Knowledge Building is a process of collaboratively building new understanding and knowledge through meaningful discussion. This plugin allows knowledge building processes to happen on WordPress comments. There are several different knowledge typesets to choose from, and they can be mapped to individual post categories, so other posts will continue to use their normal commenting functionality, while some categories will be equipped with knowledge building tools.

This plugin is primarily meant for use in educational settings, but can of course be used for any meaningful purpose.

Each discussion can also be explored as an interactive map, where notes are shown as connected nodes that can be grouped by discussion thread, knowledge type, author or time.

The plugin uses the jQuery and jQuery UI libraries that come with WordPress. The map view uses the Raphaël vector graphics library (MIT license) and the Junge font by Cyreal (SIL Open Font License), both included in the plugin. Apart from avatars, which follow your site’s avatar settings, the plugin doesn’t load anything from external servers.

For more regular updates see GitHub.