{"id":140135,"date":"2022-06-22T16:08:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T20:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=140135"},"modified":"2025-07-03T08:02:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T12:02:54","slug":"piazza","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/teaching\/lms\/blackboard\/piazza\/","title":{"rendered":"Piazza"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Piazza'sPiazza<\/a> is an online platform that facilitates interaction among students and instructors in an efficient and intuitive manner.<\/p>\n

On Piazza, students can ask questions, and instructors and fellow classmates can answer. Instructors can allow students to participate anonymously, to encourage participation. At the time of posting a new question, students can select whether they want their question to be public (for the rest of the class to see), or private (for only instructors to see). \"Piazza'sInstructors can make public questions private and vice versa.<\/p>\n

Piazza is also collaboration based: a student can edit another student\u2019s question, as well as the collaborative students\u2019 answer (note the position of the apostrophe). An instructor can edit a student\u2019s question, the collaborative instructors\u2019 answer, as well as the collaborative students\u2019 answer. Questions also have a separate follow-up discussion section where follow on questions can be hashed out in a more unstructured manner as a thread. Follow-up discussions are initially marked as unresolved and can be marked as resolved by anyone who thinks the follow-up has been addressed.<\/p>\n