Piazza

Piazza in a free discussion board platform that handles LateX and code snippets making it popular for Math and CS courses.

Creating a course

Create a Class

Create Another Class

Configure Your Class

Additional Resources:

• Creating Course Information

• Adding Resource Files and Links

• A Guide to Your Feed

Optional Settings:

• Duplicate Post Suggestions

• Instructor Tagging in Posts

• Prevent Students from Making Anonymous or Private Posts

• Clone a Class

• Merge Multiple Classes

Syncing class roster

Enroll Your Students on Piazza

Set an Access Code

Adding instructors

Enrolling Instructors and TAs

Adding TA's

Enrolling Instructors and TAs

Settings (visibility of posts to instructors and others)

Course Page Visibility Settings

Make a Private Post Public

Lock a Class or Post

Creating groups

Enable Group-Based Discussions in Your Class

Creating Instructor notes

Creating a Note

Creating a Question

Creating an Announcement

Additional Resources:

• Save and Retrieve a Draft of a Post

• Text Editor Options (LaTeX, Code Blocks, Images and Videos, etc.)

• Link to Another Post

• Pin a Post

• Favourite a Post

• Follow/Unfollow a Post

• Post a Followup

• Delete a Question or Note

Creating folders

Create Folders to Organize Posts

Creating polls

Post a Poll

Live Q&A sessions

What is 'Live Q&A'

How to start and end 'Live Q&A'

How does a 'Live Q&A' session work

Moving posts from 'Live Q&A' to your main class feed

Monitoring activities and student statistics

Class Statistics

View and Disable Post History

Advice on instructor responses

Best Practices

Encourage Students to Answer - Set Timer Delays

Clarify or Improve Posts - Wiki-Style Editing

How to Endorse a Student Question, Answer or Followup