What is Discord and how to use it?

This video is a Complete guide to Discord from a parents and teachers point of view. What is it? How is it being used? What are some of the strengths and weaknesses and how can we keep our students and children safe?

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:15 What is Discord?
0:45 Navigate to the Website
1:00 Download Discord or access online
1:15 Get a Discord account
1:50 What are Servers, Categories, and Channels?
2:40 What makes Channels different?
3:00 Private vs public
3:20 Analogy with Drive
3:50 Create server on Discord
4:20 Customize your Discord server
5:05 Server settings
5:40 Create roles for your Discord server
6:00 Change permissions for roles
7:25 Upload a custom emoji to your Discord Server
8:58 User management for Discord
9:55 Create a Category
10:40 Create a Text Channel
11:30 Channel settings
12:10 Create a Voice Channel
13:25 Invite members to your server
14:00 Security and Privacy settings for Discord
15:00 Main safety settings
16:40 Privacy data shared and how to disable this
17:35 Summary

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[edgarfloresnet]

I can't think of a better explainer video for Discord. This is an amazing breakdown. Thank you so much for putting this video together 🙌

[gcrouch]

Really helped me get started in Discord. Thanks for a well thought out guide.

[Tecpatl]

Awesome! It would be great to have a part 2 to show how to manage calls and screen sharing

[TriviRocks]

Thanks Sethi for your explanation! Very clear.

[___Me.]

This is really good thank you. Last year I did a free Open Uni MOOC 'Take your teaching online' which mentioned 'Discord' as a platform that was rapidly developing for an educational use; though never got around to even signing up. This is really very useful to know - Thank you very much. Thank you for your videos.

[Idka]

Great video, thanks for all the tips.

[mikparker]

Very nice little video. Thank you for sharing. 👏👏👏

[MrMark-pmrs]

Thanks for this video Sethi. I tried using Discord but found it a bit complicated. Your video has me motivated to try again. All my middle school students are using it. I think I will share your video with my school.

[jesusbritish]

Amazing ! Discord truly is the future of education !

[francisjacquart]

HAPPY NEW YEAR DEAR SIR! IT HAS BEEN A LONG TIME THAT I HAVE NOT BEEN ON YOUR OUTUBE CHANNEL AND I CAN SEE, THAT YOU STILL DOING A GREAT JOB WITH ALL YOUR VERY INFORMATIVE TUTORIALS. I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR THAT! LOT OF LOVE AND TAKE CARE!

[gagangujral]

Thank for making this video as I find discord UI pain in the butt

[teach-learn]

I think this video misses its target. It like every other Discord tutorial I've seen focuses on creating a new server because that what kids are interested in doing. But new users such as parents and educators don't actually want to create a server right off the bat; only the kids want to do that. Your objective doesn't match up with the likely motivation of the stated target audience.
I as an educator want to know how to find a specific person on Discord. Also I want to know how to join a specific group a friend told me about. How do I do that? And I believe some percentage of adults over 40 will also want to do what I want to do.

Thank you for your effort.

[nickbrooks]

I would love to know if a program like the description below exists (I’m just not very technological). My dream is to have a Spanish/English institute. And I am starting to plan everything since now. I was hoping to find a computer program like this one:
From their houses the students will fill out a form online with their info ( a form where they are going to insert their personal info) and when they sent the form. They Will get automatically a diagnostic English or Spanish test . They take the test from their houses and the system will create a spread sheet with the diagnostic test grades of the students and will send the grades to the students automatically . I want the system to keep emailing promotions and discounts (promotion campaigns that I will create) or send regular emails to the students until they purchase my course. Does anyone know a program like this? This would be for a real physical institute in a physical classrooms but I want to know if there is any program like this. Thanks

[markwright]

I wanted the basics of how to navigate the screen. This seems more about setting up a server. I can not run until I learn how to walk!

[kevchua]

This application reminds me of ICQ or mIRC, a text-only chat that was popular long before WhatsApp or any other messengers came into existence.

[SeasonsOFcolors]

Ok I have Made my discord and changed my profile photo and user name a couple times and now I have 3 images on the left side and I only need 1 so how do I delete the other two or can I ?

[danielotanz]

Thanks for the clear explanation. Flip by Microsoft is closing down, I might move to Discord for my students. I'm wondering if there is a way to get the analytics of messages and media posted on Discord?

Great video, but I want to make my students use Google Chat since we use Google accounts for the school things.

[nimotalkssense]

Subscribed this channel without a second thought thanks to Sophia college dur to their channel I came to know about such an amazing progressive teacher

[justinmuschaweck]

So how would I put discord on my laptop to join someone on pc rust game