Piazza Reviews

Piazza helps me connect seamlessly with my instructor and classmates in just one go. Piazza helps me post and answer questions simultaneously in public while also being able to send private messages to my instructor and classmates.

Piazza is more like Gmail, and the user interface is quite dull. The fact that its primarily used by students, the app needs to add better features in terms of look and feel.

Piazza has an excellent section for dividing the messages subject-wise and also notifying the instructor's important messages showing the number of high-priority messages to be checked.

With Piazza you can easily ask queries and doubt in forum which is easily responded by Instructor, teaching assistance and fellow students. It is also used by instructors to check our involvement in studies.

The only issue is that UI needs to be improved a little bit and mobile version is required for notification instead of notification on mails. Sometimes we miss the updates.

Very good for student engagement.

I am using Piazza for my academic classes and to get help in completing the assignments. It really helps in getting good scores when your peers provide answer to your questions.

I like the different modes of posting questions.

Tagging only a certain group of people is a nice feature. That is, if a student has doubt only for instructors and not the whole class, he/she can easily apply that specific feature.

All the features of Piazza are quite handy. Although, the search feature has some issues on my end. When I try to search for some posts with certain keywords, it does not filter it well. However, if I search with @post_number, it filters out. Remembering the post number all-time the becomes troublesome.

Announcement, sharing of materials, and posting of grades, Q&As become easy with Piazza!

Student may need to manually enroll before they can have access to class materials

Coordinate classroom activities.

Everything is very intuitive and easy to use in Piazza. It only takes a few minutes to set up a new class. The interface is pleasing and efficient. I like that students can ask questions anonymously. I also like how customizable everything is, and how easy it is to change settings. The ability to type math symbols and write code in posts makes it an excellent choice for STEM courses.

The phone app version has limited functionality. Also, when running in the browser, sometimes I have trouble getting the cursor to appear in the post window when I click in the field where you're supposed to type the post.

Piazza allows me to answer students' homework questions efficiently outside of class. I don't have to type the same answer a bunch of times in various emails. Often, the students will answer each others' questions also.

Piazza is easy to use, and is an easy platform for my students to ask each other any questions that they have about the upcoming exam, etc.

I honestly don't have anything bad to say. The program works as intended

My students are able to get fast feedback on their confusion, rather than having to wait until the next class.

Piazza is an effective platform for a streamlined forum. I used it as a student for an undergraduate class, and it was a simple way to communicate with the class and professor to ask and answer questions about the course and assignments. I enjoyed the ability to easily have access to this type of communication and it greatly improved my productivity in the course.

I did not have too much that I disliked, however, one thing I wish was better was the organization of posts. I think the platform would be more effective if it were possible to organize the posts into specific categories (e.g. a category for each assignment, etc.). This way it would be much easier to search through posts.

Piazza is a simple to use and effective platform that I would recommend for use with any large groups such as classes.

I used Piazza to improve communication between the professor and students in an undergraduate course. WIth PIazza, academic courses are becoming more streamlined and students are more engaged in the course.

I like the features in questions that mark answered/unanswered, if an answer was an instructor and/or endorsed, and if follow ups are unresolved.

The piazza career features sometimes feel like clutter. Also, gettin notified about resource updates would be useful.

I use it as a student in a large class with many

I love how interactive this platform is. It Is so easy to ask questions, get answers, and interact with other using this platform. I used it specifically while in a statistics class which was great because it provided the opportunity for peer to peer question and answer dialogue which was mutually beneficial. Students got the answers that they were looking for, and those who were answering questions were displaying understanding of material and practicing implementation.

The user interface could be more updated, but that doesn't take away from the excellence of the platform.

For those considering Piazza, I would recommend it as a learning tool. Particularly if you have larger groups that need to be able to ask questions. The other great capability with Piazza is the ability to endorse answers, allowing everyone to chime in, but giving an endorsement to the best and most accurate answer.

The main problem that Piazza solved was a need for a place to ask questions, where professors weren't having to answer every question, and where the same question didn't have to be answered multiple times. The benefits were efficiency, mainly in time for everyone. But the other benefit was in the learning process, explaining concepts helped students learn and implement their knowledge.

Easy and hassle free way to reach out to professors

I do not dislike anything in particular about this product.

I am using piazza for my masters course work.