Designing Discord Servers for Senior High School Students’ Online Learning in Davao City, Philippines

Online learning became widespread and fully realized during the pandemic. With the new method of learning came the gamification of some online learning platforms. Previous studies state that Discord is perceived positively as a potential online learning platform. However, these studies were isolated from practice and primarily gathered information from students at the college level. This study aimed to determine how Discord servers can be designed for use by senior high school students and educators. The study was conducted over the course of 3 months through multiple focus group discussions, the flow of which was aided by the ADDIE Model. The research concluded that the full use of Discord’s free features, paired with standard operating procedures, can be used to design a server usable by senior high school students and educators in online learning. Future studies can use the created server and test it on a wider audience, and it could also be used to expand studies on Discord, particularly using Discord Bots for educational purposes.