Sloth Lee for
Study groups and education.
Tools for servers where the goal is learning, not entertainment.
Study servers — university cohorts, online course groups, tutoring communities, language exchanges — have different success criteria than chat-driven servers. The goal isn't engagement metrics; it's that the right help reaches the right person at the right time. Sloth Lee leans toward serious, predictable, accessible defaults.
What this audience tends to struggle with
- Off-topic creep in study channels — members chatting about anything except the subject. You want gentle nudges, not heavy-handed enforcement.
- New cohorts every semester or course intake — same setup repeated, same channels recreated, same role assignments. Tedious.
- Time-zone challenges with international students — coordination requires the bot to surface 'who's online and willing to help with X' without inflating member presence.
- Cheating-adjacent content — students sharing answers in #help. The bot can't moderate the academic policy but can flag patterns for human review.
The toolkit, framed for study groups and education
Topic-channels with AutoMod
Per-channel AutoMod rules that nudge off-topic posts to #lounge with a friendly message rather than auto-deleting. Mod-tunable per channel.
Cohort templates
Save your server's structure (channels, roles, permissions, AutoMod config) as a template. New cohort starts: clone the template, customise the cohort name, deploy.
Office-hours bot
Scheduled posts when teaching staff are 'on call'. Members see live availability without having to ping. Office-hours ticket category routes directly to whoever's on duty.
Anonymous question channel
Members ask questions through the bot anonymously; appears in #anonymous-questions for staff to answer. Reduces friction for shy or self-conscious students.
Audit log for academic compliance
If your institution requires moderation transparency, the audit log gives you a complete record of who said what to whom, when, and why action was taken. Exportable.
A 5-step setup
1. Build your channel structure once
Set up roles (student, TA, instructor, alumni), channels (announcements, #general, per-topic, #help), AutoMod profile. Save as template.
2. Configure office-hours
Dashboard → Office hours → schedule. Times, days, who's covering. Bot posts the current shift in #office-hours and routes the office-hours ticket category to them.
3. Set up anonymous questions
Enable in dashboard. Pick the channel where they appear (visible only to teaching staff). Students hit /ask-anon, type their question, submit.
4. Onboard the cohort
Pin a one-message rules + how-to-ask-questions guide in #welcome. Reaction roles for time zone + study interest. Members self-categorise.
5. Plan the off-boarding
End of semester: archive the cohort channels (Sloth Lee handles), keep the audit log, optionally migrate the alumni role automatically. Template remains for the next cohort.
Study communities live or die on whether the right student finds the right help. Most other Discord bots are built for chat servers; this is the framing for the ones that aren't.