Is our class a Discourse community?

We, as a class, are a Discourse community. We have our own type of language that is used in class. I think that this language may overlap with other English classes that we take but it does not make it an English Discourse community. The ways in which we use the language are different and then how we interact is different from the ways we would interact as an English department because of how the interactions would take place as a much larger group. I think that the student Discourse plays a role in the Discourse of our classroom because of the role that we play, sitting down while the professor stands up front for example. The student Discourse helps to keep the class feel as thought there is some semblance of order. It may even be our student Discourse that leads us to have the Discourse in the class by what we talk about and how we feel comfortable enough to actually talk to each other.