Instructional Design Studio

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...

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...