Asynchronous Online Discussion Forums for Colleges

Online Discussion Forum is a platform where students can start a conversation with their peers & teachers in the form of posts. Other members can voluntarily respond to these posts via Asynchronous discussion which allows them to read and respond “out-of-time.� Which means, not every member of the forum has to be logged on at the same time for the discussion to proceed unlike platforms like Zoom & Google Meet. Our study found that participation in online discussion forums has a positive impact on student’s academic & social growth. Hence, our work focuses on providing for students with fewer resources or students with introverted personalities, the ability to engage in discussions with their peers as well as their teachers in order to get accurate information about their college activities with an option of an anonymous environment. Our emphasis is on building a Community Question Answering (CQA) based web application that will enable students to access particular information/resources with an optional anonymous environment with the assistance of other students as well teachers to find appropriate information/resources in order to achieve cognitive and social growth using efficient development tools for developing a user friendly and fully responsive platform that is compatible with all modern devices while using cloud services for safely storing all of user data.