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Piazza: Transforming Online Learning for a Simpler World

Piazza is a free online learning platform that brings the dynamic of offline study groups online, making learning rapid, fun, and efficient. Professors love Piazza for its ability to improve teaching and streamline communication. Get started with Piazza today!

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Piazza: Transforming Online Learning for a Simpler World

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  1. Professor Presentation 2012 We want a simpler world where students aren’t stuck on homework and instructors aren’t buried under student emails – a world where knowledge transfer from instructors, and between students, is rapid, fun and beautifully efficient.

  2. About Piazza • Piazza was founded to take offline study group dynamicsonline to help students get unstuck faster. • Piazza is online learning reimagined with class engagement at the center. • Profs decide to use Piazza at the class level (no IT dept needed). • Piazza is free -- create your classes, enroll students and you’re done!

  3. Who’s Using Piazza?

  4. Purpose-Built for You

  5. Piazza Works

  6. Profs Love Piazza • “Piazza is the first educational software that actually improves my teaching.” -Kevin Kelley, MIT • “Piazza has solved all of the communication flow problems I’ve experienced in 19 years of teaching. I used to use 6 programs, now it’s just Piazza.” - Dan Garcia, UC Berkeley • “After a semester of using Piazza, I can truly say I loved it. The TAs loved it… With Piazza I got a real-time picture of what was going on, and could address some of the really important misunderstandings in class.” - Kristin Marsicano, Georgia Tech

  7. Get Started with Piazza • Go to www.piazza.com • Click “Create a Class” • Signup • Enroll your students • Enjoy! • Questions? • Email team@piazza.com

  8. Appendix Piazza Q&A best explained by Prof. Jesse Heines (UMass): “Piazza is to Moodle as a chef’s knife is to a Swiss army knife”

  9. Appendix Unanswered questions are highlighted in red to capture the attention of instructors

  10. Appendix Filters allow professors to better manage their time by viewing updatedor unresolved posts

  11. Appendix Student participation statistics enable instructors to gain insights about their class (This feature is only visible to instructors)

  12. Appendix Easily manage tags to ensure class content is well organized

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