Features built for collaboration
From editing history to enterprise SSO, Scoold provides everything you need to build a world-class internal knowledge hub.
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Core Features
Full featured Q&A platform
Scoold is inspired by Stack Overflow and implements most of its features. You can ask and answer questions, upvote and downvote posts, earn badges and reputation. Each edit creates an new revision, making it easy to follow the history of edits.
Reputation & Badges
Scoold has a simple but effective reputation system with badges. People are awarded reputation points for good questions and answers, as well as various badges for their achievements on the site. You can also create your own custom badges.
Email Notifications
You can subscribe to each question thread by clicking the checkbox at the bottom. Scoold will send you emails whenever a new answer is published. Also you can subscribe to replies to your own answers from the settings page.
Geolocation Filtering
Questions can be associated with a specific location and then filtered based on that location. This feature enables geolocation queries an gives you the option to search for questions around you.
Modern, Responsive & SEO-friendly
Scoold features a modern look-and-feel which looks great on any device. Server-side rendering for all pages with tidy URLs, easily crawlable by search engines and AI.
Full-text Search
All content is indexed and analyzed by Para. You can search for users, questions and answers from the search bar on top.
Similar Posts Suggestions
When you ask a new question, Scoold will give you hints if a similar question already exist. Additionally, on each question page there's a sidebar with suggestions for the top 10 similar posts.
Rich Content
Scoold can display content in Markdown (GFM) with attached multimedia, files and code snippets with full syntax highlighting. The Markdown editor is powerful and supports, images, links, emojis and preview.
Spaces (Groups)
Spaces are a way to organize users and questions into isolated groups. You can edit users' spaces in bulk and also move a question to a different space. Permission to access a space is given by an administrator.
Backup & Restore
Administrators can easily export all the data from Scoold as a zipped archive. The exported data can later be imported into another Scoold instance.
Themes & Customization
Quickly change the look and feel by using one of the bundled themes or create your own. The CSS styles are fully customizable and you can create custom themes. Add your brand and logo (white-label), and use your own domain name.
I18n & RTL Language Support
The whole website is easily translatable into other languages. Right-to-left languages are also supported and the layout is mirrored if an RTL language is detected.
Enterprise & Security
LDAP Authentication
Both LDAP and Active Directory are supported. Team members can authenticate with your company's LDAP server for a seamless single sign-on experience.
SAML 2.0 SSO PRO
Single sign-on with Okta, Azure AD, Auth0, and all major SAML identity providers. This makes it super easy for organizations to leverage existing centralized identity management infrastructure.
SCIM Provisioning PRO
Automatic user provisioning and deprovisioning via the SCIM 2.0 protocol. Manage all users centrally, quickly provision and deprovision accounts from your identity platform of choice.
Social Login & 2FA
People can also log in with any social account. Plain-old email-and-password logins are also supported. For optimal security, users can enable two-factor authentication with time-based tokens (TOTP).
Custom Authentication PRO
Redirect users to your company's login page for a custom single sign-on experience. Virtually any external authentication provider can be made to work with Scoold in this way.
SSL & mTLS
Secure all connections to Scoold with HTTPS by using your own SSL certificate without the need for a proxy. Tighten security with mutual authentication between a proxy, Scoold and Para (mTLS).
Integrations & API
RESTful API
A fully-fledged RESTful JSON API defined with an OpenAPI spec. All CRUD operations can be executed through the API from your code.
Slack, Mattermost & Teams Integration PRO
Create questions and answers from Slack, Mattermost or Microsoft Teams, get real-time in-channel notification of new posts and mentions, approve posts and perform searches. Scoold can map your teams and chat channels to spaces.
Zapier & n8n Integration
Zapier and n8n make it easy to integrate Scoold with thousands of other applications. Thanks to the power of REST hooks, you can have questions created automatically based on data from an external app or configure Scoold to notify other apps when a new question is posted.
Import from Stack Overflow
Migrating from Stack Overflow for Teams (Business) to Scoold is effortless and seamless. Simply download your data from Stack Overflow and import it into Scoold.
Akismet Integration
With automatic anti-spam protection powered by Akismet's advanced AI filters, Scoold gives you a peace of mind. Spam can be deleted instantly if detected or you can choose to leave it to moderators for review.
Webhooks
HTTP webhooks for all major events: new questions, answers, votes, and more. The payloads are signed with HMAC-SHA256 for extra security.
Additional Premium Features
Mentions PRO
Mention anyone in your posts with @Name. Administrators can turn on an mention notifications for all users or have each user decide if they want to opt-in. Mentions make discussions better by allowing you to engage the right people.
File Uploads PRO
Easily attach images and documents to posts. Files can either be uploaded to the local file system or to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, AWS S3 or Imgur.
Sticky & Favorite Posts
Questions marked as "sticky" will always appear on top, before all the others. You can also mark your favorite questions with ♥ and they'll be saved to your profile.
Anonymous Posts
This can either be enabled or disabled. When enabled, anybody will be able to ask a question or submit an answer. This lowers the barrier for new users and increases engagement.
Wiki-Style Answers
Make your answers editable by everyone by checking the "wiki" checkbox. This is useful if you want to allow everyone to contribute to the knowledge around a question, regardless of their reputation points.
Email Digest
Administrators can turn on an email digest for all users or have each user decide if they want to opt-in. And email digest contains a summary of the top questions published recently on Scoold. This can increase engagement and stimulate users to come back to the site.
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