<p>For background details see http
://www.fharrell.com/2017/08/integrating-audio-video-and-discussion.html</p>

<p>I am interested in using <code>stats.stackexchange</code> as a place to hold questions, answers, and discussion that are specific to subsections in my course notes.  An example subsection is cubic spline functions in regression (or it could be a smaller unit such as knot selection in same).</p>

<p>Is it appropriate to create such topics that would be hyperlinked from my course notes for easy finding by students?  Does anyone have a better idea?  I'm currently trying <a href="http://slack.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://slack.com</a> for this purpose but people have to be invited to join my <code>slack</code> team, and linking to <code>slack</code> discussions is not as straightforward as linking to a URL for a <code>stackexchange</code> discussion.  <code>stackexchange</code> also has the major advantage of profiting from a much wider user knowledge base.</p>

<p>I could start the process by linking my notes to specific existing questions (and this will be optimal for many questions) but specific places for knowledge-base building will be needed too.</p>
