portico: Add UCSD case study.

templates/zerver/for/ucsd-case-study.md

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+# Case study: University of California San Diego
+
+## Making the best of a tough year
+
+[University of California San Diego
+(UCSD)](https://ucsd.edu/about/index.html) is recognized as one of the
+top universities worldwide. The UCSD math department offers
+prestigious graduate and undergraduate programs, with course topics
+ranging from foundational material to cutting-edge research.
+
+In response to the covid pandemic, UCSD instruction moved online early
+in 2020. As instructors scrambled to figure out online education,
+Kiran Kedlaya, Professor of Mathematics at UCSD, gave himself a bigger
+challenge: “Seeing the unique opportunity, I decided to open my
+classes up to the world,” Kiran says.
+
+
+## Communication is key
+
+Kiran knew that an effective chat platform would be key for
+communicating with students. He had prior experience with Slack,
+Discord and Zulip.  “I chose Zulip for several reasons, especially the
+threaded model (which I find sorely lacking in other chat apps), and
+the TeX integration.”
+
+From Spring 2020 through Spring 2021, the [Zulip
+Standard](https://zulip.com/plans/) plan was free for all educators,
+as we did our part to help make the transition to online education a
+little easier. Having set up Zulip Cloud for his three graduate-level
+courses, Kiran felt confident in the communication platform, and was
+ready to make his classes open to all.
+
+
+## Teaching students across six continents
+
+Students worldwide jumped on the opportunity to take a course with
+Kiran. “Of the 350 students in my classes, no more than 15% were local
+to UCSD,” Kiran says. A Zulip poll showed participants from as far as
+the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Oceania.
+
+“Zulip became a central hub for asynchronous Q&A and posting Zoom
+links for lectures, whiteboard PDFs, and announcements,” Kiran says.
+
+With students logging in at all hours of the day, Zulip’s topic model
+was key to making sure everyone could find the materials they needed
+and participate in the discussions. “Zulip’s topics, and the ability
+to change the topic of someone else's message, has made it much easier
+for me to keep things coherent,” says Kiran.
+
+
+## Zulip has what you need
+
+Beyond topics, Zulip’s rich functionality smoothed out made many
+aspects of remote communication. Here is what Kiran has to say about
+the benefits of just a few of Zulip’s features:
+
+
+- **Discussing math**: “The
+  [**TeX**](https://zulip.com/help/format-your-message-using-markdown#latex)
+  made it made it super easy to discuss material from the course using
+  proper mathematical notation, and was one of the reasons I chose
+  Zulip in the first place.”
+- **Quick pulse-checks**: “[**Emoji
+  reactions**](https://zulip.com/help/emoji-reactions) were a nice way
+  to collect RSVPs for office hours or acknowledge typo corrections
+  for my lecture notes.”
+- **Hiding answers**:
+  “[**Spoilers**](https://zulip.com/help/format-your-message-using-markdown#spoilers)
+  are a great way to answer questions about homework without depriving
+  students of a chance to keep thinking about the problem on their
+  own.”
+- **Scheduling**: “With [**local
+  times**](https://zulip.com/help/format-your-message-using-markdown#mention-a-time),
+  I could announce office hours or outside lectures without having to
+  worry about confusion for students in different time zones.”
+
+
+## Education beyond coursework
+
+What happens once classes return to campus? “I intend to continue to
+use Zulip as the main communication platform for my in-person classes
+this coming year,” Kiran says.
+
+Zulip is also helping Kiran organize events for students, and create
+communities for education and research. “I used Zulip as the
+communication hub for a 200-person undergraduate conference that was
+held virtually for the first time,” Kiran says. “I’ve also started a
+Zulip for the number theory research group at UCSD, where graduate
+students and postdocs can connect to discuss reading courses, social
+events, conferences of interest, etc.”
+
+To learn more, check our our guides on using Zulip for conferences and
+research!

templates/zerver/ucsd-case-study.html

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+{% extends "zerver/portico.html" %}
+{% set entrypoint = "landing-page" %}
+
+{% block title %}
+<title>Case study: Zulip at University of California San Diego</title>
+{% endblock %}
+
+{% block customhead %}
+<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
+{% endblock %}
+
+{% block portico_content %}
+
+{% include 'zerver/landing_nav.html' %}
+
+<div class="portico-landing why-page">
+    <div class="hero empty-hero">
+    </div>
+    <div class="main">
+        <div class="padded-content">
+            <div class="inner-content markdown">
+                {{ render_markdown_path('zerver/for/ucsd-case-study.md') }}
+            </div>
+        </div>
+    </div>
+</div>
+
+{% endblock %}

zerver/tests/test_docs.py

@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ class DocPageTest(ZulipTestCase):
         self._test("/why-zulip/", "Why Zulip?")
         self._test("/for/open-source/", "for open source projects")
         self._test("/case-studies/tum/", "Technical University of Munich")
+        self._test("/case-studies/ucsd/", "UCSD")
         self._test("/for/research/", "for researchers")
         self._test("/for/companies/", "in a company")
         self._test("/for/communities/", "Zulip for communities")

zproject/urls.py

@@ -628,6 +628,7 @@ i18n_urls = [
     path("for/research/", landing_view, {"template_name": "zerver/for-research.html"}),
     path("for/companies/", landing_view, {"template_name": "zerver/for-companies.html"}),
     path("case-studies/tum/", landing_view, {"template_name": "zerver/tum-case-study.html"}),
+    path("case-studies/ucsd/", landing_view, {"template_name": "zerver/ucsd-case-study.html"}),
     path(
         "for/communities/",
         landing_view,