flow. For an export of your Flow's Waves and answers, write to [email protected].
- Sign-in
- Members sign in with a one-time email code or a social account. Sessions use secure, HttpOnly cookies. Security details.
- Grades and records
- Dium is not a learning system and has no gradebook. Keep grades, transcripts and accommodations out of it.
Questions from schools
Does Dium connect to Canvas, Moodle or Blackboard?
Not out of the box. Link to your Flow from the course page. If you run your own platform, the partner API can create Flows and sign learners in. See the developer overview.
Is there education pricing?
Not a published one. The Free plan covers groups under 50. Tell us about your program on the contact page.
Can alumni stay after the term?
Yes. Give them an Alumni profile type in the same Flow, or open an alumni Flow in the same Room. See Dium for alumni.
Set up next term's Flow this week.
Free under 50 learners. Copy the setup above and invite your TAs first.