College Writing 101

by milwrite

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License by Zach Muhlbauer.

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What you get

Channels

🔊announcements🔊 An announcement bulletin with key course updates, resources, and reminders.
🏫class meetings

Storage

🔗course-materialsSpace for storing for shareable resources and course content
📥course-prepGeneral space for course preparations
💡writing-promptsSpace for pre-posted reflective writing prompts and provocations

Discussion

💬generalAn all-purpose space to air your thoughts, ask questions, and join in conversation with the group during class meetings
💡freewritesA space to free-write on the writing and revision process, with guided prompts to lead the way.
🔗threadsFor threaded conversations
🗯quotables
🌠flashpointsAbridged insights from class discussion... an archive of flashpoints and touchstones recorded for the sake of posterity, for future reference. Far from exhaustive!! Not exhaustive, not by a long shot. (Some nuggets of wisdom are wise because they are transient!)
📻jukebox$botify play // A space for sharing music and queueing up songs on our collaborative Spotify playlist during free-writes.
🎱randomA space for posting articles and videos, gifs and memes, events and club details, plugs and outreach, quirks and oddities, thoughts and feelings, the stuff of "real" life and more...

Information

🔑useful-links
👋introductions
📝assignments
📚resourcesA running bulletin of resources related to the writing process, drafting & revision strategies, theoretical frames, glossaries of rhetorical schemes & literary devices, and other related insights that can support your writing and learning practices throughout the course.

Office Hours

📆sign-upSign up for my office hours with the scheduling portal below—
👥conferences

Group 1

💬chat
📥docsPlease share documents with your writing group before class on peer-review days.
💭discussion

Group 2

💬chat
📥docs
💭discussion

Group 3

💬chat
📥docsPlease share documents with your writing group before class on peer-review days.
💭discussion

Group 4

💬chat
📥docsPlease share documents with your writing group before class on peer-review days.
💭discussion

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Roles

Instructorshown separately
Studentsshown separately
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4

How to use it

01
Press “Use this template” and choose the server you already have.
02
Discord asks which server and adds Xenon to it if it isn't there yet.
03
Xenon lists every channel and role it would add or delete. Nothing changes until you confirm.

Questions

Our Discord server is the fastest way to get an answer from a human.

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How do I use it on a server I already have?

Press “Use this template” and pick “On a server you already have”. Discord asks which server, then Xenon lists every channel and role it would add or delete and waits there. It works whether or not Xenon is in the server yet.

Can I start a new server from it instead?

“On a new server” hands you to Discord’s own create-a-server flow. Starting a server that way needs no bot and no account here.

Can I apply it with a command?

Yes, once Xenon is in the server. Run /template load name_or_id: GbJpYFgumuFW to apply it. The result is the same, but the website shows you every change before anything happens.

Template commands

Should I back the server up first?

Yes, on any server that already has something in it. Run /backup create before you apply it. A template replaces channels and roles, and the backup is your way back.

How backups work

What happens to the channels and roles already there?

By default, the ones this template doesn't have are deleted. The website names every one of them before you confirm. With the command, add !delete-channels or !delete-roles to keep them.

Will I lose my members or messages?

Members stay. A template never kicks anyone, though they lose any role it deletes. Messages live in their channel, so a channel this template doesn't have takes its messages with it. A backup taken first can restore those channels, and with Premium their messages too.

Can I change it after applying it?

Yes. Once it's applied, rename, add, and delete whatever you like in Discord.

What doesn't a template carry?

Messages, members, emojis, stickers, AutoMod rules, scheduled events, and onboarding. A template carries only the structure, meaning categories, channels, roles, their order, their permission overwrites, and a few server settings.

Why does Discord ask for Administrator?

A template creates and deletes roles and channels, and Discord lets a role manage only the roles below its own. Discord also adds Xenon’s role at the bottom of the list, so you may have to move it up before it can change the roles above it.

Do I need an account to use it?

No. You can read the whole layout and copy the template code without logging in. Applying it to a server you already have only asks you to approve Xenon on Discord.

Does it cost anything?

No. Using templates is free and always has been. Premium adds message history inside backups, more automatic backups, and cross-server sync. None of that changes how templates work.

What Premium adds