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Piazza, a Homework Help Site, Has a Social Networking Twist - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Tony Bollino on 28 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Students post questions to their course page, which peers and educators can then respond to. Instructors moderate the discussion, endorse the best responses and track the popularity of questions in real time.
  • Piazza’s platform is specifically designed to speed response times. The site is supported by a system of notification alerts, and the average question on Piazza will receive an answer in 14 minutes.
  • At Stanford, the first to start using the service, more than half of the undergraduates are registered users.
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  • a computer science professor at Princeton, started using Piazza for her programming systems class last semester.
  • Piazza gave the students a community, especially in the middle of the night, when the instructors were sleeping,” Professor Rexford said. “The students were more interactive in general, and it was a time saver all-around.”
  • Tony Bollino on 28 Jul 11
     
    Very nice tool for AP students to get homework help from peers in a social format.
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