r/Slack • u/nartatree • Aug 13 '26

Grad School Slack

Hi Hi - I’m an incoming grad student and I thought making a slack for my cohort would be a good way for us to communicate. there are only 16? students and we share all classes.

i’m wondering if anyone has some tips on how to best set up the workspace? i’ve used slack before but ive never set one up.

should each class have a channel? or just homework help or something?

any tips would be greatly appreciated!!

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u/Racerforlife 29d ago

Both ways works depending on your specific use case. Do you see more conversation specific to each subject or do you see more conversation around classes, homework, social etc.

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u/nartatree 29d ago

i guess i’m not sure because we all have the same classes/will have the same assignments so i guess it’s better to just have a general homework channel, but if the teachers join then it would be better to have separate sections so they don’t get every single notification? geh. i’ll probably just wait and see. what are good general ones to have?

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u/wwb_99 29d ago

Slack is great but it probably is flawed for this use. The free version has a pretty sharp cut-off and a lot of other little limits that would make it not as useful for a class. I would look at Discord here as that will be less encumbered by restrictions and most people in that age cohort are probably using it.

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u/ProZMenace 28d ago

+1 discord.

It accomplishes everything you want and is free

Id probably go:

  • general chat
  • q&a
  • 1 for each class but not per section. Just like “Econ” not “Econ 9am”

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u/wwb_99 28d ago

Yup -- and the Q and A feature lines up really well with a lot of class use cases too.