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 load 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 is not 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 load it onto 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. That route needs no bot and no account here.

Can I load it with a command?

Yes, once Xenon is in the server: /template load name_or_id: GbJpYFgumuFW. It applies what the website applies. The website is the one that shows you the changes first.

Template commands

Should I back the server up first?

Yes, on any server that already has something in it. Run /backup create before you load, because loading replaces channels and roles and the backup is the way back.

How backups work

What happens to the channels and roles already there?

The ones this template does not have are deleted, by default. The website names every one of them before you confirm; the command takes !delete-channels or !delete-roles to leave them alone.

Will I lose my members or messages?

Members stay. A template never kicks anyone, though they do lose any role it deletes. Messages live in their channel, so a channel this template does not have takes its messages with it when it goes. That is what the backup is for.

Can I change it after loading?

Yes. A template is a starting point, not a commitment. Once it is applied, rename, add and delete whatever you like in Discord.

What does a template not carry?

Structure and little else: categories, channels, roles, their order and their permission overwrites, plus a few server settings. No messages, members, emojis, stickers, automod rules, scheduled events or onboarding.

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.

Does it cost anything?

No. Loading templates is free and always has been. Premium buys message history inside backups, more automatic backups and cross-server sync, none of which touches templates.

What Premium adds