Do you strive to be a better teacher? Are you looking for an easier way to communicate with your students or respond more quickly to their questions? Piazza may be the tool that can help you achieve these goals.
Piazza is a social learning platform that is used by over 50,000 professors in 2,000 schools and 90 countries. Piazza was designed as a tool for students to ask questions and receive answers. Students have the ability to ask questions privately, to the entire class or to groups. Many instructors require all questions to go through Piazza instead of individual emails to the instructor. This format allows all students to benefit from the question and answer.
Piazza’s wiki style format enables collaboration in one place. Anyone in the class can respond to questions and the instructor has the ability to ensure that the responses are correct. Piazza allows students to ask questions anonymously, which provides our quiet students the opportunity to submit questions within a safe environment. The questions and answers are community edited, but there are separate student and instructor edited submissions. The wiki style format allows the user to see only the high quality question and answer instead of reading through a long thread of submissions. The questions and responses occur in a real time environment, which allows students to submit questions through Piazza during a class lecture. The faculty response can even occur during the class session.
Some great features of Piazza’s “free” question and answer platform are:
- Rich, group edited question and answers
- All questions in one workflow space
- Free iOS and Android Piazza mobile apps
- Integrates with every major Learning Management System
- Highly customizable real time online polls
- Detailed participation statistics
- Instructors can endorse answers to keep the class on track
- Increase student collaboration
You can view a short video Piazza demonstration at the following link: https://youtu.be/2jLSiN8E18w
What are you waiting for? Get started for free at https://piazza.com/
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