Piazza
What does Piazza do?
Piazza is a web based discussion tool that facilitates interaction among instructors and students. You can create a Piazza class within your Blackboard course unit and use the class as a single space to manage communications for your unit.
- you can answer students’ questions once for all students to see
- your students can engage with classmates in online discussion
- you can post class related announcements, files, resources and syllabus
- you can conduct polls
Visit the Piazza website for, information on accessibility, a quick start guide and help and support articles.
You can also check out a quick overview of Piazza vs Blackboard Discussions Boards.
Resources
Click on the links below for further guidance:
Case Study
FSE Teaching Academy would love to hear from any colleague using Piazza within their teaching. Email: fseteachingcollege@manchester.ac.uk
Watch the video below to see Professor Ralf Becker from the School of Social Sciences, setting up and talking about how he uses Piazza with his students.
- 01:24 – Setting up Piazza via Blackboard
- 02:24 – Create your Piazza Class
- 03.32 – Configure your Piazza Class setting (basic steps),
- 03.56 – Enrolling students, instructors and sharing your class sign up link
- 05:27 – Ralf talks about how he uses the Q&A section of his Piazza discussion board
- 05.50 – Demonstration of how to create a menu link in Blackboard
- 07.07 – Student sign up – explained
- 07.35 – Ralf explains the different posts types (note, question and poll) and provides examples
- 11.48 – Tips and advice for using Piazza
- 14.47 – Linking a Blackboard course item to a Piazza post
- 15.43 – Using LaTex in a post.
- 17.08 – Linking between posts in Piazza
