Category Archives: Piazza

Editing and Creating Piazza Folders

Once you’ve created a Piazza space for your course, you will probably want to edit the folder structure so it more accurately reflects how you plan to use Piazza in conjunction with your course. Piazza folders function much like folders or discussion forums on Blackboard: they serve to organize the discussions or questions in your Piazza site. However, where on Blackboard a user first enters a Discussion Forum, then creates a post, in Piazza, one starts creating a post and...

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Communicate, Piazza Updated: January 21, 2016

Responding to a Piazza Post

To respond to a question or discussion prompt, simply click in the Students’ Answer space and type your response. Where Piazza becomes interesting, and different from Blackboard’s discussion board, is when an initial response has been posted, and another member of the class has an addition or clarification. While a traditional discussion board is geared toward students individually responding to a discussion prompt, Piazza is unique in that it encourages students to respond to a discussion prompt collaboratively, editing a...

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Communicate, Piazza, Piazza Updated: January 21, 2016

Posting to Piazza

To post to Piazza, you’ll first need to click the NEW POST button, which appears in the upper left of the Piazza screen. Before you get to typing your question, you’ll need to set the post’s type, audience, and location. Post type indicates whether you’re posting a question (which begs a response), a note (a block of text that needs no response), or whether you’re posting a block of text that will include a poll (note, details of the Poll/In-Class...

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Communicate, Piazza, Piazza Updated: January 21, 2016

Add Piazza to your Blackboard Course

Piazza is a free, third-party question and answer tool available to use through Blackboard. Piazza discussion differs from standard Blackboard discussion in a number of ways, primarily in that it is geared toward students collaborating to produce a single response to a question or discussion prompt in a wiki-like fashion, rather than each student responding individually. Piazza set up is a two-step process. First, we add the Piazza tool link to the course, then we create or choose the Piazza...

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Discussion, Piazza Updated: January 21, 2016