Piazza
Q&A platform for classes where students and instructors collaborate.
Piazza is a class Q&A platform for courses, where students, TAs, and instructors ask, answer, and edit questions in a shared wiki-style space. Each question carries a single student answer and a single instructor answer that the community can contribute to, so participants can read one consolidated response rather than sift through forum threads. The platform also serves as a course page for announcements, course information, syllabi, and resources.
Features include a LaTeX editor with syntax highlighting and code blocking, real-time updates, instructor endorsements of questions and answers, anonymous posting options, customizable polls, and student participation reports. Piazza offers iOS and Android apps with configurable email notifications, and connects to learning management systems through LTI integration for streamlined student enrollment. It also supports anonymous feedback polls and private posts to instructors.
Piazza is built for instructors, TAs, and students in higher education courses, with separate entry points for students and for professors and TAs. The pages describe a free tier for students and professors and TAs to get started, along with a demo class for evaluation; no other editions or pricing structure are detailed.
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