Creator: Pooja Sankar | visit site
Grade Range: 8 - 11
Piazza is a free service to create collaborative message boards for use in classrooms. Track student use, add multiple instructors and or teaching assistants in each course, and collaborate on editing messages using Piazza’s features. Piazza allows you to collaborate on responses to create one cohesive response instead of several similar individual responses. Create tags to label information such as quiz 1, semester review, or grading rubrics. Choose the statistics icon to view class participation, activity peaks, and question response times. Choose Try a Demo to explore features included with Piazza in their virtual sandbox. This tool seems to be aimed at college/university level classes but can be used with students over age 13 if you are adhering to your school’s policies.
In the Classroom
Consider using Piazza as a resource in your classroom to increase student interaction with materials and each other. Library/media specialists could use this tool for online book clubs. Teach on a team? Collaborate with other teachers for assignments and more using this site. Create quick questions or even a short quiz using Piazza. You can also use this tool in your graduate courses!
At Home
Piazza is a great site to use for online book clubs with your student’s classmate or friends from any place in the world! Collaborate with other parents on assignments for your students learning at home. Create a family project on a historical place in your local area and share it with a family at a distance.
Tags
questioning, Teacher Utilities, chat,
Subjects
English, Language Arts, Math, Reading, Science, Social Studies, Social Studies, Writing,